I stayed here for 1 night. They had English speaking staff which was great. The location was great since it is 15 minutes walk to the historica Lecce city, great for sightseeing. I had 1 hour of free internet in the foyer, but no internet access in the room.

The room was ok, but it was not properly maintained. There was some gray coloured liquid leaking from the vent. The shower drain didn't work very well, so my feet ended up having a bath. The blanket was thin so I was cold. I don't think the room had a heater.

The food in the Hotel restaurant was average. Again, my carbonara was extremely saulty. Staff didn't speak English, but this time I wasn't over-charged like the other hotels in Italy. I got sick from eating there, prawns were half cooked.

The Grand Hotel Tiziano e dei Congressi is a no-frills conference hotel. The lobby is always packed with conferences and business meetings. The staff is efficient but not friendly. The room was very small (tight) and the bathroom was even tighter. There was hardly any room in the shower for an average size guy. The noisy air condition did not work properly but the room had windows that I was able to open. First time I stayed in a room facing the main road and the nose level was quite high but the second time I stayed the room faced the back and the only noise was the constant hum from the air condition / cooling system. On the plus side, the free breakfast was decent and the espresso / cappuccino were very good.
Overall, I would say, it is a convenient hotel if you drive in and out, and you are heading to Lecce for business but if you would like to be within a short walking distance to restaurants and night life, do not stay there, it’s quite a long and unpleasant walk at night.

Even though a pleasant hotel the fact that they "never turn the airco on at nights" in a city with very hot temperatures is a big factor of why I will never stay there when in Lecce

First of all, I’d like to tell that I am rather a flexible and not complicated person, but it was so much a disappointing experience that I even decided to share with it with the others. Hope you would find it useful for your holiday plans in that region of Italy.

My boyfriend and myself came to Lecce in order to spend a nice relaxing time. The objective was to find a practical and cosy hotel. For us it was important that there is an Internet connection in the room (as we still needed to manage some job issues), that there is a fitness, and generally we wished to pamper ourselves in some very nice environment. We chose the hotel by a recommendation of a friend (who however, never stayed in it), who showed us its brochure – it looked like it had everything we needed : fitness, spa centre, swimming pool, I-net and the rooms as well as the hotel itself looked rather luxurious. We went for it and booked our 4 nights…

The first disappointment was about the general look of the rooms and the hotel – the pictures in the brochure were rather flattering, and the photographer who made them was visibly highly professional. The hotel looked rather old with many details that could have been already replaced (not the way it was presented in the booklet).

Then, we were supposed to pay for the I-net connection, but the voucher we bought at the reception for 17 eur was not working in the rooms, and it was actually possible to buy directly online with a visa card a 24-hours connection for 10 eur. I returned the voucher of 17 eur back to the reception with the precision that it was not used. Later I found this 17 eur was still charged to our room, however, the receptionist promised he is not going to do so!!

Then, we asked on which floor the Spa and fitness centre were situated. Can you imagine our surprise and the deepest disappointment when the guy answered us that actually the centre is not working, and it will not be open before than in 1 month time!!! This was really cruel, as we made the reservation directly in the hotel and nobody was warning us about this beforehand. Actually we gave the preference to this hotel and not to the other exactly because of this Spa and fitness centre….

The last drop was when the water started to leak from the ceiling of our room – it was an air conditioner that got broken, and we had to change the room without any help of the hotel staff.

All in all, it was a really disappointing experience having all this going together. Never again would I come back to this hotel and I would never recommend it to anyone!!