Bitonto Vacations from $505

It’s far from Matera but the hotel is good.

Needs refurbishment urgently

Very friendly staff and an excellent breakfast. Good location for our purposes

Conveniently located. We stayed one night before flying out of Bari airport the next morning. Modern, clean and comfortable with garage parking. We used the lovely pool to relax for a while. Good breakfast, and a 24 hr coffee station available.

We were very much looking forward to our stay at the Mare Resort but unfortunately our four nights were ruined as the hotel was being used to support the build of a massive stage and other supporting infrastructure for a concert outside the front door of the hotel. The noise and disruption to our use of the hotel as guests was totally unacceptable. We received no prior warning that there may be this level of disruption to enable us to review our booking which again is totally unacceptable behaviour on the part of the hotel owners who we assume profited from renting space and rooms to the concert organisers. On this basis the hotel should have been closed to normal guests and rented totally to the concert organisers. Other comments: 1. We were denied access to the hotel by concert security staff on a number of occasions and had to negotiate our way in! 2. Breakfast was very low quality produce served in a dimly lit meeting room with no outside windows. 3. The lifts were not working for extended periods. 4. Sound and lighting equipment were all over the place being moved to the third floor. 5. The only positive were the staff who were very apologetic and to be honest appeared embarrassed that paying guests were treated so badly.