Hotel Astoria

· The hotel is very close to Bologna Centrale, 5 minutes and 15/20 minutes from Maggiore Square - The room was large with a double bed, a clean bathroom and the most important thing for the winter period (January) was HOT - Good breakfast, as well as the coffee · The room where breakfast is served is small - wifi in the room doesn't really work ok

Check in early. Pretty closed to the train station. No kettle in the room but the reception provide us hot water. Breakfast - typical italian breakfast, but the room is small and could become crowded

I loved the breakfast - waffles and pancakes are a lovely touch. In general, very friendly staff

Easy walk from train stn. Room clean bed comfortable breakfast very good. Up the next street is the best restaurant Il Veliero not expensive make a booking or you won’t get in

Very spacious and clean room. The room was very quiet so we slept very comfortably. The breakfast had different good things to chose from. We enjoyed our stay very much and highly recommend this hotel

Hotel Astoria Bologna. We got off to a bad start when we were given the wrong room and staff insisted that was the one I booked...When i showed the booking confirmation booking a room with a balcony and view (rather than ground floor over the garage and car park) they realised their error blaming the booking system !!...Why can't hotels just say 'sorry'. The room, simply furnished, was fine and the small balcony a good place to chill after a day walking the city. The Astoria is NOT city centre, and for us two fit but 71 year olds we found the advertised 'short' walk (just over a mile) to the city centre quite exhausting. The Hotel area is quiet and we felt quite safe, even late at nigh walking back. Breakfast, served indoors or outside was pretty chaotic and typicaly Italian, lots of cakes and sweet things which were very good. It would have been nice to have had some nice coffee but the 'Coffee machine' was always out of order..'It needs a service' we were told...the 'auto coffee' machine served dark brown liquid bearing little resemblance to coffee ! A clean up of the outside area where we ate would have been nice. The Astoria is a mid budget hotel, but even so not cheap...but Bologna is not cheap, so market forces dictate. The Astoria is slightly down at heel and needs a good clean and smarten up. The many staff on duty were, on the whole, enthusiastic but always so busy...they also look after several nearby apar**ents served by the Astoria booking system. I would like to thank the hotel for sending a nice bottle of red wine to my room courtesy of the hotel for my 71st birthday..a nice touch. Would i go back ?...sadly no...in 2023 it just isn't good enough to take my £....