Reviews from Hotel Sovestro

San Gimignano as a holiday destination

San Gimignano as a holiday destination

San Gimignano as a holiday destination

San Gimignano as a holiday destination

A fantastic hotel with lovely surroundings. 100% service-minded and friendly staff. The whole area is beautiful and well maintained. We have to come back!

San Gimignano as a holiday destination

San Gimignano as a holiday destination

Super service, nicely clean, smiling staff which gladly helped, a few seemed shy. Lovely pool area, fantastic breakfast, with new kinds of cookie and cheeses each day, if you ordered you could get all shades of eggs. The hotels restaurant made the most fantastic food, not cheap, but if you wanted the same in DK, it would've costed the double.

Recommendations for future guests

In San Gimiganano lies a restaurant called Le Mura, it lies on the city wall on the eastern side, just across from a hotel, doesn't open before 18, closed Tuesday, super location, cosy, and lovely food, order a table if you are more than 2 people. There lies 2 restaurant outside the city walls closest to the main entrance in the roundabout, where they made good pizzas and other good food for almost no money.

I agree a lot with a former review. We came from an apartment in the southern Tuscany without pool to this hotel at the foot of San Gimignano, where we lived a week and enjoyed the hotel's two lovely pools. The kids pool was especially perfect for our daughter, who turned 2 years old the week that we were there. Placed in a garden with plenty of shadow and loungers, which we pretty much had to ourselves. Here we spent half and whole days with good afternoon naps in the shadow (We were there during a heatwave at 35 degrees C). The room was fine and very clean, thanks to the daily cleaning done by the always smiling cleaning staff. Wonderful to have new towels to the pool every day. We had a room on the 1st floor with a fine balcony and view over the garden. The only big minus was the traffic noise coming from the main road, when you sat out on the balcony.
The breakfast was good and far better than what you expect in Italy, and the restaurant had delicious food, even though it was a bit pricey. We ate here 3 nights and got the most tender and juicy steaks and home made pasta.

Recommendations for future guests

San Gimignano is a really beautiful and enjoyable town, which is best in the evening, when the many day tourists leave. We walked around there several times with our stroller down the gravel roads amongst the vineyards and olive groves, but be aware that, it goes uphill for 2 km on the way to San Gimignano and therefore it can be extra tough in the day hours! We enjoyed taking the trip, which one day let us to some delicious plums from a plum tree and a turtle in the side of the road. Especially just the fact that, you don't have to look for parking is worth the whole trip. The trip home at night can be a bit dark, since there isn't any lighting, but at least the moon lit our way and made the trip home all the more moody in the Tuscan summer night.
You don't need to look for more wonderful surroundings :-)