My disabled husband and I are flying in late (11:45p.m.) and I'm wondering if anyone ever stayed close to the airport. We're not opposed to AirBnbs or Vrbos, just looking for a good experience and a safe neighborhood.
Posted by
Vienna, Austria
5513 posts
For how many nights? Are you just spending one night in near the airport and then moving elsewhere? If you are visiting Bologna for several days, then definitely bite the bullet and come into the city for your stay. I have spent a week in Bologna and don't really know the airport area at all, but it is FAR from what you want to see and you don't want to schlepp back and forth every day - schlepp once and be done with it.
Posted by
Seattle, WA
17563 posts
Unless it is just for one night before flying elsewhere, please take Emily’s advice and go to a hotel IN Bologna. Marconi airport is quite close to the city, but there isn’t really any “neighborhood” there. There is a a hotel right at the airport, which will do IF it is just for the one night, but their free shuttle stops running at 23:45–just when your plane is due to land. You won’t make that, so you would need to take a taxi.
https://www.flyonhotel.it/en/index
For more than one night, take a taxi from the official taxi stand in front of the terminal straight to your hotel in Bologna. It won’t cost a lot; we took a cab from the city’s center to the airport last month for €18.
As for a safe neighborhood, we walked all over the city and it all felt very safe. The usual recommendation is to stay in the city center, somewhere near Piazza Maggiore, or elsewhere on the axis between the piazza and the train station if you want convenient access to that. If you would like an apartment, we have found some nice ones on booking.com—-but they were not “accessible” ones (lots of stairs). You might be much better off with a standard hotel.
Posted by
Washington DC
28247 posts
The area right at the train station is relatively unattractive (cheap restaurants, etc.), so do choose a place in the direction of the historic center.
Posted by
San Francisco Bay Area (USA)
16133 posts
The FlyOnHotel is great (formerly a Sheraton) and inexpensive (I stay there the night before my early flights out of BLQ), but unless you plan to rent a car from the airport the next morning, I would go straight to the hotel in the city where you plan to stay the rest of your stay. Taxicabs operate 24 hours a day and the ride to downtown is only 20 min (maybe less at that late time)