Hotel Pavia is a very well located hotel but when it comes to cleanliness, it is FILTHY and VERY old. Do not go there! We spent our last night in Italy there and I did not even dare walk barefeet on the carpet. The lobby is very dirty and the rooms are even more surprisingly dirty. Our room was also a smoking room so we had to smell tobacco all night. And I almost forgot to say that the shower licks... To sum up, it is supposedly a three star hotel that should be a one star. To avoid by any means!

I have to add my voice to the chorus of complaint about this hotel. My wife and I visited it for three days in January 2003 on a package deal advertised in CIT. Every negative comment in the Trip Advisor reviews was true for the Pavia then.

My wife insisted that we find somewhere else after one night in the Pavia, although budget constraints forced us to witness the "fun" for the full three days.

I think my favourite memory is of the morning that commenced with a cold shower and the disintegration of the concertina curtain to the bathroom, followed by a meagre breakfast doled out with Dickensian parsimony, when an American service man politely complained to stoney faced management about the fact that the toilet in his room lacked a seat.

It is a case where "location, location location" does not cut it.

"Try having a cold shower where the shower head sticks out of the wall, in a room the size of a wardrobe -you could sit on the loo, brush your teeth and have a cold shower at the same time, while getting tangled up in the soggy shower curtain."


I laughed my "---" off when I read this. I just got back from this hole and coud not have said it better my self! I was going to discribe it as the true meaning of Shower and Shave, all without moving! My wife and I discussed going to another hotel and opted to stay the extra night at the Pavia so as not to loose valuble vacation time. Location made it very easy to get around but in the end it just sucked staying there! This should be a one star at best hotel. Do yourself a favor and don't, I repeat don't stay here.

We stayed at the Pavia for two nights in Nov. I thought the staff was wonderful. The breakfast was served with a smile and it was nice to have the free internet to email our children. However, the bathroom was simply an accordian door separating the amenities. The toilet was literally three feet away from the bed. I don't think I would stay there again.