Beautiful, beautiful Italy, we were here for an automobile weekend, and Bologna and Varignana are indeed beautiful locations. We were test driving a car for the weekend at the invitation of a local car manufacturer and our stay was partly paid for by them. Sadly we were unable to do much driving as we were so exhausted from sleep deprivation. Our room appeared decent enough with a lovely balcony, however our main issue was the air conditioning and temperature control. We also had issues with a faulty coffee machine and a leaking shower. On our first night the balcony doors were blown open by strong winds, however we later realised that the doors had not been locked properly. On checking in, reception gave us no information about the hotel, instead directed us to the TV for further information. Sadly this was all in Italian so we ended up just using the website. After our first night the display on the room phone stated that the room was unoccupied and it was apparent that the hotel had not understood that there were two consecutive bookings for the room, one from ourselves and the second by the car manufacturer. The fact that the hotel never mentioned the car manufacturer to us once was an indication that they hadn't processed the booking correctly and why we had to twice speak with reception after our first night to correct the room card authorisation for the duration of our stay. We had tried over a couple of days, late night and early hours, to get staff to sort out the air conditioning, which we were unable to control from our room. The room was so hot! We were told that this would be done remotely via reception. This did not happen. After a couple of sleepness nights we complained to management, who totally accepted fault and liability, specifically that the two consecutive room bookings had not been properly recognised, that the hotel had been experiencing issues with their systems and consequently were struggling to control air conditioning and room temperature, and that her team had not communicated any of our issues to her during our stay. With one night left the manager had the temperature of the room adjusted, replaced the coffee machine and had the shower re-sealed. She offered to move us to another room, an upgraded room, however we declined as we did not want to move all of our clothes and belongings with literally hours left of our stay. In light of the fact that we were only in Italy at the invitation of the car manufacturer to test drive one of their cars, and that our ability to do so was limited by the fatigue directly caused by the hotel's failings, we felt that we were clearly due compensation and expected our final bill to be appropriately adjusted. The manager gave us a bottle of olive oil (!) which was gratefully received, but told us she was unable to authorise compensation and claimed she could not get hold of her supervisor. We have never heard of a hotel where a manager is unable to authorise compensation! Frankly w
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