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Rental Date: Saturday 1st of September 2012.

Renter: Heidi M. (, United States).

Renter Rating: 5/5.

"La Poggetta is a fabulous place to stay!!"

What can I say? This was a fabulous villa for our group! It is within 1 hour to all that we wanted to see in Tuscany - Sienna, Cortona, San Gimignano, Florence and Montalcino. It is well furnished including dressers and armoires in the bedrooms for your clothes. The kitchen is of ample size and the indoor and outdoor dining spaces were great! The huge vegetable/fruit and herb garden was the best. Growing in the garden were tomatoes, cukes, zucchini, peppers, eggplant, figs, apples, cantaloupes, basil, sage, rosemary etc and we were free to use whatever we wanted. It felt so Italian to go pick our bounty for the evening meal.The other treat is Lorenzo! He is a friend of the owners and speaks English as the owners do not. He met us at the villa to show us around and we pre-arranged for him to come in and cook dinner for us for my 50th birthday and it was so delicious and he brought the wine pairings for each course as well. He is a very congenial, friendly and fun person and very helpful in so many ways. He had his aunt Lorena there to help with the meal and what a gem she is! She prepared the Tiramisu for my birthday cake and it was the best Tiramisu I have ever had. Lorenzo also has a local shop to get meats, cheeses, wines and other specialty food items. It is a great shop with reasonable prices. Lorenzo will also do custom tours and/or wine tours and cooking classes if you so desire. He was just the best. We also enjoyed the owners even though they did not speak English. You could just feel the warmth they exuberated. We truly enjoyed our time time in Tuscany and I would highly recommend La Poggetta! The only suggestion I would make is that the villa should have more wine glasses although there are plenty of glasses so you are never without a vessel to pour wine into and more ice trays in the freezer.

Please visit La Poggetta for more details about this accommodation. Visit this page for other villas in Cavriglia, Tuscany, Italy.

Rental Date: Saturday 13th of October 2012.

Renter: Tanja S. (Hessheim, Deutschland).

Renter Rating: 4/5.

Wir waren vom 13.10 bis 20.10 mit 9 Personen im Haus Alice. Uns hat es dort sehr gut gefallen. Das Haus ist 2010 liebevoll renoviert. In der Küche gibt es ein offenen Kamin den wir auch zum Grillen nutzen konnten. Das Wetter war sehr gut und den großzügigen Pool konnten wir noch nutzen.Ankunftszeit hatten wir 16:30-17:30 Uhr ausgemacht und dachten das der Vermieter an Ort und stelle ist. Dies war nicht der Fall. Wir mussten ein paar telefonate führen. Das verwirrende an der Sache: Auf der Buchung standen fünf verschiedene Nummern. Nach einer halben Stund hatten wir es geschaft. Alice brachte uns den Schlüssel. Das war das einzigste was nicht so gut lief. alles ander hat super gepasst und die Toskana ist sehr schöne, super Landschaft, schöne Städte und gutes Essen. Viel Spaß im Hause Alice. Wir würden wieder hinfahren.

[English translation courtesy of Easy Reserve] We stayed at the house Alice from 13th to 20th October with 9 people . We have really enjoyed this place. The house has been lovingly restored in 2010. In the kitchen there is a fireplace that we could also use for barbecuing. The weather was very good and we could even use the large pool still. We had agreed a check-in between 16:30 and 17:30 and thought that the owner were on the spot. This was not the case. We had to make a few phone calls. The confusing thing about it was that on the rental voucher were five different numbers. After half an hour we managed to enter the property. Alice gave us the key. That was the only thing which went not well. Everything else was perfect: Tuscany is very nice, great scenery, beautiful towns and great food. Have fun in the house Alice. We would go back again.

Please visit Alice for more details about this accommodation. Visit this page for other villas in Greve In Chianti, Tuscany, Italy.

Rental Date: Monday 8th of October 2012.

Renter: Gemma W. (Den Haag, Netherlands).

Renter Rating: 5/5.

The houses were fine, albeit sparsely furnished.
In the house and in the bedrooms/bathrooms the light was insufficient for reading etc.(we were there in mid oktober). As we had planned to play bridge in the evenings (4 tables) we had a problem. This was solved by letting us play in a separate building, where we also had our evening meal.
The cooking was excellent and varied, as were the wines.
Our group will certainly be back!

Please visit Fattoria Di Romignano for more details about this accommodation. Visit this page for other villas in Traiana, Tuscany, Italy.

Rental Date: Saturday 29th of September 2012.

Renter: Reg B. (Kelowna, BC, Canada).

Renter Rating: 5/5.

Very highly recommended by all six of us. Great anytime and exceptional value at off season rates.

Please visit Villa Carolina for more details about this accommodation. Visit this page for other villas in Barberino Val D'elsa, Tuscany, Italy.