Castello di Spessa - Residenze d'Epoca

Castello di Spessa is just something else! It's a place at which you can feel like a princess in the most magical castle while simultaneously feeling as relaxed as you would on a tropical island! The room was the most glorious room I have ever stayed in! It was so spacious and luxurious but also cozy and homelike. There is one thing that completely left me speechless, and that is the spa. It feels like taking a bath in the middle of the luxurious castle, with the wine, of course. Since you can literally bathe in wine! The view from each pool and bathtub is insane. On top of that, Andrea did such an incredible and unique massage. The spa experience was just like I imagine Greek gods to live in stories, in a state of tranquility surrounded by an abundance of wine and beautiful art. The food was amazing! The dinners at La Tavernetta al Castello were so good. But what made it really stand out, were the people that truly cared for our enjoyment. They paid attention to what we liked the first night and kept making recommendations based on our preferences on the following nights. To my surprise, I absolutely loved the golf lesson! I took a lesson with a golf pro, and I fell in love with the sport. He was so supportive and a truly amazing teacher even for a complete beginner like myself. I also liked that you can rent bikes and drive through the vineyards. In the end, I have to mention how beautiful the location is! There are hills and vineyards wherever you look. It's just as beautiful as Toscana, for example, while being peaceful and undisturbed at the same time. Incredible people at Castello di Spessa are also the reason that this stay was so memorable! I can't wait to return to Castello di Spessa in the future!

While we enjoyed the hotel grounds and found most of the hotel staff polite enough, we had disappointing experiences at both restaurants, particularly at La Tavervnetta. We ate at that restaurant twice and the staff completely ignored us, checking on other patrons multiple times while blatantly avoiding us and mocking us to our face on the few occasions they came to our table and we tried to say a few phrases in Italian. Other Italians and European non-native English speakers were waited on hand and foot, getting checked on multiple times by multiple servers, while we we could not flag anyone down to order more drinks or dessert. Eventually, after waiting an hour, we got up, paid, and left. When we ate there for lunch the prior day we had to wait 45 minutes for the check after we asked for it multiple times and the staff continued to attend to other patrons instead. The hotel has enough to spend an entire vacation on its grounds, but we were so uncomfortable that we started leaving to do other things and eventually checked out a day early. The gentleman at the front desk didn’t even ask us how our stay was or why we decided to leave early. We had been in Italy for 2 weeks, had stayed at 4 other hotels and had not experienced anything like this elsewhere. Would definitely not recommend this hotel to any native English speakers.