Hotel Hermitage

The Hermitage must have seen better days when families took long holidays in small towns/villages. Today, it is a place with mixed occupancy: some blue-collar workers, few business people, visitors from abroad linking up with relatives living in the area, and very few holiday guests. The room I had was nice, clean, with appropriate furniture including a reasonable bed - except a better desk would have added a lot to the functionality. The wireless internet was stable and working well. In the time I was there (August) many services were not offered and the restaurant was closed on several days - which is a problem because the town is small with very few options for lunch or dinner - and in August most of them are closed, too. The TV had several hundred stations, but I found only one in English. Most of the staff was very friendly and trying to help, but unfortuantely not all. The breakfast was very basic - and I have had better ones in many other Italian hotels aspiring to be at the same level as the Hermitage. Having better coffee would have been great - the aftertaste of the machine-made coffee was not very pleasant.