VOI Essentia Tropea Beach in Parghelia

We are on our last day of stay in this hotel. Generally it is a boutique type of the hotel with small rooms (about 18-19?square meters) located in bungalows. If you would put the two suitcases on the floor, you would take out almost all floor space avaulable. They say, that bungalows are located in a green park. However I would say, that this is an exaggeration. there are many small olive trees and a few bigger ones and a few bigger pine trees. But not really a park which would give a lot of shadow. The rooms are renovated and clean. With a bed taking the most of free floor space. There is a small (16-21 inches) flat screen TV attached to the wall on the way to the bathroom. And one plastic chair and a small fixed to the wall table. As these bungalows, and located behind the car park, no see view is available. Apparently some or all the rooms can be connected to at least one other room, creating a fanily room. We are travelling with a 12 year old, but received the rooms which were not connected and not close to each other. The management did not see a problem with this. We did and had to complain and refuse to accept this. They told us that we did not buy a fanily room, therefore we have to be separated. Even though our three names are on the same travel agreement document and it is obvious that it is parents travelling with a kid ???? The outside area in front of the room is very small and not encouraging to sit oitside and enjoy evening sea breeze. The food in the hotel is good and diversified. The restaurant staff is very nice, helpful and well organised. What I like is that we have had an assigned eating table and the staff agreed for us to sit in the airconditioned space for the breakfast and for lunch and to sit outside for a dinner. The evening entertainment in the hotel is modest and not invading, which we appreciated. There is also a diversified sports offer, like tennis, aqua gym, yoga and pilates activities. However there is no airconditioned gym available. Pilates is done on mattts in the area shadowed by two trees and when you do it in 35-38 degrees C can be challenging. The sunbeds are light and east to manouver, but are not washed. as in other hotels. The swimming pool looks to be cleaned systematically. What I am missing however is proper sun umbrellas and a shadow…. The umbrellas on the beach and by the pool are tiny and one can not hide from this extraordinary heat and sun. There are a few small trees on the hill by the beach where people fight for booking the space in the morning. We tried to move sunbeds and one umbrella to a place far away from the see below two big trees, which has caused a big and long discussion…with the management… They initially seemeed not to understand, that some people can not be exposed to direct sun and need shadow … But in the end they allowed us to stay there. Probably because of those two difficult situations, one with the rooms, another one with the shadow, the management did not allow us to ext