La Colombaia Resort

My grown up daughter and I decided to explore the tourist attractions around the bay of Naples and chose La Colombaia as our base as it is at the foot of Mount Vesuvius and between Naples and Sorrento. Overall we enjoyed our break and although we did not travel by car, we managed to use public transport most of the time to get around. The resort is a good 15 minute walk from the Torre del Grecco Circumvesuviana rail station which is very useful for travelling up and down the coast. We were there 6 nights and managed to visit: the centre of Naples, the port of Torre Del Greco, the ruins of Pompeii, Sorrento and the Island of Capri and finally Vesuvius and Herculenium. La Colombaia is a very quiet resort and when we stayed there were only Italian holiday-makers. The staff were all very welcoming and friendly and kept saying that if we wanted anything we just had to ask. We were disappointed on arrival that our personal outdoor Jacuzzi was not to be made available to us (an email had warned us of this but stated that we could use the pool main during our stay). However, the pool was being filled when we arrived and was only partially available on our third day. Some reduction could have been offered as we were not getting what we booked. The pool when in use, however, was very cold - actually very welcome after our long hot days of sightseeing. We arrived at lunchtime and Lyudmyla and Mario were keen that we should eat some lunch and before too long pasta and sauce arrived at our apartment. That day was a feast day and very few restaurants were open, so the staff made sure that a pizza was ordered for us that evening and again delivered to our apartment. My daughter is vegan so she could not eat the obligatory croissant at breakfast. The staff made sure that we had an extremely ample fresh fruit salad every morning. Also, we decided twice to take up Mario's offer to cook us dinner in the evening. There is no menu - you just say what you would like and it arrives in your apartment at the allotted time and at a very reasonable price. It has to be said that a lot of the information on the resort's website was not followed through e.g. transfer included if you stay more than 3 nights. However as the local small shop was shut all week, Lyudmyla very kindly drove us to the local supermarket and we are not quite sure what we would have done otherwise..... Rather hit and miss as a holiday resort but all in all we had a great time. Be prepared to be very flexible and laid back!