Falkensteiner Club Funimation Garden Calabria - All inclusive

“A very nice combination of Falkensteiner and Southern Italy Hospitality”

This is the fourth consecutive summer for me and my family in Falkensteiner Calabria. We are a family, our daughter is now 13. In all these years, I have found all the services here always of very good level, and I would underline that most of services here are for free. I would also say than... more

This is the fourth consecutive summer for me and my family in Falkensteiner Calabria. We are a family, our daughter is now 13. In all these years, I have found all the services here always of very good level, and I would underline that most of services here are for free. I would also say thank you to all the team for the fantastic effienciency in making a very enjoyable holyday week for my family!

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“Lovely grounds & pool, great staff however awful food and nothing outside the hotel to do ”

Firstly, this is not an English friendly hotel! Very few staff members speak english, very little food is labelled in English, and no tours are in English. The evening entertainment is also not in English. A few lovely members of staff spoke English to us and made us feel welcome, but I would no... more

Firstly, this is not an English friendly hotel! Very few staff members speak english, very little food is labelled in English, and no tours are in English. The evening entertainment is also not in English. A few lovely members of staff spoke English to us and made us feel welcome, but I would not recommend this to English families. To start with the good things: Hotel grounds are absolutely lovely and very well maintained. The pool looks visually very nice but is very cold! The hotel rooms are really nice and very clean. The entertainment staff and bar staff are lovely and friendly and made the stay very enjoyable. I would like to say a personal thank you to these staff that made us feel welcome, took the time to sit and have a good conversation and a laugh with us. The sports and activities on offer were fun and enjoyable, however given the size of this hotel, more frequent activities and games could have been organised. Perhaps water polo? At 5pm there is 1 sports tournament lasting 45 mins. They could do with more frequent organised sports throughout the day. The evening entertainment was good, however if you are staying longer than a week you have to watch the same shows again Now for the not so good things: Firstly the food! The pizza station and some pasta dishes is the only decent food they have to offer. All food is served cold, despite it appearing to be in a hot holding? Majority of food is not labelled leaving you questioning what it actually is. Avoid if you have an allergy as you will have no chance finding out if it is safe for you. Not to mention no food is covered in the buffet, meaning flies and wasps are landing all over it. The food also becomes very repetitive with breakfast every morning been identical. A bit of variety would of been nice Secondly, I would not recommend this hotel if you wanted to explore out and around Calabria. There is nothing to see anywhere near by! We were advised by the hotels trip organiser to book a coach trip to tropea, he sold the trip well to us we decided to go. He forgot to mention that this hotel is the first pick up stop on route. So a 50 min drive to tropea turned into a 3 hour drive stopping off at 9-10 hotels on route! Not to mention there is no toilet on the coach, and the coach driving was extremely reluctant to allow a toilet stop. After a painful coach trip, you get to walk around the back alleys of a town with not much to see for 3 hours. And then back on the coach for another 3 hours drive back. The drinks on offer are very limited but are nice. They could do with offering a larger range of drink choices The spa offers a very nice and relaxing massage. However I prefer to be informed prior to me stripping down that a male would be giving me a massage. Maybe this is just an English culture thing though? Finally, a point for hotel management: if you are taking large bookings of school children and work groups, maybe consider ensuring they don’t overtake the hotel! In our final few days, 50 school children and 70-80 people in a work group took over the hotel, from swamping the restaurant, to disrupting the sports activities. 3 sports activities which we were told to come and join, were cancelled when we got there due to the school children having booked them out for the day. Should you really be allowing a group to book out sports fields, courts and beach volleyball which is supposed to be available to your paying guests!!?

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“Tour of Calabria and Sicily”

We stayed here for 4 nights at the end of our very busy Calabria and Sicily tour. The grounds are amazing and well kept. The pools are also, very well kept. The food was repetitive. I felt like I was at a cafeteria for some reason. The pasta selection was good but the meat sauce was salty. ... more

We stayed here for 4 nights at the end of our very busy Calabria and Sicily tour. The grounds are amazing and well kept. The pools are also, very well kept. The food was repetitive. I felt like I was at a cafeteria for some reason. The pasta selection was good but the meat sauce was salty. I also found the ribs and sausages salty as well. Not sure why they put so much salt in the food here. The beach is not sand, it is rocks so you need flip flops for sure. Also, very difficult to go into the sea. There is a drop off and the water had big waves. I didn't see anyone go in....too dangerous! The entertainment was good as well. The team did a great job singing. The band after the show was excellent!!!! We enjoyed and danced until they were done for the night. Great job!!! I would go back for sure but I hope they read this review and hopefully other people felt the same way about too much salt in food.

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“Very pleasant, excellent tennis and beautiful sea”

Very pleasant stay. Most of the infrastructure is very good, especially the pools which are very large and well organised. The best part is the area devoted to rackets sports, with 4 tennis courts, a couple of padel courts and several ping pong tables. It is very well managed by Alessandro, a cap... more

Very pleasant stay. Most of the infrastructure is very good, especially the pools which are very large and well organised. The best part is the area devoted to rackets sports, with 4 tennis courts, a couple of padel courts and several ping pong tables. It is very well managed by Alessandro, a capable tennis and padel coach, who was very welcoming and engaging with us and everyone else interested, creating a most pleasant environment for rackets sport players of any ability. He made a very positive difference to our holiday. The sea is very beautiful, as expected. The shows in the evening are of excellent quality. The two areas which can do with improvements are: 1) the food, since the quality is fine but more like a good-quality canteen than proper Italian-style cousine; 2) the rooms are ok but quite Spartan with sound isolation quite poor, which matters as you can hear everything outside your room and can affect your sleep. My 10 years old son loved this holiday and really did not want to leave, which makes clear this is an excellent resort for kids.

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