Hotel Villa Pia

Lorraine Liyanage     East Dulwich, London  (United Kingdom)

The perfect getaway for families

I really cannot recommend this place highly enough to anyone who'll listen to me - truly the easiest, most stress-free way to spend a week or two with young or not so young children. Prices are quite reasonable if you travel at the beginning or end of the season, although I'd avoid the summer months for costliness and also the raging heat.

We flew with BA from Gatwick to Bologna. We took a carseat as you have to hire a car, but there's really no need to bring pushchairs, travel cots etc. as the Villa has EVERYTHING you could need for your baby: blender for pureeing, bottles, bibs, sippy cups, highchairs, baby monitors, booster seats, pushchairs, cots etc. As well as 3 meals a day, afternoon tea and cakes, bowls of fruit, a fridge full of yoghurts and as much wine, beer and spirits as you can manage!

The children will be kept amused endlessly and they will make plenty of friends whilst at the Villa. For the kids, there is an indoor playroom, a piano room, an indoor softplay room, a huge outdoor play area in the courtyard (the gates exiting these can be kept locked so your little ones are caged in whilst you relax in the deckchairs without having to be too vigilant), the swimming pool, ping-pong table, playhouses, plenty of board games, playhouse, swings and tunnels. Adults have a quiet reading room and rambling Umbrian hills to explore.

Rooms are clean and comfortable, nothing too flash. Cleaned daily and beds made which was a total luxury as we live in chaos! The bathrooms are pretty small but we weren't too fussed as we didn't spend much time in the rooms at all. Might be a tad harder to bath small infants.

There are lots of fantastic daytrips to many nearby medieval villages, or longer day trips can be made to the historic cities of Perugia, Florence, Bologna, Assisi, Siena, Pisa etc.

Tags:   umbria   tuscany   italy

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