Hotel Rex

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• ALIEN-EYE

  23 agosto 2009
  Eso no es una playa y esas no son cuatro estrellas

  El hotel Rex tiene todo el aspecto de "la vergüenza de haber sido y el dolor de ya no ser". Habrá sido un gran cuatro estrellas hace treinta años, cuando nadie había oído hablar del aire acondicionado. Ahora, las habitaciones que no dan al mar son antiquísimas, con un televisor antediluviano y un aire acondicionado sólo nominal. Pero lo peor es la playa. En Italia las playas son de pago; este hotel en teoría tiene una, pero la comparte con dos o tres balnearios al que acceden personas que no son huéspedes. La playa en sí es una escollera de cemento sin arena y muy fea, repleta de sombrillas y tumbonas. Al hotel le corresponde una franja de treinta por tres metros de cemento y a cada habitación una sombrilla y dos tumbonas encimadas con las de las otras habitaciones. Es un verdadero espanto y una vergüenza que llamen playa a eso y que te cobren. Por habitación tienes tu lugar asignado y no puedes moverte ni un centímetro, ni caminar ni nada. Las habitaciones pueden por ejemplo dar a una enorme maquinaria tipo chimenea que hace un ruido espantoso toda la noche. Lo único bueno es el desayuno, superior al standard italiano, en una terraza que da a al mar. Además, es carísimo.

  

• Drjaypablo

  12 abril 2013
  Para descansar

  Fuimos por tres días a Livorno . Alejado del centro pero ideal para respirar aire puro. Habitaciones con vista al mar y un restaurante fantástico . Tiene una playa propia. Artificial pero se ve bien lograda y limpia. Personal correcto y amable. Seguramente tuvo su esplendor en los 80 pero es un lindo lugar para descansar .

  

• Monica H

  14 octubre 2017
  Intentar buscarse otro hotel

  Antiguo, descuidado, sucio, habitación maloliente, desayuno pésimo. Recuerda a los hoteles de los años sesenta. Precio desorbitado. Ni por asomo un cuatro estrellas. Aconsejo evitar quedarse en este establecimiento.

  

• Rune H

  04 julio 2019
  This is a AVOID AT ALL COST hotel!

  The pictures on the booking sites are manipulated and not showing the bad conditions and the lousy standard. The hallway and room smelled terrible. Unhealthy? The room is outdated and not clean. The bed hard as rock. The Wifi does not work. The only positive is the view. Avoid at all cost.

  

• Cheryl G

  01 septiembre 2019
  Loved it!

  Hotel Rex was absolutely perfect in terms of my criteria: a balcony, a fantastic sea view, a reasonable price and a location easily accessible without a car. Score on all! I wasn't there to swim or dive, but did venture out into the water and it was great. (FYI it's a really pleasant temperature in August for someone who dislikes cold water.) It looked to me like there's a protected area, a kind of sea pool, if you don't want to deal with the waves. If you need access to a chlorinated swimming pool or a typical sand beach with a gentle shore, this may not be the place for you. That being said, there actually is a sand beach that's immediately adjacent, but because it's not connected to the hotel you'll pay whatever the usual entrance fee is to use it. There seem to be many sea-faring activities available including PADI diving and, I believe, SCUBA lessons and pedal boats. The hotel also offers gratis bicycle loans to guests. There's ample parking and people arriving by car shouldn't miss the opportunity to explore the wild beauty of this part of Livorno. Accessibility to Hotel Rex without a car is excellent. I took the train from Florence (c. 2 hrs) and arrived at the hotel after a short (11-min) and very simple walk from the station. Out of curiosity, I tried to investigate the hotel restaurant when I was on my way out for dinner just after 9PM, but it had already stopped serving, Luckily I was planning to eat at the furthest away (c. 7 min walk) of two nearby restaurants and thankfully they serve much later plus have a terrace with a gorgeous view. The included breakfast wasn't up to much, but serviceable. It really didn't appeal to me so I passed on it.and would have gone to one of the nearby bar/cafes, but they're closed on Sunday. I believe it's possible to have a "real" breakfast in the hotel restaurant (not included), but I didn't have time to look into it. My room was fairly basic. It was a little bit rough around the edges in ways that aren't important to me (eg. some of the water jets in the massage part of the multi-function Jacuzzi shower not working, older furniture with a few nicks). The AC system is older and seemed to function well, but I turned it off shortly after arriving. The room had the slightly musty smell that creeps into the walls of older properties that are directly on the water and not hermetically sealed, but imo that's an unavoidable consequence of having exceedingly pleasurable direct access to the marine air and the sound of the sea! I don't know if it was by design or just a function of me being short, but when I was sitting on the balcony, the wall perfectly edited out the bustling beach to create a fabulous sea-only vista. Starting with the view and the balcony, all of the things most important to me were spot-on: the linens were sparkling and fresh, both my room and the public areas of the hotel were very clean, the bed was comfortable (seemed new) and there's a great casual comfort to the hotel combined with attention to service. The staff (all of whom spoke English well and were able to jump in fluently at the critical times that my abominable Italian failed me) were lovely: friendly and very helpful. I'll definitely go back for future mini vacations from Florence.