I feel very sorry, having to write the first negative feedback for a holiday location ever. Let´s start with the positive points, though: The area around Male is very interesting and there is a lot to do. The chalet „Maso Francesco“ is nice and pleasant, but all in all by no means worth the amount you are asking for. We have been to quite a number of mountain chalets of varying standards, so I think, we have a good base to judge from. We have had simple dwellings without elecricity and even without water closet (which is ok, as long as the price reflects the standard) up to four-star dwellings with all the service expected of these. This time we payed 2150 Euro for two weeks (four persons plus dog), which should indicate a fairly high standard. The house has everything, that is necessary, but mostly in a simple variety: starting from the kitchen equipment (only one pan and one saucepan that could be really used, the others were burnt badly or did not fit to the induction hart) to rather unstable beds. The rooms downstairs were damp although we had very dry weather outside. We then had the feeling, that we had to pay extra for everything you could possibly charge extra: here extra-fee for W-lan, extra-fee for bedlinen which we had not even asked for, etc. It was announced, that there was wood for the woodstove in the kitchen, but there was none. The Maso is advertised the ideal base for hiking, yet there was not a single map,... Yes, it may happen that prior guests have forgotten to put them back, which is no excuse for not getting a new one for the next guests. Anyway, we did not take one away, but left our maps there. The elecricity bill was more that irritating: For cooking occasional pasta and coffee, taking a shower every other day and having a bit of light at night we payed 60 Euro per week additionally for electricity. This is three times the amount we need at home in a house of 450 squaremetres with ten persons and a full household going on (Sorry Roos, we certainly never ever switched on any kind of heating, as we had two weeks of full bright sunshine). Last but not least our hosts proved extremely unreliable: they had promised to come on our last day, but completely forgot about it and could not be contacted. It was very difficult to get the final bill and in the meantime they had forgotten what they had promised... As a summary: It is possible to charge the rent they do at Maso Francesco, and we were of course willing to spend this money. But for this amount of money you expect the feeling that someone has taken an effort - in making your stay nice and enjoyable and worthwhile– and not only an effort in charging extra wherever possible and investing as little time and money as possible....