Hotel berhampiran Palazzo Cittanova, Cremona

After one night in Milano B&B Sesto Marelli, this B&B was golden! The Lady at the reception was so friendly and helpful. We had some good laughs too. Rooms are super clean and no traces of mold or anything like that. Price and what you get for it was perfect! Plenty of parking space in the garage and worth it! I recommend renting a bicycle for the day, it’s easy to ride to Cremona Center. The Cory is really biker friendly. I would love to come back here! Thanks to the whole staff working in the Hotel! The one star missing is because of the thin walls and loud doors. That’s not the fault of working personell there.

The Front Desk and Restaurant staff was extra welcoming and kind. The rooms very comfortable as well as the beds! We had extra last minute requests and the staff was very accommodating. We travelled with our large dog and this was also not a problem.

I found myself stranded in Cremona for the evening due to a cancelled train, and when the first hotel I booked let me down I found myself staying here for a night. As it turned out, this wasn’t at all an unpleasant stay. Room was sizeable and clean, comfortable double bed with Sky TV and a kettle with a few teabags. There’s a vending machine at the lobby, and the location is actually very central if you’re not arriving in a rush one night. About 15 min walk from the train, and surrounded by shops in the city centre. I didn’t have time to sample the breakfast, but the restaurant looked lovely, my only real complaint was that the started digging up the road literally outside the hotel at around 8am in the morning. I know not strictly the hotels fault but it did marr my stay

The reason I am giving this 2 stars is because I  sleeped awfully in the bed, I found my mattress very uncomfortable. To be fair my wife next to me slept like a log. The picture quality on the TV was very good indeed, so much so I am making a comment about it.  A printed list of the channels would have been very useful. No idea why the channels we had were advertised as ”premium”.  The only English channels we finally found were 3 news channels.  Apart from films you would have on any normal Italian TV, no other films. WiFi was very good. The Bathroom was very nice, with an ample supply of good towels.  We went for the half board option.  Glad we did.  The food in the restaurant was very good, we could order any 2 dishes from the menu. We ordered our selves 2 glasses of wine with our meal.  After we finished I offered to pay for these extra.  I was very surprised to be told they were included in our meal deal. Good food and service, good value for money.  All the staff we spoke to had good English, and were very welcoming Covid restrictions like the whole of England were now very limited. The staff had mask, but no restrictions on us guests. So for the first time in maybe 2 years we found ourselves sharing a lift with 2 unmasked individuals.  This is going to become the new normal (again).  If you are not happy with this situation your only option would be not to travel. This is not a criticism of this hotel, just  a comment on governments policy's.  On going down for breakfast I was initially disappointed they was no all singing coffee machine, only a filter one.  After a couple of minutes I realised other residents were asking the serving staff to bring them their favourite coffee from the kitchen which they freshly made. Why not display a notice stating this? Compared to any  humble French hotel the bread quality was poor. However the selection of sliced cold meats was very good. They also had cooked bacon and scrambled eggs. The fruit juice  offered was not the real thing. I can't remember when I had such a poor night's sleep in a hotel, so we will not be going back, which in many whys is a shame.