Raffaello - Chianciano Terme, Italy 

We recently stayed for 4 days in Hotel Raffaello while attending a wedding in Tuscany. The hotel is situated about 15/20 kms (roughly 25 euro taxi ride) from Chuisi train station. Its a nice clean friendly hotel, with a good buffet breakfast and 70s decor. The staff were friendly and helpful and made us very welcome. The reception area has a bright nicely decorated foyer with comfy sofas for relaxing. The bedrooms were standard twin with en-suite facilities - the quality and cleaniness of rooms, bedclothes, towels and whole hotel in general was excellent. The only drawback is the fairly steep hill its situated on, tough on the legs coming home!! The town has lots of shops but very few restaurants, but we were lucky to find Roxy Bar which serves lovely food and reasonably priced. The hotel does serve dinner but we didn't avail of this. The location of the hotel is peaceful and there are sun loungers and chairs around the pool and garden to relax. I would recommend Hotel Raffaello if you are looking for a relaxed clean and friendly hotel - its not posh but it is very user friendly and would a good base for touring! Car parking is available but again we didn't avail of this.