Hotel Villa Fernanda

“Lovely quaint hotel .”

We stayed for 7 nights and we had such a nice time we have booked to return next year. The rooms are basic and are very clean .The staff team are very friendly,pleasant and helpful. The garden and pool area is beautiful. Home grown vegetables in the garden .Its a really lovely, peaceful setting in … more

We stayed for 7 nights and we had such a nice time we have booked to return next year. The rooms are basic and are very clean .The staff team are very friendly,pleasant and helpful. The garden and pool area is beautiful. Home grown vegetables in the garden .Its a really lovely, peaceful setting in the garden /pool area. The home cooked food is served to you (not a buffet). You make your choice at breakfast time for dinner time. A short walk to some other bars/restaurants. Great access for bus .Looking forward to returning.

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“Noise, Cold food, Noise”

Hotel is located on a busy road, as are many other hotels, in and around Sorrento, larger hotel next door, what appeared to be permanent residential apartments on other side, and close to a school, there is also a very handy shop across the road, sells various diy type items, including cosmetics, t… more

Hotel is located on a busy road, as are many other hotels, in and around Sorrento, larger hotel next door, what appeared to be permanent residential apartments on other side, and close to a school, there is also a very handy shop across the road, sells various diy type items, including cosmetics, toiletries, stationery etc but not food, Conad supermarket (no afternoon closure) 5 minutes walk away around corner. Hotel is well located for buses, tourism information, bars, restaurants, various shops, walking paths, while being not too far from Sorrento (walkable in around 2 hours, mostly downhill). Having visited this hotel for a look around in May, I was aware of noise from the road, did factor in for this. The hotel is not very sound proof within rooms, can hear people on the stairs, doors opening and closing, and furniture being moved, late at night and early hours of night, for what reason have no idea. If you get noisy guests next door, moving furniture around, in the middle of night, banging doors, dropping things on floor, making noise on stairs and out on balcony then it is going to ruin your stay, unless you are the inconsiderate ones making the noise, or don’t mind noise. Luckily they left after a couple of days (maybe the hotel should have curbed this by not keeping the bar open late). You can also hear noise from the bar up to the second floor, if there are loud guests in. Generally, the consensus seemed to be from other guests' expectation that this type of hotel is aimed to accommodate those looking for a quiet stay, and not family groups, rooms are either single or 2 person occupation, close to amenities. Few days before we left a couple arrived with kids running about in the passage between rooms, (not toddlers) noisy at evening meal, and in the pool. I do not feel this hotel should be aimed towards accommodating families (rooms only accommodate one or 2 people and are small) it appears as a small and friendly hotel, promoted by Tui as this type of accommodation hotel has no activities aimed at children. There is no entertainment, or live music, at hotel they seemed to have only one taped music set, which was played every evening in the dinning area, some nights it was not played. Main concerns raised by guests were noise from guests in other rooms, several guests changed rooms, when these guests left, as worried about further noise. First floor front rooms you are right above bar, so you get noise from cars, and the hotel bar, there is seating outside as well. Rooms over 2 floors, 20 in all, rooms facing pool did not get the sun at this time of year October, on the balcony, pool area did. Rooms facing street got the sun, but this verses road noise and bar noise. That covers the noise, which I believe is a concern, which should be addressed by the hotel, when guests are making noise, and based on the amount of people who complained and the number of room changes. The owners need to be more assertive. Room sizes are small, we were unable to view a room in May as hotel was fully occupied, basic, very small safe cost 5 euros for 2 weeks, in wardrobe, not all rooms have balconies, shower also small, as was rest of bathroom, TV in room, only one English channel, BBC, limited news, and found a French and German channel. Rooms are cleaned daily, provided with shower and soap, plenty places to buy your own toiletries. Meal complaint from some guests, that the food was not hot. Having stayed in Italy before, food is not always piping hot, plus the weather was pretty hot. Adding to this please do not complain that your food is cold, then go on to having had it served hot, after complaining, sit for 20 minutes talking not touching your food, then get up, when the additional dish is served, and take from the cold plate buffet, eating this, so that your once already hot food is now well and truly cold! I really do not think this was justified complaint, and was more minority than the majority. Breakfast is buffet, with 3 cooked options scrambled eggs, bacon and sausage. Coffee machine, with hot water, there are 2 takes a little time figuring out, your coffee is only a small amount dispensed, needs topped up with hot water, various types of tea bags. Bread, fresh fruit, cake Sadly, again some guests spoil it for others, by taking food from the breakfast table, and we are not talking a piece of fruit here or there, but bringing in their own plastic containers to fill up. This was after sitting down and having a very plentiful breakfast. I do feel the hotel was too laid back to say something, but these guests had a rep who could have been spoken to, unless the rep was the intimidating one. If you are going to allow some guests to take food away in addition to the breakfast they have had then you have to let all guests take food, and make them aware. Evening meal is options of 2 first courses, and 2 main courses, choose at breakfast. The hotel will offer to omit meat from the pasta dish, if meat is on the menu, they will offer to accommodate vegetarians. Dessert is usually cake, or pastry, one choice. There was more than enough food offered, including variety and choice, especially as this is a small hotel and a lot of the food seems to be prepared from scratch using fresh produce from the garden (we got grapes for dessert on a couple of evening, which we saw being taking from the garden, so you cannot get fresher than that. The hotel will accommodate you with an early breakfast, unlike some other who only provide a packed breakfast. I feel this goes beyond what they need to do. We asked if we could have a couple of pieces of fruit, yoghurt and mini toasts to go, so we could eat at the airport. Drinks are not cheap, I would say mid range compared to the local bars. While the bottle wine was expensive around 23 euros, it was very good quality wine. Water was 3 euros a bottle. The garden area and pool. It was like something that you wish for, if you had the space, time and money to have, which some people do. The area was well laid out, pool area with sun loungers and chairs, 2 seating areas, then at the bottom of the garden, was the vegetable garden, to the side is the owner’s house. The garden is adorned with various vegetables, fruits and flowers, the gardener is there every morning from when it starts to get light, keeping the area clean, at this time of year removing the fallen leaves. The garden is a little paradise. There was a small bar area, and a toilet, so no need to go inside or back to your room, but the bar area was unstaffed, previous guests had left their unused sun tan lotions. Where the garden ends with the vegetable part, this does back onto the even busier main road, this is where the bus via Massa go past. This is a lovely small hotel. I feel the owners may be a little too laid back, when dealing with the noise, and the behaviour of some guests, and should take a firmer hand, while there are repeat guests, I feel that they may be missing out on more repeat guests.

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“Amazing Food ”

Hotel in a good position in central Sant Agata. Staff friendly, lovely pool area and gardens. The food however is amazing! The pasta dishes especially! The grapes from their grapevines are especially tasty. The wines they serve are high quality, so you pay accordingly. The local supermarket… more

Hotel in a good position in central Sant Agata. Staff friendly, lovely pool area and gardens. The food however is amazing! The pasta dishes especially! The grapes from their grapevines are especially tasty. The wines they serve are high quality, so you pay accordingly. The local supermarket 'Conad' is just around the corner. There were problems with noise on a few nights. Would definitely return again, either at the very start or end of the season.

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“Quite Hotel”

Text: Just back from staying at this small family run Hotel, We had a very lovely time and really lucky with the weather. The Hotel was nice enough all though very basic, the rooms are small with high ceilings and clean enough , could do with some upgrades and TLC, the shower cubicle was so small i… more

Text: Just back from staying at this small family run Hotel, We had a very lovely time and really lucky with the weather. The Hotel was nice enough all though very basic, the rooms are small with high ceilings and clean enough , could do with some upgrades and TLC, the shower cubicle was so small it was beyond belief , no fridge but I was offered to hire one for €10 a day, we done without ,no kettle tea & coffee in the rooms, our towels got changed regularly without leavening on the floor to be changed which was great , beds comfy enough, it also has a very small elevator, the food was fine but only a choice of 2 starters and 2 mains and the desert was take it or leave it. You were given a menu at breakfast to make your choices. The staff appeared very shy but were nice, the bar prices not the cheapest, the pool area was surrounded by lemon trees and a grape vine, far too much for my liking so we never used the pool, the Hotel is in a very localised area and next to a supermarket and around the corner is the Main Street in the very nice village with lots of shops and restaurants, an information centre where you bye bus tickets to all other place’s with a great and easy to use bus service, 25 minutes took you into the heart of Sorrento and it terminated right at the train station, we are not hard to please people so overall we had a great time and if the price was right I would stay at this hotel again with the hope that during the close season or near future they do some upgrades before it’s star rating gets reduced.

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