We did enjoy our stay at this cute trullo in the country. The building is in good condition, nicely decorated and very clean with some lovely pieces of furniture. The beds were comfortable everywhere except th master bedroom which appears to have been jumped on to the point that it has bent the bedframe! Im going to assume children rather than bedtime antics. The layout of the trullo is odd, as is normal with this type of traditional home and unfortunately two small kitchens does not a useful-sized kitchen make!
The air conditioning is only in one room (the master bedroom) and was only working for one of our weeks there due to a storm. This does mean the other bedrooms suffer from being very sticky and hot at night and the local dogs enjoy barking for most of it, which is unfortunate when you have to keep the windows open for some air.
Our hostess, Melinia was very helpful and accomodating considering our late arrival time. She also told us about local festivals and provided fruit and some extra bits of kitchenware that we needed.
The kitchen is missing a kettle (so we boiled a pan), sharp knives (which makes cutting up bread difficult) and a coffee maker big enough for a house that sleeps 8. There is a mishmash of crockery and cutlery but we generally managed to pull enough mismatched items for our needs, i suppose breakages will happen when there are stone floors everywhere. We did purchase some plastic cups to use at there were no larger cups over 150ml for a longer drink.
If you are going to be out and about all day every day then this may not bother you but we missed having somewhere comfortable to all sit together in the evenings. The lounge has only hard seats and no tv, and during the day there are only upright seats and no loungers which meant it wasnt very conmfortable to spend time at home during the day.
We have suggested that it would have been good to have a key for the french doors into the lounge so that we werent using the master bedroom as our main entrance.
There is part of the villa off limits to guests. There is a pizza oven but we did not try it. We did use the BBQ alot of nights. The outside tables and chairs were nice for us.
We would recommend this villa for family or close friends who dont mind having their rooms passed through on the way to others. Perhaps at cooler times of the year this would be more suitable when the dog barking and lack of air con throughtout might be less of an issue. The cats were a delight! The quaintness of the house and its features does make up for some of the less confortable/conventional parts of it.