Stayed in the hotel for two nights in Sept 2009. Arrived from Florence by train and reached the main station [Roma Termini]. Called the hotel and took directions from the english speaking person. You first have to take the underground Metro to Cornelia station and then take bus 246 which drops you near the hotel. Since the hotel is located on slightly higher ground, the drive way is slightly long and winding and walking from the bus stand takes about 15 min with luggage.
It is a good idea to take a full day pass [costs 4 EUR] when you buy the first ticket from roma termini. the ticket works on all metro trains and buses for the full day. Alternatively, each ticket costs EUR 1 per journey. While going back, we had to go to the airport. A taxi costs EUR 50 but if you take the bus back to Cornelia then you could catch the bus to the Fumicino airport from the cornelia main station [also called the leonardo da vinci airport] which costs only about EUR 3.5 per head. These buses are not very well known but they start from the cornelia bus station and are very comfortable [I think the bus company is called COTRAL .... not sure].
The hotel itself was quite comfortable. the room was relatively small in size but was clean and airconditioned. the only drawback in the room was the non availability of an electronic safe. One had to use the one located at the reception.
There is a free hotel shuttle which takes you to the Vatican and the main city at regular intervals. You can take one at 10 to go down to the city and come back by the last one which leaves the city at 9 in the night. It is a good arrangement.
The breakfast was OK .... as expected in a Holiday Inn hotel.
The front office staff is quite friendly esp. a gentleman called Andreas.

It is indeed a recommendable hotel; large (yet personal), clean, well-maintained and yes ideal if you are on short visit to Rome, or Roma as they say. If you are coming with a car, it is easy to reach this hotel as it is close to Aurelia entry/exit. But remember, that to reach the hotel you have to take a short detour as it falls on your left but due to the road-divider you have to take a shot exit in the opposite direction and take a u tun on an overbridge. There is enough parking for the coaches. The hotel also offers coach service to the city, adding comfort to your sight-seeing visit. To find a seat on this coach, you may better collect a token from the reception beforehand.

We spent the last 2 nights of our visit to Italy at this hotel. Our experience was great.

Parking cost 6 euro per day, which was very reasonable for the Rome area.

The hotel offered a free shuttle bus from the hotel to the major sites and back to the hotel. You have to book a seat on the shuttle both ways to ensure your use of the shuttle. This service was awesome. I didn't have to try to drive in the busy areas and didn't have to worry about finding some place to park near the sites we wanted to see. The bus dropped us off a block from the Vatican City at 9:30am and picked us up at 7 close to the Coliseum. It was a great day.

We had a delux room which was not expensive at all. Included in room safe, mini bar, pant press, candies, water, juice, hair dryer, robe, slippers, shampoo, body wash, body lotion, shower cap, sewing kit, kettle with coffe and tea and likely more that I can't remember.

The pool was not really accessable. The pool hours are from 11 am to 8 pm. Given that most people are out sightseeing during this time, it did not allow us to use the pool at all.

The king size bed was very comfortable, lots of pillows.

Air conditioning was great. Could set for what ever temperature you wanted.

The hotel was very clean. The elevator very small.

The hotel restaurant seemed a little pricey, but a McDonald's down the hill only a 5 minute walk - which made my teenage daughter very happy.

The rooms were modern and clean, service was fine, rates were good (ours was 125 euros AAA rate for a room with three single beds). BUT...this hotel is very inconveniently located. You cannot walk to the metro, not even if you are willing to walk the 40 minutes, because there is no sidewalk next to Via Aurelia for the first 1/2 km. There is nothing within walking distance except a McDonalds, a Pans (sandwiches), and a large grocery store. Taking a taxi is expensive because they have to go the wrong way on Via Aurelia before making a U-turn -- it's 10 euros before you get back to the same spot going in the other direction, then another 10 or more into town. There's a bus line about 10 minutes away, it runs about every 20 minutes.

Now the hotel does have a shuttle into town, and that's a very good thing because otherwise this hotel would be almost impossible to bear. The shuttle was prompt, big, and clean. It stops on the south side of the Vatican (on the way into town only), and then near Palazzo Venezia (about 1 km west of the Colosseum). Those are indeed the two best places to stop. BUT (again), it does NOT stop anywhere near a metro station, and that can be annoying. Also, there is a tone of traffic in Rome, so the bus rides ranged from 35 minutes to 50 minutes, whereas the metro zips along underground at about a minute or two between stops.

SO, in summary, use this hotel only as a last resort. TRY TO FIND SOMETHING CLOSE TO THE METRO (orange line) and hopefully something with restaurants nearby. I saw lots of hotels on Via Aurelia further north, not far from the Cornelia station. One of those might work better, or any of the many other places in Rome. Good luck!

Oh, and two minor things. We booked two rooms for 3 people each; when we checked in and got to our rooms, we found only two single beds in each room. The person at the counter seemed to imply this was our fault ("well, you listed kids" or "it came to us as two people") and basically said there was nothing she could do because there were no 3-people rooms available. I was friendly but persistent, and after about 15 minutes (including going to the room to see if a foldaway could be put in -- the porter insisted no), the person at the counter "somehow" found two rooms with 3 beds each. I don't know what that was all about.

The other thing is that the rooms didn't smell particularly good; kind of a combination of a slight sewage smell (near the bathroom mostly) and a very cheap but strong perfume. No big deal, unless you're very sensitive. Oh, and even though it was really hot outside, the pool was not open until June -- strange.