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Certainly, one of the better 3* hotels
If you're a light traveller, the hotel is just over ten minutes walk from the *front* of Roma Termini station. The Via Nazionale is a busy shopping street that seems fairly safe, and there are restaurants and a bar nearby.
Rooms overlooking the street are double-glazed with thick curtains, are of an adequate size, and in a good state of repair. The en-suite facilities - shower rather than bath - were in excellent condition, and the hot water worked at all times ! The only cause for concern could be that some patrons more accustomed to cossetted night-time comfort may be somewhat adverse to the rather hard matresses gifted by the Spanish Inquisition.
In the room, there is telephone, television, a mini-bar with astoundingly reasonable prices, and an air conditioner operated by a remote control that, like additional toilet rolls, seemed to have been kept out of harm's way in the hotel office during early May.
As other reviewers have noted, the breakfast room is often full (arrive early) and the best coffee comes from the bar next door, not the machine. Orange Juice is more like Orange Squash without the water added.
The hotel staff are wonderful. Mario, the manager, is an absolute gem whose praises have already been well documented by other writers, and all the members of staff we met were hot on his heels in making a splendid job of looking after the guests.
Although there is an "Irish" bar over the road, if you can get the hotel's own bar next to the breakfast room opened for some serious business, the hotel prices are cheaper and the measures can seem more generous if you engage the hotel porter in pleasant conversation - international cricket is a good opening bat.
I would stay here again (and spend less time sleeping in that bed .....)
