Guest User
August 23, 2023
After several years and after the pandemic we returned to the Pearl of the Gulf, we were not as satisfied as in the past, some services were not restored after the pandemic, others have lost quality. We found the pleasant and beautiful surprise of the swimming pool; the car park has been expanded and also includes some covered parking spaces, both positive notes, but not only these; the rooms have been modernized and are very beautiful and functional, you can rest very well and, although the hotel overlooks a very busy road, you can't hear any noise in the room. Indeed, the hotel overlooks a busy road: once there was an overpass on this road, which has been partially removed, probably imposed by the municipality. The first question that arises spontaneously and which may have also been asked is: were at least pedestrian crossings and signs warning of crossings so difficult to obtain? To reach the beach you have to walk along a path without any type of pavement, but taking risks to cross the road in front of the hotel seems to me to be devoid of any safety hypothesis for swimmers. Once upon a time there was also a shuttle which, although the route to the sea is short (about 300m), at least helped to avoid these dangers. Furthermore, I imagine the help he gave to families with small children, or to those who wanted to go back to the hotel after a day spent on the beach, without having to walk under the sun with the temperatures of this August. The service was suspended with Covid and never restored. However, the biggest sore point comes from the restaurant, which is poorly maintained and lacks the quality that a person expects from the restaurant of a 4* hotel. I'll just give you a small example: it's unthinkable that a seaside hotel of this category, on an island like Elba, offers frozen fish dishes... truly incredible. The hotel is no longer the pearl of the gulf that I knew about 15 years ago, I believe there is a tendency to minimize costs as much as possible, to increase profits.
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