Hotel Italia Palace

Roof top pool was good, quiet and clean/well maintained. Our room was nicely decorated, clean and safe, with a functional bathroom (again for that price we would have expected a bath tub and not just a shower), beds comfortable with a choice of pillows of varying grades of softness. Very good windows and doors which kept all the noise of a buzzing Italian nightlife muted providing for a good night's sleep.

The hotel, whilst being excellent from a ambience, cleanliness and customer service perspective, is too expensive from our point of view (perhaps partly due to our stay coinciding with one of the most significant Italian public summer holidays that week), this is based on staying at similar hotels in Lignano in the past which were equally excellent quality however posed better value for money than hotel Italia Palace (probably one of the reasons why we were still able to book a room here, while our usual hotel was fully booked). Car parking, while available free of charge, was cumbersome due to the lack of instructions (it's best to try and park directly in front of the hotel's main entrance on arrival, and unload luggage after check-in before proceeding to the gated car park which is situated 5 minutes' walk from the hotel). No coffee/tea making facilities in the room.

This hotel is a true classic but newly renovated. The rooms are spacious and clean and extremely tastefully furnished, the AC works perfectly fine. The whole service is extremely friendly and professional. The quality of the breakfast and the dinner was beyond our expectations. I recommend taking the half-board.