Butterfly Verona

Style

Designer dressed residenza

Setting

Old Town outskirts

A short stroll from Verona’s città antica, the first floor of a caramel-tinted townhouse has metamorphosed into laissez-faire apartment stay Butterfly Verona. A suite of rooms with WhatsApp concierge services, this prize specimen is thoroughly modern beneath its storied camouflage — kitted out with cocooning Italian designer furnishings and thoughtful extras such as free minibars and Netflix. And a door-code system leaves you free to flit around the city as you please.

Facilities

Rooms

Six, including three suites and one apartment.

Checkout

10.30am; earliest check-in, between 3pm and 7pm. Late check-out or early check-in are subject to availability and extra cost. Make sure to contact the hotel at least seven days before arrival to arrange check-in.

More Details

Rates are room only; you’ll need to find a café nearby for breakfast – although coffee, tea and a selection of biscuits (by Giancarlo Perbellini) are provided in rooms.

Also

By day reception staff are happy to help you find a restaurant, book tickets or transport – but (if you prefer) there’s a digital option, too, called Butterfly Chat, granting you concierge access via WhatsApp or Messenger.

Free Internet Access

At the Hotel

In rooms: free WiFi, smart TV with Netflix, free minibar, Nespresso machine, kettle, free bottled water, Laboratorio Olfattivo bath products.

Our Favourite Rooms

Rooms (mostly suites) are available to book individually – so once you’ve decided whether the pistachio-hued deluxe with a balcony, capacious khaki-walled junior suite or shades-of-grey suite with a separate living room are for you, there’s no pot luck involved. Our tips, however, are the stupendously stuccoed presidential suite or the devil-may-care romance of the superior junior suite (with a bedroom bath tub). Families should make a beeline for the finely furnished two-bedroom apartment.

Packing Tips

You’re in the city of love, so pack for seduction: floaty linen pieces for riverside ambles and old-town strolls; finery for the opera; date-night threads for candlelit dinners.

Also

Reception is open 9.30am–12.30pm and 3pm–7pm, but is subject to change so let the hotel know your arrival time in advance. Personalised door codes are issued 24 hours ahead. The hotel has a lift but no wheelchair-adapted rooms.

Children

Over-14s are welcome in all rooms.

Gallery

Food & Drink

Hotel Restaurant

There’s no restaurant at Butterfly Verona, but chef Giancarlo Perbellini provides a welcome box of biscuits alongside your free minibar and there are cafés nearby, ideal for breakfast.

Planes

Verona airport is 20 minutes from the hotel by road; private transfers can be arranged.

Trains

The city’s major rail hub, Porta Nuova train station is an eight-minute drive from the hotel and has connections to Bologna (50 minutes), Venice (an hour) and Milan (75 minutes). Private transfers to/from the station can be arranged (from €20 each way).

Automobiles

Butterfly Verona is five minutes from the Verona Sud motorway exit. There’s no parking at the hotel but there are two public car parks nearby; valet parking is available from €25 a vehicle per night.

Worth Getting Out of Bed For

Verona is dubbed the city of love with visits to Juliet’s tomb, Juliet’s house (and Romeo’s) high on many a visitor’s wishlist: whether you wish to park your scepticism that Shakespeare’s Verona-set tragedy is a work of fiction with no balcony or grave visits required, there’s no debating the romance of this ancient city, cupped by the river Adige and ribbed with crenellated city walls (one such straddles the hotel’s street) and an alley-ribboned, mediaeval città antica that’s Verona’s beating heart. Its Roman amphitheatre, the Arena, is just a three-minute walk from the hotel, and hosts a summer season of opera: you can expect a bit of Bizet but a lot of Verdi (seeing Aida in an open-air Roman amphitheatre sounds pretty spectacular). Grandiose Piazza del Erbe, once a Roman forum, is the home of Torre dei Lamberti, a soaring brick tower with bird’s eye views of the city (hilltop fortress Castel San Pietro has impressive panoramas, too). On Piazza del Erbe, you’re also at one end of Via Mazzini, an avenue of high-street and designer stores that’s catnip to big spenders. At the other end, Piazza Brà is the café-lined main square beside the Arena. Take a guided bicycle tour for a comprehensive whirl around town on two wheels. If you find yourself on Corso Porta Bursari, look up. Above the original Melegatti panetteria, you can see the city’s prized pandoro rendered as a pair of stone finials – reason enough to immediately track down the sweet doughy version and an espresso.

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