I'm here... and I want to sleep!

Yes, it was quite easy to arrive to Lanciano. The town is nice and cosy, but... do you know where to go to sleep?

Well, a “bad” news first. Abruzzo (and Lanciano) doesn’t give easy access by internet. Many hotels, B&B, camping don’t have a website and often not even an e-mail. The existing web pages are often only in Italian or in a strange English.

The good news is that we have done some research. Of course doesn’t pretend to be exhaustive, but it is hopefully helpful.

Location

There are 2 main choices:
one is to stay in Lanciano (a very nice town, 10 km from the coastline, about 40 km from the mountain);
the other one is to stay by the sea.
In this second case, you have a quite large number of towns to chose from. But if you want stay close, the best is to find a place in this range: Ortona-Torino di Sangro (map, where you can also search on business).
When you look for a place remember that many towns in Abruzzo are divided in two parts: one on the hill and the other one by the coast (marina). For example San Vito Chietino and San Vito Marina are the same town, but the latter is by the sea.

Lanciano

Hotel Excelsior (centre) - 124€
Hotel Anxanum (centre) - 100€ (including breakfast)
Hotel Novecento (close to centre) - double 70-75€
Hotel De Paris (close to centre) - 65€ (60€ if more then 3 days)
Albergo Roma (centre) - double 60€
Albergo Allegria (old centre) - double 50-60€
Albergo Alba (centre) - double 45€ (including breakfast)
Casa San Francesco (old centre)

Other places

Hotel
Hotel Giardino (neighbour small town of Fossacesia)
Hotel Garden (San Vito Marina's coast)
Hotel Levante (Fossacesia Marina's coast)
Hotel Golfo di Venere (between Fossacesia and Fossacesia Marina)
Hotel Sangro (neighbour small town of Mozzagrogna)
Thema (between Lanciano and sea)
Hotel Villa Medici (between Lanciano and sea)
Hotel Valle di Venere (between Fossacesia and Fossacesia Marina)

B&B
Surprise! I discovered that there are many B&B around Lanciano (even with websites!). Many of them I never hared about, and I cannot guarantee the result. Most of them seems nice, old houses in the countryside, about 5-15Km from the sea. To find a solution in this category you can try to search on: http://www.bed-and-breakfast.it/

Agriturismo
These places are normally small farms giving the opportunity of eating, sometime sleeping or even working in the fields. Some of those places are very nice, and you can get very good natural food. For Abruzzo search for example on: http://www.agriturismo.abruzzo.it/Z_Sito_ING/Default_ING.htm
Some of them are located in small towns up to the mountain. It can be a good place where to stop if you want to visit some small towns during your staying.

Camping
Among the camping I tried to search those with bungalows. There are many choices, and some of them quite close to the sea (es. San Vito Marina, Casalbordino Marina, Torino di Sangro). You can search on: http://www.camping.it/english/abruzzo/chieti/ or http://www.campeggievillaggi.it/Abruzzo/campeggi-Chieti.html

When a hotel, camping, restaurant, etc. do not have a web site, you can maybe try to search on pagine gialle (same as gule sider) to get some extra information (in the section "brochure") and to see the location (mappa interattiva).

Hospitality
Finally you might have another chance: get to stay at some friends' house. Me and Birger will not be able to be fully responsible for arranging that. But please, use this blog to search (norwegians) and offer (italians) hospitality, if you like/can...



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