C Giulietta E Romeo, vicolo Tre Marchetti 3, T 045 8003554, F 045 8010862, http://www.giuliettaeromeo.com Almost in the shadow of the Arena, this is a smart, friendly and efficient hotel with all the facilities you’d expect from a three-star establishment (such as air-conditioning and satellite TV) but without much character. Corridors and stairs have a particularly nasty yellow sponge effect finish, but rooms are a bit better with muted colours and grey-tiled bathrooms. C Mastino, corso Porta Nuova 16, T 045 595388, F 045 597718, hotelmastino@alinet.it Hotel Mastino is beside and above Verona’s main branch of MacDonald’s. Strangely, the illustrious fast-food restaurant is missing from photos in the hotel’s brochure. Fast food aside, however, it’s not a bad place to stay – near to piazza Bra and reasonably attractively kitted out as long as you can put up with the bas-relief cupids on the walls. Rooms are comfortable, modern and largely in pastel shades, some with wooden floors. C Milano, via Tre Marchetti 11, T 045 591692, F 045 8011299. Unless you nod off during the opera, this is as close as you’ll get to sleeping in the Arena itself. However, despite its position it's a plain sort of place, modern and efficient but lacking in character and smiles. The visual style is mainly 1970s – lots of wood laminate and pale leather. Beds are big and there's a garage, but breakfasts, like the place as a whole, can be slightly lacklustre. Prices drop significantly out of high season, when the position, presumably, is less of an advantage. C Verona, corso Porta Nuova 47/49, T 045 595944, F 045 594391, http://www.hotelverona.it Hotel Verona is just about the only modern hotel in the city to go for the stylish rather than the bland look, and it is a trick it more or less pulls off. Refurbished in 2001, the reception area has a cool minimalist look with lots of sliding glass, views to greenery behind, and background piano music. Even the brochure has a matt silver finish, with expensive photos and slightly risqué quotes such as Nietzsche’s “When virtue has slept, it awakes refreshed.” This ambition is not quite carried through to the rooms, which are less striking, though still attractive and comfortable. Rooms facing corso Porta Nuova have balconies, though those at the back, overlooking a courtyard garden behind, are quieter. Rooms also come with a freshly filled fruitbowl. D Cavour, vicolo Chiodo 4, T 045 590166, F 045 590508. Buffet breakfast in high season, E11 extra, standard breakfast in low season, E5 extra. A friendly, eager-to-please, family-run place, half of the Cavour has been refurbished in an attractive, ‘medieval’ stye, with exposed wooden beams and ivy-clad balconies overlooking a small, quiet, internal courtyard, where breakfast can be eaten. The rest of the place is more regularly bland in design, but not unpleasant, and it’s close to both piazza Bra and Castelvecchio. D Europa, via Roma 8, T 045 594744, F 045 8001852, http://www.veronahoteleuropa.com A modern-looking building in a great position on the corner of via Roma and via Teatro Filarmonico and facing towards piazza Bra, Europa is slightly corporate in feel and rooms are generally ugly-1980s in style.The hotel is also used by some tour operators, but it has all mod cons, offers a buffet breakfast each morning, and is only 50 m from piazza Bra. D Residence Hotel Castelvecchio, corso Cavour 46/48, T 045 594755, F 045 595304, gcanossa@libero.it Mostly made up of apartments with four beds and big rooms, the friendly RHC is a particularly good option for families or groups. Apartments have small kitchens, big sitting rooms, very yellow bathrooms, and are airy and spacious. There is a buffet breakfast and some rooms have views over the Adige and Castelvecchio. D Sanmicheli, via Valverde, T 045 8003749, F 045 8004508, fosco.dardi@tin.it Another slightly anonymous hotel south of piazza Bra, Sanmicheli at least is in a reasonably attractive building facing some trees. Rooms are all en suite and inoffensive, with white walls , floral bedcovers and predictable reproductions on the walls. D Scalzi, via C Scalzi 5, T 045 590422, F 045 590069, http://www.hotelscalzi.it A good value, family-run two-star hotel, Scalzi has some exposed beams but is otherwise generic 20th-century Italian in style. There are an unusual number of single rooms, and some without en-suite facilities. All are air-conditioned however.
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