The make-up matters
Thirty people are not thirty beds. We need numbers by gender, ages, how many group leaders and whether they sleep separately: which rooms can actually be used depends on it.
Ways to travel
From ten people up, everything changes.
Under ten people you book like everyone else, on the hostel's own site. Above that, online booking stops working: you need rooms that sit together, meals agreed in advance, arrival times, and someone who answers a question with a sentence instead of a form.
Meals are agreed first
Breakfast, half board, full board, packed lunches. All four hostels have a restaurant on site, so meals are arranged with the hostel instead of hunting for a place that seats thirty.
Arrivals
A coach in a historic centre has to be planned. Unloading, parking and timing are sorted beforehand, not at the door.
One person to talk to
Your enquiry reaches a person at the hostel you chose, who replies within two working days. There is no switchboard to get through.
What makes a quote useful
The bare minimum is destination, dates, number of people and the board you want. With those we can already tell you whether there is room.
The rest saves three rounds of email: group make-up, ages, leaders, how you travel, rough budget per person. Telling us the budget does not push the price up — it gets you a proposal you can actually accept instead of one you cannot.
If your dates are flexible, say so: in high season a week either way can be the difference between no and yes.
Request a quoteBefore you write
What to have to hand.
With these, the answer comes in one exchange instead of three.
- Dates, and whether they are flexibleIn high season a week either way can be the difference between no and yes.
- How many of you, by genderThis decides which rooms can actually be used.
- How many group leadersAnd whether they sleep with the group or separately.
- Which board you needRoom only, breakfast, half board or full board.
- How you arriveA coach in a historic centre needs planning in advance.
- Rough budget per personSaying it does not push the price up: it gets you the right proposal straight away.
Where
Which hostel for which kind of group.
Capacity and services vary quite a bit from city to city.
Reggio Emilia
The largest of the four, inside the Chiostro della Ghiara: restaurant and event rooms in the same complex.
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Full board without going out: up in the hills the restaurant works every evening.
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Inside the walls, with the city on foot: few transfers to organise.
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Fifteen minutes from the station: convenient for groups arriving by train.
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