Nice hotel in Pisa

juansheet

Hi All

Heading to Pisa the end of August with my girlfriend. We plan to say there one night before headin to Florence & and then 2 nights before we come home.

Anyone recommend a nice hotel for us? Somewhere near the city centre and easily accessible to restaurants & bars

Your help is greatly appreaciated

Thanks
juansheet

jester77

I stayed in a former monastery (Santa Croce) that is now a hotel when I was there. Plain & simple, but had lots of character and wasn't too far away from things. While you are around that area, make a visit to Siena. Much nicer than Pisa or Florence imo.

juansheet

jester77 wrote: »

I stayed in a former monastery (Santa Croce) that is now a hotel when I was there. Plain & simple, but had lots of character and wasn't too far away from things. While you are around that area, make a visit to Siena. Much nicer than Pisa or Florence imo.

Thanks very much for the response jester77. Could you walk to tower/city centre/restaurants etc from there?

jester77

The city is not very big, everything would be within walking distance, I think it was about a 30 min walk to the tower from the hotel. Tower can be very busy so you might have to wait a few hours to be able to go up though.

mark_jmc

hi,
just back from 2 weeks in Italy, stayed in Pisa on Monday night before flying home. Stayed in a lovely b&b called "window to the tower".
it was literally around 150 meters from the leaning tower, close to restaurants & reasonably priced. Room was really nice, air conditioned & had free WiFi
mark

mary21

I have visited this area a few times and as a poster said pisa is quite small, So you may want to consider that 3 nights in Pisa may be a lot. there is a town quite close called lucca that seems to have a lot more character and i feel might b nicer at night. i have also stayed in montecatini which is about half an hour by train from Pisa and 1 hour from Florence. this is a nice place if you want to relax or you could look at a coastal resort for a night or 2. I felt there was not much to see other than the tower area in Pisa itself.

using the train in this area is cheap and very easy to use.

enjoy! this is a lovely area to visit.:)

Walter Sobchak III

We stayed in a place called the Hotel Di Stefano a few years ago. Good value for money. 10 minute walk to the Tower. Owner being grumpy as f**k was a downside.

coylemj

Pisa is a university town, it's very quiet in the evenings during the summer and 3 days would be way too long to spend there. I did it in an afternoon, went down on the train from Florence and back again in time for tea. I wouldn't spend one night in Pisa, let alone three, there's just nothing to do and I'd say a lot of the bars and restaurants close early in the summer because there's no students about.

Once you see the tower, that's Pisa done and dusted.

A boardsie was there recently and posted this recommendation for a place near the airport, note he also said the place is 'fairly quiet'.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=79422847&postcount=5

Jocelynel

hotel novecento is a beautiful boutique hotel. stayed here last year for 5 nights. leaning tower only 10 minutes walk.

if you have time, the highlight of our trip was to a little walled city of Lucca...absolutely stunning, only 50minutes away by train

Walter Sobchak III

Jocelynel wrote: »

hotel novecento is a beautiful boutique hotel. stayed here last year for 5 nights. leaning tower only 10 minutes walk.

if you have time, the highlight of our trip was to a little walled city of Lucca...absolutely stunning, only 50minutes away by train

I have to agree about Lucca. The current Mrs Sobchak and I had our wedding in Lucca a couple of years ago. It was absolutely magical. Plus if you're in Lucca and you're both foodies and have a bit a cash to splash on your lady, do yourself a favour and try and get a table at "La Buca San Antonio". Trust me she will love you for very long time afterwards.

Skuxx

coylemj wrote: »

Pisa is a university town, it's very quiet in the evenings during the summer and 3 days would be way too long to spend there. I did it in an afternoon, went down on the train from Florence and back again in time for tea. I wouldn't spend one night in Pisa, let alone three, there's just nothing to do and I'd say a lot of the bars and restaurants close early in the summer because there's no students about.

Once you see the tower, that's Pisa done and dusted.

A boardsie was there recently and posted this recommendation for a place near the airport, note he also said the place is 'fairly quiet'.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=79422847&postcount=5

Yeah that was me, was there 2 or 3 weeks ago!! I have to agree 3 nights would be a long time in Pisa! I was there from about 3 in the afternoon and flew out again at 6 the following morning and I had plenty of time to see the tower, take a general walk around the city, go to bed for a few hours, get some food and a few beers, bed again and then fly home, I wasn't rushed and felt I had seen all there was to see really!!
A lot of places seemed to be closing up fairly early and by 10 o'clock the town itself was fairly dead!!