Relais Villa San Martino

Beautiful hotel with professional staff. Delicious breakfast buffet with cooked to order eggs. I am deducting one star because our room was at the back of the pool house and we had to wait an eternity for limited hot water. If you stay here you have to look out for a post at the end of the turnoff road with chevrons on and press the button to ask the reception to open the gate. It is easily missed and not signposted.

I struggled to write this review as there are simply not enough words to describe just how outstanding the venue and team are. From first viewing we knew we didn't want to have our dream italian wedding anywhere else. We absolutely fell in love with the place as soon as we saw the gorgeous peach building, the beautifully kept gardens and the wonderful, kind staff. I have to start this review saying that Giulia Solito is the coordinator for weddings at this venue and she could not have been more helpful, fun and supportive during our planning process from first meeting up until the wedding day. She gives you a very calm, nothing is too much trouble, everything is fine attitude and continues this throughout the process which is so reassuring when you're planning a wedding abroad. She never once made us feel like we was a pain for asking a million questions and she never pushed her opinions for our day on us, she just let us plan our dream day freely which was amazing. Everything we ever wished for, we had and we cannot thank Guilia and the staff enough for that, they was amazing. Our wedding weekend first started off with a welcome barbeque at the Trullo - originally it was planned for outside but we had a rain shower (we got married in May so you can never be 100% sure of weather of course) so it was brought inside the Trullo and I have to say I am so pleased about it as I loved the contrast of having an outdoor wedding and an inside Trullo bbq. The Trullo is absolutely stunning and everyone was saying how amazing it was in there and how wonderful the food and wine was - it just kept coming out! It was so stunning and again, Guilia ensured that all 76 of us fit in the Trullo (without us squashing) so that we could still have our perfect pre wedding dinner. On our wedding day, we had an entire outdoor wedding planned and the day went absolutely perfectly. Seeing our dream come to life was something I will cherish forever. Giulia was checking in on us both throughout the wedding morning getting ready and keeping me calm. She was also constantly checking the weather for me, and keeping me updated to ensure the success of the outdoor wedding. I was so in awe of how perfectly it all ran, the vendors and VSM really worked together behind the scenes to pull it all off. The ceremony went perfect and we was advised when to go during every step of the way. Whilst we was doing our photos, they provided canapes and prosecco for our guests which anybody I spoke to said was amazing - they was really special canapes and really beautifully presented. We had our gorgeous al fresco dinner outside in the amphitheatre with two long tables and a huge runner of white flowers along the tables and I honestly had a little tear when I saw it, it was incredible. The food at our wedding dinner, as expected from VSM, was outstanding. Everybody loved it and there was honestly something for everyone. I loved that there was waiters pouring all of the wine and it wasn't just st

On the way to Arbelobero we decided to stop here. We met Alessandro who was very SIMPATOCO and gave us all options. We ended up taking a room not in the main building which was small but clean and modern. Before continuing to tour Alberobelo in the afternoon we both had wonderful 50 minutes massage at their health center. It was a cloudy day so we didn't have a chance to use the pool . Breakfast was excellent with probably the best omlette we had in our trip. Dinner was only OK. Not more. Alessandro and later Sophi were.noth very nice and helpful. After breakfast we had the chance to your the wine caller which is amazing Recommended