Event Outline

Dolce Vita Italian Jive Holiday, Sardinia, Stintino, Italy. Tuesday 04 to Tuesday 11 June 2024.
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For a booking to be confirmed, the following stages need to be completed in the following order: 1) Please read all the informations and T&Cs contained within this page and the BOOK NOW page of our web site. Then please send us your booking enquiry via email, jive@jivetime.co.uk 2) We will email you back confirming whether we can accept your booking. Please DO NOT pay money into our account nor book flights until we confirm via email acceptance of your booking.

 We'll stay at the Roccaruja Hotel, located about 3.5 Km from the town of Stintino, featuring bars, shops and cafes. The Resort boasts sports and wellness facilities, restaurant, bar, swimming pool and private sandy beach a few metres away across the road via an almost level path. Air conditioned rooms include TV, hairdryer and bathroom. Buffet breakfast and dinner with Sardinian and Italian dishes.

The hotel's nearest airport is Olbia and Alghero. Local coach transfers capped at £ 10 each way will be provided on arrival and return days at times to be published.

Here follows a video of the Roccaruja Hotel and its surrounding area:

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Please click HERE for a number of surprising facts about Sardinia.

So much natural beauty can be found around this area, the beach itself has been nominated amongst one of the most beautiful in Italy, see HERE. Sardinia is the oldest landmass in Europe, see HERE, and one of the world’s oldest, so it is well settled and you won’t get earthquakes or active volcanos here.

Please read the Resort’s factsheet below, as this also contains applicable T&Cs should you decide to book.

Sardinia CLUB ESSE Roccaruja**** is an exclusive resort located near the fishing village of Stintino. The Roccaruja overlooks a stretch of crystalline sea considered among the most beautiful in the world for its colors and transparencies. The Roccaruja boasts a spectacular dominant position on the Gulf of Asinara and offers one of the most enchanting dawns in the whole of Sardinia. The Resort is surrounded by a wild and unspoiled landscape and overlooks one of the most evocative scenarios of the Sardinian sea, with the island of Asinara just in front the famous beach of “La Pelosa”, amongst the best in the world and only 200 metres away.

Distances: Beach: 200m, accessible on foot via an easy walk across the road. 3.5 Km from Stintino.

Accommodation: the 135 rooms are equipped with private bathroom with bathtub and shower, hairdryer, air conditioning, minifridge, safe, TV and telephone. Rooms are divided into double, triple, quadruple with bunk beds and “Family Garden” rooms (4/5 beds) consisting of two communicating sleeping areas and one bathroom. Very few single rooms available at a supplement. The rooms are located partly in the main building and partly in the garden of the resort, the rooms in the Garden area are more spacious and suitable for large families or group of friends. Rooms with sea view are allocated at random and cannot be guaranteed unless a supplement is paid in advance.

COVID-19: Club Esse will implement all the prevention and control protocols that have already been successfully tested in previous seasons, during which we have allowed all our guests to live their holidays peacefully in compliance with the social distancing and sanitization indications. We reserve the right to change/remove specific services, where the provisions of the competent authorities should make it necessary.

Restaurant: our service is always buffet style and allows all our guests the maximum freedom and creativity in combining flavours and quantities to suit their own personal tastes. Each day we offer regional and international dishes, with a wide choice of appetizers, first and second courses, side dishes, real Italian pizza, fruit and desserts. Theme nights. Microfiltered water, house white and red wine, lager beer are always included (unless otherwise indicated) at no extra charge for dinner. Our Staff is trained to prepare meals for different food intolerances; specific product are not available, but we can cook, limiting contamination, the foods provided directly by the guests. Few products for celiacs are available for breakfast upon request.

Services, facilities and sports: panoramic restaurant with air conditioning, 24h reception, hall, adult swimming pool (swimming cap mandatory), children's park with dedicated swimming pool (swimming cap mandatory); 2 multipurpose synthetic grass tennis courts that can also be used for soccer 5 in a row, unattended private parking. Wi-Fi in common areas. Beach volleyball and beach tennis, piano bar. Private beach, congress hall, theater, Club Esse bazaar and local crafts. Possibility to rent dinghies. Excursions program, especially for the nearby Asinara, Alghero, La Maddalena archipelago and much more with direct departure from the Resort. Private dock for small boats. Diving centre. Purchase on order of magazines and newspapers. Beach towels and strollers available to rent (to be requested at the booking moment). Laundry service.

Swimming Pool, Beach and facilities: swimming pool (swimming cap is mandatory). White fine sandy beach, equipped with beach volley, beach tennis and nautical centre. Beach service for each room (one sunshade, one deckchair and one sunbed, not assigned) starting from second row. First row at extra cost to be paid on site. Fitness, water gym, access to the sport facilities, theatre and event room.

Security: You will be required to wear a coloured wrist bracelet for the duration of your stay.

JiveTime aims to organise a cultural jive holiday to Italy with some time spent on excursions away from the Hotel to see places. You will have time to yourself to spend relaxing in the Hotel, maybe by the pool or by exploring the nearby places at your own pace. There will be evening dance workshops and freestyle dancing every night until late. Preferably, bookings should be gender balanced. Non gender balanced bookings will be considered depending on how many people of either gender have already booked. Please note that we reserve the right to change the programme at our own descretion if the need arises at any time.

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