8/10 Good
Naomi
13 Sept 2024
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Enjoyed our stay at Grofoni hotel. Our room was a good size and very clean. The location was really good too, about a 10 minute walk from the train station and 5 minutes from Sa Toma. It was a quiet area, very local and not too ‘touristy’, with a couple of restaurants outside and some really good trattorias close by.
We heard no noise from the restaurants outside. We could hear the people above us walking around but it wasn’t anything we couldn’t handle. If this might bother you, just bring earplugs. The room had air conditioning too but we didn’t need it as the weather was quite cool. There is no lift in the building so bare it in mind if you’re less able as you’ll need to carry luggage up the stairs.
The hotel doesn’t have a check in desk so everything is done via links send in email. I had issues with this on hotels.com as they seemed to redact the emails that were sent from the hotel. I called them a couple of times before we were due to arrive and had to pay the city tax in a link, and then check in with a Google form. You then get codes to enter the building and your room via WhatsApp message the day before your arrival. I’d suggest calling them if you don’t receive your check in links.
Our only improvement would be there were no tea/coffee making facilities in the room. There were items in the downstairs communal area but we weren’t sure if we were allowed to use them!
Other than that we’d stay again when we visit Venice again. It was a really affordable base.
Naomi
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2024