We cannot recommend Pierre and Lorena's Trulli d'Itria enough. We enjoyed a wonderful 11 night stay with family and friends and could easily have stayed longer. P&L were excellent hosts - highly responsive and communicative , offering assistance when requested but never intrusive. We were a maximum of 6 at any one time and the layout was perfect, offering one double room and bathroom at the far end and two double and one single rooms and bathroom at the other end, with kitchen and living rooms and guest bathroom in between. The rooms are spacious, with plenty of hanging and shelving provision. Beautifully furnished, beds were super-comfortable and bed linens and towels were of excellent quality. Each bedroom window has mosquito screens and can be opened with confidence. Electric shutters offer total black-out in the rooms at night.
Two of our group worked from home throughout and the connectivity of the WiFi was never a question.
Cooking facilities are very good, with the traditional kitchen inside and the traditional pizza oven and BBQ outside, and spaces for eating, either inside or outside, aplenty. The reception rooms all offer double doors opening onto a large terrace and the gardens.
The pool area is wonderful, both paved and grassed, with pomegranate, olive and walnut trees within metres. Pool not ideal for laps as the steps account for a third of the pool, but absolutely perfect for cooling dips, floating reading (we brought a tacky inflatable with us!) and sitting on the steps to read, half in and half out of the water. The best surprise was that it is equi-depth throughout, so no deep/shallow end. Plenty of pool loungers and a full bathroom with indoor and outdoor showers. The pool is salt-water (only very mildly salty and soooo much nicer on the skin than being chlorinated) and was serviced daily.
Private driveway with solid metal gating, and covered (cool) parking area.
Calm, private and peaceful, this house is incredibly well-placed for exploring the area - Martina Franca, where we were lucky enough to get opera tickets, Alberobello, Ostuni, Locorotondo, Fasano, amongst others, and the beaches. We also rented a boat in Monopoli and explored the coastline from the water.
Dreamy!