Hotel BalbivsHotel Bristol Palace
Hotel Balbi and Hotel Bristol Palace are both highly recommended by professional reviewers. Overall, Hotel Bristol Palace is preferred by most reviewers compared to Hotel Balbi. Hotel Bristol Palace is ranked #1 in Genoa with praise from 10 reviews such as The Telegraph, Lonely Planet and DK Eyewitness.
Hotel Balbi
Via Balbi 21/3, 16126 Genoa
From $49/night
- Pet Friendly
- Bar/Lounge
- Free Internet
- Room Service
- Free Breakfast
- Concierge
DK Eyewitness
"This family hotel is set in a historic building with decorative frescoes on the ceilings and original parquet floors. The
Balbi is in the city centre, near Stazione Principe, the port..."
Michelin Guide
"Spacious bedrooms with frescoed ceilings at this family-run hotel."
Hotel Bristol Palace
Via XX Settembre 35, 16121 Genoa
From $125/night
- Pet Friendly
- Bar/Lounge
- Hot Tub
- Free Internet
- Room Service
- Free Breakfast
Insight Guides
"Traditionally Genoa’s grandest hotel, the Bristol Palace is on the city’s most elegant shopping street, close to Old Genoa."
DK Eyewitness
"Housed in a 19th-century palazzo, the decor is sumptuous, with a grand sweeping staircase, elegant rooms, spacious public rooms and a bar."
Rough Guide
"Grand old pile near Stazione Brignole, full of antique furniture, old masters and an Edwardian sense of order and discretion."
Star Service
"This fun and fanciful traditional hotel provides Genova's most authentic period pomp, combining the classic palace hotel attributes some travelers love with a few updated contemporary touches." Full review
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Oyster
Upscale
"The Hotel Bristol Palace certainly stands out as one of the Genoa's more elegant upscale properties, and features a genuinely stunning spiral staircase." Full review
The Telegraph
8.0
"Slip into a grande-dame suite for a taste of luxury, 1905-style." Full review
Afar Magazine
"Located directly in the middle of the main high-end shopping street Via XX Settembre, the Hotel Bristol Palace is an old Genovese palace that has been reconfigured into a 133 room 4 star urban hotel." Full review
Fodor's
"One of Europe's gracious 19th-century grand hotels...guards its reputation for courtesy, service, and elegance, offering mostly spacious, handsomely furnished, high-ceiling guest rooms." Full review
Frommer's
"This 19th-century palazzo is one of Genoa’s most regal and popular hotels with its opulent oval staircase and beautiful stained-glass dome" Full review
Lonely Planet
"Under the huge portales of Via XX Settembre lies one of Genoa’s fanciest pads, a belle époque masterpiece exhibiting atmospheric, airy rooms." Full review