"Convenient to go out for a walk"

"Excellent location, baroque style, good cleaning, friendly staff"

"Self check in worked well. Room was large and no competition for the shared bathroom. Easy 20 minute walk to old town."

"This isn’t your average bad hotel. The staff seemed to go out of their way to be rude and unhelpful, making our stay at Hotel Ferrara a truly dreadful experience. The problems started even before we checked in. On the day of our arrival, we had a flat tire during a storm about 10 miles outside of town and called the hotel to ask whether they could tell us which taxi service served the area we were in so that we could reach the hotel. The hotel reception was quite unhelpful, telling us to search on Google. Gee, I wish I’d thought of that. When we finally arrived at the hotel we found staff who were almost all discourteous and uncooperative. One of the employees pretended not to understand me even though I speak fluent Italian and English. We were later told by one employee that the staff were expecting the hotel’s new owner to replace the staff and so they didn’t care about doing their jobs properly. The room was dirty and run-down - the hair dryer was broken, the room had stains on the floor and walls, cracks in the wall, and was dangerously dark - there were few lights and the ones that existed were very dim. When we complained the desk clerk first pretended not to understand even after viewing the dim room in person. She finally acknowledged the room was too dark but said it wasn’t her fault and offered nothing to ameliorate the situation. We requested she give us another room. She said she would but didn’t and when we followed up with other employees at reception they said she was gone and had made no arrangements to change our room. Making matters worse, in order to reach our room we had to exit the hotel, walk in the rain and cross an unavoidable giant puddle of water in the courtyard. The breakfast was truly revolting - we didn’t touch it. When we complained to the kitchen staff about the dark, crusty scrambled eggs that had obviously been out for too long they made rude remarks to us. When we tried to make all this known to the people at reception they refused to allow us to speak to the hotel manager or to give us the first names of the people who had been rude so we could identify them to management. They claimed it was hotel policy not to reveal even the first name of any employee. (We later discovered this was untrue, as we heard a hotel employee mention her name to another guest.) The staff seemed to make a point of being uncivil and uncooperative. This was not only our opinion. We spoke to other guests who also could not believe this hotel was advertised as 4 stars. I wished I'd read all the bad reviews before booking."

"Good, good, good"

"Ferrara is my hometown, and I always love to return! We had a great time at this hotel! The double room was very comfortable! Quiet! Very friendly staff! Recommended!"

"Hotel in the center a stone's throw from the castle, it is in a ztl area, but by leaving the license plate of the car you can enter and have permission to transit until check out from the structure. There is a nearby outdoor parking lot where you can leave your car (about 300 meters from the hotel). Structure that respects the Three stars. Essential services, very kind staff!"

"lovely place to stay and lovely staff. Breakfast good with the usual fare plus eggs and bacon. Room also good."

"Parking, breakfast, fast internet, perfect reception are spoiled by insufficient air conditioning and ventilation in the room, which does not guarantee comfortable sleep on hot days"