Century Hotel in Parma

My husband and I just finished a vacation in Italy where we traveled to multiple cities and stayed in 5 different hotels. We both unanimously agreed this was by far the worst of the 5. To be fair it was also the cheapest. Its location to the train station couldn’t be better, google maps said 3 minutes but there was no way it took us more than a minute. We booked a superior double room, which said it had one double bed, so you can imagine our surprise when we walked in and there were 2 rooms, each with its own double bed. This was fine although unnecessary as there were only 2 of us. The bathroom was very odd, with the shower actually being half in the bedroom, half in the bathroom, so you could actually see through the shower into the bedroom while sitting on the toilet. We didn’t care for that. There were also only 2 pillows on each bed, so we were glad there were 2 beds so we could each have 2 pillows. And neither bed had a blanket, only a sheet, and was so firm it was like sleeping on the floor. The sound proofing isn’t great, it constantly sounded like the windows were open when they weren’t; fortunately it wasn’t noisy at night.

Onto the breakfast. It was free, but not worth having. It was by far the worst hotel breakfast of any we had while in Italy, which was shocking considering how good all of the rest of the food we had in Parma was. The only part of it that was good was the cappuccino. It wasn’t too far a walk to downtown though, and all the food down there was fantastic.

If all you care about is finding a cheap place close to the train station, this is a good option. Otherwise, I’d look for something else.