Hotel la Rosta — Hotel in Reggio nell'Emilia

Well, I tried to book at La Posta as it was close to the venue where my daughter and her chorus were singing the Verdi Requiem, but the attendees at a major photography show had intervened to fill all the rooms in centro. So I was casting about for a place to stay and found La Rosta. The venue is not that far from centro, but it is on a street that seems to front an industrial zone, so it is hardly "bijoux." The facility, designed by the host's architect uncle, is a concrete mass. Inside, the emphasis is on essentials: the bed filled the room and was exceedingly comfortable. The bathroom was spacious, immaculate, and well appointed. Everything else was cramped (and oddly disproportional: the little prints of Klimt, Klee and Van Gogh were dwarfed against the very high ceilings; the desk chair could hardly be pulled back from the desk, so close it was to the bed.) The breakfast room features an assortment of IKEA items and has a vague "casbah" quality with its billowing curtains and gazebo like presentation. All in all, however, I found the place to be entirely satisfactory--a real paragon of hospitality, even if in appearance it lacked charm. The innkeeper, Paolo, was terrific. He knew I was going to a concert and when I didn't appear for what he thought was my departure time, he came to the room to make sure I was ready (I had mistakenly told him the concert was at 8 when it was at 9). When I returned to my room after the concert, a liter of mineral water had been placed in my fridge. In the morning, Paolo greeted me warmly and served me a nice cappuccino. The breakfast buffet selections were unprepossessing, but entirely satisfactory. LaPosta may be lovely, but should I return to R-E, I would happily return to LaRosta and to the classic, unforced hospitality of Paolo, presiding over a facility that joins the house in which he was born with the hotel his uncle built! The aromas emanating from the "mediterranean" restaurant on the first floor suggest that a visit there is also something to look...

Booked a 1 bed apartment with La Rosta but when we arrived with our friend who is a local to Reggio we were treated so badly we left. The owner informed us that sleeping in an apartment with a small child that had stairs is not the right thing to do so would not give us the apartment that we had booked. He also said that there must be something wrong with us for not just sleeping in the same bed with our almost 2 year old and the fact that we prefered a living area and bedroom was silly. He also mentioned that he rather not have our business than to do 'silly business'. He said that if we wanted to say then he would only allow us to take the studio room which was not what we wanted nor booked. I did not understand what the problem was as the entire hotel was empty even though all other local hotels were nearly full. I should have realised from that indication that something was wrong with the place. Not to mention the rooms/apartments are very out of date, and not very nice at all. There is no internet service unless you care to sit in the hotel office lobby which is only open at certain times..and also serves as the low budget breakfast bar. However I will say they were very clean. For the price that was quoted I had expected a bit better though. Ironically when we walked out for being treated so badly the owner chased us to our car stating that surely we can work something out! As if. ||I had been warned that the staff and management was not very nice here but I thought that if I didn't have to see them during our stay or deal with them it wouldn't matter but I had not thought it would be this bad. ||STAY AWAY...

Basic hotel with a mix of room types, twin and doubles. Our party of 5 males booked in advance but found on arrival rooms were booked up, we ended up with three doubles and one twin. Basic rooms with old furniture shower and coffee making in room We left early to get our train connection so did not take the continental breakfast on offer Ok for short stays but you need to...