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La Dimora

Oletta, Corsica, France

Facilities

  • Dining: Breakfast and light meals are served at the hotel but you'll probably want to go out for dinner. There's a dining room and a shaded terrace, plus a pool-house bar
  • Communal areas: The hotel is set in 2 acres of beautifully manicured grounds with lush lawns, olive trees, beds of lavender and a boules pitch. There are sofas and armchairs scattered about in the pool house and a couple of facing sofas in front of a fire in the main house
  • Internet Access: Free WiFi throughout and a computer for guests to use
  • Swimming Pool: A heated swimming pool flanked by loungers, with shade from parasols and palm trees. Pool-house bar and terrace open throughout the day until 10.30pm. Hot tub, too
  • Spa Treatments: A treatment room for reflexology and aromatherapy, and a hammam. Booking essential
  • Recreational: The hotel can advise on local bike hire
  • Weddings and Celebrations: Small weddings can be arranged, but the party must take the whole house (17 bedrooms)
  • Max. Wedding Guests: 50
  • Meetings/Functions: No formal rooms available, but the hotel can accommodate meetings by arrangement
  • Disabled Access: One fully adapted ground-floor room with a walk-in shower
  • Pets: Small dogs by arrangement
  • Languages Spoken: French, English, Italian, Spanish
  • Parking: Private and secure parking

When to go?

The hotel is open from early April to late October. Like all hotels on Corsica prices soar in July and August, but the north tends to be less expensive than the south. The south is a little more popular, but for what it’s worth, we preferred the north. April and May are good times to come in terms of price, but there is more going on in the area from June to September.

Author's tips

There are 3 roads west out of Bastia to Oletta and St Florent. Take the most southerly, the D82 via Ortale - it is much, much quicker than the others. If you are driving over from the airport, it’s the first of the 3 you come to. And if you are crossing from west to east in order to visit Bastia or to go up the east side of the Cap de Corse, it’s still faster coming south first, then going north. This might sound mad, but the other roads are extremely slow.

Also, if you head off to the beaches at Lotu and Saleccia, make sure you take suncream and hats. There are no sunbeds to rent on either beach, so if you need shade, buy a parasol in town to take with you.

Features include:

  • Room service
  • Bar
  • Breakfast
  • Light meals
  • Garden
  • Terrace
  • Guest lounge
  • WIFI internet
  • Guest computer
  • Heated Outdoor Pool
  • Spa treatment rooms
  • In room treatments available
  • Jacuzzi/hot tub
  • Hammam
  • Private and secure parking
  • Available for exclusive use
  • Wedding license
  • Disabled access
  • Pets welcome by arrangement

  • Boutique Hotel

  • 17

  • Yes

  • Breakfast (+ light meals on request; restaurants nearby)

  • All ages welcome more info

  • 02 Dec 2011 - 04 Apr 2012

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Save to favouritesPrintMailLa DimoraThis gorgeous 18th-century summer house offers what so many of us want: a cool little base with a glistening pool where we can spend our days doing nothing at all. Owners Carole and Antoine rescued the house from neglect, pouring in love and money, and now it shines. It’s the sort of place you see on the pages of a glossy magazine. You’ll find golden stone buildings, beautiful bedrooms, hammocks hanging from palm trees, sun loungers circling an aqua blue pool. You’re in one of the loveliest parts of the island with some interesting local diversions to keep you amused, and some delicious restaurants waiting up in the hills or down by the water. In short, all the necessary ingredients are here to cook up a wonderfully lazy holiday. Potter about at the hotel and find serenely manicured gardens with beds of fragrant lavender, a shaded breakfast terrace, an ancient olive tree, even a boules pitch. You’ll probably spurn them all for the swimming pool terrace, where you can top up your tan, then retreat to sofas in the pool house for light meals. [r:FR083:Bedrooms] - there are 17, about half with terraces - are equally lovely: warm colours, beautiful bathrooms, crisply dressed beds and the odd antique. The coast is 7km north at St Florent, where boats whisk you off to sandy beaches. There’s a treatment room, too, and a hot tub by the pool. Fabulous.

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