Review of La Vela Hotel, Lake Trasimeno - cheap, friendly, small hotel
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Good - great value 60 euros for a double room including breakfast. Our room had a partial lake view and good sized balcony, friendly, helpful staff.
Bad - no separate shower cubicle, so all bathroom floor wet after shower, room rather small with wall mounted TV a real head bumping hazard.
Rating out of 10 - 8
We stayed for one night at La Vela Hotel in the small town of Passigione sul Trasimeno on the north eastern shores of Lake Trasimeno, near Perugia at the end of May 2008. I wanted to spend a night at Lake Trasimeno and there wasn’t a great selection of hotels available for on line booking in the area. La Vela had received fairly positive reviews and was available at the rate of 60 euros per night booking with Venere found using the HotelsCombined price comparison website. The hotel’s own website just quotes the range of prices but as the lowest price shown was 60 euros, the same as Venere for a double room, I decided to book online through the Venere secure server.
When we arrived I was offered the choice of two rooms, there was larger room on the second floor at the back of the hotel and a smaller room on the 3rd floor at the front of the hotel with a partial lake view. I chose the lake view. We both almost banged our heads several times on the wall mounted TV which instead of being a in the corner of the bedroom was just above the corner of the bed. The bathroom shower consisted of a shower curtain but no solid shower cubicle or shower base, so the bathroom floor was soaked after you had a shower.
We enjoyed sitting on the balcony, the road next to the hotel is pretty quiet and although the single track railway line is fairly close by the trains didn’t appear to run very late or early. There’s a car park at the rear of the hotel. It’s only takes a few minutes of level walk to the lake side and town centre. The breakfast was good with a fair selection of items.
In summary a good value small hotel with clean rooms and friendly staff, ideal for a couple of nights by Lake Trasimeno.
