VOI Tanka Village
VOI Tanka Village is a large Italian holiday village on Spiaggia di Simius, a kilometre of shallow white sand at Notteri on the south-eastern tip of Sardinia, run by the Italian group VOIhotels. Families come for the beach and its flamingo lagoon, a flat car-free site with a free mini-train down to the sand, plenty of included sport and evening shows, plus children's clubs from babies upwards.
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Is it worth it?
Who the village suits, what's in the price and what isn't, then the facts to skim first.
VOI Tanka Village works well for families who want a big, sociable Italian holiday on an excellent beach, with a lot to do on site. The kilometre of shallow white sand at Simius is the main reason to book, backed by a flamingo lagoon, a wide sports and entertainment programme, kids' clubs and a flat, pram-friendly layout with a mini-train to the sea. The one thing to understand before you book is the board basis: this is half board or full board, not all-inclusive. Meals come with water, house wine, beer and soft drinks, but beach sunbeds, the spa, the gym, some activities and a few of the restaurants all cost extra, and that is the single thing families are most often caught out by. Two more points shape the decision. The supervised kids' clubs run only from mid-June to mid-September, and the cheaper Monte and Casbah rooms are older and have no in-room WiFi. Go in knowing what is extra, book the board and room zone that suit you, and it is a strong family week.
Best for
You want a big, lively Italian village on an excellent shallow beach, with lots of included sport, kids' clubs and evening shows, and you're happy with half or full board rather than all-inclusive.
Maybe not for
You expect all-inclusive with nothing else to pay, you need in-room WiFi in the cheapest rooms, or you're travelling in early June or October when the supervised clubs aren't running.
Best ages
Babies upwards. A paid nursery from birth to two, then free clubs from three through to the teens, though only mid-June to mid-September.
What stands out
The kilometre of shallow white-sand beach, the flamingo lagoon beside it and the flat, car-free site with a free mini-train to the sand.
What to check
Which board basis and room zone you're booking, your dates against the club season and how you'll get in from the airport.
Where is it?
On Spiaggia di Simius at Notteri, on the south-eastern tip of Sardinia, about an hour from Cagliari airport.
Quick facts for families
What the resort is like
How the site is laid out across its five zones, how you get around it and where the newer rooms are.
VOI Tanka Village spreads over 43 hectares of mostly flat Mediterranean scrub that slopes gently to the sea at Notteri, in the Villasimius area at the south-eastern tip of Sardinia. It is a big place, with somewhere between 830 and 870 rooms, and it is run as an Italian holiday village rather than a high-luxury hotel. The operator, VOIhotels, is part of the Italian travel group Alpitour, and the style is relaxed and sociable, with a central square and a family crowd that is largely Italian.
The rooms sit in five named zones. Monte is up on the gentle hillside, Casbah and Dimora are central, Domus is central and recently renovated, while Tanka Selected is the premium enclave. All of them feed into a central hub, about 200 m back from the beach, that holds the main pool, the square called La Piazzetta and the main restaurants and bars. The ground is flat and the whole village is car-free, so you walk or cycle rather than drive inside it, and it is generally fine with a pram. To save the longer walks, a free mini-train, a little road train, runs along the main avenues to the beach on a set timetable, which helps if you are in Monte or Domus and up to 600 to 800 m from the sand.
Renovation has come in stages, so room age varies a lot by zone. The Tanka Selected rooms were redone in 2023 and 2024, the Domus Standard and Junior Suite in 2025 and the Dimora Family Apartment in 2024. The Monte and Casbah rooms have not yet been refurbished and are the older stock, which is worth knowing when you pick a zone. One firm gap goes with those older zones: free WiFi reaches the common areas and the Domus, Dimora, Deluxe rooms and suites, but there is none in the Monte or Casbah rooms. That is a permanent gap rather than a temporary fault, and a common complaint from guests in those rooms.
The resort holds GSTC sustainability certification and runs a daily recycling programme. On access, it has passed the Handy Superabile assessment and has adapted common areas, level pathways and equipped rooms available on request, though there are some steps in the Casbah Standard rooms, so flag any access needs when you book.
Every restaurant and bar
The two main buffets, the extra-charge restaurants, the bars and how the board and booking work.
Board is half board or full board. Half board covers breakfast and dinner; full board adds lunch. Water, house wine, draft beer and soft drinks come with meals on either plan. Which restaurant you eat in depends on your room, because each zone is allocated a board restaurant, and a few of the restaurants sit outside the board plan altogether and carry an extra charge.
| Restaurant | Style | How it works |
|---|---|---|
| Oasys | Main buffet | The big buffet near the beach, seating up to 1,800 across an indoor room and a terrace, with Mediterranean, Italian and Sardinian dishes. Guests report high chairs, bibs and wipes are readily on hand for babies here. The board restaurant for the Monte, Casbah and Dimora rooms, and lunch for all full-board guests. Included. |
| Mirto | Buffet | A buffet by the pool and the square, Sardinian in style. The board restaurant for the Domus rooms. Included. |
| Terrazza Mirto | Gourmet buffet | An upper sea-view terrace with show cooking, grills and a sushi corner, reserved for Tanka Selected guests. Included for them. |
| Stella di Mare | Seafood, à la carte | Beachside à la carte seafood and barbecue, by reservation. An extra charge, and included only for Selected guests who add the Premium Formula. |
| Poke & Burger | Lunch | An informal lunch spot under a pergola between the beach and the pool, in season. An extra charge, and some reviews mention cold food or a limited choice. |
| Pizzeria | Pizza | Beside Oasys, open roughly June to September, by reservation. An extra charge. |
| Ke Spettacolo | Dinner show | A beachside singing dinner, where you pick songs on the screens with a microphone on the table, in July and August from 9pm. |
| Domus Cafeteria | Breakfast | A ground-floor spot for a sweet breakfast and coffee, for Domus guests. |
| Suite Cafeteria | Breakfast | Breakfast for Suite Villa guests, within the villa court. |
| Deluxe Lounge | Breakfast and brunch | A pool-view veranda serving breakfast and brunch until noon for Deluxe and Selected guests; others can pay to join the brunch. |
For most families the day-to-day meals happen at one of the two buffets. Oasys is the big one, seating up to 1,800 across an indoor room and a terrace near the beach, with a daily-changing spread of Mediterranean, Italian and Sardinian food; it is consistently praised for quantity and variety, and it is where the club children eat at lunch and dinner. Mirto is the smaller buffet by the pool and the square, and the board restaurant for the Domus rooms. The two are enough for a full week without paying extra.
Several places do cost extra. Stella di Mare is à la carte seafood on the beach, Poke & Burger is an in-season lunch spot and the Pizzeria opens roughly June to September. Ke Spettacolo is the beachside singing dinner in July and August, where you choose songs on the screens and there is a microphone on the table. The Terrazza Mirto, an upper sea-view terrace with show cooking and a sushi corner, is reserved for Tanka Selected guests. Domus and Suite Villa guests have their own breakfast cafeterias, and the Deluxe Lounge serves Selected and Deluxe guests until noon.
On drinks, the meal-time water, house wine, draft beer and soft drinks are included on half and full board, while bottled drinks are only included for the Domus, Casbah Superior, Dimora and Selected allocations. The bars are spread around the village: La Piazzetta on the central square, Bar Nettuno and the Notteri Kiosk down on the beach, the Dimora Lounge Bar for Selected guests, Cafe Botanico for gin and billiards and the Giardino dei Sapori, which serves aperitifs and turns into a nightclub later on. There is a gelateria in the shopping area too.
On dietary needs, gluten-free options are available at breakfast and the kitchens can cook gluten-free on request, under a Celiac Project designation rather than full certification, so flag a coeliac diet when you book.
How the board and booking work
Each room category is allocated a board restaurant and, in some zones, a reserved table. Stella di Mare and the Pizzeria are reservation-only and are not guaranteed to open every day, so treat them as a nice-to-have rather than a fixed plan. If you want to eat somewhere other than your allocated restaurant on a given night, you check availability at the front desk and pay a supplement. With young children, the buffets are the reliable everyday option and take no booking.
Rooms and suites
The room in each zone, which ones suit a family with a baby or toddler, then the pools and the beach.
Rooms run across the five zones, from the hillside Monte rooms down to the premium Suite Villas. The official site confirms how many each sleeps, how far it is from the beach and how it is laid out, but not room sizes, so where a size is given below it is approximate. Every room has an en-suite shower room, air conditioning, a hairdryer, satellite TV, a minibar and a safe, and most have a terrace or a balcony.
| Room | Sleeps | To beach | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monte Garden | 1 to 3, plus a cot | 600 to 800 m | About 25 m², on the hillside, with sea and scrub views. Older stock, and the furthest rooms from the sand. |
| Monte Superior | 1 to 3, plus a cot | 400 to 600 m | The same hillside zone, a little closer to the beach. Older stock. |
| Casbah Standard | 1 to 3, plus a cot | 300 to 600 m | Central, with a ground-floor patio or a first-floor room; some steps. Older stock. |
| Casbah Superior | 1 to 3, plus a cot | 200 to 500 m | About 30 m², central and closer to the sea, with a reserved Oasys table and a bottle of wine a day. |
| Domus Standard | 1 to 3, plus a cot | About 500 m | About 34 m², central, second floor with a lift, renovated in 2025, with a balcony and a garden view. Dines at Mirto. |
| Domus Junior Suite | 3 to 4, plus a cot | About 500 m | A bedroom plus a living room with sofa beds and a walk-in wardrobe, renovated in 2025. Dines at Mirto. |
| Dimora Family Apartment | Up to 5, plus a cot | About 500 m | About 48 m², with a bedroom plus a living room with two or three sofa beds and two bathrooms, a large terrace, renovated in 2024. The roomiest family option. |
| Deluxe Double | 2, plus a cot | 200 to 300 m | About 28 m², in the Tanka Selected area, newly renovated, with gym entry included. |
| Deluxe Junior Suite | 3 to 5, plus a cot | 200 to 300 m | In Tanka Selected: a quad with one bedroom, or a quintuple with two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a terrace. Gym entry included. |
| Suite Villas | Family-scale | About 300 m | A two-floor Sardinian-style villa with its own private pool and a barbecue in the garden, on the edge of the Selected area. |
For a family with a baby or toddler, the room to look at first is the Dimora Family Apartment: at about 48 m², it has a separate bedroom you can shut on a napping child, a living room with sofa beds, two bathrooms and a large terrace, sleeping up to five. The Domus Junior Suite is the next best fit, with a separate living room, a walk-in wardrobe and space for three or four, and both are recently renovated and about 500 m from the sand. The Casbah rooms are more compact: their official limit is one to three guests plus a cot, so they suit one adult with a child or two, or two adults with one child, but they do not stretch to two adults and two older children. The Monte rooms are the cheapest and are up on the hill, which puts them furthest from the beach and makes the mini-train useful with a pram; they are older, and like the Casbah rooms they have no in-room WiFi, so weigh that against the lower price.
Pools and water features
The main pool is an Olympic-size freshwater, unheated pool near the central square, about 200 m from the beach, and the loungers around it are included in your stay. Beside it is a shallow children's wading pool with a waterfall, freshwater and unheated too, open all season. Tanka Selected guests have their own separate pool with a shallow baby area. On top of those there is the VOIFamily inflatable pool with slides, which is part of the inflatable play park rather than a permanent pool. No official depths are published, so plan on the wading pool simply being shallow. Italian pools often require a swimming cap, and guests regularly report they're needed here, so pack a couple.
A kilometre of white sandThe beach
Spiaggia di Simius is the reason many families book. It is about a kilometre of fine white quartz sand on a bay that is sheltered near the shore, and the seabed shelves in very gently, so the clear water stays shallow a long way out. It is rated across the board as excellent for young children and non-swimmers. The whole beach sits inside the Capo Carbonara Marine Protected Area, one of the more significant reserves in the western Mediterranean, so the water is clean and there is easy snorkelling a few metres out. At the southern end is the Stagno di Notteri, a lagoon where pink flamingos are resident and visible from the beach edge, with a boardwalk around it that children of any age can walk, for free.
Beach service is never included in the board. An umbrella and two loungers start from €12 a day for the tenth and furthest row from the sea, and cost more for rows nearer the water (last checked June 2026). You reserve them by email to [email protected], valid from the day after you arrive, or on-site if there is space, so book ahead if you want a spot near the water in a busy week. Beach towels are available against a refundable deposit. Tanka Selected guests get priority booking for the beds closer to the sea. Sailing courses, diving in the marine area and horse-riding along the lagoon dunes are all available near the beach at extra charge, and kayaking can be arranged on site too.
Babies and toddlers
The nursery, the clubs and their season, the meal rules and the family play park.
For under-twos there is the Voila Baby nursery, which carries a compulsory supplementary charge. The official site confirms a bottle-feeding facility for the little ones; the fuller detail below comes from other travel sources rather than the resort's own pages, so treat it as typical rather than guaranteed. The nursery is usually open across a long daily window, roughly 7am to 11pm, with an indoor play area and a room set aside for daytime naps, and it's set up for preparing food on site, typically with sterilisers, bottle warmers, an induction cooktop, a blender, a fridge and a microwave. At the daily assistance times the food is said to run to blended vegetable broth and soup, fresh fruit, homogenised food, milk, yoghurt, juice and nappies. What's provided can change through the season, so confirm the hours and the setup for your child's age when you book. It is an add-on you pay for and reserve, not a free drop-off. A baby kit, a pushchair, baby bath, toilet seat and bottle warmer, can be requested in advance against a deposit, but it is limited and not guaranteed, so book it early and confirm. Babysitting in the room is available on request at an extra charge, arranged through reception.
The supervised clubs are free and split by age: Voila Mini for threes to six, Voila Kids for sevens to nines, the Junior Club for tens to twelves and a Young Club for teenagers aged 13 to 17, which runs from 10am to midnight with its own sport, parties, a disco and a game area. The Mini, Kids and Junior clubs run multilingual care from 9am to 9pm, with age-appropriate menus, a play area and a game room with a TV, video games, board games and WiFi, classes such as football, tennis from age seven and dance from age three, craft workshops, a nightly baby dance and a weekly spot in the main show, plus a welcome backpack and hat. The one big caveat is the season: the supervised clubs run only from mid-June to mid-September, while the resort is open from late May to early October, so a stay in late May, early June or from late September has the play equipment but no staffed club. On meals, the children's club dinner is included, but the club lunch is included only on full board and costs extra on half board, which is worth building into your budget if the children will be in the club at lunchtime. The resort is Italian-primary, so shows, signage and much of the club activity are mainly in Italian; key staff speak English, and families manage, but it is worth knowing for children in the clubs.
Alongside the clubs is VOIFamily, the Voila Park, which is open the whole season: an inflatable pool with slides, trampolines, inflatable games and an electric mini-quad track, with a dedicated family concierge for anything you need. Between that, the shallow wading pool and the gentle beach, there is plenty of easy water and play for small children even outside the club months.
On the siteThings to do
The sport included in your stay is broad: five tennis courts, five padel courts, a nine-hole mini-golf, an eight-a-side football pitch, three-on-three basketball, archery, table tennis, beach volleyball and beach tennis. A few things cost extra on top. The gym and its aqua-gym, soft-gym and stretch classes carry a charge, though gym entry is included for Tanka Selected guests. Horse-riding along the Notteri lagoon dunes, diving in the marine area, sailing courses and the Bianchi bike school are all paid, and kayaking, windsurfing and snorkelling kit are available near the beach, arranged on site. The Cagliari Summer Club, a football school for fives to thirteens run with Cagliari Calcio, is a paid coaching programme separate from the free use of the pitch. There is also an 18-hole golf course, the Tanka Golf Club, on the same site, with a shuttle and bookings through the resort's concierge, at extra charge.
In the evenings, July and August bring a show every night from 9pm in the outdoor amphitheatre, from cabaret to musicals and audience-participation shows, with a daytime team running games and tournaments through the day. A partnership with Radio Italia brings live music to the resort in July, and there is silent cinema under the stars and the Giardino dei Sapori for a later drink. The concierge arranges excursions by sea and land, car hire and boat rental.
The Tanka Spa sits in a Mediterranean garden and is all extra charge, not part of any board plan, though the gym within it is included for Selected guests. It has three hydromassage and thalassotherapy pools, a sauna, a hammam, scented showers, a relaxation area and a large gym with trainers, plus a treatment list running from shiatsu and ayurvedic to holistic massage, facials and beauty.
The Tanka Selected tier
What the upgraded enclave adds, and then the town, the lagoon and the days out.
Tanka Selected is a premium enclave of 126 fully renovated rooms within the same village, sharing the same beach, activities and clubs but running as a higher-standard product with its own front door. It has its own reception, its own pool with a shallow baby area, the Deluxe Lounge for breakfast and brunch, a reserved table for dinner at the sea-view Terrazza Mirto and priority booking for the beach beds nearer the sea. Gym entry is included, and you can add an optional Premium Formula that brings à la carte dinner at Stella di Mare with bottled drinks. The rooms are the Deluxe Double, the Deluxe Junior Suite and the two-floor Suite Villas with their own pools. For a family wanting more comfort and a spot closer to the sand, the Deluxe Junior Suite quintuple has two bedrooms and two bathrooms, at a noticeably higher price than the standard zones.
The area and days out
Villasimius town is a kilometre or two away, a lively little resort town with a pedestrianised main street of restaurants, craft shops and bars open late, and a pleasant evening out. The resort's electric minibus runs there, but at the management's discretion rather than on a fixed timetable, and the road has no pavement for much of the way, so treat the minibus as available rather than guaranteed and don't count on walking it with a pushchair.
Closer to hand, the Notteri lagoon and its flamingos are right at the south end of your own beach, and Spiaggia di Porto Giunco continues the same run of sand along the peninsula with views back over the lagoon. Punta Molentis, an enclosed bay just to the north and one of Sardinia's prettiest, is a short trip by boat or road, and the concierge arranges boat trips, diving and snorkelling in the Capo Carbonara marine reserve. For a bigger day out, Cagliari is about an hour away, with its old Castello district, the Bastione di Saint Remy walls, the covered San Benedetto market, Poetto beach and an archaeological museum. Several good beaches sit 20 to 40 minutes up the coast, among them Costa Rei, Cala Sinzias, Campolongu and Spiaggia del Riso. Further afield, about 50 minutes on, Chia and Domus de Maria have white dunes and more flamingos, and the Phoenician and Roman ruins at Nora sit right on the sea.
Loves and gripes
What families consistently praise, what they flag and how to read the ratings.
The ratings need reading together rather than one at a time. TripAdvisor sits at 3 out of 5 across more than 2,139 reviews, most of them in Italian, while Booking.com has it at 8.3 out of 10, with Location at 9.1 and Staff at 8.8 but Value at 7.7 and WiFi at 6.0, and the operator Just Sardinia at 4.5 out of 5 from 47 customers. Booking.com's own listing ranks it 34th of 37 hotels in Villasimius. The gap between the low TripAdvisor score and the higher ones comes down to the extra-charge friction and the older rooms rather than the family offer itself, so it suits families who go in understanding half board or full board and book a renovated room, and disappoints those who arrive expecting all-inclusive.
What families love
- Simius beach itself, the shallow clear water and the child-friendly shelving.
- The kids' club and entertainment team, La Banda Tanka, singled out by name, with families returning year after year.
- The quantity and variety of food at the Oasys buffet.
- The breadth of activities and sport included in the stay.
- The sociable Italian family atmosphere around the central square.
- The flat, pram-friendly ground and the mini-train, and the baby and nursery facilities.
What families flag
- The extra charges on top of half or full board, the most common complaint by far.
- No WiFi in the Monte and Casbah rooms.
- Dated, older rooms in those same zones.
- The resort running mainly in Italian, which takes some adjustment.
- Long check-in queues at peak summer arrivals.
- The minibus to town being inconsistent, and the swimming-cap surprise.
- Poke & Burger, the extra-charge lunch spot, drawing occasional complaints about cold food.
How it compares
Around Villasimius there are two resorts worth weighing against it, and the choice really comes down to format: a big activity-led village on half or full board, or a smaller, more pampered all-inclusive.
| Resort | Where | How it differs |
|---|---|---|
| VOI Tanka Village | Notteri, Villasimius | A large half-board or full-board Italian village on Simius beach, activity- and entertainment-led, with five room zones and a lot of included sport. |
| Falkensteiner Capo Boi | 15 to 20 min away | A smaller, true all-inclusive five-star with a more pampered feel and a beach in a protected cove. Fewer things cost extra, but it is a quieter, different format. |
| Almar Timi Ama | The same beach | A five-star on the same stretch of Simius sand at a higher price, quieter and more premium rather than a village with clubs and shows. |
If you would rather have fewer things to pay for and a quieter, more looked-after feel, Falkensteiner Capo Boi is the closer fit. If the draw is the beach, the sport and the lively club-and-show programme, and you are content managing what is extra, VOI Tanka is the better fit, and the Tanka Selected tier is the way to raise the standard without leaving the village.
Getting there and when to go
The airport and transfer, the flights from the UK and the months that suit young children.
The airport is Cagliari Elmas, roughly 55 to 61 km away and about an hour to an hour and ten by road on the SP17. The resort runs its own transfer, but only on request, booked ahead by email to [email protected], with a car for up to three or up to eight, a 20% surcharge for night pick-ups between 10pm and 6am, and a child seat at extra cost. There is no direct airport bus to Notteri; the public route means changing in Cagliari and takes close to three hours, so a private transfer is the practical choice with young children. The port of Cagliari is about the same distance as the airport, served by ferries from Civitavecchia near Rome, Genoa and Livorno.
From the UK, there are direct seasonal flights to Cagliari from London Gatwick with British Airways and London Stansted with Ryanair, typically from June to October, at about two hours and 45 minutes. Options are limited, so some families route through another UK airport with a connection. The resort is open from late May to early October. Late June and September are the easiest weeks with young children, warm with a comfortable sea; July brings the peak heat, at around 31°C, so shade discipline matters; and August is the busiest, with the Italian Ferragosto holiday around the middle of the month, when the resort is full.
Month by monthWeather
Villasimius sits on the sheltered south-eastern coast, and the figures below cover the resort's open season. Summers are hot and near dry, with nine to eleven hours of sunshine a day through the peak months, the sea warms from cool in May to bath-warm by August, and the shoulder months either side of the peak are the kinder ones for little ones.
| Month | Daytime high | Overnight low | Rain | Wet days | Sea temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May | 24.5° | 13.5° | 23 mm | 4 | 18° |
| June | 29° | 17.5° | 10 mm | 2 | 22° |
| July | 32° | 20° | 2 mm | 0 | 25° |
| August | 32° | 20.5° | 13 mm | 1 | 27° |
| September | 28° | 17.5° | 38 mm | 4 | 25° |
| October | 24.5° | 14° | 38 mm | 4 | 23° |
Typical monthly averages from weather-station records. Sea temperature is the open-water figure, so a sheltered bay can feel a degree or two warmer. The resort is open from late May to early October.
Good to know
A city tax of €4 per person per night is paid on-site, with under-tens and disabled guests exempt (last checked June 2026). Check-in is from 4pm and check-out is 10am. On the site itself there is a souvenir bazaar, a kiosk and tobacconist, a hairdresser, a photographer, a gelateria, basic pharmacy products, a cash machine, luggage storage, electric-car charging and car hire, along with a 24-hour medical service at extra charge.
The resort runs a Dog Village for small dogs, up to 10 kg and one per room, on stays of at least seven nights, for €70 a room for the first week and €10 a room per day after that (last checked June 2026). Dogs are allowed only in the reserved green areas, not on the beach or in the restaurants, must be on a lead and muzzled outside the room and need a vet's health certificate. It is worth knowing if anyone in your group is anxious around dogs or allergic.
For UK families, Italy is standard on Foreign Office advice, with no visa needed and a passport valid for at least three months beyond your stay. A UK GHIC card gets you state healthcare at Italian rates and is worth carrying. The EU's new entry and travel-authorisation schemes, EES and ETIAS, may or may not be in force for summer 2026, and their timing is still unsettled, so check the current position on gov.uk before you travel.
Questions
The things families ask most, the pages worth a bookmark and when this guide was last refreshed.
Is it all-inclusive?
No. It runs on half board or full board, so breakfast and dinner are covered, with lunch too on full board, and water, house wine, beer and soft drinks come with meals. A fair bit still costs on top though, including the beach sunbeds, the spa, the gym and some of the restaurants, so budget for that and pick the board basis that fits how you plan to eat.
Will the kids’ clubs be running when we go?
Only if you travel between mid-June and mid-September. The play areas and the inflatable park are open all season, but the supervised clubs run in that window alone, so a family booked in late May, early June or from late September on will have no staffed club. Check your dates against it before you book.
Are the children’s club meals included?
The children’s dinner is included. The club lunch is included only on full board and costs extra on half board, so if your children will be in the club at lunchtime, full board may work out better than paying for each lunch or pulling them out to eat with you.
How do we get in from Cagliari airport?
The resort runs its own transfer, but only on request, so email [email protected] to book it before you fly rather than assuming it is laid on. A night surcharge applies between 10pm and 6am, and a child seat costs extra, so ask for one when you book.
Do we have to pay for sunbeds on the beach?
Yes. Beach service is never in the board price. An umbrella and two loungers start from €12 a day for the furthest row and cost more nearer the sea, and you reserve them by email from the day after you arrive, or on-site if there is space. Book ahead if you want a spot near the water in peak weeks.
Is there WiFi in the room?
Only in the newer zones. The Domus, Dimora, Deluxe rooms and suites have it, along with the common areas, but the Monte and Casbah rooms have none. If in-room WiFi matters to you, book one of the newer zones rather than the cheaper hillside or central rooms.
Do we need swimming caps for the pool?
Very likely. Italian pools often require a swimming cap, and guests regularly report they're needed here, so pack a couple and expect to buy them on-site if you're caught out.
Is there anything for a baby too young for the clubs?
Yes. The Voila Baby nursery takes children from birth to two for a supplementary charge, with a bottle-feeding facility, plus baby food and equipment during the day. It is an add-on you book rather than a free drop-off, so reserve it ahead and confirm what's provided for your child’s age when you book.
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Useful links
- VOI Tanka Village: the resort's own site for rooms, board, dining and children's facilities.
- GOV.UK Italy travel advice: entry rules and safety updates before you travel.
- Sardinia with little ones: our guide to the wider island, its beaches and when to go.
Last updated 17 July 2026.
