Hotel Parco Aurora is a very pleasant but dated hotel in Ischia which is rated as 4 stars. Good location in Ischia. However, the hotel falls down very badly in certain areas – the breakfast served is probably the worst we’ve had in Italy at a 4 star hotel. Cheap and low quality breakfast items are served daily WITHOUT change or variation–
Bread – 1 Italian style bread and 1 cheap white bread for toast
Cheese – only 1 unappetising ‘yellow’ cheese and 1 white cheese
Juice – no Fresh juice, but cheap sweet orange and grapefruit juice
Fresh fruit – only oranges and apples. Summer fruits such as peaches, apricots, grapes, were totally non-existent
Canned fruit – same mixture of cheap canned fruit
Yogurt – served up in 1 big bowl that everybody took from, no individual containers
Croissants – looked like they were left over from previous days
Tomatoes – were not sliced, but placed whole in a bowl everyday – why?
No olives, cucumbers or other fresh vegetables
Cake – left overs from the previous night’s dinner servings
Scrambled eggs were removed 15 minutes every day before the end of breakfast? – why?
......a very poor showing
The hotel also falls down on the bathroom cosmetics – the only cosmetic apparent is cheap shampoo in cheap small envelopes. Soap quality is also very poor. Again, why?
It’s a pity that the hotel has to cheapen itself with the poor quality breakfast and cheap cosmetics. Regretfully, what could be a good 4 star hotel is unfortunately a 2.5 star at best.
