Pretty Hotel downtown Rome, close to Piazza del Popolo, 10 mns walk from Piazza di Spagna.
Ask for room in the central block (possibly not in the dependance opposite the street).
Bikes available to visit the city.

I stayed here for 4 nights in September and found it to be a good hotel. Staff were helpful to varying degrees, though friendly. Location was great - close to sights, as well as smaller stores, trattories, etc. I'm uncertain about the traveller who found the elevator was never working in September. When I was there in the third week of September, the elevator worked well! I did notice that a number of people tried to operate it and when it didn't seem to be responding, simply walked away, not knowing that one had to manually open the elevator cage door.

I've concluded over time that North America has the most physical space and money and can, therefore, build large hotels with large rooms and large amenitites. As a result, you can find numerous wonderful hotels in Europe and other areas, but they will very likely not be as large as they are in North America. Adopt this understanding and you won't go wrong or be so disappointed.

In North America, for example, this hotel would rate a 3/5, but in Europe, it is definately a 4/5. Worth staying at.

We stayed in Hotel Locarno for 2 nights on September 2008. The hotel has a great location near via del Corso and piazza del Poppolo...for someone who has never been in Rome and would love to visit the historic centre this is very important
The rooms are clean but very old fashioned...our room had a tiny tv and it was looking more like a house room converted to a hotel room..
breakfast was moderate...the staff was really bored...the food was not replaced...
Oh and the elevator was rarely working so most of the times we had to go up on foot...
hotels in Italy are expensive compared with other European countries abd especially those near the centre of room but the 250 euros per night in that room was not worth it

The Hotel itselt was ok but my credit carg was incorrectly charged rather than authorised upon arrival and then again when we left.

Initially telephoned and told that no refund could be made back to a credit card - why not?

After about 30 emails managed to get the Hotel to TT some money but amount was deducted by their bank for charges and tax.

Hotel then promised to send the remainder in cash (??) which I said they could do at their own risk and please send by International Recorded Delivery.

They never did and now emails are ignored.

Very disappointing and strange behaviour. Customer Service clearly does not translate.