Hotel Del Real Orto Botanico - Naples

Average rating:  9.8

Guest type: Mature couple

stayed in Mar 2008

The room was spacious, even by American standards. The hotel was clean and the staff courteous. The breakfast was great. It is in an ideal location for getting around Naples; easy access to subways and buses. We highly recommend this hotel and look forward to staying there again soon.

Guest name: BH, USA

Average rating:  7.7

Guest type: Single traveller

stayed in Mar 2008

The hotel is perfectly decent, but perhaps a bit overpriced considering its unsalubrious neighbourhood. The facilities are OK but it is not especially welcoming in that its bar never seemed to be open or functioning when I was around. In other words it is somewhere people stay in order to go elsewhere. Buses are plentiful but crowded. The metro in Naples is a bad joke. But the city is fascinating. Incidentally the local bus to the airport from up the road costs almost nothing - but the hotel was more eager to find a taxi than to volunteer exactly how to use the buses...

Guest name: JS, United Kingdom

Average rating:  6.3

Guest type: Young couple

stayed in Jan 2008

The room was very large and quiet,when the window closed. The location was too far from the station! We can't walk bringing big suitcase. The staff was friendly and breakfast was no problem.

Guest name: NO, Japan

Average rating:  7.7

Guest type: Family with young children

stayed in Oct 2007

Naples was our last destination after a months holliday in the south of Italy. We are a family with to small children, who was going to explore Naples for a couple of days. We had heard a lot negative aspects regarding Naples. And I'm sorry to say most was true. The traffic is unbelivable caotic. Good advice is to bring the GPS if you go by car. The city is dirty and full of smog. The noice and tempo makes you feel stressed. Anyway the hotel was a nice place to relax in beetween. The staff was very helpful, and the hotel gave after our opinion great value for money. We can strongly recommend this hotel.

Guest name: IU, Norway

Average rating:  9.5

Guest type: Gay Couple

stayed in Dec 2007

The hotel staff was extremely warm and welcoming, as well as helpful. The hotel is a bit of a walk to major sights, and further from the train station than was indicated. But there are buses nearby, and it is a real bargain to have such a beautiful and large room for this price in Italy, with a decent breakfast included.

Guest name: Helen Leneman, Italy

Average rating:  9.6

Guest type: Group

stayed in Sep 2006

I love this hotel, the staff is very friendly and extremly helpful. I stay there each time I visit Naples and feel like part of the family.

Guest name: DQ, United Kingdom

Average rating:  8.9

Guest type: Young couple

stayed in Oct 2007

Real nice hotel, perfect service (very friendly staff). The hotel is located a little bit outside of the inner city, but you can go everywhere by bus.

Guest name: IS, Austria

Average rating:  9.9

Guest type: Mature couple

stayed in Oct 2007

An excellent place to stay in good location in one of the world's most frenetic cities; close to Botantical Gardens, Archeological Museum and on bus route to Piazza Garibaldi to catch Circumvesuviana to Pompeii and Herculanium. By Italian standards, the breakfast was excellent and the coffee superb. Only problem with the breakfast room was the terrible piped music! Grazie Fabio!

Guest name: AC, United Kingdom

Average rating:  8.4

Guest type: Mature couple

stayed in Oct 2007

En una ciudad sucia y caótica como Nápoles, poco inclinada hacia el turismo pese a sus condiciones excepcionales, el hotel fue una especie de oasis, limpio y tranquilo, aunque algo viejo, desayuno aceptable, alrededores caóticos con un par de buenas opciones para comer, cercano al centro histórico, con transporte cercano, la indicación para llegar desde la estación de trenes no fue buena, no está tan cerca, lleva casi 25 minutos caminando por calles empedradas!!!!!!!. No tengo intenciones de regresar a Nápoles, aunque quizá si a Sorrento, Ischia, Pompeya y el Vesubio, tan cercanas y diferentes, pero si lo hiciera, volvería a este hotel.

Guest name: Sergio Serrón, Venezuela

Average rating:  5.2

Guest type: Mature couple

stayed in Sep 2007

The hotel itself was not bad, rooms were a nice size but the area is horrible. The hotel desk staff were rather indiffernt to us but we only stayed one night. It is a very small hotel with only one restaurant that had no one in it.

Guest name: JH, USA

Average rating:  9.7

Guest type: Gay Couple

stayed in Sep 2007

Ignore everything you've ever heard about Naples - Yes it's noisy, yes it can be a bit smelly on a hot day and yes it's a bit of an overwhelming city. BUT IT'S FANTASTIC! This hotel is an absolute oasis from the hectic city - straight opposite the beautiful botanic gardens, about 1km from the main train station, 500m from the nearest tube stop(Pzza Cavour) and 700m from the national museum. It is on a main route into the city so the road is noisy but we had a room overlooking the gardens (and road) but they're all quadruple glazed windows and airconditioned so had really peaceful nights sleep. Not to mention the fact that the rooms look far nicer in reality than in the hotels published pictures and were bigger than most suites we've stayed in. If i had to mention negatives they would be that there was no fruit at breakfast - but with a veg market just up the road that was easily overcome. Also at the moment the hotel doesn't have a restaurant in the evening but make sure you try the seafood restaurant 20m from the hotels front door. We've travelled all over the world and it really was the best we've had, great fun - and proof that Napoli locals arn't all rude as a lot of guides say! We can't wait to go back to Naples and see all the bits we missed and would definitely stay at the same hotel.

Guest name: IH, United Kingdom

Average rating:  9.8

Guest type: Family with older children

stayed in Aug 2007

Génial! Non seulement l'hôtel est magnifique (bien que l'extérieur ne le présage pas), mais le personnel est adorable! Très facile à trouver et parfait pour ensuite se promener dans Naples. La chambre était en fait une suite, très spacieuse et très belle; la vue de la terrasse est magnifique

Guest name: IL, France

Average rating:  8.2

Guest type: Family with older children

stayed in Jul 2007

Séjour en famille (2 adultes + 2 enfants)dans une chambre de type "suite" très spacieuse. Chambre et parties communes très propres. Petit déjeuner buffet avec un bon choix. Agréable terrasse au dernier étage. Personnel serviable et compétent. Pour arriver de l'aéroport le mieux est le bus 3S en descendant Piazza Carlo III, puis c'est à 10 mn à pied. Ne pas aller comme indiqué sur le site jusqu'à piazza Garibaldi car il faut reprendre un autre bus ou marcher un bon moment. Le centre ville est accessible à pied et après une bonne journée de marche, le bus 201 vous ramènera tout près de l'hotel. Dernière chose, le restaurant-pizzeria près de l'hotel sur le même coté de la rue est excellent; mais attention le soir à partir de 21h00 il faut prendre un ticket d'appel et faire la queue ... succès oblige.

Guest name: CG, France

Average rating:  8.9

Guest type: Family with young children

stayed in Jul 2007

We stayed a night at this hotel to visit Pompeii. Very friendly and helpful staff. Secure parking available down the road at a cost of 23 Euros. Room were clean, well appoined and spacious. Recommended!

Guest name: Antony Vanderharst, Australia

Average rating:  8.6

Guest type: Group

stayed in Jun 2007

Very friendly staff! very helpful. We had a good meal in their restaurant downtown. We had free transport both ways. Very nice seafood restaurant to the left, when you go out of the hotel. About 20 min to walk downtown. Be smart and ask for the price before you enter a taxi. We were ripped off! Lovely roofgarden! We enjoyed it every afternoon. I will stay here again!

Guest name: Chatrine Johansen, Norway

Average rating:  9.4

Guest type: Group

stayed in Jun 2007

Our stay at the Del Real Orto Botanico hotel was great. The staff was extremely helpful and very kind to us. They were able to accommodate our party of 4 in one of their 2 room suites. We found the room to be very clean, welcoming and spacious. The daily breakfast was beyond satisfying. The hotel was located a few doors down from a great restaurant that served the world's most amazing pizza and delightful pasta dishes. I would certainly recommend this hotel to anyone with plans to visit Naples.

Guest name: Marie Sylvestre, USA

Average rating:  9.9

Guest type: Gay Couple

stayed in Jun 2007

Skip the fixed price affiliated dining establishment--although the private shuttle ride was fun! Instead, exit the hotel, go left, and eat at the sidewalk cafe. Great food, value, and atmosphere.

Guest name: Margaret Pippet, USA

Average rating:  9.9

Guest type: Mature couple

stayed in May 2007

This hotel was a lovely oasis of order, space and quiet amid a street scene of hooting traffic, people swerving across your path on mopeds, broken pavements, uncollected rubbish and general mayhem - Naples, in fact! It's a bit of a walk into town (15-20 mins) but there are lots of buses: you take the weight off your feet but probably won't get there any quicker! Near the hotel is a very acceptable pizzeria, an excellent ice cream parlour, a delicious cake shop and a very classy deli which sells good salami and the real bufala Mozzarella. From the hotel's roof garden you can view Vesuvius and predict the weather.

Guest name: Carolyn Howarth, United Kingdom

Average rating:  8.6

Guest type: Young couple

stayed in Apr 2007

Everything was really good: the guy at the reception,the cleaness of the room, the terrace, small but with a beatiful view on the Garden. I would recommend it.

Guest name: MM, Italy

Average rating:  7.0

Guest type: Family with young children

stayed in Apr 2007

Viaggiando con la famiglia non è semplice trovare camere per 4 pax ampie e pulite. Buona la posizione. Ottimo il servizio

Guest name: MM, Italy

Average rating:  7.5

Guest type: Family with older children

stayed in Apr 2007

Wir waren zwei Tage in Neapel. Als Ausgangspunkt für die Erkundung der Stadt ist das Hotel gut geeignet - man kann Neapel somit hautnah erleben. Die Zimmer zur Straßenseite sind recht laut, aber mit einer speziellen Schallschutztür verschließbar. Das Personal war supernett und hat uns jede Menge guter Informationen gegeben.

Guest name: Jutta Pollak, Austria

Average rating:  6.2

Guest type: Family with young children

stayed in Apr 2007

- nice surroundig nearby the botanic garden - many typical restaurants - beautiful roof terrasse

Guest name: OK, Austria

Average rating:  9.6

Guest type: Single traveller

stayed in Feb 2007

If you are prepared to visit Naples and take a bit of risk in doing so, which really does apply for any big city in the world, this is an excellent hotel close to the city center and many beautiful location. If you have trouble to sleep, ask for one of the quiter room looking on the inner courtyard, since the trafic in Naples never stops. Overall, excellent price/service ratio.

Guest name: MA, Italy

Average rating:  9.9

Guest type: Friends on weekend trip

stayed in Jan 2007

Lovely Hotel with fantastic staff. We got upgraded 2 a suite without asking as there were rooms available, good safe area/street. Delicious Pizzeria/Fish Restaurant a few doors from the hotel, probably the best pizza I have ever tasted cooked in a brick wood fired oven. A sister hotel in town offers dinner at a reasonalbe price with pick up & drop off at your hotel.

Guest name: Mary Mc Carthy, Ireland

Average rating:  7.7

Guest type: Single traveller

stayed in Dec 2006

I had a very good stay in this hotel. I would recommend it. However I don't think it is necessary for a hotel staff member to carry my bag to my room unless this is requested.

Guest name: TL, Ireland

Average rating:  8.7

Guest type: Family with older children

stayed in Dec 2006

hotel has no private parking and didn t mention before that we had to pay to the parking place that they showed us.(we learned it on the last minute, just before leaving) so we additionaly had to pay a really big amount for the parking. except the parking problem, our overall stay was pleasent and satisfying.

Guest name: Dilvin Semizer, Italy

Average rating:  7.9

Guest type: Single traveller

stayed in Dec 2006

Good hotel; frendly and competent reception; close enough to the public transport. The only problem was the traffic noise in the rooms facing the road in front of the hotel ( despite a triple window!! )

Guest name: Gino Romiti, Italy

Average rating:  9.0

Guest type: Group

stayed in Nov 2006

The hotel recommended a brilliant pizzeria just down the road. A Figlia D'o'Marenaro, Via Forai 180/182. Cracking seafood.

Guest name: Jason Hill, United Kingdom

Average rating:  9.1

Guest type: Mature couple

stayed in Sep 2006

OK, so you're under a flight path, but the planes stop at around 10.30pm and they don't start too early. But that's the only aspect of our stay with which I could find fault. Upon arrival the manager noted that we'd booked through Venere, and promptly upgraded us to a suite (This courtesy was to be repeated almost everywhere we stayed). The extra space was such a luxury after a tight squeeze in Rome. The furniture and furnishings were great - clearly the owner is a collector as there were many amazing pieces dotted around the hotel. The photos don't really do it justice. You are a stone's throw (turn left as leaving hotel) from A Figlia do Marinaro (spelling??), which is where we had the best pizza in all our travels. I'm drooling at the thought of it and it's 6.55am. A right turn from the hotel (and walk for maybe a block, or even less)will take you to a wonderful pastry shop that sells the exquisite orange blossom and ricotta canoli that are so typical of the area. The staff were extremely helpful - offering to escort us to restaurants because that would be easier for us than navigating our own way! We spent the evenings out on the streets and didn't see any untoward activity, so it felt very relaxed and comfortable. We'd really only chosen to visit Napoli to see Pompeii (absolutely outstanding), but will return in the future to explore further. No doubt we'd stay at this hotel. And book through Venere.

Guest name: Carlos Mila, Australia

Average rating:  6.4

Guest type: Family with young children

stayed in Aug 2006

The hospitarity was very good.It was incovinient to go to seaside area. I am wondering it is correct that 500m from Central station to the hotel or 200m from the subway station.

Guest name: TE, Germany

Average rating:  8.6

Guest type: Single traveller

stayed in Jul 2006

A nice and clean hotel not far from the city center. The bus stop is opposite the hotel and also the botanical garden. People at Hotel Del Real Orto Botanico come mostly from Germany and Holland. The Staff is always friendly and helpful. In any case, you should visit Capri and Pompeji when you are in Naples.

Guest name: Christiane Vieser, Germany

Average rating:  6.3

Guest type: Not Specified

stayed in Jun 2006

The price we payed 110 euro is to high comparing to the price the hotel is asking now. The reception in this hotel is absolutely perfect!!

Guest name: Jurrian Zandbergen, Netherlands

Average rating:  9.4

Guest type: Group of friends

stayed in Apr 2006

Very nice place to stay, well-located (near the archeological museum) and employees at the reception are very kind and competent. Good breakfast too.

Guest name: Catherine VERGNAUD, France

Average rating:  4.5

Guest type: Heterosexual Couple

stayed in Sep 2005

Location distance from railway station is never correct. Staff on desk made no attempt to make us feel welcomed. They could not have been less helpful if they tried. Location of hotel is not a nice area and we feared going out at night. We witnessed street fight and first 3 people we saw told us to keep my wife's bag hidden. Not a good start.

Guest name: Joseph Gilhooley, United Kingdom

Average rating:  6.0

Guest type: Group of friends

stayed in Jul 2005

It was a pity that the restaurant was closed for the holidays, so that we could not eat at the restaurant. We would have liked to do that, because of the recommendations by earlier guests. The breakfast was oké, but not very special. The service was good and very friendly.

Guest name: Adka Van Osnabrugge, Netherlands

Average rating:  7.8

Guest type: Single corporate traveller

stayed in Jul 2005

Regrettably the room I had, a single room, had the window on an ugly inner court. As an alternative I was offered a nicer double room overlooking a very noisy street. Anyway they will see me again here

Guest name: Alberto Savini, Italy

Average rating:  8.9

Guest type: Single corporate traveller

stayed in May 2005

good hotel with high price/quality standard

Guest name: AG, Italy

Average rating:  8.1

Guest type: Heterosexual Couple

stayed in Apr 2005

Hotel is excellent,rooms are spacious and is value for the price.Most of the staff were very helpful.We had a room in the front of the hotel but once we closed the shutters we could not hear noisy Naples.The area where the hotelis situated is run down but near to the historic centre.The hotel is 3 klms from the airport but beware of the taxis drivers who take you through the centre of Naples at lunchtimeIt cost €25, from the hotel to the airport €12

Guest name: HD, Ireland

Average rating:  9.0

Guest type: Group of friends

stayed in Apr 2005

Very pleasant place. Everyone speaking french, and during breakfeast, the waiter is very interesting for discussion about History. Nice placenear trhe old city.

Guest name: Philippe LHUILLIER, France

Average rating:  9.9

Guest type: Gay Couple

stayed in Mar 2005

We stayed for 3 nights and it was faultless. Good location, excellent price, great accommodation, helpfull, friendly staff, would stay at Botanico again.

Guest name: Alan Coutts, United Kingdom

Average rating:  8.9

Guest type: Heterosexual Couple

stayed in Feb 2005

Great hotel and fabulous restaurant with very friendly staff, the only downside was the shower cubicle in our room was too small. Traffic noise was ever present but that's Naples! Excellent value for money.

Guest name: Glynn Stainthorpe, United Kingdom

Average rating:  7.9

Guest type: Single leisure traveller

stayed in Oct 2004

It was supposed to be close to the airport, but that didn't really feel the case. Still, it was a very nice hotel with extremely friendly staff and I would happily recommend it to anyone wanting to stay in Napoli.

Guest name: Inge Van Der Veen, United Kingdom

Average rating:  7.7

Guest type: Single leisure traveller

stayed in Oct 2004

it is a nice hotel, near the pacefull horto botanico. Maybe the rooms on the street are not so confortable as the ones in the back.....

Guest name: Daniele Rimondi, Italy

Average rating:  6.4

Guest type: Group of friends

stayed in Aug 2004

Das Hotel selber ist sehr schön, allerdings ist der Lärmlevel zum Schlafen eine einzige Katastrophe.

Guest name: Annette Louis, Germany

Average rating:  9.6

Guest type: Gay Couple

stayed in Aug 2004

It was a lovely hotel and we enjoyed our stay here very much. We were misled by the name and description as we assumed there was open access to the botannical gardens. In the event the hotel wrote us a note which got us a visit. Also we were not aware when we booked that all the restaurants in the hotel would be closed. Staff were very friendly and helped us with every request very efficiently. The room and public areas in the hotel were all comfortable and decorated to a high standard. There was a fair bit of noise at night so light sleepers might have a problem.

Guest name: MD, United Kingdom

Average rating:  9.2

Guest type: Heterosexual Couple

stayed in Jul 2004

We meant to contact the hotel as soon as we got back from holiday as we were so impressed by the level of service but our son has been monopolising the computer finishing his dissertation for his MA in English Literature. We can at last get to use our computer! We were very impressed by the hotel. No great fuss was made but everyone was very friendly and very helpful when we did ask questions or needed assistance. We especially appreciated the use of the hotel car to get us to the airport on our departure. The rooms were excellent (the efficient air-conditioning was much appreciated), spacious (nice to be able to sit and relax and read), clean and well serviced every day. Breakfast was excellent and peaceful - a good start to the day. It was nice to be able to collapse some evenongs and enjoy a meal in the excellent roof top restaurant. Could you please ensure that this is passed on to the hotel and thank them for our pleasant and enjoyable stay in Naples.

Guest name: Colin Gott, United Kingdom

Average rating:  10.0

Guest type: Couple with children

stayed in Jul 2004

An excellent place without any restriction.

Guest name: Henri Verschuur, Germany

Average rating:  9.9

Guest type: Single leisure traveller

stayed in Jul 2004

Very elegant hotel. Great price for a beautiful and very clean room. I would stay there again

Guest name: HR, USA

Average rating:  9.6

Guest type: Family Group

stayed in Feb 2004

A comfortable hotel, within walking distance of the railway station and the city historical center.

Guest name: SB, France

Average rating:  8.4

Guest type: Group of friends

stayed in Jan 2004

It was a nice and comfortable time in this hotel, parking areas weren´t offered, a garage for the car only for € 15,-- per day!!!

Guest name: Thomas Schwidop, Germany