Medicina Vacations from $815

The key thing to know about the hotel is that it is outside the old city. The old city is the beautiful part of town, with ancient buildings, few cars, etc. The hotel is in a more modern area. It felt safe, but with much less foot traffic than the old city. If you have a car, the hotel location is great, but I don't know about parking inside town. I also found it hard to find a cab back one night, and Ubers back were 30 to 40 euros for a while, but then went down to 27 or so. On a nice day, the 30 minute walk from the hotel to the center of the old city is fine. But I would not want to have to take that walk in winter or hot summer days. On the plus side, the hotel is by two big grocery stores (Eurospar and Aldi). But its refrigerator is very small, and there is no microwave. The big sushi restaurant nearby is excellent; the tiny Chinese take-out one is terrible. Nello's, in the Old City, was fantastic. The hotel breakfast is delicious.

The staff at the hotel were all very courteous and helpful. The bedroom was well-appointed and spotlessly clean. The location of the hotel is not great as there is absolutely nothing around it. It is well connected to Bologna via bus (about 25/30 mins from the centre) which as advertised does stop immediately outside the premises. We had hoped to have dinner on the Sunday evening as we had a very early flight on the Monday morning. Unfortunately the restaurant was closed on Sunday despite being advertised as open 7 days which was disappointing. There wasn’t much activity in the hotel and the bar area wasn’t staffed as such and was a bit soulless and uninspiring. The cost of the hotel was much the same as others which had more amenities around them.

This place is great! Friendly and helpful staff!

Very friendly staff, in a very classy hotel, in a wonderful historic location.

Clean room, wonderful staff& breakfast was delightful& only 15 min Taxi ride to center city