Spidem Trevi Automatica

We've had our Spidem Trevi Automatica for 12 Years. It has made 16,200 cups of coffee to date. Excellent flavour of coffee due to full coffee beans being ground in the machine at the time of making a coffee. The milk frother makes, froths milk easily to make lattes or cappuchinos. The machine fits a large coffee cup underneath. The large size coffee fills a large mug unlike some other expresso machines that just poor a short black. The downside is the overall look, being made from plastic - not as appealing to the eye as some other machines. Overall we are very happy. When buying the instructions were easy and simple to use. The machine was very easy to start using.

I have brewed over 3,000 cups of coffee without any trouble. Works like a champ. Steam is easy to produce and froths milk nicely.

The Spidem Trevi Automatica coffen machines gives you an excellent cuppa joe every time! It does the work for you. Clean up is easy. A quick espresso as you run out the door is finally possible. Excellent espresso/cappuccino every time! It's not the prettiest machine on my counter top. Plastic parts must be treated gingerly to avoid breaking and cracking. The price is high for a simple coffee maker, but it's much lower than other models and certainly less than going to Starbucks every day.

Have had this Spidem Trevi Automatica for 3 years, trouble free. makes a great latte every time. I would have been in the poor house had I gone to Starbucks every time I needed a Latte.

We are the type of people who unpackage a product and put it to use without too much concern for maintenance. Other than our Spidem Trevi Automatica in terms of preventative maintenance and it works like a charm. Our machine is 8 years old and it is used religiously several times a day by ourselves and my parents who live next door (the coffee is so good that they come to our house to get their fix) and we have never had a problem with it.

I had my Spidem Trevi Automatica only for 5 weeks before it broke. It has been 2 months since I brought it for repair and it is still not fixed.

Overall I find the Spidem Trevi Automatica to be an excellent machine - would recommend to all!

Some people may consider its draw back to be that the Spidem Trevi Automatica can only use whole beans. In my opinion you cant get the best coffee flavour from ground coffee, but it can be difficult to get good quality beans limiting your choice of coffee. It is almost totally plastic which gives it a relatively stylish appearance even at the age of this design. It is externally more robust than it may first appear. It has a weak spot there is a plastic T shaped manifold connecting the pressure tank to the steam tap and froth nozzle. This part suffers from high temperature and leverage pressure from the nozzle if you aren't careful this part will fail. This part will fail regardless after a few years of regular use small hair line cracks form in the plastic manifold due to heat and stress.

My machine is currently out of action because of this part and to date I have been unable to get support from Gaggia UK. I am technically minded and I have removed the part and sent many emails to them with photos describing the part in detail. Over a month now and no result.

If they cant manage to support my machine I will have to look for a new one and its not going to be a Gaggia purely on the grounds of support. This is my fourth machine in 20 years it produced by far the best coffee and lasted the longest. I think I will buy a used professional machine this time around.

I should add that this machine isn't made by Gaggia it is manufactured by Saeco and re-badged as far as I can work out anyway. So maybe I can find an alternate source for the part. You may well be able to purchase this machine at a significant saving if you can locate one without the Gaggia branding. If you can this machine is worth while.

In most parts of the UK you will need to descale this machine regularly! I descale mine every week but I'm in an very hard water area.

I have worked this machine without mercy over the past four years; am totally lax in my maintenance regime, and yet the thing keeps on keeping on. It has never failed to perform. I strongly recommend it to any and all heavy-duty coffee lovers.

Trevi does not last. In our case we had it less than 24 months.

Sales people known to be honest conformed this. Their reply: quote for myself I would only buy Jura unquote.