I’m never 100% sure about hotels or apartments with names like *Cosy Moods*. Although I should know to hold my judgement as we did once stay in an apartment in Alghero called “Holiday Fever” which exceeded our expectations. And, I’m delighted to say that Cosy Moods did the same. And more.
We booked a couple of apartments here in July, as a thank you to friends who had helped us out massively with getting all of our belongings into storage when we sold our house in Istria. They were travelling back to the UK from Verona and so were getting a train from Trieste, so we thought it was an ideal place to treat them to a night in this beautiful, but often overlooked, Italian city. The location of the building that the apartments were in, was perfect – very close to the station for our friends to leave early the next morning, and very close to the Grand Canal which we knew would be a perfect choice for dinner. Also, ideally situated for parking in the big Molo car park, right on the seafront.
Communications with Asia, the owner were excellent and with her directions, we were soon in our apartments. After a very dicey lift experience – clearly not suited for four people, it was tiny and took an age as it rattled and groaned its way up the floors. At one point, it started to get a little claustrophobic and I genuinely thought it might get stuck – but with some magic button pressing it arrived at the right floor and the doors opened, to much relief all round.
The apartments were utterly gorgeous. Renovated within a historic building, with the most amazing attention to detail. The floor of our apartment was very creaky, but unbelievably beautiful – original floors from the early 18th century, no less, so we could forgive the creaks. Furniture was minimal but carefully chosen, as was lighting. The bathroom was small, but so well designed and featuring the most exquisite marbled walls. Our view was across the rooftops of Trieste and the spires of a church opposite, so lots to drink in. But what I loved most, were true dimension prints on the walls, showing the apartment pre-renovation. They were so clever and worked so well, that you actually felt you could walk through the doorways…
The photos, above and below are close ups of the large wall prints, depicting the rooms before the renovation works.
Dinner on the Grand Canal just topped off a really lovely evening, with two very, very good friends. A wonderful time spent laughing and reminiscing and planning, as dusk fell. Perfect.
