Hotel Santa Croce in Fossabanda August 23, 2006
Posted by CamdenKiwi in : Travel , trackbackI’m always on the lookout for interesting, cheap hotels, clean and safe, but with personality and not too expensive. If it can be booked online that’s even better.
In Pisa, I stayed in the Hotel Santa Croce in Fossabanda, a former convent renovated in the eighties and now a delightful hotel. The thick, sturdy walls radiate tranquility and calm and although there are over fifty rooms, there is so much space it seems almost empty. Remnants of frescos on the corridor walls are a nice touch.
My room was basic, and I was surprised to find a TV and air conditioning. The bed was comfortable, but definitely a single and quite hard.
You’ll wake to the sound of bells for matins from the church attached to the building, but at a fairly civilised 7.30 am, and they don’t last very long.
Pet rabbits graze the grass in the central courtyard while you eat your continental breakfast in the cloisters. The breaksfasts are good, with fresh fruit, cheeses, meats and pastries.
It is about 500m from the river, and two kilometres from the leaning tower. Through venere.com I paid €45 per night for a single with shared bathroom, and breakfast, though this was a quiet time of the year.
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Well, it’s not in quite the same league, and I doubt that there’ll be rabbits, but I’ve just booked a couple of nights in November at St Mary’s Pensione in Wellington. It’s part of the Cathedral Complex where I’m going to be at a meeting, and you get a nun’s cell, with single bed for $25 a night, right in the central city.