La Porta Rossa: elegante e tranquillissimo appartamento nel centro di Bologna

Sweet Guisy met us at the apartment and gave us the tour, as well as many recommendations of restaurants in the area. She was very kind and thorough. The apartment was very clean, spacious, comfortable, and inviting. It was well stocked with everything that we might have needed during our 3 night stay. There are 2 large bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, a large kitchen with refrigerator, oven, stove, dishwasher, and microwave, and a washing machine. The living room was very comfortable, and there was a lovely, large balcony available to use during our stay. The building is very secure, with a locking front building door, as well as a locked apartment door. There is an elevator as well. We have stayed in many apartments during our travels through Europe and this was one of the best, not only because of the apartment, but the host as well! We would highly recommend this apartment!

Wow. What a fantastic experience this was for our family. The apartment was great - roomy, clean, comfortable, air conditioned. The outside patio was beautiful to sit for breakfast or an afternoon coffee. And the location was fabulous - within walking distance to everywhere - restaurants, cafe's, sightseeing.

But perhaps even more impressive was the hospitality of the host. From sharing local places to eat, best places for shopping or a coffee. We drove from Rome so she arranged parking and getting a permit for driving in the ZTL. We could not have asked for a better place to stay for our visit to Bologna!

More important than the pictures - that truly correspond to reality - is what is hidden behind the mirror ! To begin with, the contact with the owner is fluent and most reliable : Giuseppina will answer your questions by email within a few hours and she's eager to help in any way for any purpose at any time : from how to get tickets to enter the Limited Traffic Zone with you car to, on the spot, if you need more of what you can find into the cupboards. Just a few examples : we found different types of coffee and tea, spices, sugar, fresh water, detergent caps for the dishwasher, shampoo, shower products, demakeup cotton balls, soap, sponges and towels of all kind... You just feel at home as soon as you arrive.

When we did, we were welcomed and the apartment was just blinking. The temperature was a most appreciated 21 degrees as the airconditioning had specifically been turned on a few hours before. That was just perfect, Mima !

As for the location, literally everything is at walking distance : there's a Coop supermarket a few hundred meters away and you barely need to walk more than 10 minutes to reach the farthest site to visit in the town center. The environment is calm as the apartment is situated in the ZTL and you can enjoy the large private terrace any time.

You will also find a precise list of what to visit in and out of Bologna as well as different maps and if you don't know how to choose between the numerous places to eat, you can blindly follow the "Where to eat" list, made up with good restaurants according to tastes and budget. You even have the telephone numbers if you want to reserve a table. We chose a different one every evening and they all served excellent food for a really affordable price.

Another thing that we appreciated is the free high speed wireless Internet connection.

We've been touring through Italy for quite a few years now. This apartment, together with the service that goes with it, definitely belongs to the top ! Many thanks !

The apartment is very spacious, very well equipped and very comfortable. We particularly enjoyed breakfast on the large balcony.

Great position that is close to shops and restaurants but quite. The best food market is only 100M's away.

But best of all are the two great hosts. Guisy, is very charming, (Warning she talks a lot :-) ), then there is Saint Marco (he listens to Guisy talk :-) ). Nothing was too much trouble for Guisy and Marco, they even arranged all our evening meals in great local restaurant.

sehr gepflegtes apartment mit viel platz. es funktionierte alles (was selten ist) und es gab ein stabiles und sogar auf der terrasse funktionierendes wlan. die gastgeber waren äußerst zuvorkommend, freundlich und hilfsbereit. tipps und vorschläge für ausgesuchte restaurants waren hilfreich. die garage im haus ist toll und sonst bei privatquartieren in bologna nicht zu finden. einkaufsmöglichkeiten in der nähe (coop) verschönern das frühstück auf der terrasse. die zentrale lage ermöglicht es, alles zu fuß zu erledigen, so zb ist die piazza maggiore knappe fünf minuten entfernt.

die betten sind groß und haben die nötige festigkeit, die bäder sauber und gepflegt, lediglich der riesenfernseher hat nur italienische programme. wenn sie frühaufsteher sind werden sie sich über die tauben freuen, die ab 4.30 uhr aktiv sind.

alles in allen ein sehr angenehmer aufenthalt, der zu längerem verweilen animiert.