So you’re looking for hotels in Italy and, you’ll be delighted to discover, the Italians prize service and hospitality above all else. This is a country where people take great pride in their region, their town, its wine and cuisine and will want you to do the same.
And you can toss aside some of your preconceptions about hotel food … your Italy hotel is likely to provide the best of the region, and you are as likely to dine within the hotel as look outside for a restaurant.
But there are a few slight confusions to clear up here as to what exactly comprises an Italian hotel. ‘What?’ you say. ‘A hotel is a hotel, right?’. A front desk, a star rating, where’s the ambiguity? But Italy hotels may turn out to be ‘residences’ or ‘relais’ offering hotel-style accommodation. Nothing wrong with that mind, your hotel in Italia will be a delight whatever it’s called. Click here for an article covering types of Italian hotel in greater detail.
You’ll find regional variations of course. Italy may fly under a single red-white-and-green flag, but the people are at heart Neapolitans, Tuscans, Venetians and Ligurians first. They all do things differently of course … and that’s part of the delight. Your hotel in Italy could be gazing over Lake Maggiore. You could check out Italian hotels in the romantic dream that is Venice. Search for an Italy hotel in the Renaissance splendour of Florence … the choice is yours.
It’s the dream vacation, a week in an Italian hotel, savouring the delights of a country rich in culture, history, beautiful beaches and spectacular mountains. A country of ancient cities, walled towns and magnificent countryside. But which Italy? And crucially, which Italy hotel?
Remember this is above all a country of the regions, and regions of a refreshing diversity, with little of the homogenization of culture, food or language that Britons and Americans are used to. Stay in an Italian hotel in Pisa and you will be eating very different food, drinking different wine and listening to a different dialect than in Sicily, Puglia or Calabria.
Hotels in Italy might mean any of a hundred budget (though very good) hostelries in Rome: putting the Vatican, St Peter’s and the Colosseum on your very doorstep.
You could book an Italy hotel that gazes out upon the white sand and improbably azure waters of the Salento Peninsula or the Isle of Capri.
Your Italian hotel could be a stylish country estate in Tuscany, gazing out upon serried rows of grapevines and olive groves. Or book a hotel in Italia which dips its very foundations into the waters of the Grand Canal in Venice … perhaps the world’s most romantic city.
If you are a keen skier you should check out hotels in Italy in the Valle d’Aosta or Piemonte regions of northern Italy, which also have some of Italy’s most spectacular walking and climbing. If you want to explore some of Italy’s most marvellous food and wine, check out Italian hotels in Emilia-Romagna, arguably the gastronomic heart of Italy.
Wherever you want to stay in Italy, however much you want to pay, and whatever Italian holiday you’re looking for, you’ll find a hotel to fit the bill.
As ever, take a look at our regional listings: before you even get to choosing a hotel in Italia, you can read up on Lombardy, Le Marche, Puglia and the rest, and decide whether your vacation in Italy is going to be centred on the beach, on exploring Classical Italy or perhaps testing your credit card to its limits in the chi-chi boutiques of Milan. Whatever you choose, and wherever you go, you’ll find an Italian hotel offering the service, price and locale you desire.
Below you'll find links to our more popular regional and city-specific listings for hotels in Italy, and this link will take you to our full hotel-listing page.
Tuscany hotels (cities: Florence,
Siena, Pisa, Lucca, Arezzo & Cortona, Montecatini
area, full list)
Rome and Lazio hotels (cities: Rome)
Veneto and Venice hotels (cities: Venice,
Verona and the lakes, full
list)
Italy hotels - online booking from ahotelinitaly.com - use the links below for listings of hotels that may be booked with instant confirmation:
BY REGION:
Abruzzo
hotels - Basilicata
hotels - Calabria
hotels - Campania
and Amalfi hotels - Emilia-Romagna
hotels - Friuli
hotels - Lazio
hotels - Le
Marche hotels - Liguria
hotels - Lombardy
hotels - Piedmont
hotels - Puglia
hotels - Sardinia
hotels - Sicily
hotels - Trentino
Alto Adige hotels - Tuscany
hotels - Umbria
hotels - Valle
d'Aosta hotels - Veneto
hotels
BY CITY:
Bologna hotels -
Florence hotels -
Genoa hotels -
Lucca hotels -
Milan hotels -
Naples hotels -
Pisa hotels -
Rome hotels -
Turin hotels -
Venice hotels -
Verona hotels
