Hotel Vip

Once again very nice and relaxing. Check-in/out was easy. Some of the staff speak English. Pick-up from the train station on request. There is also a bus connection from the train station to the hotel. The bus station is just a few meters from the hotel. The hotel also has its own guarded parking spaces in the hotel area. The room was well equipped. Fridge, safe, TV. Italian style. Shower/toilet obligatory. The bed was very comfortable, I slept well. The room was clean. Overall a quiet, family-run hotel. It is located a little outside in a quiet residential area. Nevertheless, the city center of Piacenza is easy to reach on foot. About 25-30 minutes walk to Piazza Cavalli. All of the sights in Piacenza are easy to reach by bus. There is a supermarket, various restaurants, bars and cafes in the immediate vicinity of the hotel. You can't hear anything from the bars at night. Medical care in Piacenza is perfect. Hospital, all specialist practices. However, mostly only in Italian/English. In summary: I would love to come back :-)

We chose Hotel VIP as accommodation for one night as transit on our way to Livorno and one night on our way back. It was the worst decision we could take. Although it is rated as a 3 stars hotel, personally, I would rate it as 1 star. On our first night, we stayed in a 3 beds room, small beds, one of them was a camping bed, it was not too clean in the room, the bathroom was... I don't have words for it. The towels, even though they smell clean, they were clogged and stained, the soap provided by the hotel was in a bottle. Overall, the feeling you have there is that you shouldn't touch anything. We also had breakfast... again, the worst I had ever seen - some croissants with flies on them put on a plate, few slices of toats left on a plate, cheese and ham we had to take directly from the packaging, 1 option for tea, 1 gem, and 1 butter. And that was it if I don't count the toilet smell that was in the eating area. We could also serve a capucino that was tasty. My husband chose some tea, but the cup he got had lipstick marks on it. He refused to drink it. On the second night we stayed there while retuning ( the booking was already paid and we kept it ), we got an upper floor room that was a little better than the first one, but again, the feeling that we shouldn't touch anything remained there. In the future, for sure we will avoid this hotel and advise all our acquaintance to do so.

When I arrived, the door was closed, no reception. So I had to wait for n hour and someone came. The bathroom was dirty and rusty. There was no heating in the roomy. Even if I was assured that they put the heat in on. I moved to another hotel next day at the same price. No reason to stay here and the hotel should be closed since there is no one interested running the place as a hotel. Definitely, not recommended.