Just back from 10 days at the Una Poggio Hotel, Nr. Scarperia. Had a lovely room overlooking
the first tee and the bedding and towels were changed every day. The weather was warm and
sometimes cloudy which was a relief as it was 24/26 degrees.

The breakfast if you liked continental was quite good but if you like a good english breakfast it
was poor - only offering scrambled eggs and streaky bacon. The toaster was broken on our
first day and never appeared the ten days we were there. However the meals at night were superb with a great choice. The staff were very friendly and always spoke to us.

The golf course was quite hilly and if you are over 55 you will definitely need a buggy everyday. The midgies are dreadful and even though we sprayed ourselves all the time with "Ultrathon" (a spray recommended by the Which Magazine) we were still badly bitten. We thought Scotland
was bad for midgies but this place was worse!

The scenery in Northern Tuscany is truly beautiful but the location of the hotel is rather far out and 7 days would have been plenty at this resort. We visited Siena and San Gimignano which
were lovely and were a bit disappointed with Florence. We took the tourist bus and expected it to be like Paris where you are taken all over the city - this bus just went round the outskirts of
Florence and as we were upstairs we kept being hit by low hanging branches for much of the
trip - really quite dangerous.

I stayed in Hotel UNA Poggio Dei Medici for only night using a gift which included a night in a double room with breakfast and one massage for each person, so I don’t kwon exactly the price for one night but I think it’s about 160 euro for a double room.
The hotel is on the top of a hill just a couple of kilometers from the main road which goes to Scarperia town.
The hotel is an old Villa that was renovated.
The hotel has a great golf course (I think it’s classified 13th in all the Italian golf course) with 18 holes and a little lake, so you can have breakfast in the terrace watching the golf course.
The landscape is great and very relaxing. Our room was on ground floor in a courtyard that was probably the dependence of the main Villa. The room was very big with a sofa and a little table.The bathroom was modern and very big. The breakfast was nice with ham, cheese, fruit and so on.
In conclusion, if you would like to relax and play golf I suggest you to go to the Hotel UNA Poggio dei Medici in Scarperia.

My wife and I stayed here for 14 nights in October for a golfing holiday.
The golf course is excellent (very tough for high handicappers) with some of the best greens I have ever played on
Highly recommend you hire a car otherwise you are rather stuck at the hotel which although very nice is quite expensive when you eat lunch and dinner there every day. About 80/90 euros dinner for 2 with wine soon mounts up over 14 nights!!
Had the reception order us a taxi one evening to eat out in Scarperia and when we arrived at the restaurant, the driver asked for 25 euros (just a 5 kilometer trip)--clearly a thief!! I gave him 10 and sent him on his way. So, be warned, get a price before you take a cab.
Otherwise a good experience, all staff (except for the short little Maitre De) were very keen to impress, helpful and pleasant. The little Maitre De (as opposed to the tall one who was fine) was the most obnoxious and arrogant little man we have ever met---God knows how he is in this job--I suspect he will be gone before long.
The American Bar next to the restaurant is OK but with 2 G&T's for 20 Euros, a little overpriced as are the drinks in the rooms mini bar.
Take a tip and visit the local cash and carry where you can buy a very good local Chianti for 3 euros a bottle and keep a few bottles in the room. (also buy some drinking water, decant into small bottles and store them in the rooms mini fridge)

Beautiful hotel and setting in the Tuscan countryside, we went to play golf and hopefully manage some sight seeing as well, we unfortunately thought we were nearer to Scarperia than we were, and did not hire a car, so were in effect were stranded! Taxi's are prohibitive, £20-25 to go about 5K!! We were lucky that some other hotel guests generously invited us to join them for dinner so we did "get out". Having said that Florence is easily accessible by train from nearby San Piero a Sievre as are many other famous attractions.
The hotel was beautiful, and our apartment amazing, it overlooked the 4th green!! The food was OK but a bit repetitive, most guests seemed to eat out so the restaurant lacked atmosphere, lunch was served by the pool, but was expensive, £10-12 for a salad.
The only thing that let the hotel down was that some of it's staff lacked people skills and were down right rude, oh well can't have it all ways!!