Naples Beach Hotel and Golf Club, Naples

SEE NAPLES AND DIE...almost

Advantages: Convenient for Pompeii
Disadvantages: AC? What AC? Room was like an oven.

We were planning to visit Pompeii but finding a decent hotel close by was as easy as excavating these ancient ruins with a teaspoon. So Naples it was. The Holiday Inn looked perfect for our needs - on the edge of the city towards Pompei and easy access from the autostrade. When I say easy access, I mean 'in theory'...on a map...in my wildest dreams etc. The Holiday Inn is situated in a modern development of high-rise offices and commercial properties called Centro Direzionale directly connected to a link road from the A1 autostrade. But, this being Naples, where stock car racing is not only the principal hobby, it's downright de rigeur, it proved a little more tricky than directed from the hotel's web page. Driving to the hotel being only slightly less dangerous than facing a pride of half-starved lions in the amphitheatre, we ...

proxam 27.07.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Holiday Inn, Naples

See Naples,and die.

Advantages: Mostly helpful,friendly.(many see op.)
Disadvantages: Can be expensive. Traffic,crime,pollution.

food,yet also,filth,volcano,earthquakes,crime pollution,drugs and Maffia;you have the lot here. weather wise,scenery,interests,sights,beaches,and warm skies are as intense and as intoxicating as you'll ever get-hence the old saying; See Naples,and die! Firstly,the sights and sounds,the smells and colours-a heady mixture of cosmopolitan cultures,and contrasting language and dialects sit side by side. There are lots and lots of "Festa's" and street parties,Demo's etc etc that always pound the eardrums so you might aswell join 'em; you'll be made most welcome!And it's no good complaining..as you hang insane from your hotel balcony.You'll never beat them,like Rio,it'll carry on for most of the night. I have never seen so many people throng the streets. The noise and chaos can wear you out,and our oldest son was born at the end ...

christina44 02.01.2003 (17.02.2003) · Read full review
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Review of Naples & Pompei (Italy)

See Naples And Don't Die

Advantages: lively, wonderful artefacts
Disadvantages: chaotic, dirty

At the beginning of April 2004 I spent 24 hours in Naples (on my way to Sardinia), I´d like to take you with me and show you what I saw. I stayed in a hotel in the historical centre, Hotel Sansevero in Piazza San Domenico Maggiore 9; 70 Euro for a single room (clean, quiet, nice modern furniture, small breakfast). The description on the net said, ´easily reachable by underground (Metropolitana) Montesanto station or by bus direction Corso Umberto´. Ha!, says I, nonsense, nothing is easily reachable in Naples that isn´t situated directly beside an underground station. There are only two lines in the whole city and they do not cross the historical centre. If you don´t know which bus number to take (the info on the net didn´t include it) and can´t speak the language well so that you can ask, this means of transportation is not advisable ...

MALU 10.08.2005 · Read full review
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