Palagina la Dimora

After staying here during our honeymoon in 2005, my wife and I came back for a three night stay celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary in mid July. We booked a deluxe room at the front of the hotel and on arrival were shown to what appeared to be the only one with a. balcony. The view was as stunning as we remembered and a bottle of Prosecco while sitting gazing out over the tuscan countryside helped get our stay off to a good start. The room was spacious and comfortable and equipped with everything we needed. Being on the first floor, it was easy to reach and actually at ground level if you used the door at the restaurant end of the building; handy for loading and unloading suitcases. Breakfast was served buffet style with a choice of sitting inside our outside and there was a good choice of food. As often in Italy, the choice of hot food was poor but more than compensated for by the more continental items! Just one criticism; there was no self service tea or coffee available and we had to approach a member of staff to order. A rather unusual way of doing this and, at times, a little frustrating as there seemed to be too few staff on duty to cope comfortably. We ate in the restaurant on two of our three evenings and both the food and service were excellent. Staff generally were extremely friendly and helpful and were happy to let me converse in Italian - even when, for them, it might have been easier to do so in English! La Palagina had changed a little since our visit 20 years ago; it was busier and seemed to cater more for families so it was livelier, with quite a few (well behaved) children present. We thoroughly enjoyed our return and would recommend it as a great base for exploring the Chianti region or simply relaxing in beautiful surroundings.

We absolutely loved staying here! It was a beautiful get away from the fast paced cities. The property offered great activities and was within driving distance of great wine tastings and restaurants.

Very old property in need of maintenance. There was no water when we arrived but the staff did not mention this to us. Internet was down. At 4 am we were all woken up due to a fire alarm at the property. However none of the limited staff that was around, knew what was going on or what to do. All of the hotel quests were standing around outside in our pajamas for about 45 min. The alarm stopped and we eventually decided to go back in. There was no instructions provided, no fire department and no apologies. Very poor management. Would not recommend nor would I go back to this property.