Torre Saracena Holidays from £415

Wonderful, relaxing stay. Great for families.

Friendly welcome arrival, local information proactively shared about restaurants and local events. We opted for breakfast which was great very relaxing. Highly recommend this property to be close to Santa Maria de Leuca.

The noisiest hotel I have ever stayed at. Whilst the design has a nice aesthetic - the pool in a courtyard with rooms on all four sides - it’s an echo chamber which means you hear everything whilst in your room. It’s a new build with a fatal flaw. I was driven crazy by guests moving balcony furniture. It sounded as though they were right above my room. In fact they were three rooms away. The noise travels through the structure. I could hear people in the rooms next door coughing on one side and talking to their baby on the other. And then there’s the constant noise of the wheeling of trollies outside the room by hotel staff. There’s no world in which this is a five star hotel. It’s a nice, albeit noisy, four-star. Too many issues to list, from the ant infestation in the room when I checked in late at night, to their being no soap in the soap dispenser in the bathroom for the first two days, to the hotel refusing point blank to provide an iron. You have to put anything you want to quickly touch up with an iron through their laundry service. And many more minor things that don’t signal five stars. On the positive side, the bedroom air conditioning was excellent and the hotel has a beautiful pool. The food isn’t great, but it was edible. The staff clearly work hard and want to help, but it’s all a bit shambolic.