Romantik & Family Hotel Gardenia***S

Disappointing
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : This is basicly a nice hotel with a good location, beautiful views and surroundings, precious half board, bright and clean rooms, a nice garden and pool area and generally rather OK staff and service. We really appreciated the generous breakfasts and dinners but our absolute favourite were the wonderful afternoon buffet between 2 and 5 pm and its many delicious desserts. Our compliments to Mattia in the bar for excellent service!
  : The room that we got didnt at all match the description of our reservation made long time in advance. Our reservation explicitly was for a room with a balcony or terrace, a mountain view of the Sasso Lungo and a third bed 90-130 cm wide. We had chosen and paid for a superior room just to get all this but didnt get anything of it despite our protests at arrival. Our room was to the rear with no view at all, there was no terrace or balcony and the third bed turned out to be only 75 cm wide and not more than 180 cm. We got only non acceptable excuses and offers of alternatives from the front desk manager and no compensation at all. The response we got were that all rooms in the hotel are different and that we got a sauna and a whirl pool instead. As we have these amenities at home this wasnt anything that we wanted and particularly not in the summer. The alternatives that we were offered were not better; a much smaller room with some kind of mountain view and a side balcony but a smaller third bed and no space for another extra bed or to make an upgrade to some kind of premium room for 900 Euros!!! Im also completely sure that there were better but perhaps more expensive rooms available most of the days during the week but maybe not the last days. We find the attitude shown towards us from the hotel and itsfront desk manager completely unacceptable. We enjoyed our stay but the hotel didnt at all deliver what we had paid for so we are terribly disappointed. Further more just som minor details. You should know that there is no lift/elevator in the hotel (we stayed at the top floor). The policy concerning the wine list is impossible to understand. Wines by the glass means only 10 cl and if you prefer a bottle the prices are extraordinary high even for simple or standard wines. The cheapest one at 30 Euros and almost no others under 50 Euros.