A couple of weeks ago I stayed at the Renaissance Naples Hotel Mediterraneo in Naples Italy. I put a video of the hotel and rooms on youtube here: http://youtu.be/CIxq3nuKCwY
The Mediterraneo is located in downtown Naples, near the bay, and just a few blocks from the main shopping street, Via Toledo. There are plenty of restaurants and shops nearby, so it’s a convenient place to stay if you’re in Naples for business.
Overall it’s a decent hotel, but they just do some things different in Italy. For example — you have to walk up a flight of stairs to get in to the hotel from the street, which is pretty inconvenient with luggage. The parking garage also doesn’t have an elevator, but you have to walk up and out of the parking garage using the ramp you drove in on, then up the outside stairs to get in the hotel.
The lobby is a fairly big, 2 story open space. On the side of the lobby is a coffee shop/hotel bar, and above the lobby is the hotel’s restaurant which is open for dinner. Breakfast is served up on the 12th floor of the hotel on the rooftop. The views from the breakfast restaurant at sunrise are particularly pretty. Breakfast is free for gold and platinum members, it’s also included in some room rates. It’s a pretty good breakfast in my opinion. Many good Italian pastries, and also the standard eggs, bacon, and hot dog sausage like things.
The hotel does NOT have any ice machines. You can get ice in a glass at the hotel bar/cafe when it’s open in the evening. But other than that, don’t expect much in the way of your own cold drinks.
There are 2 types of rooms, regular rooms, and executive rooms. The executive rooms have extra bathroom amenities like mouthwash, a coffee machine/teapot in the room, and a bigger bed than the regular room.
The rooms overall are fairly decently furnished and a good size. Although a decent room, they could use a remodel… the televisions are still CRT tubes and the bathroom is lacking counter space. The most important thing for me is that the rooms are quiet, which these are. Like many European hotels, the hotel only has heat OR air conditioning. So in the winter, the air conditioning doesn’t work… which can make the room a bit stuffy. The window does crack open a bit, so that was a saving grace for me for making the room a comfortable sleeping temperature.
Overall there are more pros to this hotel than cons. This is my second time staying here, and I'd definitely stay here on my next trip to Naples Italy.
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