Location and price, but no A/C!
It was difficult to find a place close to Bologna Centrale that was in a reasonable price range and also looked appealing. This place was close to the station, although we took the long route walking upon arrival since we had forgotten to google-map the route before we lost WIFI. Once we knew the route, it was a 10 minute walk. Ludovica was waiting for us upon our arrival, and showed us around the place during check-in. She didn’t have any maps of the city available for us, but did leave a few individually packaged desserts for breakfast and showed us how to make coffee. At street level, there were many checkpoints of gates with keys and many stairs to climb up to the flat. There is an elevator, but was best used for luggage, and not quick enough to warrant regular use. On our first night out, upon our return at midnight, the key broke in the keyhole of the first gate – luckily someone also entering the area buzzed up to someone and let us through the gate with him. Overall, our stay in Bologna was good, and the flat had nice finishes and was in excellent physical condition. The only problem was that it was EXTREMELY hot (a heat wave, we hear) and the flat didn’t have air conditioning. Had I noticed this in the description, I probably wouldn’t have booked it, since it was June and very humid. There was a standing fan in the bedroom that did little to cool us down in the evenings. It was pretty ineffective and therefore we felt that we didn’t sleep at all for the 2 nights we were there. Our visit would have been more enjoyable if we could have been more comfortable… luckily it was only 2 nights.