Mitico Hotel & Natural Spa Bologna: Pre-Cruise Hotel Review

The verdict

Mitico is twelfth, and only worth it for a late landing at Bologna. Bologna Welcome places it near the airport, about 6.1 road miles away by our routing, with a Natural Spa, but the ship is about 53.6 road miles off.

We read its tourism-board listing, not its own site. Breakfast, parking and check-in times aren't on that page.

Its airport shuttle is free only during events and congresses, per Bologna Welcome. On a normal night, plan on a taxi.

If you can land earlier, sleep in Ravenna instead. The morning is half the length.

Book it if

You land at Bologna very late
A spa after the flight appeals
Your pet is travelling

Look elsewhere if

You want the hotel's own word on breakfast.
You'd rather sleep near the ship.
You need a free airport shuttle on a normal night.

Sail Morning

Your night before, from here

From check-in to the gangway, using only what Bologna Welcome, the city’s tourism board prints.

Evening

Check in and settle

A Natural Spa, per Bologna Welcome; no restaurant named on that page.

Before bed

Line up your ride

No cruise ride on its tourism-board listing. From Mitico, the train to Ravenna, then the transfer.

Sail morning

Breakfast, your call

Bologna Welcome's page doesn't say whether breakfast is included.

Heading out

To the terminal

Bologna Welcome, the city's tourism board, places it near the airport and doesn't mention the port. Our routing gives about 53.6 road miles (86.2 km) to the terminal, roughly 65 minutes, and about 6.1 miles from the airport. From Mitico it’s a train of about an hour to Ravenna, then the transfer — our 65-minute road figure assumes empty roads.

While you sail

Your car

Parking isn't covered on the tourism-board page we read.

Score

Night-Before Score: 10 of 100

10No. 12 of 12

Distance to the ship10/30

Getting to the ship0/25

Parking while you sail0/20

Free breakfast0/10

The evening before0/15

Scored only from what Bologna Welcome, the city’s tourism board prints. See how the Night-Before Score works.

To the Ship

Getting here, and on to the ship

This hotelOther ranked hotels, tap one to open itPorto Corsini terminal (approximate)Straight line to the ship, not a routeReal geography: NOAA’s GSHHG shoreline, generalised, so the canal, the quays and the lagoons aren’t drawn. Hotel pins come from the Esri World Geocoder, matched to each listed address. The port pin is a street point on the terminal’s bank at Porto Corsini; no source publishes the terminal’s own coordinates.

Bologna airport is about 6.1 road miles from Mitico by our routing, roughly 12 minutes, and the terminal about 53.6 — question marks are rides you arrange, not ones the hotel runs.

Leg 1 · Bologna airport to the hotel

Ask the hotel

Its airport shuttle is free only during events and congresses, per Bologna Welcome. Our routing gives about 6.1 road miles from the airport.

Leg 2 · Hotel to the ship

Shuttle not stated

No cruise ride on its tourism-board listing.

From BLQ without a hotel shuttle

Bologna airport is about 6.1 road miles from Mitico by our routing, roughly 12 minutes; the Marconi Express runs to Bologna Centrale in 7 minutes for €12.80 (about US$14). More: the airport page.

Leg 1 · Marco Polo to the hotel

Not stated

Nothing for Marco Polo; by our routing it's about 1 hour 43 minutes by road.

Leg 2 · Hotel to the ship

Shuttle not stated

No cruise ride on its tourism-board listing.

From VCE without a hotel shuttle

From Marco Polo, our routing gives about 1 hour 43 minutes to Mitico with no traffic. We found no public bus or train fare from the airport to Ravenna; Princess sells transfers for its guests, unpriced.

Leg 1 · Drive in and park

Cruise parking unconfirmed

Parking isn't covered on the tourism-board page we read.

Parking for your stay: Not stated.

Leg 2 · Hotel to the ship

Shuttle not stated

No cruise ride on its tourism-board listing.

Landing on sail morning instead? Skip Mitico and go straight to the terminal — the airport page covers the shuttles, the trains and the drive.

Which terminal

Porto Corsini, north bank

Ships board at the Porto Corsini terminal on the north bank of the Canale Candiano, about 53.6 road miles from Mitico by our routing. A new terminal was due for 2026 and is running late, so expect the temporary check-in tent unless your documents say otherwise. More in the Ravenna cruise guide.

Source: celebritycruises.com

Distance

~53.6 mi, our routing

Source: bolognawelcome.com

To the ship

No shuttle stated

No shuttle from Mitico to the ship. Direct trains run from Bologna to Ravenna in about an hour — from the station, Visit Ravenna’s transfer is from €20 (about US$20) and about 30 minutes.

Source: visitravenna.it

Parking

Parking while you sail

Cruise parking

Cruise parking unconfirmed

Parking isn't covered on the tourism-board page we read.

Source: bolognawelcome.com

The city car park

€4 (about US$4) a day at Via Cura, per the city

Royal Caribbean says there’s no long-term parking at the port. The city’s Via Cura car park is €4 a day from October 1, 2026, per the city — a city rate, not a hotel deal. At Mitico, for comparison: no parking terms on the page we read.

Where the car goes while you sail · Ravenna cruise parking, compared.

Source: comune.ravenna.it

The Night Before

The evening and the morning

The evening

Nothing we could count

A Natural Spa, per Bologna Welcome; no restaurant named on that page.

Breakfast

Not stated

Bologna Welcome's page doesn't say whether breakfast is included.

Address

Via Ferrarese, north Bologna

Via Ferrarese 164, 40128 Bologna
Bologna Welcome listing

Fact Sheet

The fine print, in one place

Times, fees, rooms and the small stuff, as Bologna Welcome, the city’s tourism board prints it. The gaps here are parking and whether breakfast is included — a call to Mitico settles both.

Check-in and check-out

Check-inNot stated

Check-outNot stated

Minimum age

—

Not stated by the hotel.

City tourist tax

Bologna's 2026 tax: €4.00 to €7.00 (about US$4–8) a person a night by room price, under-14s exempt, per Bologna Welcome

Wi-Fi

Not stated

Parking for your stay

Not stated

Breakfast

Not stated

Pool

Natural Spa, per Bologna Welcome

Pets

Pets accepted, no fee printed, per Bologna Welcome.

Rooms

Mitico doesn’t list room types on the pages we read.

Accessibility

Mitico’s pages we read don’t detail accessible rooms, so call before you book one.

On site

EV chargingNot stated
Guest laundryNot stated
GymNot stated
Pets allowedYes

Nearby, by the hotel’s count

Bologna airport, our routing6.1 mi
Ravenna cruise terminal, our routing53.6 mi

Distances as Bologna Welcome, the city’s tourism board gives them, plus our road routing to the terminal.

Also worth knowing

Facts from Bologna Welcome
Pets accepted
A 4-star, per Bologna Welcome

Worth Knowing

Before you book

Worth knowing

Facts from Bologna Welcome's listing; we didn't read the hotel's own site.
An airport shuttle is free only during events and congresses, per Bologna Welcome.
Bologna Welcome's old web address for it reads Ramada Encore, so you may see that name.
A 4-star hotel under Italian classification, per Bologna Welcome.

What we couldn’t confirm

Parking
Whether breakfast is included
Check-in and check-out times

Every hotel fact here comes from Bologna Welcome, the city’s tourism board, read October 4, 2026, unless we name another source — so before you book, confirm breakfast, parking and the airport shuttle.

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