Hotel Oasi in Panarea Village

I have mixed emotions with our stay at this hotel (we booked 2 nights ). We experienced a memorable evening here in the garden of the attached restaurant Giovanna (same ownership as the hotel) with a light jazz performance all evening. Beautifully dressed tables, excellent food, very friendly service, top ambiance with people dancing and having lots of fun. In short: a wonderful evening. However, the infrastructure of the hotel (swimming pool) and the rooms themselves are in need of maintenance. In particular, the bathroom was outdated and the one of our daughters even had an unpleasant smell. Good points for location and staff, especially the Romanian lady at breakfast. The staff takes a break between 3:30 pm and 6:30 pm, so there is no bar attendance at the pool. Didn't really think this was up to the standard of a four star hotel. In short, the hotel has potential but rooms and pool are in dire need of an upgrade because worn out. Apparently the hotel recently changed owners. Hopefully they will give it a facelift.

This hotel is a short walk from the port and the rooms are set in a beautiful garden. The good breakfast is served in their restaurant a short walk up the street. We also had an excellent dinner in this restaurant. Don't miss sitting by the little port in the evening watching the eruptions from Stromboli. The walk around the island was very strenuous but well worth it. To walk to the sandy beach, which is lovely and not crowded in October, is just over half an hour . Alternatively you could get a taxi there.

It is very easy to compare Hotel Oasi to a haven. The scenery is absolutely beautiful, the accommodation itself is very comfortable and close to everything. I can't recommend it enough.

The hotel is surrounded by a beautiful garden with the mountain behind it. In the center of the garden there is the small swimming pool which is honestly nice but the water was opaque. Our room was large and cute. Good breakfast in the nearby da Pina restaurant. The only thing was that no one came to pick us up at the port or even took us back when we were leaving while other hotels did this service, even on other islands the hotels asked us the disembarkation time beforehand and when we arrived there was someone waiting for us.

Overall Panarea is a nice island but 2 days are clearly enough as the pricing also in comparison to the other Eolian Islands is very expensive. We stayed in an apartment called Villa Rocce Rossa which was nice overall with a very nice terrace which you share with the other party in the apartment next to us ( but we knew that) The room is small but ok , the shower could be refurbished . Overall is was quite loud especially as it is not far from the noisy port (additionally there was a very loud wedding which you cannot the hotel blame for) The big disappointment was the service, they were not answering on the contact form on their website and not to emails on ***********. So we called to arrange the transfer from the port a few days before we arrived but actually nobody was there and then we called again after we arrived and no excuse and then she picked us up as the last passengers of the whole boat, all others were gone. And the worst was we had to leave the receptionist who introduced herself as principal told us that we should call her before we leave if she could bring us to the port. When we called her 30min before the boat was about to leave she did not pick up the phone and did not call back so that we had to pull the 2 big suitcases 400m over the bumpy roads to the port. Overall average experience with a poor person responsible for the reception.

A calming oasis away from the Panarea scene. Chic and great service