Résidence Marina di Santa Giulia — Hotel in Sartène

We stayed 3 nights in our mini villa 431 in early June, to relax over our wedding anniversary in the middle of a 2 week tour of Corsica. We loved the stunning view over Santa Giulia Bay when dining on our terrace. ||Fixtures were modern and there was a good selection of equipment and plenty of plates etc for self catering, without having to wash up after each meal. Great to have a dishwasher and be provided with starter kit of 3 dishwasher tablets, a dish scourer, tea towel and mini washing up liquid. There was a tall fridge and 2 electric rings for cooking, plus microwave (no actual oven). There's a clothes airer on the terrace for drying towels, swim gear etc.||Beware it's a very steep climb (15mins if going up) between this section of villas where 431 was located (just above shared pool) and reception (half way down) and then the beach and restaurants a little further down at the bottom of the road. ||We drove to reception then walked to beach from there one eve to dine out (Santa Giulia Plage restaurant, attached to the neighbouring Michellin starred restaurant, was very good with more reasonable prices than it's neighbour!). ||Villas are spread over a wide area of hillside in different zones and we didn't know where we would be until we checked in - we booked via Booking.com so suggest you contact the resort direct if you have specific requirements.||No hairdryer or bathroom soap or shower gel provided, so ensure you bring these. The resort has responded to my Booking.com review on this point to advise that hairdryers are available from reception, but this was not advised to us on check-in which would have been helpful. ||I DID ask on check-in whether WiFi was available in our villa and was advised yes, and was given the code for that area and told it was also the WiFi for the swimming pool area. However the reality was that the WiFi only had one chip from the very front of the terrace occasionally - the code I think really only works when in the swimming pool area itself. I saw a review from last year which mentioned the option of paying 3 euros a day for a pocket WiFi, but this was not offered to us, so not sure if this is still an option? Worth asking if it is important to you, but we ended up paying roaming charges on our mobiles.||The villa was rather bland/sterile in style but the great view compensated somewhat. The bedroom at the rear was particularly dark (given cliff outside window and the furnishings very plain. A bright modern print on the bedroom wall (eg a blue sea scene) and lounge would do wonders, but small things really. ||Didn't try pool (which seemed popular with families from what we could hear below us) as we only stayed 3 nights and loved exploring stunning local beaches like Palombaggia and Rondinara (Santa Giulia was busier and had more seaweed but lovely for dining out, as above).||The grocery shop by reception was closed when we were there in early June (reception advised that they didn't know what date the owner planned to open it for the summer). There is another shop selling local products further up the road into the resort, but it has a limited range and each time we called in around 9am it had already sold out of breakfast pastries and only had bread. There is however a wonderful Spar supermarket 10mins drive away on the main road towards Porto Vecchio which sells everything you could wish for, and in particular a wonderful range of fresh meat and fish if you're looking to use the villa BBQ! (Far better than any Spar I've...

We stayed 3 nights in our mini villa 431 in early June, to relax over our wedding anniversary in the middle of a 2 week tour of Corsica. We loved the stunning view over Santa Giulia Bay when dining on our terrace. ||Fixtures were modern and there was a good selection of equipment and plenty of plates etc for self catering, without having to wash up after each meal. Great to have a dishwasher and be provided with starter kit of 3 dishwasher tablets, a dish scourer, tea towel and mini washing up liquid. There was a tall fridge and 2 electric rings for cooking, plus microwave (no actual oven). There's a clothes airer on the terrace for drying towels, swim gear etc.||Beware it's a very steep climb (15mins if going up) between this section of villas where 431 was located (just above shared pool) and reception (half way down) and then the beach and restaurants a little further down at the bottom of the road. ||We drove to reception then walked to beach from there one eve to dine out (Santa Giulia Plage restaurant, attached to the neighbouring Michellin starred restaurant, was very good with more reasonable prices than it's neighbour!). ||Villas are spread over a wide area of hillside in different zones and we didn't know where we would be until we checked in - we booked via Booking.com so suggest you contact the resort direct if you have specific requirements.||No hairdryer or bathroom soap or shower gel provided, so ensure you bring these. The resort has responded to my Booking.com review on this point to advise that hairdryers are available from reception, but this was not advised to us on check-in which would have been helpful. ||I DID ask on check-in whether WiFi was available in our villa and was advised yes, and was given the code for that area and told it was also the WiFi for the swimming pool area. However the reality was that the WiFi only had one chip from the very front of the terrace occasionally - the code I think really only works when in the swimming pool area itself. I saw a review from last year which mentioned the option of paying 3 euros a day for a pocket WiFi, but this was not offered to us, so not sure if this is still an option? Worth asking if it is important to you, but we ended up paying roaming charges on our mobiles.||The villa was rather bland/sterile in style but the great view compensated somewhat. The bedroom at the rear was particularly dark (given cliff outside window and the furnishings very plain. A bright modern print on the bedroom wall (eg a blue sea scene) and lounge would do wonders, but small things really. ||Didn't try pool (which seemed popular with families from what we could hear below us) as we only stayed 3 nights and loved exploring stunning local beaches like Palombaggia and Rondinara (Santa Giulia was busier and had more seaweed but lovely for dining out, as above).||The grocery shop by reception was closed when we were there in early June (reception advised that they didn't know what date the owner planned to open it for the summer). There is another shop selling local products further up the road into the resort, but it has a limited range and each time we called in around 9am it had already sold out of breakfast pastries and only had bread. There is however a wonderful Spar supermarket 10mins drive away on the main road towards Porto Vecchio which sells everything you could wish for, and in particular a wonderful range of fresh meat and fish if you're looking to use the villa BBQ! (Far better than any Spar I've...

We booked via Booking the “Studio” with sea view, a tiny apartment with kitchenette and private patio, perfect size for a couple vacation: it was composed by an open space with kitchen, living space and double bed, separate wc and bathroom.|The apartment was not super clean when we arrived and no WiFi in the room was a big issue since we had to go the the swimming pool to surf the internet, but we had a lot of benefits too:|-The amazing view on the Plage of Santa Giulia from our apartment | -The patio with the barbecue, that we could enjoy anytime (supermarket is not far, 10 mins drive, or there is a little market next to the reception).|-The property is nice and in a good location to reach the other beaches and Porto Vecchio (15 minutes drive). Bonifacio is about 25 minutes by car.|-We were at the top of the “hill” so we could enjoy an amazing view, but we needed more time to go to the beach.|-There was a reception lady who could speak Italian with us.||Tip: if you want to cook, make sure that you bring your basics with you: salt, oil, vinegar, kitchen paper are not available.|There is a “starter kit” with some dishwasher tabs, some soap and a kitchen cloth.||We didn’t appreciate having to remove our rubbish by ourselves, but our stay was very pleasant and we...