Hotel Vis à Vis

We arrived in Trieste from travelling to Venice from London Heathrow. Upon arrival you have to check into the grand hotel greeted by a very lovely young lady, extremely elegant and polite. Was given our key to room 3, young lad took us over the road to the Vis a Vis swipe your room key just over the control panel, as door is locked at night, otherwise during the day the doors just open automatically. We got into our room and it was painted a really dark grey paint, a little depressing as we had no lookout just a wall, it’s down a sidewalk. Weird wardrobe with no doors and if you have long dresses you have to hang them where the coffee machine is along with the safe, and two drawers. Downside if you have long hair then take your own hairdryer as the basic one is plugged into the bathroom wall, coming from England I still find this so uncomfortable with electric and water!!! Also another drawback there’s no mirror to sit at a dressing table to do your makeup, also hard to do makeup with the dark room or a long mirror to see how your dressed. Jacuzzi bath didn’t work also only a 3/4 size bath, shower is badly designed as it’s tucked into the corner of the shower screen so you can’t actually stand under it!!! Also sink plug doesn’t work so for my partner to shave you just had to run the tap waste off water. The toilet water was very severe so when you flushed it the water came over the front of the loo. Also glass sliding panel so you can see everything from the bed. Not great if your with a friend or new partner to see you sitting on the loo 🤣 When we returned later that night omg the room was lit up as no blind in bathroom had the brackets up but nothing at the window, so bedroom was bright as the alleyway was now alight with the bar and street lights, then once your in bed the control panel was a blaze of green light. I reported all the faults the next morning, she typed it onto the computer and offered to move us to room 4 but what’s the point as it’s a replica room only difference would be that the jacuzzi bath worked but you had to be about 4ft tall to use it. We didn’t book breakfast and glad we didn’t as room wasn’t very inviting and why would you with so many fantastic cafes and bars to eat and drink at, not expensive to eat and drink in Trieste. So to summarise my findings great location for the centre of Trieste and only 10 mins walk from train station. Trieste is stunning. Hotel expensive for room size and fittings.

Good location of the hotel. If you want to have a sea view from your room, then you should consider another hotel. View from most of the windows are directed to an ally and neighbor building. You might be able to see what other people have for dinner :) The room was cleaned every day - good pillows and medium soft bed. Have not tested the AC - since I like to sleep with window open. It was a free minibar in the room - with soft drinks included (at least what we have been told at arrival). Hotel does not have a reception, it shares the reception with Grand Hotel, just on the other side of the road - approx 20 meters of walking distance. The hotel does not have its own restaurant (since it is boutique - obviously) - so you can have the breakfast at Grand Hotel. Very expensive - €25 for a rather small selection and unfortunately, if you want to have anything besides, such as scrambled eggs - you will need to pay additional €7 for a tiny portion.