Vivosa Apulia Resort

Very Good
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple
  : The beach was amazing and the stuff very helpful
  : N/a

Very Good
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple

Wonderful
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : The resort was above our expectations. We had an old but nice room with spacious garden in the front and full privacy, the pools are simply beautiful, two even heated, the gardens are spectacular ( olive trees, lavender, rosemary and lots of flowers), the beach its clean and the sea its gorgeous (depending on the wind of course can become really flat and crystal clear). The path to reach the beach is beautiful with a huge playground and other spots for different activities. The staff was lovely and food was overall good. SPA absolutely to try and very nice guests around. Ill definitely go back there and we would have loved to stay there 3 or 4 days longer! If you have kids youll be able to relax and really enjoy your vacation!
  : things which can be improved: cleaning of the rooms and avoid to have the whole day music at the beach. Few hours a day its nice but sometimes I needed some peace and my baby couldnt fall asleep because of the volume. really disappointing point: baby club (which was for us one of the main reasons why we booked). No separated groups by age as mentioned, no proper activities for small children, no qualified staff able to take care of a 2 years old child: young guys who were staying mostly on the phone, playing loud music and the biggest activity was giving to the kids paper and crayons. The hotel guests are international and none of them was able to talk English, German or French. Only alternative of food I saw them giving the kids as afternoon snack was chocolate (cakes or cookies). Nothing healthier. I think they were ok for bigger kids, I saw a couple having fun with them but absolutely not ok for such small children like mine. They didnt have the right approach and manners. After I complained the loud music disappeared but the trust was gone and my boy didnt want to stay with them. I talked with other parents and they all agreed, even the few which were sending their older kids to the babyclub daily. They wouldnt have sent there smaller ones either. Same for German, Swiss, English and French guests I spoke to: they didnt feel comfortable with those guys and therefore they could not use this service.

Wonderful
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children

Very Good
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children

Wonderful
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children

Good
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : big facilities, clean, and lots of things to do
  : the towel service, needing to go to change the towel yourself.bad wifi

Wonderful
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : The food is just amazing. The pools are beautiful and spacious
  : Rooms are a little small, the shower was very tight and it would have been nice to have a bath tub.

Wonderful
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : Vivosa Apulia was truly amazing. very friendly staff, great location, amazing beach. Also, excellent food.
  : Rather minor details - perhaps it would be good to separate family holiday makers (assuming thats the mainstream of the resort) from the business conferences. Conference participants tend to stick in groups and dominate the atmosphere, also causing big queues for coffee etc. We are on holidays, hoping to have a rest from the corporate world. its very common for hotels to host variety of functions, but keeping them apart.

Good
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : The location is wonderful, the pools are nice and the beach also is quite nice. The property has well manicured gardens and tennis and football facilities, which are all nice. A good size spa, nice massage tables, (however the massages didnt convince me). The staff is all very friendly, the beach bar very good, overall it has potential, but
  : Completely chaotic dining, poor choice and quality of food, queues for food and coffee (and the season was not even officially open!!), conferences and hoards o people wearing badges invading the grounds and then the dining facilities and the beach bar. The main reception, dining halls and bar are all using the same set of toilets (4 cubicles in ladies), which I find unacceptable. The cleaning is not properly done, the room had an awful smell of mould when we first arrived and despite keeping doors open, it didnt go away over the week we stayed there. Shower gel and shampoo fixed to the walls only in the rooms, not even basic supply of toiletries (no body cream, no conditioner, no vanity set). Another aspect which I really didnt like was the marketing of beach sun-beds at Cocoloco which is not actually the hotels location, but 100m or so further from their beach bar and facilities. We managed to find sunbeds and did not need the fantastic Cocoloco which remained anyway empty for the entire of our stay at a cost of 140 Finally, the kids clubs appeared very fun, but only for the Italian speaking kids, so be aware if your kids are not Italian speakers, they would most likely feel left out (ours 13 and 8 did and after the 1st day they didnt want to go with the groups anymore!!). To be more specific, the staff is fantastic, young and friendly, some speak English (and most likely other languages), but the way the groups are organised doesnt allow them to entertain in more languages simultaneously and the incidence of Italian speaking kids was in the region of 80%, so it makes sense that Italian was used and the non speakers remained on the side. So yes, beautiful place, but no way near the ***** they claim!