Masseria Rifisa AgriResort

Masseria Rifusa is an excellant resort style facility close to Lecce. We struggled to find good accomodation with car parking and pool close to Lecce, but this facility ticks all the boxes. Just 10kms out Lecce, nice clean room, great pool, excellant home style meals in their Restuarant with wines from their estate. Well secured site with plenty of car parking. Staff very friendly and professional.

Having asked for a room for two nights with half board, this establishment suggested that they had reserved a room for us and that we would have 1 day to accept their offer and make payment. However, after little more than 2 and half hours (unfortunately we were working and did our best to accept the offer as quickly as possible) it transpired that these jokers had already sold our room to someone else! What makes matters even more frustrating is that we had to cancel another reservation for something else so that we could accept the dates these guys had offered! At the end we’ve ended up with no where to stay and no plans in place - all because these liars encouraged us to book something that wasn’t even available to us in the end. Shoddy, unprofessional and outrageous behaviour from masseria who clearly show no care or courtesy to future guests. I can’t help but feel that we have had a lucky escape no going here!

We stayed 3 nights at this large quiet estate. Secure parking on the estate itself. Modern rooms with minimalist design. Perfect hygiene. Friendly staff. Excellent air conditioning. Lots of choice for breakfast. Dinner on the first evening was disappointing (absent-minded waitress, dining room looked like monastery hall,..). Better service and food can be found at Oltregusto and Il vicino del barone where we went for dinner the following nights. In the weekend of 15 August, the hotel was fully booked and there was a shortage of loungers at the pool. The staff did do their best to find solutions for this. I would choose this hotel again for future stays in this region.