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Reviews of Palazzo Viviani Castello di Montegridolfo

4 out of 5
Palazzo Viviani Castello di Montegridolfo
Via Roma 38, Montegridolfo, RN

Reviews

8.6

Excellent

Rating 10 - Excellent. 87 out of 165 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 54 out of 165 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 13 out of 165 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 8 out of 165 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 3 out of 165 reviews" "

8.8/10

Cleanliness

8.6/10

Staff & service

8.2/10

Amenities

8.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.8/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Tom

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Amazing place in everyway! Highly recommended!
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Raphael, Colorado Springs

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Excellent property with wonderful amenities, like the swimming pool. Wonderful bistro down the street. Terrible dining facility for dinner... but their breakfast was great! We got upgraded room which was fantastic!
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Celeste

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Marc, boston

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Staff & service
Excellent stay, gorgeous area. The difficulty is that staff does not inform that gate at the lower parking lot is closed and that guests have to walk up to the castle with their luggage. Staff does not inform guests that there is a golf cart available for transportation. Staff is not ready with golf cart upon check-out. Staff is not yet trained on making check-in and -out convenient for guests with luggage.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022

10/10 Excellent

Michael

Travelled with group
Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This is a wonderful renovation of a medieval village and castle, thank you for preserving this property and making it an unforgettable place to stay.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2022

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great stay
Great location, very nice room, nice staff, nice pool but some bees around which we understand as you are in a nature place, mattress a little too firm like everywhere in Italy
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2022

10/10 Excellent

Christine

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very nice hotel, the hotel stuff makes big effort to please the guest. Only problem is some of the apartments do not have air conditioning and it could get very uncomfortably hot. The breakfast is high quality and delicious.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2022

10/10 Excellent

Charlotte

Travelled with family
Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
A hidden gem . Wonderful hotel and restaurant. Beautiful views . Fabulous service .
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2022
Response from Dan on 20 Jun 2022
Thank you so much!!!! Hope to meet you again.

10/10 Excellent

David

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Superb scenic hotel
Absolutely stunning hotel and area. Every single way you look it is a photo opportunity. Service was superb and the value for Monday was outstanding.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2020

8/10 Good

Amanda

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Amazing
Went for local MotoGP at Misano. Didn’t have breakfast on first day but did on second. Really good selection. Hotel was amazing. Issues were with parking. You can’t park near castle so we drove up. Emptied bags and parked and walked back to hotel. Car was safe on road. No issues. Room was amazing. Used pool after long day at race track and was refreshing as was hot race weekend. Highly recommend
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2019

8/10 Good

Hagit

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Room comfort
It was hard to find the entrance even with GPS. We were expecting a health spa and it wasn't exactly it. The place is up the mountain (with a beautiful view) and not alot of things near by.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2019

10/10 Excellent

Cherrie, NYC

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Charming as only a country inn in Italy can be
Charming place. I was here for a family wedding. I had a bad bout of bronchitis and they even drove me to the pharmacy to get medication. I stayed in the main palazzo, which is ancient, so the bathroom was dated but still very comfortable. Breakfast spread was fabulous and the little bar down the road adorable.
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2019

10/10 Excellent

Ellen

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Beautifully located. Clean and comfortable. Friendly staff. Will definitely revisit
Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2019

10/10 Excellent

Linda, Vancouver, Canada

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The photo of this building does not do justice to the beauty of the property. We did not stay in this building, but some of my family stated in the 'castle' and we stayed in another building on the property. The property is part of a perfectly restored medieval village on top of a hill. It is spectacular! The hotel restaurant is on a terrace, overlooking the hills and valley below. Fantastic food, perfect service. Overall, a treasure!
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2018

10/10 Excellent

Ioannis

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A shouldn't be missed experience
Fantastic
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2017

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

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Excellent --- the staff could not have been any more helpful, extremely friendly and supportive

8/10 Good

Fraser, UK

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Wonderful views
The renovation of the whole citadel is excellent and a joy to wonder round with stunning views down to the coast We arrived on a Monday to find both restaurants were closed! We ended up in the tratatorie just outside gates & had a great night Easy parking but best not take car to reception address (following sat nav) as streets are very narrow Tge hotel rooms are spread out of a wide area with some steep paths so a reasonable amount of fitness required

10/10 Excellent

rob, Wakefield, UK

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Fantastic location
We stayed here for a night as part of a two week tour around part of Europe. Fantastic location, great room,,friendly staff. Bit of a hidden gem especially without a good sat nav. great outdoor dining area with stunning views over the hols right out to sea.

8/10 Good

Elaine, Jerusalem

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Far from the maddening crowd...
The site of the hotel is unique: high in the hills, a mini-, walled medieval town has been converted into a unique sort hotel. We were there off-season so many of the activities on the site, such as the pool, were not available (only one restaurant was open). we were given a suite with plenty of space. Montegridolfo is also known for its strategic position during WW2 and there is a small museum underneath the town. The area is Very beautiful, not far from Urbino and Pesaro, which we enjoyed and visited. A good trattoria is below the "city." The place is isolated, but special.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

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1st built in the 1100s, but up to modern standards
A stunning castle that once protected the town below. Bring your camera...

10/10 Excellent

steven f.

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Marvelous, comfortable and utterly Italian!
The hotel is set within a well preserved and exquisitely situated Medieval city. The room was beautiful, the pool delicious and the staff delightful. We even drove up to our room through the city gate! You could almost imagine Dante walking about, or Don Quixote (I know, wrong country!) riding in with Sancho Panza behind. Great for fantasy, but not at all Disneyland-ish! Be sure to get very good directions before setting out!

8/10 Good

Stoffel

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
romantic hideaway
Wonderful place, very charming, friendly staff Every room is different in this little hotel village. We try to stay there every year for a few days on our way to Greece. Tasty breakfast, small restaurants on-site.

8/10 Good

Stoffel

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Romantic hideaway in the beautiful middle of nowhere
The hotel is more like a cluster of three rows of antic buildings with cobble stone pavement. The place is quite and has a few restaurants on site. This time only one was still open. But there are small restaurants in the surrounding area. I recommend to include breakfast in your stay. No the greatest variety of products but good quality and great coffee (Late, Espresso...). So, if you come to the area of Ancona (e.g. for the ferry boat to Greece), give yourself and your family a break of the everyday hustle for two or three days.

10/10 Excellent

MarkF

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
A Castle village with views all around over the valley
The castle village can be seen from far away as we climb the road to the top of the hill. The place is charming and well maintained with little stores and restaurants and cafes offering great local food. It's easy to walk around the place and is quiet with no cars. The staff was very welcoming. I enjoyed the swimming pool and gym / sauna (extra charge for the gym). Internet could be weak from some rooms but it's fine in the lounge which is close to the source. Amazing views on the countryside and the sea in the distance. It's like being in an eagles' nest.

2/10 Terrible

Lala, London

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
A huge disappointment
On arrival to spend 5 days here in September, we were told we had been 'upgraded', implying that Expedia clients only get the cheaper rooms. Our room had a TV, safe and Wifi which did not work. When we complained, we were moved to better rooms in the main building, but the TV sound was again not working. The swimming pool was dirty and out of action; apparently the pump had broken and was unlikely to be mended in the near future. There was only one restaurant open out of the 4 advertised and this restaurant was closed on our second day. We were given names of 2 restaurants some distance away which were, as we discovered, also closed. We saw only 2 other guests and clearly the hotel had effectively closed for the season. It was like a ghost village and none of the shops was open. The receptionist never apologised, refusing to give us her name as we left after 2 nights. She was also rude in Italian, which she didn't realise we could understand. There are no lifts, no porters and steep stairs to climb which was difficult with our luggage. I have since seen poor similar comments on other sites. Do not waste your money coming to this hotel. We are now fighting to get our money returned even for the 3 nights when we did not stay. I suspect the good ratings on this hotel are bogus, because I cannot imagine anybody being prepared to pay for such a poor service and almost non-existent facilities. It seems to get its money from holding weddings and conferences. Dreadful.

10/10 Excellent

Mandel

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

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Great Hotel in a peaceful location
The hotel was inland in a mountainous are of Rimini. The office was in a castle and our room was in a building about 100 yards away. Beautiful small town quite remote to Rimini beach and area. It was very luxurious hotel with beautiful pool and a great look at life in small town Italy. Be careful with your GPS it misled us and sent us through some pretty tough roads.

10/10 Excellent

Shahrzad, Greater Cincinnati

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Cozy place
I loved the feel of being in a castle old but every modern thing within my reach close to the beach about 1/2 hour and also many neat towns nearby only 21 kilometer from republic of San Marino and many other exciting things

10/10 Excellent

Shahrzad, Greater cincinnati

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A nice place to stay
This old looking castle has all the charm of old time with all modern and convenient of today's time .its in the eastern part of Italy with amazing landscape only 20 min away from the beach. Very clean the staff very nice and helpful we were offered great breakfast in the big dinning room.dinner also at the restaurant was first class.i highly recommend this hotel.

10/10 Excellent

Ali, London

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Perfect for romance.
Nice hotel and helpful friendly staff. Beautiful grounds and location. Relaxation at its best.

10/10 Excellent

Leonie, Huddersfield

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Fantastic medieval property with rolling hills all
We were given a 3 room self contained apartment, which was fully self contained including a kitchen area (no kettle but a pan did fine), dining area & seating area in one room, bathroom in the 2nd & large bedroom in the 3rd. Brilliant surrounding Umbrian countryside which could be seen from the historic hill top location. We went very early season so little was open, but we hope to return for a longer stay! Crucial to have a car to visit, but very worth it.

8/10 Good

Susie, Brighton

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
3 night stay
We booked this hotel as part of our Tuscan honeymoon as it looked like a beautiful castle with stunning views, within driving distance to the beach. We were not disappointed.The hotel was absolutely beautiful and we were given a pool view ground floor room with French doors opening to the garden with a complimetary chilled bottle of Prosecco in our room to help us celebrate our wedding, which was a really lovely touch. The only thing I would say is that there was a 2 day festival on when we arrived (17th August) which celebrated the liberation of the Italians from the Germans in WW2. We were not made aware of this before we arrived so were greeted with a 'HALT' sign and Swastika flags - a bit misleading to two honeymooners looking for rest and relaxation! Once the nature and meaning of the festival was explained, we felt a lot more comfortable as it had looked a bit bizarre to us! I feel we should have been made aware of this beforehand as it could have caused upset to certain guests. However, it was lovely on the second night to be part of the celebration and to hear the locals singing patriotic songs.

10/10 Excellent

Norbert, Geneva

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Hidden gem
Great place, hidden on a hilltop. The whole village is lovely and medieval. The hotel is a fantastic castle though lot of rooms are in new buildings. Very spacious rooms with bedroom and living room. Recommended!

10/10 Excellent

Romeros

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
4 family few days
Great views and ambiance. It all worked very well.

8/10 Good

Ada

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
The hotel building was very nice. Once you know where to park, next to the pool and not in the town itself, then it was easy to load and unload the luggage. The bathroom was not in good shape. Breakfast was great. In fact, the shower door was dirty and came off the rail. The town is wonderful and plenty of beautiful views and places to eat.

10/10 Excellent

RT

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Palazzo Viviani - Unique Property in Italy
We enjoyed our time at the Palazzo Viviani - it is a great, unique property in Italy. We drove from Rome and it took almost 4 hours, but was a very easy and pleasant drive. Upon arrival and throughout our stay and departure, the staff was very accommodating and helpful. Breakfast was provided in the morning, and on our last day we had a very early morning departure and the staff prepared some goodies for us to take with us - it was very thoughtful! I would only recommend this property if you have a means of transportation, as it is pretty remote and away from larger cities. Overall, though, we had an enjoyable stay.

8/10 Good

Mike, Aberdeen, Scotland

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Almost perfect
Arrived on 1/9/10 and pool bar was shut along with a couple of other restaurants as it was "out of season". Nowhere to get a snack at lunch time because of this. Otherwise hotel beautiful.

8/10 Good

Alan., London

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Historical Italian holiday find.
After a difficult start our stay was very enjoyable. The hotel complex met all our expectations. I would recommend however that joining instructions are improved as the hotel is not at all easy to locate and signposting is inadequate. Overall a recommended experience.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

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8/10 Good

Joseph, Mendham, New Jersey

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Great setting in an authentic meieval surrounding
Palazzo Viviano was a great experince to live in a true medieval setting above the clouds. It is convenient to Ravenna, San Marino and Urbino. The staff was very polite and helpful. I highly recommend it.

10/10 Excellent

Joseph

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lovely isolated setting,, a little
lovely isolated setting,, a little hard to find, but otherwise fine. If you rent a car, get the optional gps to locate this place

10/10 Excellent

Dan, Pittsburgh

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Outstanding and unique hotel
The hotel was a midevil atmosphere. Very unique and comfortable.

8/10 Good

Peter

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Ein wunderschöner Ort in der hügeligen Landschaft. Sehr schöne, ruhige, sehr ansprechend gepflegte und atmosphärische Castel-Anlage mit sehr zugewandten Menschen!
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Sandro

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Il borgo molto suggestivo e le ragazze in reception davvero carinissime, un po’ meno l’addetto che ci ha accompagnato in camera.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

8/10 Good

Marco

Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Anna

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

federico

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Superlativo
Cristina e' un fenomeno: sono 30 anni che viaggio ho visitato ad oggi 103 paesi e non ho mai trovato un hotel con 20 torte a colazione. Pazzesco !
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

4/10 Poor

Giorgio

Travelled with family and small children
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
La location è molto bella, all'interno di un borgo storico cinto da mura. Non abbiamo trovato però accettabile aver dovuto far dormire i nostri bimbi su un divano letto tutto sgangherato e cigolante. La colazione è stata molto deludente, con molti prodotti non disponibili e croissant completamente rinseccoliti. Rapporto qualità prezzo molto basso.