great location. smallish but practical, stylish and clean room. wifi and air conditioning worked like promised. walls not the most sound-proof. breakfast is as good as it can be without a dedicated kitchen (i.e. no cooked meals). excellent coffee!

We stayed here on a weekend away with friends. The position is great and we could walk to everything you wanted to see in Trieste and it is also only a couple of minutes from the main square and the sea. The welcome is a little low key as the hotel has no reception and you have to check in at the adjacent stylish Urban Hotel and then go out the back across the alley to the James Joyce. The rooms seem to have been recently refurbished and are clean and comfortable but a bit basic. Absolutely no view apart from at brick walls and rooms are rather dark despite the fact it was sunny weather outside. Upside is that as it is so enclosed it was very quiet until early morning .Breakfast was basic in a small room on the ground floor but good with high quality coffee but get there early as croissants run out!

We were in a room at the fifth floor, with the elevator reaching only the fourth. The room was small and not particularly comfortable and was not design at all, no matter what they write on their web... Service friendly and attentive, but a tad slow.

This rather basic place is okay, but with no reception service. To check in you have to go to the posh 'Design Hotel' opposite, where in our case at least, we felt we were regarded as second class compared to their regular business customers. We were given a dark room with soft beds. We were paying a lot (90E) per night, as much as I had paid for a very good hotel with late night bar and great facilities in Verona, and yet here we were in a pretty dingy room with awful - I mean awful - sound separation between the rooms. No sleep that night! I had researched it quite thoroughly - my mother is partially sighted and therefore needs light, bright rooms - and also had specifically asked for a 'light ' room when I booked. The photographs just did not represent the truth. The owner was pleasant enough, but still, this is overpriced for a very basic level of accomodation.