article_snippet: Even the name is on the big side and when I looked at The Delphina Valle dell'Erica website I had misgivings, not least because I have stayed in so many unwieldy hotels around the world that I always long for something small and personal.
article_snippet: in fact it is really two hotels joined together - but it never felt big and there were days when us hardly saw a soul.
article_snippet: Whoever designed this place should take a bow.
article_snippet: There were children's areas, adults-only areas, family areas and ones where no one seemed to go at all.
article_snippet: The word that kept coming into my mind was 'tranquil', which, given there are more than 250 rooms, is amazing.