Baia Caddinas-stranden

Everething was excelent, but would have been nice to know that the sunbeds on the beach was an extra cost. And transportation to and from Olbia (or other places), needed to be planned in advace, like the day before.

This hotel is priced and marketed as a five-star property, but it doesn’t deliver. You pay extra for most things you’d expect to be included: the sun loungers down by the beach cost €100 a day, and only a few are free. Coffee in the room costs extra, and you’re given just one towel per day that you have to swap yourself using a towel-card system. All this hassle makes the place feel poorly organized. The beach is also a fair distance from the hotel, considerably further than the photos online suggest. The staff were not particularly helpful, and several of them didn’t understand us when we couldn’t speak Italian. At the restaurant there were plenty of staff on shift, but everyone stood around idle. No one came over to take our order until we practically had to walk up to them ourselves to ask if we could order food. Breakfast was mediocre. When we arrived, we accepted the offer to have our luggage brought up to the room, but after waiting a good while I had to go down and collect it myself. In short: a place that feels more luxurious in its marketing than in reality, where you pay extra for almost everything.