We were two families who stayed for two weeks in this house in july '17. We were met by Marcos daughter, who introduced us to the building and its facilties.
The building is full of charm and has a fantastic view over the pontine plains down below. All meals were eaten outside on the magnificent terrace under the huge parasol/umbrella. We were lucky to enjoy constant hot summer weather, so the pool was in use every day. All bedrooms are air-conditioned, and the beds were to our liking, so no problems falling asleep.
The kitchen is fairly well equipped, but tiny. Two persons max at a time!
We had some minor encounters with the local wildlife. The village has a fairly large population of semi-wild cats, a couple of which managed to get onto the terrace. Our kids loved the small lizards on the walls outside, we only found one inside the house.
The pool is uniformly deep, and has a small stairway in one corner. It is about 140 cm/4 ft 6 inches deep. Our two 7-year olds could not stand on the floor of the pool, but nevertheless managed to learn to swim there. Yay!
The old village is beautiful, and has a few shops, but most shopping was done in Sermoneta Scalo, 12-15 minutes drive away down the hill.
There is a local market on sunday mornings at the bottom of the hill, in Monticchio, selling just about anything.
Although we never met Marco, he was easy to communicate with using SMS, and he was informative and attentive to the couple of questions we had.
