8/10 Good
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Traveled with family
18 September 2019
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Villa Messi is located in a lovely quiet village of Casalini.
The property itself is quite large, furnished with nice art and artefacts, giving it an initially opulent feel.
Outside, there is an open eating area, complete with inbuilt barbeque, wood-fired pizza oven, hob, sink and even a fridge. We enjoyed using these facilities during our stay, including making and baking our own pizzas from scratch.
The bedrooms are all en-suite.
Messi and Dante were on hand when required during our stay and gave us some nice fruit and vegetables baskets from their extensive garden which was a lovely gesture.
Unfortunately, the villa feels like it has been a little bit neglected over the years.
For example, some of the kitchen appliances were old with broken doors, seat cushions were lumpy and uncomfortable, there was a leak in the main sitting room when it rained, also causing one of the air conditioning units to blow a fuse whenever we tried to use it.
The bedroom windows all had fitted fly screens, but in two of the bedrooms, these had large holes meaning that windows couldn’t be left open as there were a lot of mosquitoes around when we visited.
All the bathrooms also had an unpleasant cabbage type smell for the duration of our stay which suggested some sort of plumbing issue.
It’s a shame because with a little TLC, these issues could all be resolved &I would have no reservations in giving Villa Messi 5 stars, but based on our experience, I am unfortunately unable to do so.
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Stayed 14 nights in Aug 2019