Dear Isabella: Charlie and I want to thank you once again for a beautiful experience at Cretaiole this past week. We were so glad to be able to show some additional friends your wonderful experience and to have them appreciate it. Everything went like clockwork; Carlotta and Marta are true professionals now and that shows in their work. You do have a great skill in picking and training your staff! Thank you for taking the time to show us around the beautiful La Moscadella! We wish you all the best for the future of that gorgeous place, and hope for the continuing growth and popularity of the hotel and restaurant. It is a showpiece and you can be so very proud of all that you have accomplished! We wish also the best for all of your family.

What turned out as a 10 year wedding anniversary for me and my wife became a memory of a lifetime. There are now words to describe the joy we experienced in this beautiful part of Tuscany. Isabella, Carlotta, Carlos and of course Luciano gave us a really authentic experience. They can't do enough to make you feel at home. They even arranged for a photographer on the evening we recommitted our vowes to each other overlooking their beautiful valley-it was magical and we are forever changed because of this experience. Thank you so much, we WILL be seeing you soon!

To your family, from Cheryl and I, we send the best wishes for a great holiday season. We only wish the our visit was sooner, but May is coming. We are doing our best to introduce our guest, Judith and Mac, to the Cretaiole experience. We realize each time we meet with them to discuss our upcoming trip, that no matter how hard we try to express our feelings about our love for Cretaiole, we fail. We try pictures, reviews, visitor's comments, and even drop the name of Rick Steves, but we cannot recreate the warmth and friendship of theMoricciani family. Only when they are enveloped by all of you face to face, will they understand Tuscany and the Val d'Orcia. Maybe then they will see how the dirt becomes embedded in ones soul.

Isabella, What an enchanting stay we had at Cretaiole! It couldn't have been more perfect...the accommodations, our hosts, the guests, the area, the food, the wine, and the cats! Mille grazie for making this the trip of a lifetime for Joe and me! We would like to visit Cretaiole in the spring of 2019 so we can experience that season there. Can we reserve the L'Oliviera apartment for two weeks starting 27 April through 11 May in 2019? Do you have prices for that at this time? We are also curious to know what the 3-bedroom upper floor would cost at that same time, as we have a little interest from friends for that. Your father-in-law Luciano was such a gracious host for Joe and me, always stopping by to offer us some vino or help. Please send him our love, and these photos to remind him that we are the couple that will return to see him soon!

Dear Isabella, We head home to Texas early in the morning and I just wanted to write and thank you and your family and staff for your hospitality. It made our introduction to Italy a wonderful experience and specifically, beautiful Val d'Orcia! We also did all the things you suggested in Florence! I know that there is a great deal of sacrifice involved in running such a family business and we truly thank you for the wonderful way you do this. God bless you and yours,

We're home finally and very jet lagged but always feel better if we think of Cretaiole and all of you. We had an absolutely wonderful, amazing and relaxing time at Cretaiole and we just can't thank you enough. I can't even begin to describe all the activities you had planned to friends and relatives so we decided to give them only the bare minimum and keep most of it our secret*:) happy. We will be back so we don't want you to get too crowded. Isabella, please tell everyone how grateful we are for all the planning and help you gave us. I know you all work incredibly hard and we appreciate your hospitality and your knack for taking us under your wings. Cretaiole is an amazing experience and the memories will keep us happy until our next visit. Tell Luciano we miss his Grappa and dancing.