SHG Hotel Bologna

Breakfast was great, staff was very friendly

Hotel is really old, the carpet is in there for sure since it was built, and the smell was really strange.

It's not a new hotel, but it's still nice and clean. The room was spacious enough with a comfortable bed and bathroom. What makes this place so nice are the people who work there - always smiling, polite, helpful... everyone - people at the reception, restaurant, cleaning ladies. Other advantages: close to the Unipol Arena (30 minutes of walk or 2 train stops or a few bus stops), easy to reach from Bologna by train and bus, free parking place, easy to get to the road network around Bologna, close to the local shop, good wifi signal. Breakfast was satisfactory - we usually eat a bit more than Mediterranean breakfast, so we appreciated that we could get bacon, eggs, yoghurt. It was nice that we could get the freshly brewed coffee to the breakfast (much better than the one from the machine).

It's not a problem (because of the shop nearby) but nowadays in most hotels we visit, the drinking water in the room (like one bottle per person or empty bottles to refill for free) is rather standard. It would be nice to have it.