Verona, Italy

Butterfly Verona

Price per night from$253.33

Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (including tax) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR234.16), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

Style

Designer dressed residenza

Setting

Old Town outskirts

In sight of the city walls, a caramel-tinted townhouse has metamorphosed into first-class boutique residence Butterfly Verona. If its grand proportions have you all aflutter, closer inspection reveals the contemporary appeal of this prize specimen beneath its storied camouflage: Italian designer furnishings from Poltrona Frau, Baxter and Tooy are fit for a monarch; thoughtful extras such as underfloor heating, free minibars and Netflix are nectar to modern pleasure seekers. A door code system means there’s no old-fashioned curfew to curb city wanders either – which is handy, given that you’re only a short stroll from Verona’s città antica with its historic sights, bars and restaurants.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

Six, including three suites and one apartment.

Check–Out

11am; earliest check-in, between 3pm and 7pm (by appointment). Late check-out or early check-in are subject to availability and extra cost. Check-in options are emailed to you seven days ahead of arrival.

Prices

Double rooms from £220.71 (€258), including tax at 10 per cent. Please note the hotel charges an additional local city tax of €2.50 per person per night on check-in.

More details

Rates are room only; you’ll need to find a café nearby for breakfast – although coffee, tea and a selection of pastries (by Giancarlo Perbellini) are provided in rooms.

Also

By day reception staff are happy to help you find a restaurant, book tickets or transport – but (if you prefer) there’s a digital option, too, called Butterfly Chat, granting you concierge access via WhatsApp or Messenger.

At the hotel

In rooms: free WiFi, smart TV with Netflix, free minibar, Nespresso machine, kettle, free bottled water, Laboratorio Olfattivo bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Rooms (mostly suites) are available to book individually – so once you’ve decided whether the pistachio-hued deluxe with a balcony, capacious khaki-walled junior suite or shades-of-grey suite with a separate living room are for you, there’s no pot luck involved. Our tips, however, are the stupendously stuccoed presidential suite or the devil-may-care romance of the superior junior suite (with a bedroom bath tub). Families should make a beeline for the finely furnished two-bedroom apartment.

Packing tips

You’re in the city of love, so pack for seduction: floaty linen pieces for riverside ambles and old-town strolls; finery for the opera; date-night threads for candlelit dinners.

Also

Reception is open 9.30am–12.30pm and 3pm–7pm, but is subject to change so let the hotel know your arrival time in advance. Personalised door codes are issued 24 hours ahead. The hotel has a lift but no wheelchair-adapted rooms.

Pet‐friendly

No pets are allowed at this designer Italian hotel. See more pet-friendly hotels in Verona.

Children

Hotel suites are for children aged 11 or older only; younger children are welcome in the hotel’s two-bedroom apartment.

Food and Drink

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Hotel restaurant

There’s no restaurant at Butterfly Verona, but chef Giancarlo Perbellini provides a welcome box of sweet and savoury pastries alongside your free minibar and there are cafés nearby, ideal for breakfast.

Location

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Address
Butterfly Verona
Via Ponte Rofiolo, 1
Verona
37121
Italy

Butterfly Verona is just south of the old town in Verona on Via Ponte Rofiolo (a five-minute walk from the arena).

Planes

Verona airport is 20 minutes from the hotel by road; private transfers can be arranged.

Trains

The city’s major rail hub, Porta Nuova train station is an eight-minute drive from the hotel and has connections to Bologna (50 minutes), Venice (an hour) and Milan (75 minutes). Private transfers to/from the station can be arranged (from €20 each way).

Automobiles

Butterfly Verona is five minutes from the Verona Sud motorway exit. There’s no parking at the hotel but there are two public car parks nearby; valet parking is available from €25 a vehicle per night.

Worth getting out of bed for

Verona is dubbed the city of love with visits to Juliet’s tomb, Juliet’s house (and Romeo’s) high on many a visitor’s wishlist: whether you wish to park your scepticism that Shakespeare’s Verona-set tragedy is a work of fiction with no balcony or grave visits required, there’s no debating the romance of this ancient city, cupped by the river Adige and ribbed with crenellated city walls (one such straddles the hotel’s street) and an alley-ribboned, mediaeval città antica that’s Verona’s beating heart. Its Roman amphitheatre, the Arena, is just a three-minute walk from the hotel, and hosts a summer season of opera: you can expect a bit of Bizet but a lot of Verdi (seeing Aida in an open-air Roman amphitheatre sounds pretty spectacular). Grandiose Piazza del Erbe, once a Roman forum, is the home of Torre dei Lamberti, a soaring brick tower with bird’s eye views of the city (hilltop fortress Castel San Pietro has impressive panoramas, too). On Piazza del Erbe, you’re also at one end of Via Mazzini, an avenue of high-street and designer stores that’s catnip to big spenders. At the other end, Piazza Brà is the café-lined main square beside the Arena. Take a guided bicycle tour for a comprehensive whirl around town on two wheels. If you find yourself on Corso Porta Bursari, look up. Above the original Melegatti panetteria, you can see the city’s prized pandoro rendered as a pair of stone finials – reason enough to immediately track down the sweet doughy version and an espresso

Local restaurants

Precise plates of avant-garde cuisine (tweezered herbs, cloched smoke, glossy emulsions) are overseen by innovative chef Saimir Xhaxhaj at upscale restaurant La Canonica, where the tasting menus are less of a meal, more of a culinary odyssey.  A stained glass lantern lights the way to a historic restaurant of frescoed dining rooms at 12 Apostoli, where chef Mauro Buffo oversees an accomplished menu of dishes named by listed ingredients such as ‘salted venison, rocket, lovage’ or ‘milk ice-cream, strawberry, rhubarb.’ Alongside his most popular outpost Casa Perbellini, chef Giancarlo Perbellini (of pastry box fame) has a handful restaurants in the city, including Pizzeria Du De Cope and a fish restaurant El Capitan that’s an innovative celebration of seafood serving up cuttlefish noodles, monkfish and spider crab. 

Local bars

You don’t even need to be a wine drinker to appreciate the walls and walls of bottles at historic enoteca Botte Gavini, which has a fine Veronese selection alongside vintages from further afield.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this Veronese townhouse and unpacked their handmade loafers and Armani shades, a full account of their city break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Butterfly Verona

A sweeping staircase takes you up to the entrance of Butterfly Verona, a first-floor hotel of just five stellar rooms and suites, plus a two-bedroom apartment. Each room is dressed differently (you can book exactly the one you want) – with original plasterwork conserved and a contemporary art collection curated across suites. A high-spec finish unites all interiors, featuring designer wallpaper, furniture from Baxter and Poltrona Frau, and eye-catching lighting by Tooy. This style masterclass is given by owners Laura Giovedì and Gian Matteo Rossi, whose aim was to create an exclusive hotel focused on design, comfort and privacy. With this in mind, guests can self check-in and have the freedom to come and go (via a door code system), and Laura and Gian Matteo include extras such as fresh pastries, Nespresso machines (certo), free minibars and Netflix. It’s a home-from-home set-up that not just works – it also entices. What this room-only stay lacks in amenities, it makes up for with polished interiors and a hard-to-beat location: you may be on a quiet street just outside Verona’s città antica, but the city’s key historic sights (Roman amphitheatre included), designer stores, bars and restaurants are easily walkable – and what a fine des-res to come home to. 

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Price per night from $253.33