I booked in for 3 days for a business trip - or rather a travel agent booked me in. We took a wrong turn on the way and my Italian Colleague from the Campania region stopped the car down a side street about m from the hotel to ask a local for directions.
He got the directions but was asked what he was doing down there and a suggestion offered to keep his windows up, his wrist watch off and to put his satnav away whilst off the main drag!
Anyway, being a man of the world I did indeed check in at 11pm and go up to my room which was passable but very small with weak air conditioners. Instead walked across the plaza for a beer and was offered crack three times, a roll in the hay with two aged hookers and, I think, an Albanian chap tried to lift my wallet.
I checked out the next day. In a word, the hotel is passable but the area is a complete toilet, hence the terrible review. The travel agent also removed this hotel from its list of approved hotels. This hotel is a short walk from the main train station and is an amazing style of building.
The rooms are small compared with other European hotels but are well equipped. The staff I spoke with spoke English adequately; the front desk staff were quite fluent, and the breakfast on the roof was satisfactory. As a first-time visitor to southern Italy, the whole area can have a bit of a dodgy feel.
