Almar Timi Ama Villasimius

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• 5.0
  124amitv2026-09-03

  Best Hotel of Our Two-Week Sardinia Trip

  We stayed at three different hotels during a two-week trip around Sardinia, all at fairly comparable price points, and this was easily our favorite. We were very glad we finished the trip here, and I wouldn’t hesitate to come back. The resort layout is excellent. Everything feels close and easy to access without the property feeling cramped. The beach is reached by a very short shuttle ride within the resort, and there are both public and private beach areas. The sand is soft and the private section has beach service with chairs and umbrellas. The hotel is also a quick drive into Villasimius and close to the marina, which made it convenient for both off-property restaurants and boat excursions. There is a hotel shuttle into town, although we chose to drive ourselves when we went. Our room was modern, new, and very well equipped. I especially liked the walk-in closet and lighting. Complimentary water was provided and replenished, and room service was consistently fast. My one room-related wish would be a larger refrigerator. The small minibar-style fridge doesn’t leave much usable space for chilling your own bottles of water. Breakfast was impressive, and the evening entertainment was surprisingly good — much better than I typically expect from resort entertainment. There also seemed to be a lot more offered by the resort than we had time to experience. There are daily fitness classes, and they even have a marine biologist on staff who conducts evening tours. The tours were later than worked well with our children, and we didn’t end up coordinating going separately, but it sounded genuinely interesting. I’m sure there were other activities and services we didn’t even scratch the surface of during our stay. The staff and service overall were excellent. It felt like they genuinely went above and beyond and, importantly, we never had the sense that the resort was trying to nickel-and-dime us. We used the hotel’s babysitting service on two evenings as well as during a boat day, and it went extremely well. Our kids didn’t end up using the kids club, but that was primarily because they hadn’t had a great kids-club experience at another hotel earlier in our trip and weren’t eager to try another one. On our first evening with the babysitter, somehow she managed to get our daughter to bed within 15–20 minutes of us leaving despite it being the first time they had ever met. She was a magician. After that experience, we were very comfortable using the service again. The spa facilities were another highlight. Our stay included 90 minutes of spa access each day, which I wish we had taken advantage of more often. We also enjoyed our treatments. The only strange aspect was the lack of traditional locker rooms. There are a few minor things that could be improved. Beach service and the QR-code ordering system could be explained much better. A wooden block at the beach has a QR code that takes you to the resort’s general menus, but there is a different QR code posted in select locations that actually allows you to order pizza, poke, snacks, and drinks directly to your chairs and umbrella. We didn’t initially realize the second option existed. It’s a small oversight, but making the chair-side ordering system obvious would improve the beach experience. I was also surprised that a resort at this level uses towel cards for pool and beach towels. It’s a small thing, but the system feels a little cheap relative to the rest of the experience. Our room keys stopped working several times. We were told this can occasionally happen with adjoining rooms. The hotel offered us a physical key, but we preferred not to have the responsibility of potentially losing an actual room key. The internet also had intermittent issues. It always eventually came back, and it wasn’t a major inconvenience. We may have noticed it disproportionately because the few times we tried to stream something in the evening happened to coincide with problems. There were also a fair number of vendors walking along the beach. They generally weren’t bothersome, though, and some guests actually seemed quite interested in what they were selling. Those are all relatively minor observations rather than serious complaints. We travel quite a bit, and I can usually find plenty of things I would change about a hotel. I really didn’t have any meaningful complaints here, which probably says more about the resort than anything else. Modern rooms, an excellent and convenient layout, a beautiful soft-sand beach, impressive breakfast and entertainment, great spa facilities, fast room service, plenty of activities, convenient access to Villasimius and the marina, and genuinely good service made this the standout hotel of our Sardinia trip. We would absolutely return.

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• 5.0
  tirix2026-08-26

  Excellent mini club

  Excellent mini club! We have a 4-year-old daughter and thanks to the activities and the organization of the mini club we were able to have an incredible vacation, with her very happy and us being able to enjoy moments of relaxation between the spa, pool, and aperitifs. A special thanks to Andrea the coordinator and Ginevra who was always attentive and adorable. We will certainly return next year, hoping to find the same staff.

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• 3.0
  marcolZ6654YM2026-08-25

  Exorbitant prices for an international-style resort (not Sardinian)

  I must preface this by saying that I have been a traveler for over 20 years, that I take 4-6 long trips a year (at least a week) and 8-12 short trips (less than a week), and that I have seen it all everywhere. Timi Ama is a very well-maintained resort in terms of rooms and aesthetic decor details (the reception is unique and the entrance details are well-cared for). The service is attentive, punctual, and fast, thanks above all to the large, well-organized staff. The beach area is very beautiful but often crowded with boats that stay at a distance for days (on August 19th there were 40 of them); however, everything has its price, but here I had the impression that they want to exaggerate a bit. First of all, only breakfast, dinner, and room cleaning service are included in the price; everything else is for a fee, starting with the water, which is sold for €6 for a half-liter bottle (Acqua Panna); aperitifs and everything else have very high prices, so much so that for two glasses of watered-down myrtle liqueur and a board with cheese and salami, you end up spending €50-60. The spot on the beach includes 2 sun loungers and an umbrella, it is normally spaced from the neighboring spots, but the price in the first row is €95 while in the second it drops to €65 per day! There is no beach bar like in other resorts; you can order drinks, but the service is very slow and very expensive (two pre-packaged salads, 2 toasts, and 4 cans of water for €70). At noon, you can eat at two restaurants in the resort. The menu is always the same throughout the season, and this is a limitation because after a week, the choice always falls on the same dishes; furthermore, the cost is high, and the average price of a dish is over €20-25. A normal lunch for a family of 2 adults + 2 children costs about €120. The resort's buffet is elegant but rigid: the same things every day, and a sore point is that there is no Sardinian influence in the dishes presented; from the first courses to the main courses and finally the desserts, the international character of the buffet is immediately evident, with little or no local influence. I spent 9 days there, and for 9 days, the main courses offered at dinner were always roast suckling pig, roast lamb, and grilled fish; never chicken, turkey, or steak. The impression one gets is that they want to maintain an anonymous international character so as to avoid criticism from some travelers who do not particularly appreciate Sardinian habits and customs. The fact is that a similar structure can be found in other places in the world, and in my opinion, it lacks personality. The average age of the guests is 60, and the young people present are children of couples of a more or less advanced age. They are also creatures of habit who probably do not complain and therefore tacitly authorize the property to inflate prices (like water) and not make efforts to change or vary the recurring theme. The pool is large but not very usable because it is 180 to 210 cm deep everywhere; in fact, it is always empty, and bathers stay in the 3 small, shallow beach areas near the edge. A note of merit for the dance troupe, which is very professional and definitely superior to the average of other facilities: very beautiful and choreographic shows. However, it is not certain that it will be present in the years to come. There is no doctor permanently stationed at the resort. For any problem, the reception can provide one during the day at a fixed cost of €200, or you must go to the medical center in Villasimius privately, where the costs for a visit are below average (for an ENT specialist, I paid €90). The pharmacy also has fair prices. There is no organized excursion service, and a potential boat trip has significant prices (for a 250 hp 7-meter boat for 4 people for half a day with no extras, just 4 bottles of water, €770). In conclusion, the facility works but charges exaggerated costs to offer services that should be standard in this type of hotel: a spot on the beach should be included in the price of the stay, as should many other services. Overall, I consider the price-quality ratio insufficient.

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