Our stay was perfect. The family loved the house, the location (very quiet and relaxing), and the pool (amazing!). Everything was much better than we expected. Riccardo, our contact during our stay is a very polite gentleman and has arranged our arrival and departure perfectly well.
The location: It is beautiful.
You enjoy the calm and beauty of a large piece of land full of old olive trees, and great shades from other large plants strategically positioned to offer protection from the sun around the pool. There are a couple of other houses around but there is absolutely no noise.
The house is located on slight downhill terrain. You can enjoy great views from many angles, from the first-floor terrace (perfect for a morning workout), from the outside front patio where you can have dinner and from the pool where you can see the sea in the distance while gently floating in the water. Pretty amazing and relaxing!
Noto is 5 minutes away by car. The closest grocery store is also 5 minutes away and you can reach the nearby beaches in 10 minutes.
The interior: it is very well furnished.
The living room ground floor has two comfortable sofas, lots of light coming from large door windows and you can enjoy sound technology (Amazon Echo) to play music. there is a very nice dining room with large windows as well.
The kitchen has all you need, including a spacious fridge, useful appliances and a Nespresso coffee machine.
Just outside the kitchen, you have a nice table and area where you can enjoy breakfast outdoors. (too hot in the afternoon though but sunshade is available)
There is a nice sleeping room on the ground floor which is quite spacious and also a large bathroom that is well equipped and conveniently accessible.
A nice metal staircase brings you to the upper floor where you find a large space with access to a large terrace overlooking the surrounding area and the sea, the master bedroom with its own bathroom and a guest room with two separate beds and a third bathroom. The rooms here come with closets and plenty of storage areas. The master bedroom bathroom has a quite large shower space. We liked a lot the particular rectangular shape of the windows in the rooms upstairs.
The outside. Calming space, you are surrounded by olive trees and large plants
You will mostly use the space where the pool is, an area on the southwest side of the house that you can reach from all the property but conveniently through stairs made of local stones accessible from the outdoor kitchen area. We liked that the pool area is well protected from the other side of the house where you have the main entrance and parking.
The poolside area has plenty of space with six deckchairs and a large high-quality sunshade. The pool's borders are covered with a nice stone but it is a bit slippery when wet so be careful with your kids running on it.
The pool is spectacular. It is long enough to have a personal swimming session but also large enough to play in it with kids. The pool entrance is quite practical via three submersed steps. The first half of the pool is ca. 1.5 mt deep (~5ft) then it drops to more than 2.2mt (~7.2 ft) in its second half. We spent a lot of our family time in and around the pool where you can also bring a chair and read a book in the shade of a large tree right on the poolside with a postcard view of the sea at distance. Probably the best pool we have ever had in a vacation home.
The access to the villa is via an unpaved road and there is a gate at the property entrance that you can close at night, although we never had to as the area is very safe.
What else to say? Many many places to visit around but despite our initial plans, we felt so well in the house that we did spend a lot of time there!
Highly recommended.
Fabrizio