You enter the holiday villa in the dining and sitting area which is as wide as the house, with big windows. There is a small kitchen (the main kitchen is on the first floor). The sitting area has two comfortable sofas for 3 and a flatscreen TV with Sky, a stereo and DVD player.
The open stairs take one to the first floor (with a door on top of the stairs, so child friendly) with three bedrooms, each with their own bathroom (with shower). Two bedrooms have enough space for an extra bed, meaning the holiday villa is for 6 + 2 guests. Each bedroom has air-conditioning and fly screens. Also upstairs you will find another living area and the kitchen with dishwasher, two fridges (one very big with freezer op top), a 5 pit gas cooker, microwave and a big oven.
There is a washing machine in a separate room with entry from the outside. There is wifi internet (do bring your own computer).
The garden has a small pool (oval, 4m x 6m x 1.50m) with lovely terrace and again fabulous views. There is a table tennis table in the pool area. The pool area is fenced. The barbecue is close to the house, as well as a pizza oven for those who know how to use it (it is a modern one but it does work on wood).
The friendly owner can prepare a meal if you like, she lives in a village nearby. She is an excellent cook and in the periods of the year the villa is not being rented, she has a B&B / Agriturismo where she includes meals for her guests. The local Italians come and eat here on many occasions in winter as well, which is a good sign!
Video of the pool and garden of this private villa near Todi:
Interview with Tiziana, the owner:
When the villa is not rented as one unit (mostly from May to end of September) the villa is an agriturismo where you can stay a few nights and Tiziana prepares breakfast and dinner. She then stays at the villa. Obviously when the villa is rented totally Tiziana just passes by every day to check all is fine. Upon request she can prepare meals as well. She is an excellent cook!
The prices of this holiday villa are:
| Unit | | Medium 09-01-2013 - 28-06-2013 24-08-2013 - 19-12-2013 | High 29-06-2013 - 23-08-2013 | | Final cleaning |
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| Casa Acqualoreto | | € 910.00 | € 1,300.00 | | € 100.00 |
Bed linen and towels for in the house (bathroom and kitchen) are provided. Guests bring their own pool towels. Final cleaning is extra (see the price table), as well as the use of the central heating in colder periods.
Pets are welcome. One pays 50 euro extra when bringing a pet.
In July and August the rental period is always from Saturday to Saturday. In other periods departure and arrival dates are flexible.
Green = Available Red = Booked Yellow = Option
The availability of the holiday villa can be seen in the calendar below:
2012:
Hello,
Indeed, we were very very pleased. The house was exactly what we expected (big, cool and confortable), even more with the kindness of Tiziana.The surroundings of Acqualoreto are beautiful and we had wonderful rides to Melazzole, Avigliano, Izzalini, Civitella and more.
We also want to thank you for your perfect administration of the booking and the follow-up.
Please use this review on your site.
Regards, Yves
We had a wonderful time at Casa Acqualoreto. The house is spacious, comfortable and homely. We felt at home straight away. A peaceful feeling! The surroundings are just beautiful, the nearby towns are quaint and the towns folk friendly. Tiziana gave us a friendly and warm welcome. She kindly drove some of us to one of the famous local sights, la Citta Che Muore and the cheese factory. The experience we enjoyed the most was the amazing dinner Tiziana cooked for us. We will never forget it. It was deliciously cooked with local products and all home made, even the tagliatelle! We had a real feast. I was the only one who spoke Italian and loved chatting with Tiziana about everything. We got on very well and I felt very sad to say good bye to her at the end of our stay. We struck a good friendship! I hope to return one day to relive the experience. A memorable holiday. I would definitely recommend Casa Acqualoreto to anyone who is planning a holiday in Italy.
Thank you for the opportunity for allowing me to give you some feed back.
Kind regards
Anna
Dear Willemijn & Saskia,
My stay at Casa Acqualoreto was the highlight of my 5 week trip to Europe (Greece, Malta, Slovenia & Italy). This is my 10th trip to Italy and I have travelled all over that country but this tops my list of experiences and places to stay.
Where to start? The house is atmospheric and comfortable, the position and views are fabulous, Tiziana is a lovely warm hearted person and my new best friends Tina and Leah (il cane) are absolutely adorable. There is plenty of land around so you have privacy but you are not very far at all from the village and the nearest neighbours. There is of course the pool and table tennis facilities, sun chairs at the front and back, plus a bbq and pizza oven outside. It is a real small holding working farm with goats (behind a fence but adorable to look at), chickens, Tiziana's vegetable patch and of course the olive grove.
It was truly like a home away from home except with better views. Tiziana has all the facilities that you would need inside the home including TV, DVD, CD and WiFi. I have done nothing but rave about this little slice of Umbrian heaven since I got back to Australia, both to people verbally and on my Facebook. I would absolutely and unreservedly recommend Casa Acqualoreto to anyone wanting to spend time in Umbria and I will definitely be seeing Tiziana again as I want to stay there again the next time that I am in Italy.
Please pass my very best wishes on to Tiziana and ask her to give those adorable dogs a big hug from their Aunty Jacqueline.
Kind regards, Jacqueline
May 2012
Dear Willemijn and Saskia,
We have had a wonderful week in Casa Acqualoreto.
Tiziana was very friendly for us and she prepared a meal on our first night. She refused payment for this, but we paid he anyway upon leaving. The house was excellent and with a good kitchen. Nice pool, not very big but big enough for us to cool down in. We used the pizza oven and thanks to the right kind of flour Tiziana brought us, the pizzas came out well.
The area is beautiful.
With best wishes, Antoine
2011:
Hi Wilemijn and Saskia,
Casa Aqualoreto is a very comfortable and well equipped Villa. The location was beautiful with fantastic views and a very large plot making it very private and quiet. All the bedrooms are a really good size and each one having an en-suite shower room is a real luxury. All also have air conditioning, but we never needed to use it, even in August, the house seems to stay quite cool if you use the shutters.
Well equipped kitchen upstairs, with the adjacent breakfast / dining room providing views towards Todi.
What really benefits the holiday maker is the fact that there are fly-screens fitted to all the windows! Means you can sleep with the windows open without being bitten to death.
The pool area is fenced and way from the house, useful if you have small children. Nice pool - not huge but perfectly adequate to cool off - with plenty of shade from a large gazebo. The table tennis table is great for working up a sweat just before a dip.
It's quite a haul up the road to the villa so we didn't venture far once we were there, just one trip to Assisi and a couple of visits to Todi. That worked fine for us as we'd just spent a week doing Rome, Siena and Florence so were happy to chill for a week. If you are into walking then you won't need to drive anywhere.
The owner, Tiziana, was great. She speaks very little English but it's fun trying to communicate. She is on-site once a day so you can ask questions and invariably has a 'gift' for you - bread, eggs from the chickens in the garden, veg from the plot, figs - it goes on. She is very friendly and welcoming.
Some very minor details took some getting used to like washing up without a plug in the sink, or boiling water and using a metal jug for tea, but none of that is a problem.
All in all a great villa with plenty of space, peace and quiet.
Hope that helps,
Regards,
Chris.
Ladies,
thanks for your email. We have nothing but praise for the house:
- the reception by the owner was excellent, very friendly and helpful;
- the hous ewas spacious and had enough items (like pots and plates etc.);
- and very important all was clean and everywhere there were fly screens fitted;
- we could use the beautiful and very well maintained garden and the pleasant albeit small swimming pool;
- every morning the owner brought us fresh eggs and vegetables from her garden.
In short, we really liked it a lot. We would like to repeat this holiday.
Best wishes, Henk
We have had a fantastic week in Casa Acqualoreto. The house is very comfortable and the huge garden is well maintained and well designed with even at the end of summer still flowers. From the terrace the view over the hills and Todi are beautiful. The owner passed by every morning to take care of the garden, a few checken and some goats, but she respected our privacy fully. Once in a while she even left a basket with fresh eggs and vegetables for us.
The house is excallent as a base to explore Umbria, because you are fairly easily and fast on the main roads. The restaurant in the village is a 15 minute walk and we loved it. There is no menu so you eat what they have prepared for the day, which is excellent. You do have to make a reservation.
Froukje
The owner asks for a downpayment of 30% of the rental sum.
The remainder has to be paid one month before arrival.
The security deposit is 300 euro.
From 2013, in Umbria the tourism tax has been introduced. Each town can decide independently whether to apply this tax. It is important to keep in mind that the prices on our website do NOT include the tourism tax. Where we received confirmation from house owners that they have to ask for this tax, it is written underneath the price table.
Villa in Umbria is an intermediary and as such rents out holiday homes and apartments on behalf of their owners. We do not receive any money from clients. When you book we will be sending an agreement in which you will find the bank details of the owners.
We know each vacation rental personally and also the owners of all the holiday rentals we have in our portfolio.
Villa in Umbria has been operating as an intermediary since January 2005 and you can check our Italian VAT number (Partita IVA) to verify our existence. Our partita IVA is IT02781540543.
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