Prices are unclear: most expensive is € 155 per double room but prices change per month. I did not get a pricelist when I asked.
All in all, I was quite happy to be staying there 5 nights. But we definitely had the best room of the 6. There were some light complaints within our group and a general feeling of it not being up to par. Read another review on VT here
Location: so near Roma Termini (train, bus, metro), it was very easy to get to every sight in town. The neighbourhood has many Asian shops. I liked it actually. In the street, Via Turati, we tried 4 of the 5 restaurants within 50 metres. Those will be described in the Restaurant tips.
You can read some more reviews here.
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Our room 219 is at the back, quieter than at the front and certainly larger than most other rooms. Although the word 'spacious' does not come to mind, it is adequate. Window looks over a patio with potted palms but the patio itself is unused and messy.
The bathroom was fine, clean, spacious and good towels. There's a hairdryer, tv, mini-bar with room for your own stuff. Our bed was good. But that's about all that makes it a 3-star hotel.
Most of the staff speaks English.
Breakfast is of medium quality and bread not always very fresh: juices, coffee, tea, white buns, croissants, jam, honey, yoghurt, cornflakes. Nothing more. Advice: buy some prosciutto and cheese and bring them to breakfast. The breakfast room is small. Less than 20 places set, for the whole hotel. There's a conference room/disco at the back but it isn't used for breakfast space.
As we occupied 6 rooms for 5 nights, I had ample information about the other rooms.
There are 6 floors. Floor 4 is a backpacker hotel with the inevitable noise late at night. As I read in reviews on other websites, there was evidence of youngsters hanging about on the stairs, cigarette butts, probably some weed use as well. I was personally not bothered by it but it's a strange combination to be in a 3-star hotel with a rundown backpacker floor in the middle of it.
Floors 2, 3, 5 and 6 have normal rooms. There's a tiny elevator.
Try for the lower floors because the higher floors often had trouble with warm water or hardly any pressure at all.
Apart from the entrance, the hotel is in bad need of renovation. The staircases are in bad repair. Not unsafe but uneven and missing bits of barrister and floor covering.
