“Friendly staff but not enough”
I have mixed feelings about the hotel, on the one hand the staff were very friendly and very helpful. But on the other i just did not think that the hotel was worth the money. For a start the air conditioning, which i knew would be an optional extra, was very expensive. The Beach which is 500 meteres away, is not really anywhere you would want to go, it is more like a collection of rocks and the sea. The towels provided by the hotel were very strange and not very comfortable. Yet Elba is nice, there are beaches towards Cavo which are lovely, Rio Marina has a number of good resturants, however if you don't speak italian you could have some difficulties with the menu's as there is no english in Rio Marina. I just felt a little let down, and despite the very friendly staff i would not return