Angelina Residence

Easy transfer, with Tui, took an instant like to the place and the resort itself. The apartment was large, nothing fancy, but clean and bright....... the bed was large and very firm (which we like ) Kitchen had a fridge and small freezer, oven and hob. It's situated behind 3 streets off the main road behind various apartments occupied by local people, so no sea view, but quiet with no traffic noise, which you would get on the seafront. The aircon is excellent, as even in October our week was pretty hot. It's a little hidden away, but there's an excellent Netto a few streets nearer the centre.... plenty of choice including a counter where they will cut chops, steaks etc to order, we had several lovely, and cheap meals in our apartment. It's easy to get around on the ferries or buses to the different villages, and the road towards Salerno is exceptionally beautiful. Amalfi is a short distance away, then Positano, but they're way to busy for us, Maiori is very low key, still very pretty, and best of all, it's a town full of Italian people, going about their business, much more interesting than the tourist towns where the visitors vastly outnumber the locals. We've done all the trips in the area, all we wanted was a quiet relaxing holiday and this place is perfect. The team who run the apartment are close by, very friendly and helpful, we called in several times just to chat.

We had stayed at the Santa Tecla apartments a couple of years ago when they had been under the care of the Panorama hotel (now sadly closed) The apartments now rechristened The Angelina Residence, haven't changed a great deal over the years, they are spacious and well maintained, furnished in a reasonable, if somewhat basic manner,with a good size refrigerator and icebox a gas cooking hob, plenty of crockery and cutlery, comfortable double bed and sofa bed (we had a one bed a unit) positioned a couple of blocks back from the seafront with no views to speak of except over the hotel pool which appears to be well maintained (we didn't try it out) all the balconies overlook the pool which is pleasant but can be a bit noisy. we personally found the lack of view a bonus, as it made us get up and out early each day, we usually had breakfast at one of the many little beach bars dotted along the promenaded. We arranged our holiday through TUI who encouraged us to get a private taxi through them, to travel to the resort, the benefit being that we would arrive in the resort much earlier than travelling on the 'free' coach, this part was true and the actually journey along the Amalfi coast road really added to the excitement of being back in that part of Italy again, so all in all it was to us worth the extra cost, where the whole arrangement fell down was, that once we arrived, there was nobody on reception at the apartments, and no instructions as to how we could check in, so we stood around feeling totally lost, luckily for us a very kind German tourist who was staying at the apartments pointed us in the direction of the checking-in office, which as it turned out was some 2 blocks away, we struggled there with our heavy suitcases, then found the TUI reps hadn't advised the receptionists of any early arrivals, I have to say the young Italian receptionists were so pleasant and helpful, they juggled things around until they found us an apartment that had been cleaned and was ready to be occupied, but this all took time, so the advantage of paying extra to arrive early in a taxi was beginning to be lost!! It was a stress we didn't need having been up at 3am for the flight to Naples. We were never given the promised 'pack' from the TUI rep who we had to seek out midweek to check arrangements for our return taxi back to the airport, she didn't seem to be aware of any taxi, but to be fair did sort it out in the end, unfortunately nobody told the taxi driver that the TUI flight check in desks were in another building entirely,so he dropped us at the main terminal, where we had another stressful few minutes trying to find somebody tell us where the TUI check in desks were, needless to say there were no TUI reps on hand to help. To sum up, the resort of Maiori is lovely, and perfect for so many trips around this wonderful coast line, local Buses are plentiful and cheap to use, you can bus up to wonderful places like Ravello and Scala, then walk down the many steps through the Lemon groves to Amalfi or Minori. Once we overcame the initial checking in problems, we went on to have a brilliant holiday, but we were disappointed in the lack of help or advice available from the TUI rep