Masseria Stali, The Originals Relais

“We Went to the Masseria for a Cooking class which was excellent! We learned how to make 4 different pasta shapes and enjoyed them afterwards with 3 quickly made sauces. Would definitely recommend!”

“Amazing stay! Everyone is super friendly. The grounds are beautiful, peaceful. I wish I had planned more than 3 days here. My son was in heaven. We ended up having dinner at the restaurant every night because the food is yummy and the place beautiful.”

“Stali This was the third time we’ve stayed here (2018 and 2019). Clean modern rooms, excellent pool and facilities, great food and wine. We stayed five nights and on checking out asked if we could sit by the pool for a couple of hours as our flight home was not until the evening. (We’d stayed at a masseria near Brindisi and palazzi in Nardo and Lecce before arriving here, and each one had said the we were most welcome to spend time by the pool after check out, if we wished). Sadly, Stali’s staff immediate response to our request was to frown and say that there would have to be a payment ‘for use of an umbrella’. When I said that we’d just be sitting, reading at a table in the pool bar, they reluctantly relented. This is not a complaint, just an observation and one example that service levels and friendliness here are perhaps not now, quite as they once were. They were fully aware that this had been our third stay here - regrettably, now our last.”

“We look forward to going back there!! Amazing setting, clean rooms, great pool area, very well informed and pleasant staff, we will definitely be back! Ps. Breakfast is not as good as people comment but it’s good for the Italian standard of a European breakfast I guess :)!”

“We went for dinner. Excellent food! Fresh and savoury. They use their own produce. Wonderful experience. When you go to Lecce, try to have dinner or lunch in the Masserias to taste local foods and Stali is one of the best. The staff are very accommodating and speedy. We bought some olive oil and they also deliver.”