Richard_BEE
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On arrival, we were given a room on the second floor. The bedroom was spacious enough with a large double wardrobe with plenty of hangars. It opened out to a narrow balcony which stretched around two sides of the room. It faced west so it caught the sun in the evening. It also overlooked a newly opened kebab shop (more later). There were a couple of small bedside cupboards either side of the bed.||||The bathroom was a fair size, with a decent shower, and towels were changed every day. There was a desk, modern tv, and a small fridge, which was useful. There was an air-conditioning unit but we never used it. Wi-fi was poor to non-existent and we could generally only get a signal on the ground floor close to reception. ||||The 'double' bed was two singles pushed together. These tended to come apart during the night, and by morning a 3-4" gap had developed. The mattress wasn't particularly comfortable, I could feel the mattress springs through the bedding ||||The room was all quite clean, and we saw the cleaning ladies mopping the floor each day.||||We were allocated a fixed table in the breakfast room each day. We found the breakfast to be rather poor, no fresh fruit apart from a bowl of apples, just tinned fruit salad (why hotels still serve this when fruit is plentiful and inexpensive in italy I don't know). There were yoghurts, fruit drink (not 100% juice) and water. There was sliced cheese and ham, hard-boiled eggs, and some ricotta, slices of bread roughly sliced (no rolls). Croisants, jams, and small pieces of shop-bought cake. Coffee was hot and fine. ||||Breakfast was the same day after day with no variation. Part way through our stay the hotel filled up with guests as part of a tour, and they were down by 8am, leaving before 9am. We generally arrived afterwards and there was often little left, though really there wasn't a great deal to start with.||||The breakfast staff had a habit of standing at the far end of the room purveying their guests. I know they have to be attentive but it was as though they were watching your every move, which I found rather off-putting.. There was one particulay lady called Laura who was very helpful and informative.||||Part way through our stay a house opposite our bedroom opened up as a kebab shop. We watched them clean and setup the place one day, and the next it was open. Not many customers at first, but many more on their second day. The shop was open until midnight, and their young children were playing out in the street until it closed. So all of a sudden, the peace and quite of sitting on the balcony and watching the sunset with a glass of wine was gone. Also, as we like to have the window shutters open when asleep, you could smell the cooking drifting though into the bedoom.||||Alongside reception there was a small comfortable sitting area, and there was the offer for a tea of coffee in the evening from the bar.||||So all in all a rather mixed review, though I doubt that I would choose to stay there again.
