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Reviews of De la Buffa

2 out of 5
De la Buffa
56 Rue de la Buffa, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes

Reviews

6.0
Rating 10 - Excellent. 37 out of 299 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 75 out of 299 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 80 out of 299 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 66 out of 299 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 41 out of 299 reviews" "

6.6/10

Cleanliness

6.0/10

Staff & service

6.8/10

Amenities

5.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Considering the price and location, it was pretty average! The room wasn’t too bad but the room I stayed in smelled of an ash tray! It was a shame because if it didn’t smell so bad in my room, I could’ve given this a higher rating! My fridge also didn’t work and the shower pressure was really bad, and if someone else was using it, it would get even worse! But for the price and the location being so central, it wasn’t too bad.
Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2020

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Only saw one member of staff throughout the whole of my stay. He was friendly enough but I had to chase him for fresh towels which I eventually got on my last morning. The only positive thing about this hotel was it's good location.
Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice budget option, central location
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2019

10/10 Excellent

Dean

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Highly Recommend! 5 minute walk to beach :-)
Excellent Service, very friendly and very helpful. A very good hotel for the price you pay in a Prime location of Nice 5 minutes walk to the Beach. Highly Recommend.
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2019
Response from yazid on 18 Apr 2019
thank you my friend

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Lovely hotel stayed at for many years. Very helpful owener
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2019
Response from Yazid on 2 Apr 2019
merci beaucoup .

10/10 Excellent

Michael

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very central hotel. Nothing fancy about it, but nothing to complain about. I got what I wanted and what I expected - convenience, reliability, peace of mind.
Stayed 7 nights in Jan 2019
Response from Yazid on 5 Feb 2019
thank you for your stay and nice review ,

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2019

10/10 Excellent

Zuzana

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2018

10/10 Excellent

Vlad

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Stayed 5 nights in Oct 2018

8/10 Good

Adil, Toronto

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The hotel location is very good for this price, very close to bus stops & The English Promenade. The owner was very helpful too.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfect Location
I definitely recommend this hotel for its price and services. Very comfortable beds, air conditioner, tv, fridge, hairdryer and microwave for a very good price and great location easy to walk everywhere. Very friendly and helpful staff too.
Stayed 5 nights in Sep 2018

2/10 Terrible

Amanda

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Interesting place
The place looked like a monster safehouse out of a 70's film noire movie. Locks were on the door. The attendant was courteous and helpful.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2018

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Budget hotel
Hotel clean and well positioned, bed comfortable and staff helpful but the shower and toilet let the hotel down.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2018

10/10 Excellent

IAN, UK

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Close promonade and transport. Location good and no issues
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2018

10/10 Excellent

Diana

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Nice Nice
The reception gentleman was absolutely amazing. Triying to understand even no speaking English.

6/10 Okay

Danute

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
very clean hotel, friendly staff
I stay here for a second time. It is in a great location and has very clean rooms.

2/10 Terrible

Hanna

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The worst staff ever!!!
The elderly man who worked in the reception should attend to training: savoir vivre in practise! I was with my mum. He called her ''not normal'' as she looked at him very irritated as he was very slow, giving not appropriate comments and did not know what he was doing. My mum was right. He was the most rude staff we have met in our entire life! We stayed only because it was late and we were tired, otherwise we would have found a different hotel!

4/10 Poor

Raymond

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very run down hotel, but the owner/staff were nice
This hotel is in need of complete overhaul as shower hanging from wall - exposed pipes, soap dispenser broken and broken cupboards. It really is in a poor state of repair. On the plus side, the owner/staff were very nice and helpful. Just remember you get what you pay for and in this case think very low budget Hostel rather than a B&B

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort

8/10 Good

Hikaru, Tokyo

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Worth it!
I stayed one night with my friend. The hotel is old but not dirty, the room is clean. One thing I disappointed was shower room. There is only body soup, no shampoo and conditioner, but there is a dryer. The location of hotel is convenient enough. About 5 min from a beach, convenience store and drag store are about 3 min away. The street is popular, so I feel safer to go back to the hotel in night. If you cannot sleep with sound of cars, you may not happy very much. For college students, the hotel was great choice to stay with a friend. It worse the price.The owner is likable too. He can speak English and tells you jokes.

4/10 Poor

Tibor, Timisoara

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
good location but poor hotel conditions
I stayed with my family 5 days at this hotel during February 2016. Hotel was cheap, service was OK, rooms were clean but hotel condition needs urgent attention. Think that next time I would better pay twice the current room price at another hotel instead of booking again here ! ... room furniture is very old and part of it cannot be used; although smoking is prohibited in the hotel there was an extremly strong cigarette smell in the room which together the old furniture's specific smell gave us an unplesant experience. As well, note that doors will not close easily you need to push/pull several times till that closes. As well please note that in our room there was no bath-room just a bath-corner, i.e. a shower with a curtain in a corner just behind the entrance door. But there is a small working refrigerator in the room and also a microwave oven (with too short power plug cable, hence not used). Heating was working ok.

2/10 Terrible

Trygve R, Benidorm

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
It is a very old and warn out hotel.

10/10 Excellent

Ian, North Wales

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely hotel being going there for over 15 years

4/10 Poor

KRZYSZTOF

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort

6/10 Okay

james

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities

2/10 Terrible

Grumpy, UK

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Cheap hotel, very noisy
Don't expect sleeping like a log here: the bus stop (with many lines and even 2 night buses lines) that is in front of the hotel, plus creaking old pieces of furniture and very noisy toilets flushes, added to the background noise of the staff and the lack of sound-proofing are a non-plus. Staff didn't seem to know they had to knock on the door before coming in the room for cleaning. First hotel I see where cleaning takes place at 09:30 am! They even forgot to close the door someday. No breakfast unless ordered the previous day, and who would like to pay €8 to have it in the hall with its buses fumes? Good things were the air-conditioning and the mini-fridge plus the kettle. If you are young, on a budget and partying all night long, that is a budget hotel for you, otherwise avoid!

4/10 Poor

Shane, Dublin

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Short stay
Stayed for 3 nights. The Hotel is quiet run down but clean. As we were not in the hotel much apart from sleeping it was good value for the price. I would not stay here if you were going to be spending a lot of time in the room or looking for comfort.

2/10 Terrible

Maxime

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
zero + zero = zero
Impossible de get WI-Fi. The picture of the hotel is not at all the hotel. The building is I believe being destroyed and the hotel has a douzaine rooms. The first night I was in a room where the door did not looked as it was broken in. Of course you get for what you pay but I never thought that trough Hotel.com I would face such horror. I would not recommend this hotel to my worst enemy.

6/10 Okay

Joshua, Seattle, Washington USA

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Not Bad, Not Great :-)
This really depends on what type of travler you are. My wife and I are easy going. That means as long as there are no bugs and the rooms are clean we are happy. The room was clean but did have a musty smell. Opening the window helped. The people working there could not help much because they could not speak much English. I can speak German too but that did not help at all. I was ok with the room because it was cheap compared to other hotels and it put us pretty close to the beach and old town. Plenty of restaurants around and if you are trying to travel on the cheap a grocery store was around the corner. That was great for cheap picnic lunches of baguette, cheese and wine on the beach.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Very good location
Stayed here for 8 nights, the hotel is very basic but adequate, could do with a bit of a refurbishment.

2/10 Terrible

pabodu, New York City

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A terrible "hotel" near Nice beach and promenade
An old dirty hotel worth half-star at most (announced as a 2-star hotel). Old awful tiles in bathrooms, dirty bars on the window leading to a roof. The bathroom is unpleasant, the tap is unstable and moves, the toilet bowl is like in a closet outside the bathroom. There is a dark corridor and you can barely fit the key into the door lock. Old grey linens and toilet paper, no shampoo, a shower gel was provided only. Maybe 50 years ago it was nice but now... In general, we are not too demanding, but this case is really exceptional. I never met any 2-star hotel in USA in such a bad condition. No parking, no even way to approach by car to the hotel door legally. When we left that place, the clerk (maybe he is owner) call for a taxi from a gangster taxi company. For 4-minute drive to Nice Villa train station, he demanded aggressively 20 euro. Sure, no taxi counter was turned on. In Paris, I paid twice less more essentially longer driving in taxi. I believe that the choice of the criminal taxi company is an additional characteristic of this hotel. However, if you look for a doss-house near the beach and you are ready to spend a lot per night, it will be ok.

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Good place to sleep, get cool, connect to wifi.
I want to give this little place a good review. At 90 euros a night the price was right. It certainly has charm and character. The air conditioning worked perfectly and the wifi was flawless. It was clean, and the beds were very comfortable. Marco was very sweet and informative. I'm sure it was a lovely place in the 50s. But since then it has been kept up by a blind handyman. You can see 3 attempts for every "upgrade" (3 places they tried to hang the shower curtain; 3 versions of where the toilet roll hangs; maybe only 2 for the TV). There was no light in the hallway; we had to open our door by feel. Point of information: there's no elevator so be prepared to carry your bags. Still, if you're on a budget and need a place to sleep and shower, this works fine.

8/10 Good

Anna

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

2/10 Terrible

Ryan-Lee

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

2/10 Terrible

Evelyn, Toronto

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stay away
This hotel is dirty, dingy and some of the staff are scary. I would never stay here again.

4/10 Poor

kris, CZ

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Youmustbe kidding!
The hotel was for sale, not kdding, only the first floor was open. I had to check to see if the hotel I was the same one on the net. The pictures do not match. It was cheap and i guess you get what you pay for.

2/10 Terrible

Ian

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Old smelly hotel
Although it is in a good location, being close to the beach and the city center, the hotel itself is very old, smelly (from bathroom), and certainly not well maintained. As a backpack traveller, I stay at cheap hotels everywhere but this hotel is by far the worst. Staff had no facial expressions nor friendly manner. I would not recommend this hotel to anyone.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness
Convenient location
The hotel is in a good location close to the seafront, the town centre and to restuarants. The free WiFi is good and of decent speed. It provided good value for money. However, the air conditioning did not work properly - water keeps dripping from the AC unit at night and we have to turn it off. There is also random clutter along the walkway.

6/10 Okay

Chris, Preston

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
good location, value for money
Ok hotel for the price, good location, clean and all basics are included. Recommended for cheap 2 star budget hotel

4/10 Poor

Maree, New Zealand

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Close to beach
We were expecting 2 star accommodation but got 1 star! Location was the best part and the owner spoke reasonable English which was a bonus. Everything was very clean and the bed very comfortable. Ammenities, however, were very cramped and tardy.

8/10 Good

Natalia, London,UK

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Ms. Natalia Mihailova
Hello! De la Buffa is very nice and cute, small hotel. 7 min from airport by bus N98 and 5 min walk from promenade. Near by many shops and cafes and restaurants. Stuff is very friendly and hospitality. If I would have a chance to come to Nice again definitely would stay there.

4/10 Poor

Olivier, UK

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Time to renovate and tidy up!
The hotel is in a convenient location if the stay is mainly to go to the "promenade des anglais" (very close to it) or to be near the airport. It is easy to take the bus and/or walk to the "touristic" places in Nice but there are other hotels nearer to them. The hotel is clean but the owners need to really start renovating it and do a minimum of tidying up - mattress and broken wardrobe left in the corridor, numbers on doors not looking great (it would not take long to replace them all with new ones, it would look better and easier to see). Corridor and bedrooms need renovating (plastering, painting and repairing falling/missing wall tiles ...). The main picture on Expedia website is misleading as the hotel is nowhere near looking like that!

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Adequate
Stayed 1 night, was adequate.Was an easy walk to the beach.

8/10 Good

IAN

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice pleasant stay again
After 15 years of coming had another lovely stay, so close to the promanade, which is a bonus, staff again very helpful, a joy to visit again.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Good
Freindly staff, close to the beach. Old building but clean.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good place thats cheap
Booked at lat minute. Good room and great price

6/10 Okay

Mel, Sydney

Great location
Excellent location to the beach. Nice is generally more expensive. For the price you pay for it's not a bad choice of hotel.

8/10 Good

eamonnv, Ireland

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great Hotel great location
Rooms are very clean and comfortable. Service is what one would expect and the owner is very friendly and helpful. Breakfast not included and expensive if ordered the day before but with cafés all around there's no complaint from me. Hotel is 2 blocks from La promenade des anglais, perfect!

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
In bad condition
The beds were hard so technically my family didnt have good sleep. The shower was leaking everywhere, plus the bathroom was small. The room was dark. Overall not very good stay.