on June 16, 2006
It is a five-minute walk from Termini and is in the same building with a few other hotels and businesses. Neither of these two facts should be seen as a negative factor, unless one wants it to be so.
Scott House is on the fourth and fifth floor, with a good-sized, well-functioning elevator. The rooms emit a warm feeling due to the ochre wall colour and the high ceilings. The bathrooms are also of good size and have new fixtures, except that the showers are still equipped with old-fashioned shallow bottoms. The beds are firm and comfortable, the linen crisp, and the towels absorbent and abundant. Rooms facing the street may not be a good choice if you are sensitive to the noise. However, we did not have any problem falling to sleep when we closed the double-paned windows.
The day staff is accommodating, resourceful, and capable of multi-tasking. When the room given to us was a wrong size, she immediately traded it up to our benefit while at the same time very patiently explaining the rate and booking procedures to a rather difficult caller on the phone.
Breakfast pastries are not homemade, but they're fresh and sufficient, and breakfast drinks are aplenty. The breakfast offering is a lot more and a lot better than many other budget hotels.
Scott House's website shows a good rate, but you may be able to get a few Euro less booking through a third party. However, beware that cash is the only form of payment accepted at this hotel.
It cost us € 129 for a quadruple during Easter week (high season). The hotel gave away our room by mistake so they upgraded us to two double rooms for the same total price.
