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Lorraine and Dave Hall Bournville, England 23/07/2006
Dear Gianfranco and staff

Thank you very much for a most enjoyable holiday at the Aminta. Again we had a super room and we received a first class service from all the staff. We met some very nice guests, everyone was very friendly and we shared our table with a lovely couple. We hope to return again next year.

We would like to thank you Gianfranco for your personal attention at all times.

Wishing you a continued good summer and kind regards to all.

Pat & June Flinn 21/07/2006
Thank you to everybody for another lovely week and for putting us in our favourite room.
The Aminta seems to get better each time we visit. All the staff were very helpful & friendly.
It is very hot here and all we can think about is sitting on your veranda with a cool drink and the wonderful view below.

Thank you again.

Best Wishes

Tina, Andy and Alex Gibb 16/07/2006
To all the staff

We have just returned from a two week stay with yourselves (room 109) and i wanted you to all know that we had a brilliant time. The hotel was superb, the best we have ever stayed in and even better than it looks on your web site. The views are out of this world and they will stay in our minds for a long time.
Being italian i know what italian food should be like and i can honestly say that every night the food was fantastic. There was always a good choice and it was never disappointing.
Most importantly of all are the staff in the hotel, there was not one memeber of staff who wasn't friendly, polite and extremely professional in their job. I want to say a big thank you to you all, from the receptionist who always greeted us with a smile, the waiters and barmen who looked after us so well and also the chambermaids who kept our room clean the whole two weeks.
Having the use of the internet was a real god send to me, it was the first time i have left my older daughter at home and being able to keep intouch with her by email was peace of mind.
I will be recommending the Aminta to all my friends and family and we will definately be coming back next year, until then thank you very much again, we will look forward to seeing you all again.

Bye for now

Katharine and Arturo 26/06/2006
Dear Gianfranco,

Thankyou for another lovely holiday at the wonderful Aminta.

Special thanks to Michelle for the impeccable service in the restaurant, the variety of food and once again looking after Arturo and persuading him to taste different food!

When we rteturned home I had to get mozzarella cheese and parma ham for him but it doesn't taste the same in England!!

Thankyou to all the staff, always so helpful and courteous, returning so often I think of many as my friends, I feel at home immediately.

The Aminta holds a very special place in my heart.

My regards to Lella and love to Michelle. I miss you all and I am trying to arrange a week in October depending on getting a reasonable flight.

My kind regards to you Gianfranco and to your family.

I hope you are well and happy

Christine and David Poxon Nottingham, England. 20/06/2006
To all the staff at the grand aminta hotel,

We have just returned to England after our holiday with you last week.
Thanks for everything, we had the most wonderful time. All the staff were great, and the food was absolutely fab. We have now returned to the grind of work, but because we had the most relaxing holiday we feel refreshed and able to cope again.

Our kindest regards to you all. Here's to the next time.

Phil & Lynn Atack 15/06/2006

Dear Gianfranco,

We have been coming to the Aminta for the last 5 years and each time we stay we have the most fantastic time and then we return and I send you an e-mail thanking you and complimenting the staff at the hotel, etc. This year you and your staff have surpassed all previous years by giving us the most amazing two weeks of our lives and I’m not sure how any words can express our gratitude to you and all those who work at the Aminta.

As you know, Lynn and I got engaged in Sorrento two years ago and we had arranged to get married in the Cloisters in Sorrento this year. We arrived on Friday 19th May and enjoyed a very relaxing first week on our own before our families and friends joined us for the second week, the week we got married. It was my parents and sister’s first time abroad and I know they have e-mailed you to thank you for such a wonderful first time experience they had abroad (what a holiday to have as your first!). The weather had been unusually hot for the time of year but we kept checking the long term forecast to see what the weather had in store for our wedding day. We couldn’t believe it when we found that it was the only day where thunderstorms were forecast! We needn’t have worried though. When I saw you in the bar a few nights before Gianfranco, I mentioned the weather forecast to you and you said you would have a look. When we checked the forecast the next day it had changed and there was now a big yellow sun for Tuesday 30th May! We always knew that you would do anything for us to make our stay perfect but we didn’t know you were in control of the weather!

Anyway, our wedding had been scheduled for 4pm and when the horse and carriage arrived to take Lynn down to the Cloisters the sky was blue and the sun was shining. The service was lovely and once photographs had been taken (and what a fantastic setting for our wedding photographs) Lynn and I were transported back to the Aminta in the horse and carriage and our family and friends were brought back up to the hotel to join us. On arrival we were greeted by Senior Michelle and his staff serving us with canapés and champagne on the terrace. Some of our friends were staying at other hotels but were in total awe of the magnificent views that you get from the hotel. Shortly after, we moved into the dining room for the 5 course meal that you had kindly let us try and choose last year. The food was gorgeous; in fact the reception was nothing short of a dream. You had arranged a table for us all which was decorated with lovely flowers (at no charge we noticed) matching those that we had chosen for our wedding and you had printed menus with our initials on, all beautifully presented. It is little touches like that that made everything feel so special. We had the dining room to ourselves until 7pm when the restaurant started to fill up with other guests staying at the Aminta which worked out really well. It was at this point that the most enormous and beautiful wedding cake was brought to us (photo attached). As we cut the cake everyone in the dining room clapped and cheered – fantastic! You had arranged for several of the waiters to serve our food and drink and they were all magnificent (photo attached). We would never have received the service and attention that we received at your hotel if we had arranged the same thing back in England. You pride yourselves on this kind of service and it was very much appreciated by everyone who was there to share our big day.

Lynn and I would like to pass on our enormous gratitude to all your staff who made our two week stay such a wonderful time, both for us and our family and friends. We are always made to feel so welcome, so much so that we now think of you all as being our extended family. Apart from a couple of changes, the same people work at the hotel year in year out and they now recognise us and make us feel at home (Layla on reception came and gave us a big hug and a kiss on arrival which set the tone for the whole holiday!). We would love to mention everyone who works at the Aminta on an individual basis as they are all so fantastic but this would be impossible. A few people we would like to mention though are Salvatore who was so helpful and charming on reception, Luigi, the pool attendant who was always so friendly and accommodating. Senior Michelle in the restaurant and his staff couldn’t have been any more courteous and helpful. Salvatore and Pietro were big hits with the kids at breakfast time and evening meals so special thanks to them. Fernando and his colleague in the bar (whose name I didn’t get) were great too, it was a bit embarrassing that after a few days they knew exactly what drinks we wanted (champagne cocktails and the cocktail with the fresh mint) and I must apologise for keeping Fernando up to until the early hours one night while I continued to drink cocktails at the bar!

And finally Gianfranco, a special thank you to you. We appreciate so much what you have done for us. The help you gave us prior to our arrival, the room you gave us, the flowers in our room, the numerous free drinks, the amazing reception with all the little extras, the bottles of champagne, the free kids meals at the reception…………the list is endless. My friend, John and his family who stayed at another hotel were so impressed by the service and position of the hotel that they intend to come to the Aminta next year for a two week holiday. Everything was perfect from start to finish and as usual we are now counting down to next year when we will definitely be coming back.

Love and Best Wishes for the rest of the year,

Pete and Chris West 12/06/2006

Dear Gianfranco

Back home from yet another glorious stay at the Grand Hotel Aminta.

We had a great time as always and our Mum’s both adored their beautiful room, the views and the fabulous service.

Thanks for being such a thoughtful and generous host and please pass on our best wishes and thanks to all the Aminta staff who looked after us.

Until next time, Buon Natale

Keren, Judith and David Atack 11/06/2006
Dear Gianfranco and all the staff at the Grand Hotel Aminta,

We (myself and my parents) would just like to say a big thank you to you and all the staff at the Aminta for the wonderful week we have just spent at your lovely hotel.

This being our first time abroad we were naturally quite apprehensive of the whole experience. Any anxiety we may have felt however, disappeared once we settled into our delightful rooms with their beautiful sea views.

We flew out to Italy to join my brother Philip and his fiancee Lynn for their wedding in Sorrento. They both fell in love with the area a few years ago and have been returning to the Aminta ever since. We'd heard many glowing reports of your hotel and were finally able to experience it for ourselves and we were not disappointed. The kindness, friendliness, professionalism and competence of all the staff was very refreshing and very much appreciated. The wedding reception was very special and we were delighted with the magnificent effort on the part of yourself and the hotel.

We have now returned home and are consoling ourselves with the many photographs taken during our stay and of course with the memories of a fantastic holiday.

Many thanks,

Paul, Sharon and Beth Beasley, Oxfordshire, UK 07/06/2006

We just wanted to thank all the staff at the hotel for a lovely holiday. We stayed in the Villa Aminta between 26/5/06 and 2/6/06 and had a beautiful relaxing stay with outstanding views from our balcony. We hope to re-visit sometime in the future.
Kind regards

Meg & Charlie Boyle, Paisley, Scotland 07/06/2006
Dear Everyone at the Aminta.

Charlie (Carlo) and I (Meg) have just returned from 2 weeks at the Aminta Hotel. 19th May until 2nd June.
Thanks to Toni, Pietro 1 and 2, Fernando and all the other staff for their kindness and attention during our stay.
The Views from the Terrace will stay with us forever.
10 out of 10 for the timing of the hotel bus taking us in and out of Sorrento.
Sharing a table was something I was a bit concerned about before we arrived but Jennifer, Jan, Anne & James were great company and I'm sure we will be in touch soon.
All in all we had a great time and hope we will visit you again in the near future.

Thanks Again
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Nicola&Carmela Marchese 27/05/2006
Dear "Grand Hotel Aminta" staff, we stayed at your hotel with Friends from Naples, we had great time,the food was delicious, the rooms were impeccable and the staff was "Magnificent "Thank you and we will see you soon.

Lilian and Barry Darby 24/05/2006

Dear Gianfranco and All "Grand Hotel Aminta" Staff, We are now home again in Kings Lynn. Norfolk, Complete with the weather (rain and wind). We both had a most Fantastic holiday in Your Beautiful"Grand Hotel Aminta". Yourself and All your staff treatedthe two of us with kindness and courtesy.The Hotel is a credit to You all. can't wait to return in the future.
Best Wishes and Love,

Liz Seldon 02/05/2006
A big thankyou to everyone for making our 3 day break so fantastic!!! The hotel and all the staff were really great, the views from the hotel and from our rooms in the villa aminta were wonderful we couldn't believe our luck, it was amazing. Thankyou to the waiters who made us laugh and helped us learn a couple of words in Italian, we would all love to return soon to see you all again we wish you all well, a big thankyou again to you all.

Brian and Val Roberts 21/04/2006
We have safely arrived back in Wales this afternoon after spending the past week with you at the Aminta.

We wish to thank everyone for making our stay so enjoyable and by placing us in room xxx certainly helped make our stay all the more special.

We are already taking about returning in the not too distant future.

Thanks once again.

Best wishes

Martin and Kim Byrne 14/04/2006
We have recently stayed at your beautiful hotel and would just like to thank you all for a wonderful time.
The hotel and all amenities were first class and we have no hesitation in recommending you to anyone.