Reviews of Palazzo Castriota
via Umberto I, 39, 73011 Alezio, Italy

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Reviewed: 31 July 2025 · Stayed in July 2025
Verified reviewEverything was exact 💯 The design. Clean. Hospitality like you are at home.
Reviewed: 29 July 2025 · Stayed in July 2025
Verified reviewLovely boutique hotel with a delicious breakfast served outside by the pool. Salvatore is an excellent host who provided lots of great suggestions on where to visit and eat.
Reviewed: 2 July 2025 · Stayed in July 2025
Verified reviewAmazing venue, historical building where the owner grew up and you can feel the heritage of his family. Salvatore is always available, full of tips and their own oil is top. Will surely come back as my place to go in Gallipoli area!
Reviewed: 19 June 2025 · Stayed in June 2025
Verified reviewEverything, a piece of heaven on earth, with a great host Salvatore
Really nothing I didn’t like
Reviewed: 11 October 2024 · Stayed in October 2024
Verified reviewThe location was everything you see on the pictures. You get the sense of living in a museum only with al the modern facilities you want on a holiday. A few years ago the palazzo has been renovated and every little detail regarding decoration has been thought through. It's really a beautiful place. The host Salvatore is great. Very friendly and communicative. He provided an overview of all the interesting sites, beaches, restaurants etc. He went above and beyond being a host by inviting us to his olive oil factory and showing the production process. All and all, staying at the palazzo was a great experience because of the palazzo itself, but also because of the great host Salvatore. I would want to spend my holiday every year at the palazzo!
I can't think of anything.
Reviewed: 2 October 2024 · Stayed in September 2024
Verified reviewWe were pleasantly welcomed by Salvatore, who was always ready to help us out with booking of a restaurant or providing excellent tips for beaches and even a well-organized boat trip. The breakfast was excellent and always home-made fresh. The accommodation was splendid (one minor comment: the water of the pool was not warmed and really cold) in an excellent setting. Salvatore always arranged breakfast outside in his lovely garden. Ensa, his help during breakfast was very friendly and gentle. We really loved or stay which made it a fantastic holiday in Puglia!
Reviewed: 25 September 2024 · Stayed in September 2024
Verified reviewA unique beautiful house . Our room was magical. A truly stunning B and B
You’re joking . Absolutely perfect.
Reviewed: 18 September 2024 · Stayed in September 2024
Verified reviewLocation, great breakfast!
There wasn’t anything.
Reviewed: 1 September 2024 · Stayed in August 2024
Verified reviewEverything, absolutely everything was PERFECT. Amazing restored palazzo with eye to detail and respect to history. Venue is absolutely breathtaking. Our apartment was comfortable, clean and lovely furbished. Breakfast was served in a pool/garden area and it was absolutely delicious - fresh fruit, lovely coffee - savory and sweet choices. Warm welcome from Salvatore who shared with us all tips and tricks regarding places to visit, restaurant to eat etc. And I cannot forget to mention sweetest Enza whose lovely smile in the morning cheered us up for a good start of a day! Our stay I Castriota Palazzo was absolutely amazing - do not hesitate to book your stay! Alezio itself is a small, quiet village but its location allows to make daily trips to all interesting to visit places in easter, wester and southern parts of peninsula.
Reviewed: 31 August 2024 · Stayed in August 2024
Verified reviewEverything. The beautiful property, the owners, the staff, the breakfast, the comfortable rooms, beds. Just exceptional.
Nothing not to like about the property. The only thing to note is that there’s not much in the vicinity- a couple of restaurants walkable and little shop which is perfect for bits and bobs. Otherwise be aware of the need to drive everywhere- that said, all recommendations by the proprietor were just fabulous, really worth his advice and couldn’t have asked for better.
Reviewed: 30 August 2024 · Stayed in August 2024
Verified reviewIt was an amazing restoration of a fabulous old building with features made from original fittings including an outdoor spa pool in a secret garden.
The rooms though luxurious did not have any private outdoor space.
Reviewed: 22 August 2024 · Stayed in August 2024
Verified reviewOnce you enter the palazzo, you are in very good hands and we felt welcome there! The rooms are really beautiful and one of the kind, also the entrance area and the pool. Salvatore gave us lots of recommendations, where to eat or what to visit, we appreciated it a lot and was much more easier to plan our stay. Tasty and fresh breakfast, good coffee. :) Everything was wonderful. Grazie allo staff 💚🤍❤️
Reviewed: 19 August 2024 · Stayed in August 2024
Verified reviewThe accommodation exceeded our expectations. The rooms were very luxurious, spacious and very clean. The owner Salvatore was very helpful and went far and beyond to assist us with our trip. We were provided with ample tips, options and addresses of touristic spots and restaurants. He even made the reservations for us in the restaurants. All suggested restaurants were very nice with excellent food at very beautiful locations. We should also mention the lady serving the breakfast who was very attentive and friendly. Overall an excellent experience and a big thank you to Salvatore and his team for running such a beautiful Palazzo.
Nothing really that we didn't like. If we have to mention something negative it would have to be the location of the Palazzo. But again this was because we decided to stay in one place during our whole trip to Puglia and visit all places such as Bari, Alberobello, Ostuni... which is at least 1.5 hr driving from the Palazzo You always needed to take your car to be driving around and visit places. But having said this within 10 min drive you are in the center of Gallipoli and restaurant wise in Alezio itself you also have nice restaurants.
Reviewed: 12 August 2024 · Stayed in June 2024
Verified reviewAbsolutly amazing. I can really recommend to come and stay in this fantastic place. The host is a dream, all people are more than friendly and helpful. A 100% recommendation from my wife and me.
Reviewed: 30 July 2024 · Stayed in July 2024
Verified reviewReviewed: 21 July 2024 · Stayed in July 2024
Verified reviewHistoric and carefully renovated building in a quiet village. The wonderful recommendations from the owner were the highlights of our trip. Boat trip was unforgettable. Lovely breakfast. Small pool in shaded courtyard was perfect to recharge batteries in the middle of summer
Our room’s air conditioner system didn’t work well for the first 24h but hotel made every effort to get problem sorted.
Reviewed: 27 June 2024 · Stayed in June 2024
Verified reviewIt was a perfect place, also due to the great host
Reviewed: 6 June 2024 · Stayed in June 2024
Verified reviewSalvatore was completely attentive and so helpful and friendly. We were made to feel very much at home. There were so many personal touches. We had delicious breakfasts, thank you Salvatore. Nothing was too much trouble. We learnt a lot of social history, and appreciated days gone by in such a household and also about the family history of wine making and olive oil production. The pool was a treat, an oasis of peace and calm. We will have lasting memories, and, I hope, the possibility of seeing you and your family in England one day. Thank you Salvatore. (Apologies again for the flood!)
Nothing to dislike!
Reviewed: 7 April 2024 · Stayed in April 2024
Verified reviewReviewed: 26 September 2023 · Stayed in September 2023
Verified reviewThis place is so lovely! The building, the rooms, the breakfast were marvelous and the host Salvatore made us feel very welcome and exceeded our expectations. On check-in Salvatore gave us a list of nearby beaches, restaurants and places of interest which was super helpful. He even gave us access to sunloungers and a parasol at a nearby fancy beach club for free! (which would have been 50 euros each for the day). He also recommended and booked a boat trip about an hour away from the hotel which he promised was beautiful and it was! Honestly the best boat trip I've ever been on. A luxurious small boat which only had 2 other couples on the trip (so we had plenty of space) and the opportunity to spend the afternoon sailing between rock faces, snorkeling, paddle boarding and exploring caves. It was bliss!
Reviewed: 3 September 2023 · Stayed in September 2023
Verified reviewReviewed: 8 April 2023 · Stayed in April 2023
Verified reviewAbsolutely everything. This is probably the best place we ever stayed at. Unique, original, astonishing, comfortable and Salvatore really was great from start to finish. We cannot recommend this place more! Thanks again for such a fantastic stay, Salvatore. Hope to come and visit again!
Nothing
Reviewed: 25 March 2023 · Stayed in March 2023
Verified reviewStylishly refurbished historical family property with perfectionist attention to detail by owner and very welcoming staff. Excellent breakfast full of home made and local specialties. A great place to stay if you want to be in a small town near Gallipoli.
I would appreciate an earlier check-in time than 4pm, and later stated checkout than 10am (although we left later than 10am without any rush)
Reviewed: 4 October 2022 · Stayed in October 2022
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