Piacenza, Italy Hotel Rooms at the Independent

Very enjoyable stay. Friendly staff and a very smart, comfortable hotel

Great place, friendly staff, excellent stay. Good breakfast too. Piacenza is a beautiful place to go.

This hotel is located in industrial part of town. It was 20 minutes off the autostraddle and only found it due to our GPS. There is nothing around. It is going through management changes, there is no sign on hotel with the name. My partner and I took a double room, her mattress was bowed. The shower head was taped to the shower hose and the head didn't match the hose. It leaked and wouldn't stay in place. Breakfast the next morning was picked over and not replenished. Staff was kind and bi-lingual.

too expensive for avery average hotel

I had stayed at this hotel about a year ago on my own. It is conveniently located if travelling from Switzerland to the Cote d'Azur so rebooked a room for my wife and I to break our journey. This time I was extremely disappointed, the hotel was dirty, very smelly, had people lingering around in the reception area the whole time, smelly people. The internet was only working intermittently, and perhaps this was due to all the people who seemed to be constantly on facebook etc so perhaps they were consuming all the available data. Of course other people stay at the hotel, but what was unusual was that they all seemed to be crowding into the reception area at all times, and both my wife and I found the whole experience quite unsettling. The breakfast was a joke, flies everywhere, very limited choice and nothing really fresh. Coffee was good though.

The hotel is clean, the rooms are spacious, the breakfast is great. The hotel is close to the highway (but you will not hear the traffic) and it is very easy to get to.

I stayed at Hotel City for one night. Friendly and helpful staff from the time I arrived until my departure. Room was clean and comfortable if simply furnished. Free WiFi worked well and is always a positive feature at a hotel. Only drawback is the neighborhood and parking; not so attractive surroundings, and parking is on the street (there is a parking garage underneath the hotel, but it was closed and looked rather unmaintained).