Hotel Belvedere Di San Leonino

Nice food and great service

I have no complaints

Great location. Wonderful restaurant on site.

I spent a couple of months researching the best place to stay in terms of hotel and location. We were in Italy for 3 weeks and Tuscany would be our longest and last stop so this part of our trip was particularly important. We are so happy we picked the Hotel Belvedere. 1. The location was great - 20 minute drive from Siena, 15 minutes to Castellina Chianti and 15 minutes to Monteriggioni. I stress this is by car which I highly recommend having to get most out of Tuscany. We were just less than 90 minutes from Pienza/Val D'Orcia (Gladiator movie field), which I'd highly recommend visiting and 50 minute drive from Florence. 2. Location again but for views - the place is surrounded by olive groves and vineyards. Our room didn't have a view of this and that was fine, as everytime you stepped out of the room whether it's enjoying the pool breakdast on the terrace or dinner Al fresco, the views are wonderful. It was just what we wanted to experience that infamous Tuscan view. If you do have dinner outside in September, put your time down for 7pm and request table 7. This gives you the table to take in the best sunset we have ever seen. Tuscan sunsets are soemthing very special. 3. The dinner menu - we really enjoyed the dinner menu here. Authentic and Tuscan. Our trip by that point has been typically pasta and pizzas on the menu but this hotel offers local cuisine which is just what we wanted. We were there 5 nights and ate dinner there for 4. The classic pici, wild boar pappadelle, the aubergine parmigiana and the chocolate cake 'with the warm heart' were our favourites. The one meal we didn't try but wish we had was the steak. 4. The pool area was very nice and relaxed. The views from the area were amazing. 5. The room was bigger than expected. We had a lot of luggage so this suited our needs. The room is a mix of rustic Italian with old furniture which we liked, a beautiful wooden door to the enter the room, tiled floors.

1. The room we had was a ground floor - number 11. It was very close to the breakfast room which meant we were woken up at 5/6am every morning by the sounds of breakfast preparations. Additionally the noise from the room above was loud, very thin floors. We didn't sleep well here. If we stayed again we would request a different room for the sole reason of the noise of footsteps from upstairs and being too close to the kitchen/breakfast area. 2. The breakfast is okay - it's beautifully presented and they had a good selection of items. However what we learnt about Italian continental breakfasts is that it is very much focused on cakes and pastries. This just isn't something I want each morning to start my day. We are Brits, so by the end we were really missing bacon (the bacon here was greasy, and looked/tasted like shredded ham so gave it a miss), my partner really missed sausages and I was craving just a simple avocado on toast. Their fruit selection could have been much better. 3. The pool was lovely and I made sure to have a dip or swim every day - my feedback for the hotel is that the bottom of the pool probably needs a bit of a scrub and clean, and it was also quite cold and would recommend the hotel invests in temperature control so it can be enjoyed for longer. A slightly warmer or less cold pool would be much more enjoyable. 4. They have a hot tub there which provides a beautiful view of the surroundings but it was not working. We were told we could get in but the bubbles/buttons didn't work so the water was cold. I'm surprised that considering we were there for the 5 nights that this wasn't something that was fixed during the time we were there as I would expect a hotel to take action on features like that pretty promptly to make sure they had it working for guests as soon as possible.

The property was beautiful because of the landscape and the house was old but really well kept. The views from the room were very nice.

We weren’t shown around the property at all. We basically were given a key and left to fend for ourselves. So I may have seen more of it but wasn’t really given a tour.