We stayed here for four nights. Cost 420 euro including buffet breakfast which is available from 7 - 10 a.m...great food and lovely range of coffee/teas...orange juice is awful though!
For Irish guests reading this, the sausages at breakfast are the german variety and not the galtee type!! and the egg is hot but more like a scrambled omlette..also cake and pastries a little odd at 7a.m but as they say " when in Rome" .....so go ahead and eat them...delicious....
Asked for room with terrace when I booked with Booking.com and was given one on arrival. Room was on 6th floor, quiet street below..Check in was fast and smooth. When guests asked advice on excursions/restaurants etc they got the information from staff at front desk. Lots of maps and leaflets lying around anyway.

Hotel is more like a B&B. It is old in places if you take the time to look around , but too much to see and do in Rome to be concerned as to the appearance of the paintwork!!

We ate breakfast at 7 a.m and left hotel each day at 8.30 a.m we returned at 1a.m each morning!!!! so not much time spent there.
Hotel is a few streets from Termini Station so very handy for the Ryanair Terravision bus to and from the airport.

Didn't find the area near Termini to be dangerous at night and it is very busy with tourists throughout the day. Plenty of police about anyway. Hotel room had bath and shower , the room was cleaned each day, sheets changed and toiletries replaced.
Bath was fab for a soak after long day walking about.

Hot water was always available and shower was great.
Room had mini bar...we didn't like that , as it was open when we arrived and two or four items missing, we went down and got reception to make a note of it. It was bothering us the whole stay that we would be charged for stuff we didn't take, so make a check when you arrive and sort it out with staff.

Air conditioner was noisey and when we rang down to reception at 1.30.am to ask them to switch it off and they did right away.

The old man on night reception is gruff and moody ,but that is just his personality, depends on how you approach him I guess.
He got us a kettle and teabags (couldn't find any milk!) at 1.30 a.m when we came in from walking around and we had nice cup of tea before sleeping!!! So he not bad in the end!!

In the room service book it says service available 24 hours a day , but not so, kitchen and bar close at 11.30/midnight.
A good mix of ages and nationalities staying at hotel. Taxi can be called from front desk and is 8 to 10 euro to get to Trevi Fountain or Piazza Navona...we did this on one evening when it was pouring rain.....
We walked the hotel stairs one day just to see the other corridors and yes, I think they were renovated, new doors ,carpets etc,,
Overall well worth the money for what we got,basic ,clean and did the job.. I would not have been happy to pay anymore than we did.
Reception staff in daytime may need a course on customer relations and be a little more welcoming and chatty.
Breakfast staff could teach them a thing or two as they were excellent, particularly the young lad with spiky gelled hair...so nice!! Do stay at this hotel , it's not bad at all!!.

Me and my boyfriend stayed at the Villafranca for 3 nights - we used the Terravision bus to get from Ciampino to Termini and the hotel is about 5mins walk from the train station. Hotel is clean and efficient. Bedrooms aren't enormous but plenty of storage space and how much stuff do you take for a weekend away? Bathroom clean and modern, complete with good size power-shower which was a bonus. Location is OK, everything bar the Vatican City is walkable from the hotel, although nothing is exactly close by (Colosseum was about a half hour walk, same for Spanish Steps etc in other direction) - but then with easy access to both Metro lines, which we found very efficient the couple of times we used them, if you don't fancy a long walk in the heat there's no problem getting places. I have no complaints about the hotel whatsoever (didn't even experience the runny eggs at breakfast a few people have mentioned lol!), however it was a little out of the way.

Having read other reviews, my wife and I booked this hotel with some trepidation. Having been there, I can honestly say that there was nothing to worry about. I apologise for the length of this review but some would like a full review of this place. Someone complained about it being too close to the Castro Pretorio Metro station but that is an excellent selling point for any visitor!!! We loved the fact that it was so near to the Metro as the last thing we wanted after a long day visiting (and walking!) the various tourist sites was a long walk/bus ride back to the hotel.
My wife is 6 months pregnant and did not find it a problem to walk to the Termini train station even though she did not initially believe me when I said it was walking distance. The hotel room was an adequate size for two but we were hardly in there as we were out enjoying the sites and so will you too.
Two things to note though - I can confirm the bed is quite firm (ok, hard!) but some seem to like it that way; second, try to get a room with a view that doesnt overlook the back of someone else's home. We had absolutely no view and what little there was was overlooking some building work going on next door! Needless to say, we just get the windows closed and switched on the air-conditioning.
There is satellite tv with the usual channels ie CNN, BBC world, eurosports but no sky sports ;-( Breakfast was plentiful (yes, runny eggs but we got used to it). The bathroom was lovely with new towels and beddings everyday. Lovely restaurant on the street right behind the hotel (Trapetoria or something, reception give you a card which gets you 10% off!) and supermart at the end of the road on the other side of the road. All in all, I would stay there again as it was great value for the money.

I was not completely satisfied with the hotel location because it's too close to the train station where lots of people hovering around
and a bit far from all the attractions. But the good thing is that couple of restaurants in the neighborhood are pretty good. The room was not fancy but clean, I would say the price is fair with this rating in Rome. People there were very nice, they even prepared the breakfast basket to go for us due to our 'way' early flight schedule. That's very sweet !!