Hotels Near San Pantaleo in San Pantaleo

Arriving late at night to the hotel we literally got taken to our room. After travelling all day and arriving to temps of over 30 degrees we weren’t even offered a glass of water! Rooms were lovely, well equipped and spacious. Paid for a balcony but ours was not big enough to sit out on, we would have been touching knees. Rooms were well cleaned every day and mini bars replenished daily (although you pay for everything in mini bar). Breakfast was lovely, big choice. Staff were lovely. There were signs up saying you CANNOT take food from the restaurant. The pool area is lovely but only 17 sun beds and half had been replaced with hardboard where rattan had obviously come apart. Although they had cushions on top, those ones were so hard and uncomfortable to lie on. They need to invest in new ones and either some more or some reclining chairs (as there is not an enormous amount of space). There was only about 4 umbrellas which is not enough especially as the temperature is so high throughout the summer. You can only get a drink between 10 and 3 by either using whatever is in your mini bar or asking at reception who will and said they will only serve basics. The proper bar opens at 3pm for any drinks and a few snacks like toasted sandwiches and mozzarella/tomatoes. There is a very small supermarket about 4 min walk, it does not have a lot of choice but have some basics. It’s open 8-1 then closed until 5-8 so very limited. So you need to think carefully about food and drink when booking this hotel. No pool towels are available and there is nowhere that I could find in the village that sold them. The village is very pretty and we ate in 5 restaurants and they were all very good. Local wine is very good. There was a few shops all pretty expensive. High end clothes shops, swimwear shops, linen clothes shops. A pretty square and it is quite buzzy at night. Restaurants need to be booked. It’s rare to get a table but just walking in. The pool area is very very quiet, you find yourself whispering which isn’t that comfortable. In the bar area they have background music and I think they should extend it to pool area to make it more relaxing. The restaurant at the hotel is lovely. Independent from the hotel, it’s high end but great quality food and wines. They give a discount if you are staying at the hotel. The day we were leaving we asked reception could someone come and help with our luggage and the lady said “the man isn’t here”. I asked her is there not another man on site, she said she would call me back. It was 3 or 4 flights of stairs. After a while she called back and said “I found a man”. To say I was grateful is an understatement. So I would say it’s a very pretty hotel in quite a rural setting. Breakfast is great but found food/drink for rest of the day needed thought. It would be good if you could purchase crisps or savory snacks at hotel or if they extended the bar hours and menu. Sunbeds & umbrellas need ad

Just had a mixed stay in this hotel. It is a family hotel, mostly catering to German tourists (secondarily Italian, and a few French, Russian, Spanish, etc). Mostly families with small kids and a few elderly people. Positives: - Lovely setting by a very calm gulf - Nice grounds (garden, pool, etc) - Nice views - Lovely reception staff. We had a problem with the first room and they kindly and quickly changed it for us. - Rustic and slightly old fashioned but perfectly adequate rooms with nice balconies - Free shuttle to pretty Rena Bianca beach nearby - Comfortable beds Negatives: - Often crowded. Can be hard to get a seat at the swimming pool - Restaurant really poor by Italian standards. All sounds nice on the menu, but you get potatoes that have not even been drained, overcooked pasta, etc. Moreover, the restaurant is really gloomy, you eat inside in dark rooms in the Sardinian summer. Not great. - Restaurant staff not very pleasant. They seemed terrorised of a fairly inflexible maitre d'. We asked if we could eat ”outside” on the covered terrace instead of inside but told no. Then got to chat with another couple who apparently sat outside and wanted inside! Same dates as us, same half board, they were told no by the maitre d'h. How to be inflexible when you could have made 4 people happy! Oh and there were free, unreserved tables both inside and out! - The hotel's own ”beach” is not really a beach and the water is quite dirty with strange foam floating and plastic on the sand - VERY loud music all evenings from about 7 to about midnight. It starts with kids stuff in German. Always the same every evening. Then some not very good music/karaoke. I'm sure some people like this, but the sounds system is so bad you can't escape it. It is really loud and makes the walls bang! Don't expect to do anything during the animation time till midnight - not sleep, not speak, not work, not read, not watch tv, not cuddle with your partner, nothing. The music is really invasive. - Breakfast very poor. Cheap ingredients, fake watery juice, canned fruit or apples/oranges in the middle of summer. Nothing Sardinian. - If you don't have a car, there is nothing around. - Definitely a 3* at best, nothing 4* about it. Would we come again? Hard to say. Rooms and views are nice and prices correct for the area. Maybe we would come back if we had a car, no half board, and planned to ”escape” to visit/eat out every evening from 7 to midnight! But in the conditions we did this time, probably not.