Went to Brindisi on business and this hotel was booked for me, At one time (many years ago) this would have been quite an impressive hotel, but now it's just sad and tired and in desperate need of refurbishment. Great location right on the sea front with a few average restaurants within walking distance, Hotel staff made up for the condition of the hotel by being very helpful and courteous, reasonable continental style buffet breakfast.
If you stay more than a couple of nights you will be bored to death, there's nothing to do either in the hotel or in the town of Brindisi.

Friendly staff in this grand allure hotel. I stayed in room 220, one of the nicest and spaciest rooms in this hotel with a view on the harbor. Large room with a huge bathroom, but a very tine shower in it. They could have used the space a bit better....
you get free internet access, which is a plus. Breakfast is good. The bed doesn't sleep to bad either.
The hotel has a grand allure because of its high ceilings and ancient decoration.
It's relatively close located to the city center.

The only good things that can be said about this hotel is that it's convenient for the ferries to Greece and the room had a really nice bathroom. The hotel must have been quite grand in the 19th century and supposedly it was "recently renovated", but the whole place was in need of maintenance and quite shabby. It is a large hotel with long corridors to the rooms. The lights in the corridors are on motion sensors more than 3/4 of which were broken so you have to fumble in the dark to find your room and use the key. Our bedroom was quite small, although the bathroom was rather nice. The air conditioner cranked away all night, but the room was hot and muggy. They only left towels for one even though we booked a double. The safe was broken in the first room and the second room they gave us only had one working light. The carpet rods were broken so the stair carpets were slipping and buckling which was actually quite dangerous. There were disgusting stains on the hall carpet on the first landing that looked like someone had died there!! I think they must have been trying to save electricity because of all the enormous chandeliers in the foyer and reception, only two were lit. And this is not a critisism of this hotel alone, but I do hate it when they give you a really cheap breakfast. With the weak dollar we paid the equivalent of about $300 for the room, we had to pay extra to park the car and for breakfast they served fake orange juice, cornflakes and cheap pastries.

The waterfront in Brinisi is basically an ugly stretch of hardtop Macadam lined with noisy, cheap cafes. This is not a desination I would chose were it not for the ferry terminal. And the funny thing was that obviously 99% of the tourists go there to catch the ferries, but no one at the hotel or in the "tourist information centre" knew anything about them or could tell you how to get there!! The two people in the info office had an arguement as to how to get to the ferry terminal and drew us different maps!

My colleague had booked me a room there before leaving from Milan.

The hotel has been built around 1870 to accomodate British (and others) travelers on the way to India (as the Indian Mall was stopping in Brindisi).

The place is beautiful. My bedroom - normal size - was on the 3rd floor with a great view on the old harbor. It also had internet.
I really enjoyed.

I went outside for a walk in the evening. It is just 2 minutes away from the columns signing the way of the Appian roman road.

Bad point: the furniture is Empire-style - but you see at once they are copies like the pictures on the wall.