Location. The Hotel del Centro is located on a main street in the old town centre of ... more
Palermo, Italy, 200 metres from Vucciria Market and 300 metres from Piazza Pretoria. Palermo Central Station is 150 metres from the hotel. Hotel Features. The Hotel del Centro occupies an early 20th century townhouse and maintains a fin de siecle decorative style throughout. Complimentary Internet access is available in communal areas. Tourist information and tour assistance are offered at the 24 hour front desk. Other amenities include room service, a safe deposit box, and complimentary newspapers. Onsite parking is available for a surcharge. Complimentary continental buffet breakfasts are served in the antique style setting of the Hotel del Centro's breakfast room. Drinks are served in the bar. Although there is no restaurant, the local area offers various dining options. Guestrooms. The 29 guestrooms feature dark wood antique style furnishings, iron framed beds, and patterned tile flooring. Walls are painted inshades of cream, offset by coordinated olive green fabrics. All include satellite television and wireless Internet access. Bathrooms offer complimentary toiletries.
Information: :Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Location. The Hotel del Centro is located on a main street in the old town centre of ... more
Palermo, Italy, 200 metres from Vucciria Market and 300 metres from Piazza Pretoria. Palermo Central Station is 150 metres from the hotel. Hotel Features. The Hotel del Centro occupies an early 20th century townhouse and maintains a fin de siecle decorative style throughout. Complimentary Internet access is available in communal areas. Tourist information and tour assistance are offered at the 24 hour front desk. Other amenities include room service, a safe deposit box, and complimentary newspapers. Onsite parking is available for a surcharge. Complimentary continental buffet breakfasts are served in the antique style setting of the Hotel del Centro's breakfast room. Drinks are served in the bar. Although there is no restaurant, the local area offers various dining options. Guestrooms. The 29 guestrooms feature dark wood antique style furnishings, iron framed beds, and patterned tile flooring. Walls are painted inshades of cream, offset by coordinated olive green fabrics. All include satellite television and wireless Internet access. Bathrooms offer complimentary toiletries.
Information: :Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Advantages: Pleasant staff, good size room, cheap, quiet Disadvantages: breakfast
I stayed in the Hotelcentro when i went to Florence towards the end of 2006. It is located in a superb spot within walking distance from the station which was a first advantage.
The hotel itself is based upstairs over a supermarket which closes at around 10 at night and is down a quieter back street therefore it is a reasonably quiet street, meaning you get a good nights sleep.
On arrival you have to buzz in, so a receptionist, who are on 24 hours, can let you into the building. You go upstairs to the small reception desk. The 3 different receptionists that were on were all very pleasant and spoke both Italien and English which made checking in a very easy process. This took a couple of minutes and then i was directed to my room.
The room was a large room, with very high ceilings and 2 single beds. The room came with a tv ...
Advantages: A unique and quaint hotel... Disadvantages: Lacking a few mod-cons...
We stayed in this hotel for a few days while on a little tour of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico, including visits to Cancun (don't bother), Playa del Carmen & Cozumel (much better) and the amazing ancient Mayan ruins at Uxmal, Chitzen Itza and Tulum. (I'll try and get round to reviewing all these later...)
We arrived by taxi from Merida airport (a short journey), having flown in from Cancun, where we had arrived in Mexico the day before, and were delighed with what we found, a massive improvement of the brash touristy-ness of Cancun !
The Casa del Balam Hotel was formerly the family home of Fernando Barbachano Peon, pioneer of Mexican tourism. A blend of Mexican tiles, terracotta and wrought iron, it has a small pool in a walled courtyand, complete with a stone carved fountain and tropical plants, a restaurant and bar, along ...
Advantages: everything about the place is an advantage. Disadvantages: the non smoking policy (for some)
There is also a coach available from right outside the hotel which will take you on the coastal tour along the very impressive Costa del Sol front. Most of the attractions and coach tours can be booked from within the hotel but you can also just go to the bus stop spur of the moment and catch the coach and pay at the doors of all these attractions.
Back to the hotel itself and on to the cost. Obviously I booked this as most people would as a package holiday; it was booked through Thomas cook and cost £725 all inclusive per adult for a fortnight. That was the cost the last time I visited which was just over 2 years ago now, whilst not the cheapest holiday available it was no where near the most expensive and was worth every penny in my view.
Torremolinos is a beautiful place but I have heard many a nightmare story of accommodations ...
