The best thing about the hotel is its location..right on top of A wonderful beach and with a magnificent garden with seaview to relax.

The bad part is breakfast. Get there fast or have very little to eat..the staff do not refill breakfast items at all and are just busy clearing tables and getting coffee. There are no breakfast tabs so you really do not know what you are eating..plain croassaint or with cream, orange juice or peach..you never know. The strange thing is that there seemed to be a breakfast manager of some some sort which thought everything was going smoothly and didn't really do much. The highlight of breakfast is the Italian capuccino and not much more.

Other then that, the rooms are clean and spacious and the staff is ok.

Hugo Macedo

Hotel Barsalini represents excellent value for money: it has charm, pleasant staff, excellent food, lovely facilities and is surprisingly affordable for such an idyllic location - on the edge of a small beach, at the foot of a lush, forested mountain. The scenery is beautiful: crystalline water, dramatic rock formations and countless remote coves and inlets to be explored by boat – my favourite memory of the island. There is little to do here save relax, which is exactly what we wished for, but the serenity was impinged on just a tad by the one drawback of this hotel -- it was crawling with children. They were well enough behaved but monopolised the pool, so we decamped to the beach (hardly a hardship) and booked the sauna/jacuzzi facilities in the wellness garden for our own use. During our stay I also enjoyed a great massage which was administered in the wellness garden. All in all this was a really superb hotel which exceeded my expectations in almost every way. We particularly enjoyed the pre-dinner antipasti buffet which we enjoyed with the daily recommended cocktail before dinner (drinks were not included, but were well priced).

It is a beautiful place to visit where you can find a real spirit of Italy. I have two years old daughter and the Barsallini hotel could offer her plenty attractions. You can find there a park with a playground and small zoo with animals such as parrots, rabbits, ducks and fish. Apart from that, there is a lovely sandy beach right at the hotel’s corner. Moreover the hotel’s staff treat people with children the most welcomed not like in other places – unwanted.

Hotel provides a great quality of fresh food every day. You can feel that the chef is passionate about what he does. We spent there 8 days and every single one we have tasted different kinds of pasta, meat and fish and everything was delicious – NO EXCEPTIONS!

We have visited Barsalini twice already. First time, we were at the hotel in September 2010 and we were so satisfied so we have decided to come back in September this year. Each time we have discovered something new and we wish to come back there again.

If you want to spend some time in a nice place with good food in amiable atmosphere, I strongly recommend to visit the Barsallini hotel.

The hotel is made by many buildings close to eachothers, on the side of a hill facing the sea. Common spaces between the buildings include pool, garden, relax area, lounge area. In every small corner all is perfect: clean, fresh, with a lot of plants and flowers.
We chose a "Il cigno" room, with balcony facing the sea. The room looks recently furbished and painted, bathroom is new and spaceful.
In general we really enjoyed our stay.
As plus we would mention: position, really on the beach; a truly excellent restaurant (and we are not easy customers), cleanliness everywhere, free wifi and free relax area (during our stay there was no fee, and only one family at the time could be there).
We would have just appreciated a bit more "transparency": as example, at the restaurant, beverages are not inclucled in the full board and you need to order at the table, but without list...so you don't know the prices. There is in fact a wine list with prices in the restaurant, but it's never brought at the table, you need to ask for it. The situation is the same at the lounge bar, where you don't have a clue of what you'll pay your drink. Prices are on average, so no bad surprises at the end, but we didn't like the feeling of "not knowing".
At the same way, you need to ask if you need to pay for wifi or for jacuzzi in the relax area, information that could be included in the leaflet present in the rooms.
These are just small things that could be easily solved. It's instead impossible to solve what could be the only real problem of this hotel: many steps everywhere. Steps to the rooms, to the pool, to the restaurant, to the entrance,...This is obviously due to the position of the hotel, but it 's a trouble if you have difficulty with your legs or if you're handlings prams or pushchairs.
Comments beside the hotel: the beach is small, very small; the place is not a village, there is nothing to do and no space to walk; there are a lot of children on the beach; most of the people (not only in the hotel) was German.