B & B Casa Kita — Hotel in Cortona

My wife and I primarily spend our vacations out and about exploring and visiting local sites so our sole purpose for hotels is to find somewhere safe, clean, and comfortable where we can sleep and shower in our own private room and bathroom. We look for basic no frills places to stay that are centrally located and affordable.||||Casa Kita more than met our needs. We made it the base of our travels around the Tuscany area via a rental car. The hotel was very clean and comfortable. It was a bit unconventional that it appeared to basically be several rooms in the downstairs of someone's house. There really wasn't a front desk. When we arrived we contacted the owner by phone. Someone then met us a short while later which showed us our room and gave us our keys. We met the owner Osvaldo later on who was very friendly and kind.||||The room looked more like a room straight out of someone's home, which actually made us feel more at home. The place was interestingly decorated but to us it added to the charm of the place. The hotel is at the bottom of the hill that lead up to the center of Cortona. It was an easy 5 minute somewhat uphill walk to the central city plaza.||||Our room had a great view to the valley down below. The view was even better from the terrace outside the kitchen. The reviewer who felt the terrace was too open and wanted "privacy" is crazy. This was an absolutely gorgeous view and I would not obstruct it in any way. I could have just stayed all day on that terrace enjoying the view.||||In our 3 week trip to Italy this was the best bargain we found. We are lite breakfast eaters so the fruits and packaged pastries was more than enough for us. At the price we were paying we wouldn't expect more for breakfast. Anyone who expects more at the price they are paying is being a bit unrealistic. We also saw the security camera but felt that it was more for our security and not that the owners were keeping an eye on us. It did not make us feel uncomfortable at all.||||We were able to park our rental car at a convenient and free parking lot at the bottom of the hill. It was easily accessible via an escalator right outside the hotel. Our only complaint was that the escalator was right outside our room window and it could be squeaky and cause noise. However this was minimized as it did not continuously run and only ran when someone actually needed it. We realize though that the noise was not the hotels fault.||||We appreciated the free Wi-Fi that was offered as part of our stay. Overall we considered it a great stay and a...

This was a place I would never go back to. ||The keys are always in the door, so nothing is ever locked.||The hosts showed us our room and told us to ring the bell up at the gate if we needed anything; we did this several times (we made a mistake one time, but then found the right button) and never got a response, even after waiting for a good while. We wound up having to leave the key hoping they would get it. We had put our bags in our room (including valuable things like extra money and id cards) and when we got back we found them in the hallway (we had left a note saying what time we would be back because there was no answer to our ringing at the gate). The bags were left there and the room had been remade; we had paid 10 euro extra for "separate beds" but this turned out to be the usual two beds covered in one sheet that had been moved apart a little and covered in individual bedding... ten euro for that. The decoration of the house is so mismatched it's hard to even grasp; the bedsheets were kids' and had racing cars and Disney characters on them, with unmatched bedsheets underneath. The public areas are stuffed with things ranging from a giant Buddha with incense to a picture of Jesus and a Christmas nativity scene. ||The breakfast room was a huge disappointment: everything was pre-wrapped industrial "food" and a few bananas, nothing one could call a breakfast. And the strangest and most blatantly unwelcoming thing was a giant surveillance camera in the kitchen mounted on top of the cupboard where the liquor was kept. Unbelieveable, especially with the always-unlocked front door.||Also, we had no toilet paper in our room. Zero. There was no answer to our ring, so we had to scour the linen closet in the hall for some, and couldn't find any except an almost-empty roll. Ridiculous.||So, no, I would never stay at this Bed and...

I recently spent 5 nights @Casa Kita as a solo traveler. While centrally located in Cortona, the experience was very disappointing, to say the least. The room was located on the uphill side of the house(Leanna rm), underneath the family quarters above. In the evenings, it sounded like they were playing basketball over my head(teenagers). The breakfast was packaged goods, self made coffee, and dry cereal-on your own!.. I never indulged, given that one can purchase fresh baked goods up the street. There's no view from this dark room. I never saw the owner again after checking in and paying in advance(cash only).|| I did find a roll of TP on the door handle one afternoon. I hadn't asked for any more! The heating system never worked and it was chilly in the room. The TV also was not working. Using the title B&B is a misnomer at Casa Kita. I would never stay there again. The view terrace is adjacent to the escalator from the lower town parking lot, so when you are on the terrace, you are viewed by all users of same- a privacy screen...