Il Banano B&B

Charming, cheap, central

This was booked for me by locals - and I couldn't have liked it more. They only have 3 rooms and my single room - with private bathroom down a flight of stairs - was 30 euro a night with a much better breakfast than one usually expects in Italy. Really very very good. Fruit, yoghurt, croissants, chocolate pastries and excellent coffee.
It is one floor of a family palazzo - the young guy who runs it is charming and obliging and lives upstairs.
It couldn't be more central. One minute to the main square.
But it is not out and out luxury. How can I put it? It has got all those quirks that one hopes for when one is traveling hopefully. There was a switch for the hot water in my bathroom that I could never get the hang of.
And the two double rooms at the front have a sort of screen arrangement so you can get out into the hallway and access your bathroom without anyone seeing you. Hard to describe, kind of delightfully odd.
Big sitting room with charming courtyard outlook, and big breakfast room with exquisite glimpses of curving staircase.
I googled and googled and googled and could find no mention of them at all on any accomodation web site. It must be a local B&B for local people to book their visitors into.
Luckily another B&B proprietor answered my question on Tripadviser - so now I have a phone number.
If this is your sort of thing, I can guarantee you will love it.

Unique Quality: Because the locals love to meet and greet until midnight in the passegiata, the rooms at the front may be a little noisy. But very little traffic to speak of. Just walkers and talkers and bikers.

• Opinion of Price: less expensive than average

Il Banano B&B Photo: View from the breakfast room.

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