Alberto's Suites Piazza Roma

Alberto's Suites Piazza Roma occupies the third floor of a building at piazza Roma 3, in the old centre of Oristano. Piazza Roma is the city's drawing room, dominated by the tower of Mariano II, the tower of San Cristoforo of 1290, the northern gate of the walls, which can be seen from the windows of the house. From here the centre is walked: corso Umberto starts from the square, the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta is a short distance away, the Antiquarium Arborense archaeological museum eleven minutes. The bus stop on via degli Artigiani is eight hundred metres away, and the reference airport is Cagliari Elmas, ninety-two kilometres away.

The house has been done up recently and the sign is clear in the photographs: white walls, high sloping top-floor ceilings, light wooden floors, spare furnishings with the odd rattan armchair and coloured seats. The rooms have air conditioning, heating, soundproofing, a flat-screen television and a private bathroom with a bidet, a shower, separate facilities, a hairdryer and towels. The building has a lift, which on the third floor counts. In the building there is also a barber's shop, which the portal lists among the property's facilities, and check-in and check-out are private, with no shared desk.

On the wellness side the listing is short because the house is short. There is no pool and no wellness centre: no sauna, no steam room, no whirlpool tub, no massage room. The silence of the sources on these points is not a denial by the property, but nothing is documented in that direction, and it would not be realistic to expect it from an apartment on the third floor of a city building. Anyone looking for that kind of stay should look elsewhere; anyone looking for a clean, quiet base to explore Oristano, the Sinis and Tharros, which is eighteen kilometres away, will find exactly that. It should be noted that the property has no parking, neither its own nor by arrangement, and in a square in the old centre this is the point to weigh before booking if you are arriving by car.

On the access rules the booking portal is explicit: children are not allowed, the restriction concerns the whole property, and neither cots nor extra beds are available. No source, however, publishes a figure: the minimum age from which you are admitted is not stated, and for this reason the listing gives neither eighteen years nor any other number. The property does not appear to have an official website of its own, so the source of the data reported here is the portal, and anyone travelling with an older teenager would do well to ask for written confirmation before confirming. Pets are not allowed. The property is non-smoking. Check-in is from 15 to 21 and departure between 8 and 11; the declared identification code is IT095038C2000T8281.

On prices the positioning is mid-range: on sample dates the room is found between 78 and 102 euros a night, with little variation, which says it is a city house rather than a seaside-season one.

It suits anyone using Oristano as a base for the Sinis peninsula, for Tharros and for the beaches of Capo Mannu, anyone who wants to sleep inside the old centre and walk out in the evening, and anyone who appreciates the quiet of a house where there are no children and the rooms are soundproofed. It suits less anyone arriving by car who does not want to look for parking, anyone travelling with a dog and anyone looking for hotel services: here there is no restaurant, no pool, no spa.