Hotel Rocce Sarde

1 week stay breakfast only The restaurant staff and the reception staff is friendly, and willing to help although could be a bit more enthusiastic for 4 star hotel. If you don’t speak Italian, you might be lost, as most of the staff doesn’t understand English. If you speak Italian as we do, you have theirs attention. The hotel is located up the hills closed to olbia. If you don’t have a rental car, your pretty lost there. Confusing is that the hotel is 4 Stars categorie but in certain occasions in the hotel you see 3 stars like on the key for the room, and some information papers. I presume the got upgraded to 4 stars, but didn’t yet understand what service level is appropriate for 4 stars tough. Check in was friendly, yet a little passionless and fairly brief. The room it self is typically for Italy with the necessary Furnitures, which are ok. But nothing more. We booked a king size bed. But got a twin bed room. Requesting the booked bed was answered with a brief we can check tomorrow again. We Checked again, and the told us the bring a different matress. All they did was to push the 2 existing ones together. Bed was uncomfortable due to very hard mattresses. Lattenrust was constructed with wooden planks. Never saw a bed alike that. Planket was a wollen military style and a bedsheet. Balcony was vast but only 2 chairs. The kitchen ventilation exhaust is directed toward the rooms so you always had cooking smell whenever you’re on the terrace. The ceiling of the terrace has seen its best years as well. Definitely needs to be maintained, rather done new. The house it’s self is a bit old, and if you have a closer look to details you find plenty of stuff which needs to be repaired. The walls are fairly thin so with stormy weather you can’t get asleep. The wooden window covers are hold in place with metal clamps, most of them don’t hold snuggle so when it’s windy noises are there trough the night. The Bathroom is small, but ok. The shower cabin falls aparte and doesn’t close even, so everything is watered outside, while taking a shower. The shower head needs to be replaced, completely wasted, the valves at the sink and in the shower are beyond their lifetime. I was missing a bin in the room. The air-condition is very loud, but works WiFi is only working in the lobby and there very slow. Safe is very small Lighting is too bright, so you don’t have a home feeling in your room. We had breakfast only and we where very happy about it. 1st night when we arrived we had dinner at the restaurant. Currently there is no a la Cart menu. You can only choose from the menu which is offered for guests which booked full service. We had a pretty boring pasta which was lacking in proper cooking, spices where absent. Breakfast was ok, if you consider that Italians don’t take breakfast seriously. All tough the breakfast is every day the same, nothing changes, and That is far too less for a 4 star hotel. They advert 2 bars. When you look closer at that statement: 1 bar is the restaurant buffet, and not really a bar, all tough that is operated only during evening while dinner is served. The other bar Is the pool bar, which is rather a snack counter. The pool is ok, located nice between trees, all tough there was an electric cable in a plastic bag hanging in the pool which just made it weird to think about having a swim. The parking lots are okay, but ceiling there is beyond life time as well. The tennis court needs a lot of maintenance Sufficing to say: stay was ok, as we’ve been there only for breakfast and sleeping, but we wouldn’t recommend that hotel for the price they charge and the all over service they provide. Prices are never mentioned anywhere so you’re always a little uniformed. the conditions the hotel presents its self, are not worth 4 stars

Secret Escapes led us to this Island Hotel. As the only English guests for the week we were there communication was not always easy. Service on the whole was good as was the food. The Hotel building is not suited to people who have limited mobility - I am sure that the staff would do what they could. The setting is high up overlooking the sea. An all round score would be 8 out of 10

Hotel in the middle of Sardinian hills. Beautiful 180 degrees views overlooking Sardinian coastline and countryside. Beautiful grounds and pool area. Close to town centre and we definitely recommend to visit the markets on Thursday morning and an apéritivo on the town plaza!