Had a far less than ideal experience. The only redeeming quality was the view. Couple notable…read morethings happened:
- To start, our room smelled very strongly of mildew/mold, which we suspected to be from lack of the hotel's regular servicing/maintenance of the AC unit. With lack of servicing, an AC unit can start growing mold spores inside. My bf is particularly sensitive to mildew/mold and it causes him to break out with an allergic reaction. We tried to explain this to the reception staff but they didn't seem to get it. We tried to have them at least clean the AC unit, which they were very slow to finally do and the process took about an hour and a half of us repeatedly going back up to reception to remind them. When it was finally "cleaned," we went back into the room and found that the staff had sprayed a horrible smelling strong air freshener in the room, clearly to try and cover up the mildew smell. The fragrance actually smelled WORSE than the mildew and I started getting a horrible headache. They weren't able to switch our rooms that night since the hotel was fully booked, which I understand, and unfortunately there were no other nearby hotels with availability for us and it was getting late into the evening. So, we slept in the room with the doors open to let the room air out. The staff never once offered us anything for the inconvenience -- when I asked whether they could at least knock off half the cost for the night, they said they couldn't do that and offered us some drinks instead. ??? The next day, they were able to switch us to a new room (they told us the night before that we would get a "nicer" room), and the new room was just the room right next door and felt smaller than the first and was not nicer by any means. Still a faint smell of mildew in the second room, but we were ready to just give up and put up with it.
- The second room's toilet seat was broken which was another ordeal to get fixed.
- Then we took a look at the AC unit in the second room and what do we see? Mold! Black mold. And we found mold growing on the telephone cord in the bathroom of the room. We told the reception staff and showed them pictures. They just didn't seem to get that mold in a hotel room is unacceptable and a literal health hazard. They then showed us around two more rooms which were fine but we, at a minimum, wanted a refund for the first night for the inconvenience caused, lost time on our vacation dealing with the issues and time spent changing rooms, and most importantly the health hazards posed to us by breathing in the mold. The reception staff person (Vincenzo) began getting more and more upset and raised his voice to us that he was getting impatient with our requests (well, so were we, we didn't want to deal with this on our vacation....). We contacted the booking agency (Hotels.com) and were on the phone with them for 45 minutes to try and get a refund for the first night. To keep it short, at first Hotels.com offered us just a 10% refund ($150). This was laughable and we *eventually* got them to refund us the first night.
- We ended up taking a new third room at the hotel. I took a shower in this third room and after the shower noticed a large pool of water beneath the sink. Turns out that water was backing up out of the cleanup because of a buildup of soap scum and hair (um gross). We had maintenance come by to drain it and our entire suite smelled like sewer gas. To top that off, the bathroom has no fan for some reason which is foul, so the smell was stuck in the bathroom.
Also, breakfast buffet, dinner, and bar drinks were mediocre. We ate dinner at the hotel one night and had grilled fish which was not seasoned at all and a foul smelling black liquid came out of the head of one of the king prawns we ate. Thankfully, we didn't get a stomach bug. The pasta we ate was good. Again, only positive thing about this place was the view. Will not be returning even if this is the last place available on Capri. The front staff person is also in major need of customer service training. His behavior was unacceptable. BEWARE BEFORE BOOKING!