Samuel Thawley
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I really cannot work out how this hotel can get less than five stars. For its category and price in a major tourist destination this hotel is simply outstanding. The staff are beyond super; courteous, good natured, helpful, willing. The inside is impeccably clean and polished. (The outside looks like nothing particular…) The rooms are marvellous; bright, spacious, tastefully decorated, nice smelling, well heated. We had a bath, which always makes me happy. There is a lift. The breakfast is exceptional for this category of hotel. Again it gets the basics right and then offers more. For example, the fruit was actually enjoyable (neither tasteless nor overripe) and the cakes genuinely nice (la torta alla nonna and the chocolate plum cake in particular). There is a pancake machine that does a good job, etc. etc. So good that every traveling Italian in a family group seems to stay. When the teenagers descend anything chocolate vanishes in two seconds. I suspect the hotel is impossible to book in season. The final plus is that there is a living room with bar where you can rest, work, or hang out as necessary. Perhaps a few caveats. I did not find the internet connection so good (but no worse than say the Premier Inn, whose internet always sends me bananas). The rooms do have some noise of running water (but this is normal for anyone who has stayed even in Hilton or other similar hotels). And there is the faint sound of the street for sensitive sleepers. Nevertheless, to conclude, I have yet to find a better hotel for this price or category anywhere in our travels and it would easily be in my top five favourite.