Blu Hotel Natura & Spa

Very nice hotel. Good staff. Amazing views from the balcony

Terrible service during breakfast and dinner. Only one waiter to take orders on approx 30 tables. And everything would be okay if he wouldn’t stop and talk with his friends. We waited over 30min to get asked what will we eat and that is only after we stoped him and then after appetizers we waited 50min for the next course. The food that came was cold and prepared over few hours ago (not even a curtosy heating up in a microwave that bad restaurants do). The salad table is self service but it is served in small batches so 4 people take all the salad and then you wait for them to “refill” which takes few minutes. It is the same case with the breakfast. It starts from 7:30 am but if you want to have scrambled eggs you have to wait until 8am because it is not coming out. The rooms are also a story for itself. We paid two identical rooms and got two very different ones, one bigger the other smaller in the corner. Cleaning service is great but our room is much larger and better then the other that we paid for. I’m sharing a picture of the main course in the review to see what I’m talking about.

We went on a ski trip to this great Adults Only hotel and spa. We had hired a car to use instead of a transfer and to get to the slopes. Using Google maps, on the details given did not take us to the hotel it was a 100 metres short or so and was further up the narrow road Via Leonardo da Vinci, a local pointed us in the right direction. Everything else though was fantastic, the hotel has a garage to park the car, and unlike many other hotels, they do not charge to use it. The garage was spotless and this set the tone for our whole stay. All the staff from the reception, chambermaids, waiters, and waitresses, were all well-presented, polite, and very helpful. Our room was cleaned by Elena who kept the room spotlessly clean, provided us with extras pillows on request, beleive me my wife can spot a speck of dust at 100 metres, even made good comments on this. We stayed on a half-board basis. Breakfast was good, and the coffee was fresh and hot you may have to wait for a few minutes but the coffee was made when you ordered it and was worth the wait. One of the the two major highlights of this well-run and 100% customer focussed hotel was the Dinner time, where when we stayed the young chef Davide who has trained in a Michelin Star establishment turned the meals into culinary, full of flavour art forms, you had to choose 4 courses and everyone was amazing, there was a buffet for you to select salads as well as desired. Davide is a brilliant chef and with the whole waiting team made each meal a delight. The Maitre D' Emanelle, runs a well oiled machine supported by his able waiting staff, Davide, Elisbietta, and Dris, there were others but they looked after another part of the restaurant. The other significant highlight of this hotel is in the price you get 2 hours a day FREE SPA ACCESS that you need to book in advance. My wife and I are not so young and fit as we used to be, but the Spa with its indoor pool, heated outdoor pool, large indoor jacuzzi, 2 external hot tubs, steam room, and a total of 4 saunas of varying temperatures x 1 of which was women only, loungers, sofas, relaxation room, mellow lit showers, just took our stay to the next level, and as a result of the spa we did not ache at all after a long full days skiing. With nibbles (dried fruit, nuts, seeds, apples) and tea making facilities as well made the use of the spa an absolute delight. This hotel has the right formula, spot on. You pay whatever they charge for the room and board, and do not try to fleece you with charging for everything else. This hotel helps you to relax, heal your, body soul, and tantalises your taste buds, what more can you ask for. This hotel is within the top 3 of all the hotels we have ever stayed in, and we have stayed in a lot of hotels. Without hesitation, I would book to return to this hotel, we had an amazing stay. Tara you run a fantastic hotel, one of the best, keep up the good work.