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4 out of 5
Villa Tuscolana
Via del Tuscolo km 1.500, Frascati, RM

Reviews

8.2

Very good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 137 out of 325 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 118 out of 325 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 42 out of 325 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 15 out of 325 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 13 out of 325 reviews" "

8.4/10

Cleanliness

8.2/10

Staff & service

8.2/10

Amenities

8.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

Britney

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Beautiful outstanding place a good drive out of Rome but if you’re wanting quiet, actual Italian culture being an American felt safe very cozy little town however, the hotel did not have Wi-Fi only in the lobby. Lobby was absolutely breathtaking as well as the grounds and the view from our second story window would stay here again if I did not need to purchase Wi-Fi.

10/10 Excellent

john

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Hotel in Frascati
What a fabulous hotel with a long history. A great way to end our stay in Italy. A hotel with ambience and character. Dinner was great. We had a car, so getting there was no problem. Would gladly stay again
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Pearl

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
TUSCOLANA
It was a lovely relaxing experience and the staff were friendly and helpful. Just need a taxi to go back from town as its uphill and dRK AT NIGHT.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Pearl

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Beautiful Venetian style and impeccable . Ambience is relaxing . Quiet and amazing view . You need a car or taxi to go intoFrascati . Friendly helpful staff .
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Pearl

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

6/10 Okay

MEHRDAD

Disliked: Staff & service
Not sure what to say
the place deserves a lot of TLC and good management. it has a lot of potentials. it is top of hill which very few people would like to hike it on their holidays, especially in the dark. they need a regular hourly van to take people up and down the hill. positive side, amazing landscape and view over looking the greater Rome. Frascati can be considered a hiden gem for food lovers. tens of great restaurants, authentic, great service even better food, very friendly people. by the way, you WILL NOT have WIFI in your room. only on the common spaces. I had a great time there despite all that.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

DOMINIQUE

Travelled with family
Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very nice
Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

srinivas

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Check transportation
The hotel was good but getting to the hotel was difficult as there was no public transportation. Sometimes after 10 pm no taxis come and we need to walk.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Robert

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great place for relaxing stay and food
Fantastic location in Frascati overlooking the Rome plateau in historic villa. Excellent food in hotel too with great service by all staff . Recommend
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Nancy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Villa Tuscolana is a gem perched on a hill in Frascati. A welcomed refresh from the bustle of Roma. The Villa is beautiful and elegant. The staff, especially Stefano, were so kind and accommodating. The breakfast was very nice and the wait staff was lovely. The accommodations were very nice and so happy to have air conditioning. Beautiful location, exquisite Villa ! Location is a fun walk down the hill into town and would suggest a taxi to walk up (I walked up twice and was very nice exercise but not for everyone)! Thank you Villa Tuscolana
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023

6/10 Okay

doru

Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Joseph

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Villa Tuscolana was great. Beautiful building and grounds in a great location outside of Frascati. Breakfast buffet is fantastic. Simona gave us great recommendations for a day trip and restaurants nearby. Only downside is WIFI only works in the lobby and common areas.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

QIUXIANG

Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2023

4/10 Poor

Margaret

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Too grand to care.
This is a hotel that majors on its building but isn’t interested in its guests. It exploits its distance from Frascati in its prices. It was difficult to sleep because of the noise created by successive departures of gusts obviously being driven to the airport. No drink making facilities are provided in the rooms or elsewhere. The hairdryer in our bathroom lit up red inside and then stopped working. The management wasn’t interested when I reported this.
Stayed 2 nights in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

Daniel

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
This is such a beautiful property ontop of a hill that overlooks all of Frascati. It's a quick train ride to Rome. Only thing is I would not suggest coming here if you don't have a car or are not fond of walking. The walk from the train station to the property is ~1.5KM up a pretty steep hill. It was fine for my wife and I to walk up and down every night but I won't recommend doing that with luggage. If you need a trip from the hotel to the train station with your luggage, consider booking the taxi the night before because the services there are limited.
Stayed 4 nights in May 2023

8/10 Good

Victor

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
LOVELY BUILDING AND SETTING, BUT BEWARE
THE GOOD: Beautiful building, fairly well-maintained with just a touch of deferred maintenance, which is to be expected with a property this old. Lovely setting. Very good breakfast buffet. It is the kind of place Americans dream about when they think "country Italian villa." THE BAD: Hotel caters to a lot of bus tours, and they overwhelm the place in the early morning and late in the day when the busses arrive. The situation is made worse by the fact that noises echo through the building, so the ruckus is shared with everyone in the villa. Very intrusive. Also, I think the staff and management is so dependent on the groups, if you are a single guest with a single problem, they really don't give you much attention. I was there 4 nights and they still weren't sure who I was by the time I left. THE UGLY: They really need a shuttle to and from Frascati. Don't come here if you don't have your own transportation, or are not willing to walk the 20 minute steep climb from Frascati. Getting a cab is very difficult. I waited 3 hours to get a cab from Frascati to the villa, and no one cared. One company even hung up on me because the guy was annoyed that I called three times over the course of three hours. If ever there was a city that needs Uber, it's Rome. Transportation in general is a nightmare there, but getting to and from the villa is the worst.
Lovely grounds and facility.
Beautiful views from the villa.
Comfortable salas to relax.
Stayed 4 nights in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

Pablo

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Very nice
Stayed 2 nights in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

DJB

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Vila Tuscolana is a unique; character and history combined with friendly staff and good food.
Stayed 6 nights in Dec 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
het hotel is erg mooi gelegen op een berg met uitzicht op Rome het nadeel is dat er geen openbaar vervoer is naar het hotel
Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2019

8/10 Good

Luciano

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Rich in history
Hotel location was amazing. Has a lot of history and is a very "rich" place. Great restaurant also...beware there is NO AC so you plan accordingly.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2019

6/10 Okay

Massimiliano

Business traveller
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Place is very nice ancient Villa but the condition are not perfect and some issues like WiFi that didn’t work at all.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2019

10/10 Excellent

pellumb

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Stayed 6 nights in Aug 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Lovely building but needs upgrading. Especially the rooms
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Views from hotel were beautiful but location was hard to find at first. The hotel is a beautiful old villa and the grounds are well kept. Room was dated but very clean and air conditioned. They seem to have different rooms, some are air conditioned and others are not. Some rooms are renovated while others are not. Their restaurant is excellent and the waiters went out of their way to acommodate our needs.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The staff were all very friendly and welcoming. The gardens around the hotel were beautifully kept, and the view was spectacular.
Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The staff were very good and lovely to deal with the surroundings were beautiful, Our only concern was the bathroom which was old and dark and the shower very small. Overall we were very happy and would definitely come back and recommend to others.
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
The Wi-Fi didin’t Works inside the rooms, late breakfast and poor food... =(
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2019

10/10 Excellent

Artiom

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Wonderful villa, beautiful park and common area. They can do better in room decoration
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2019

8/10 Good

JUNE

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A lovely old villa in a superb position. Food was quite good, in line with 4 stars. Beware! It is a good half-an-hour walk steeply up to the villa from Frascati, or an hour if the pedestrian gate is locked. The hotel provides a shuttle, for a reasonable €10 per couple, BUT ONLY UNTIL 10pm. If you arrive back late by rail from Rome, or spend the evening in the village, you may have to walk back and then you will find the gate locked. We were lucky, having good enough (just) mobile signal to ring the hotel to get the gate opened, otherwise we would have had a further half-an-hour walk to the vehicular entrance.
Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

The building is majestic, the location fantastic and the restaurant excellent. Small dip: my room was not cleaned on the third day of my stay, but this would not deter from booking again.
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2018

8/10 Good

Massimo Rossetti

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Historical Villa.
Great historical villa set in a beautiful park with wonderful views and charm.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2018

8/10 Good

Izabela

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 6 nights in Oct 2018

10/10 Excellent

Mike, Minneapolis MN

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Beautiful place with awesome views. Very unique Good breakfast and friendly staff
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2018

10/10 Excellent

Sebastian, New York

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location amazing views. It’s worth the drive
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2018

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stunning hotel from outside, rude, miserable staff
Magnificent building , grounds and views, very dated grubby shabby rooms , miserable unhelpful rude staff - asked to move from where we were sitting as a wedding party was arriving !! Inconsiderate to the other hotel guests during these times and not forwarned or compensated for not having the use of the facilities we had paid for . Location lovely with beautiful views but only good if you plan on doing nothing as the trek out is 1-2 miles into town and a very steep hill with no paths so not for the faint hearted - the shuttle they provided was ok but kept us waiting over an hour on the first night we arrived and at a cost . Very very dissapointing !!!
Stayed 5 nights in Sep 2018

2/10 Terrible

Maria

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very unpleasant stay.
When we arrive the man that was at the reception was very rude.The property was beautiful. But the room was not comfortable. No A/C .I think this hotel is for tours company.The breakfast did not look fresh at all
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2018

10/10 Excellent

Anselmo

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2018

6/10 Okay

Tom, Cph. Denmark

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
it's a unique place, but it suffers from lack of maintenance and refurbishment. The surroundings and area are beautiful. Very nice staff and good service
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Secluded quiet
Would be a lovely place for a couple. The teenagers did not appreciate the fantastic view on the hilltop or the secluded nature. It was refreshing and green a quiet. Hilltop location means that there are limited walk to options. The history of the villa is fascinating.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Staff & service
Average Service
We were very disappointed on arrival there was no working wi-fi, no hair shampoo, fridge not working, no safe, poor breakfast. Building was lovely with nice views.

10/10 Excellent

Pellumb

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
it’s very good Hotel

10/10 Excellent

Pellumb

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very good
Molto bene hotel e servizio perfect! Garden e panoramic in stato bellissimo!

10/10 Excellent

Danielle, Calgary

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stunning
Amazing place to stay and explore. Staff are great, food is awesome, only complaint would be the comfort of the beds.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
amazing looking villa with beautiful views. Our flight had been moved forward so we had to leave before breakfast - reception staff organised a breakfast pack for us to take and had it ready and waiting when we checked out at 5am. Only problem we had was that there were no clean pool towels and took them a long time to bring out some more. Definitely need a car if you want to get into town and to eat out - nothing in walking distance unless you want to eat at the hotel.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2017

2/10 Terrible

T.W., Dallas, TX

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice to Visit, but Don't Stay Overnight
The core of Villa Tuscolana dates back to 1578 by the hands of cardinal Alessandro Rufini, owner of Villa Rufina (aka Villa Falconieri). Upon his death, it went to the Reverend Apostolic Chamber and then to cardinal Guido Ferreri. Many owners followed. Since 1872 the villa has belonged to the Aldobrandini Lancellotti family. It was heavily damaged in WWII, but renovated in 1966 by the Salesian Order. The current owners turned it into a hotel. However, this villa should NOT be a hotel. Firstly, the hallways have no rugs, only tile, so you hear EVERYONE as they enter and exit the hallway of your floor. The bathrooms are the worst. I liken the shower to a vertical coffin, it is so small. They give NO amenities, except a shower cap and a tiny bar of hand soap. The carpet in the rooms appears dirty and the "queen" sized beds are two singles put together. All in all a very spartan room. We booked three nights, and pre-paid through Orbitz. However, it was so bad, we decided to leave after the first night and lost our money of the last two.
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2017

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Room with a Roman view!
Great hotel with a spectacular view of Rome and the Italian countryside. The hotel was very comfortable on top of a small hill. The food at the restaurant was great and very reasonable. The staff took great care of us. The shuttle service will take you down the hill to the local town about 10 minutes away. The only downside of the room was you can still tell this is a hotel that allows smoking in the rooms. Also there wasn’t air conditioning or fans to circulate the air.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2017