Palazzo Matà Boutique Hotel

The mentions are always made with a view to the room price of more than EUR 220 per night. We had a terrace suite. Positive points: Beautiful view from the terrace of fishing boats and Mare Piccolo. Terrace nice You have to know that it takes a good 15 minutes on foot from the hotel to the new town, but the walk through the half-ruined old town, where the buildings are slowly but surely being restored, is very beautiful and completely safe. The morbid old town is slowly starting to come to life again, cool bars and restaurants are springing up. Negative points: Very small, even unpleasantly small room with an unpleasant musty smell (clearly damp). From the 3rd floor onwards, the room has to be reached via a wooden staircase, lugging the suitcases up there is exhausting, but doable. Room not particularly clean, dust in corners and under the bed. Very small bathroom, unpleasantly narrow, very unpleasant musty smell. Low ceiling height. No bidet. Small plastic cups for toothbrushes... No storage space for suitcases, no cupboard. So everything is lying around somewhere in the room. The jacuzzi on the terrace was already filled with warm water when we arrived (strange...) and it also smelled very unpleasantly musty. The mere thought that the water might have been in there for a while and that other guests had possibly "used" it before is unpleasant. Breakfast really nothing special, we had much better in Puglia. No fruit available. We went to a nearby bar for a good cappuccino. The boss Angelo's not particularly motivated attitude is also unpleasant. We were treated without a smile and without charm and he also seemed simply demotivated when we made a reservation for a boat. The employees are friendly. But it is strange when the owner treats the guests unmotivated and without charm. There are really more motivated hosts in Taranto. We looked around for hotels in the immediate vicinity and found a few offers (larger rooms, also with a view of the harbor, with a terrace but without a jacuzzi...) and the prices were about half (also 4* hotels). So overall we were really disappointed because of the very penetrating smell of damp in the room and the uncharming service and will definitely not go there again