Abbazia Degli Svevi

Discrete

Bello

Very nice acomodation in city center

Great location. Beautifully restored historic building.

Very friendly owner. Call before you reach the apartment! Everything's clean, the place is situated in the center of Bari's Old Town. It's beautiful here, but you have to be prepared for couple of noises - churches, motor bikes and of course Italians themselves.

One of the nicest areas to stay in Bari. Right in the old town. The basement appartment was very cool during the hot days. But also had a bit too much humidity. Felt like a cave. If I will go back in Bari, I would search specifically for it again.

Not a large appartment, but got everything you need and at a great location. Communication with owner by mail and whatsapp. They give you information and video instructions how to get to and into the appartment. Caracteristic room. One or seperate bed with television on the wall. A small fridge, coffee machine and thea machine. Toilet, bidet, shower, sink and mirror.. Free Wifi. In the old part of Bari. Caracteristic enviroment. Many churches, most famouse for St. Nicholas.

Don't trust the photos, they are misleading. I thought I'd book a charming and authentic monastery-type room and ended up in a tiny cellar vault without daylight. Our room, room nr. 3, was at the back of the building and the only window (with a curtain) led into the hallway. The room had absolutely no daylight and felt kind of damp. They could probably have made something nice of it with sophisticated lighting or using the "abbazia" (abbey) theme as a design principle, doing the room up like a monk's cell. Instead there was a modern painting in the bedroom and an Egyptian papyrus in the bathroom - eclectic and without any rhyme or reason, just anything hung on the walls. The wardrobe was a little niche just off the bedroom and down a few steps. It had two racks with clothes hangers and a board with a coffee machine. There was no other board or any other possibility where to lay clothes that don't go on hangers. I had no choice but to lay my underwear and socks next to the coffee. Rather bizarrely, there was a bucket of coal in this niche as well. I have no idea what for. There is no oven or anything where one might need coal, and as a decorative item it's just plain weird (and dusty). A curtain in front of this niche would have been nice as apart from the coffee machine it also held a (humming) refrigerator and an electric heater. Would have been nice to close off this display of household appliances with a curtain. The bathroom was badly lit and the mirror tiny. I had a hard time navigating my contact lenses into my eyes and putting on some make-up when going out for a nice dinner. The shower was a ridiculous, oversized wellness shower installation with massage jets on various levels, but no water pressure, and the shower cabin was much too small for something like this. A regular shower head would have been much more fitting. There was no soap. To wash our hands, we ripped open the provided single portions of shower gel and used tiny doses. After two years of pandemic, the concept of a soap dispenser should be known to everybody; would be very easy to just provide put one of these, but apparently that's too much to ask for. Our room was not made up during the day. In the evening, we returned to the same unmade bed and full trash can. It seems like somebody just wants to make money off tourists and not invest any work or display any kind of hospitality. We took our breakfast in a little café just a short walk away, which is basically fine, but we were allowed one coffee and one brioche per person. Anything else, even a second cup of coffee, we had to pay for ourselves. Call me excessive, but I like two cups of coffee in the morning, and paying for a bed AND BREAKFAST and having to pay for the second coffee myself just puts me out of sorts. The breakfast café does offer juices, toast, eggs ... Would have been a nice gesture from Abbazia degli Svevi to arrange for a decent breakfast for their guests; we only got the bare minimum. The accommodation works via self check-in and the keys are stored in a box with a code, which is texted to the guests. Basically, I do not mind this type of check-in, but here it means that there is absolutely no reception, no staff, no common areas and one cannot even store luggage before check-in and after check-out. We incurred extra costs because we always had to deposit our luggage at the train station and pay the fee (they charge per piece). The Wifi practically never worked. A price of € 50 per night would probably be fair for this abode and provide a place to stay for those who travel on a shoestring and do not ask for much. But asking € 90 for a tiny, damp room without daylight, without taking any care of the guests (e.g. in the form of making the bed during the day), allowing the most measly of breakfasts only and forcing them to pay extra to store their luggage is outrageous and audacious.