“Looks beautiful, but no sleep”
Everything about La Ghirlanda is very clean and beautiful and the location is terrific, but unfortunately I had two major problems. The first was difficulty communicating with the very gracious hosts unless you speak French or Italian. This I think is fine, as long as you're aware of it going in. The second was difficulty sleeping. The front room that I was given was too noisy from street sounds. Because I couldn't sleep, the second night, I was offered a back room which turned out to be airless, hot and smelly. When I asked to turn on the air conditioning to circulate the air and cool down the room, I had to surmise (because I couldn't understand) that it only ran for certain hours. In all of my many travels, I have never had such an unpleasant stay, gratefully only two nights.