This hotel is excellently located for visiting Naples, it’s also clean, comfortable and well-priced. The staff is friendly. Really near the Mergellina train station and in front of boat departures to Ischia, Capri and Procida. I would very happily return.Great place for visiting London!

My wife and I stayed at the Hotel Ausonia in the last week of September 2007. We were traveling from Siena to Ravello and had to stop over in Naples. I used Trip Advisor to look for hotels, and the Ausonia was given good reviews and was well-priced. Naples is certainly an acquired taste. If you've never been there (we hadn't), you might not know there are some areas you would not want to book a hotel (near the train station in my view, but also areas of the old town). There are lots of expensive hotels along the waterfront, but few "budget" hotels. The Ausonia was a very nice experience from its nautical decor to its english speaking staff. The hotel is quiet and clean--and near some nice restaurants. It is a distance from the train station, and you should grab a cab. Don't try to find this in the middle of the night without a cab driver as the hotel is on one floor in a building inside a large exterior door. The very friendly staff recommended restaurants (all excellent) and secured us a discount. We left the hotel with small gifts--a lighthouse key chain and a small wooden boat. Superb value for money.

From the outside the buidling does not at all seem like there would be a hotel hiding inside. It is directly across from the Mergelina Port in Naples and there is a sign out front. The hotel staff were all quite friendly. The room was a reasonable rate. There is nothing fancy about this...but again it was very clean. The nautical theme is cute and the hallways and rooms are plain but neat and tidy and above all CLEAN!
Be prepared for the Euro style shower (at least in room #5 that's what we had)... no walls just a curtain so the water is all over the bathroom floor. I must admit it wasn't as strange or messy as I thought it would be....but i would suggest shower shoes b/c once your shower is over the bathroom floor remains wet for a while.
The are around the hotel is in the middle of downtown Naples...it is chaotic and busy however once inside the hotel you will not even notice the traffic. Overall it was a fare price for an average but very clean hotel.

The Ausonia is a good option for travellers in Naples. It is in Mergellina, a safe pleasant seaside area with plenty of restaurants and bars, both on the coast and the streets inland. The hotel is definitely quiet - protected from the noisy mayhem of Naples by being in a courtyard of a nineteenth century building, away from the traffic. It is well run, well appointed and very clean. The Mergellina metro stop is five minutes' walk inland - one way is three stops to the centre of the city, the other way out to Pozzuoli and Baia etc. This is an excellent base from which to see Naples and the surrounding attractions.