Orlando in Chianti Glamping Resort

The rugged site is remote, reached by five miles of tortuous, hair-pin bends along poor roads. It stretches over a sloping hillside with rough paths and steps linking mobiles, many of which look out directly onto a forest of mountain ash trees. It in no way merits what English visitors would consider glamping. The grocery store is small and expensive (particularly for wine) with the closest large (and excellent) supermarket 30 minutes drive away. Food at the restaurant/pizzeria is fairly basic, but it has a pleasant location, and two log fires and a big sofa that brightened a dull evening. Radda in Chianti and Greve in Chianti are worth visiting but avoid the extremely rough unmade northern route to the latter. Florence, Sienna, Arezzo and San Gimignano are further, all about an hour away. The site would probably best suit young people, who love the outdoor life, but due to fire restrictions and the rough terrain, there are no barbecues or proper footpaths beyond the site. It is totally unsuitable for anyone with mobility problems.

Note: normally I do not write a review but after experiencing 10 nights here, I would like to warn fellow TripAdvisors. The 'glamping' is located on top of an oak tree filled hill in the beautiful Chianti area. However, the 'glamping' felt more like a survival. The glamping tents are under accommodated, not quality-checked by the staff and hence full of wild life: As guests, we had to find out a hornet nest about the size of a football was present in our glamping tent. When ultimately confronting the staff with the issue they proposed to let us pay the €60 cleaning costs of another tent in order to be transferred. The sleeping facilities are not well fit for nature. There are no mosquito nets available, leading to poor sleep quality for all guests. This is well visible at the pool, where everyone is full of mosquito-bites. The beds are not well built, having loose supporting. With all the above mentioned items I'm wondering if the owners ever camped here themselves. The focus of earning money is ruining the holiday experience: a few extra examples of the many. 1) the capacity of the camping does not stroke with the accomodation-capacity (too small swimming pool area, too small playground area). 2) The playground is not safely built and maintained. The different equipment are located too close to one another and no fall protection / shock dampening mats are foreseen. We've seen a lot of kids fall upon tree-roots and even big rocks. 3) The drinks in the bar consist of 60% ice. 4) the parking lot is too small for the current capacity, leading to people parking their cars in the resort, even up till the playground area. In summary, since during summer time the camping is fully booked, the glamping resort strategy is to make as much profit as possible, while minimizing staff and maintenance costs and overloading existing facilities.

We booked for 2N3D stay too bad the weather wasn’t on our side. We requested for a house that is quite isolated but near to pool area since we are with two small kids. When we arrived at the reception, everything went fast because i’ve checkin online prior to our arrival. We were sent to a mobile house which was very far from the pool area (very opposite to what we have requested) . we went back at the reception to ask if they can give us another accomodation, they sent us again to check another house but like the first one, it’s too excluded and not very much kid friendly because of big rockw and PVC tubes scattered everywhere. We had to go back 4x, to ask them if they could find us an accomdation that suits us best. After a quite long discussion and bargaining, they finally took us to a more spacious, isolated and very much near to the pool area lodging. We occupied the Bungalow Panorama. It has two bedrooms and one toilet and a little kitchen. the place is beautiful and Cozy, Clean and complete with stuffs for cooking and the basic necessities like extra towels/blankets. the only problem that we had were the ants. The ants were all over the place,more particularly in the bedroom and inside the bath. the restaurant was all packed when we arrived. we had to wait for an hour before they were able to accommodate us. i honestly do not recommend to eat there because of its pricey and quite “boring” menu. their aglio e olio tasted really strange. The staffs though were been accommodating to our needs. the pool area is not so big but clean and i think perfect for families like us with kids, but too bad the weather was so cold that time and we were not able to stay longer in the water. The place has a mini market that has a only few selections of items to offer. there are two mini ponies that the kids can freely admire and caress at the playground though if you come with little kids, you have to be very extra careful because of the big roots and big rocks scattered around. My son stumbled twice… Maybe we could’ve fun more if it wasn’t raining on those three days of our stay.