Hotel is not centrally located. It is quiet and on small side street. Room was small. Breakfast was very good. Luggage that was stored due to early arrival was not brough up by staff and had to be retrieved from locked room outside of hotel by traveler.

We found the Villafranca Hotel to be excellent value. It was clean, nice adequate size rooms and the reception staff more than helpful. The self-service buffet breakfast was very good with a good choice of food to choose from. The hotel is located about 5 minutes from Station Termini, which we used frequently, with the Underground Metro station also inside. Buy a 2 or 3 day ticket for the Metro, you can use either red or blue lines and hop on or off as many times as you like, you will get to nearly all of the main attractions, including Vatican City.
Would recommend the 110 open top bus on your first day, we found it very helpful in getting our bearings around this great city.

We spent 9 nights at this little gem and was an absolute bargin.

We figured booking a motel in Rome over christmas would be difficult and pricey but when we found this place for only ~650 euros for 9 nights we were wrapt.

It is a typical Best Western 3star motel, with nice clean, simple rooms, ours of reasonable size but not huge.
The staff were helpful and friendly, and the location was good, close to termini and supermarkets etc. and had decent buffet breakfast spread which was great to energise for the day.

The best thing was the price, at approx 72 euros per night, it was an absolute bargin

Having read some of the rather damning reviews about this hotel i went with an open mind, after all not everyone who stays somewhere and has a good time bothers to write a review of a place (me included). I booked a double upgraded room b&b for myself and my mum (we got twin beds which was a relief!) for the weekend just gone and we couldn't have found a better hotel. The room was lovely - clean, tidy, well presented and the bathroom was ideal - plenty of towels, toiletries etc etc. It was really easy to find - just 5 mins walk from the Termini train station and less than 3 mins from the Linea B metro- C pretorio. The check in was fast and efficient - we arrived at the hotel at around 12 midday and check in is meant to be from 2 pm so we were very pleased. The room didn't have tea/coffee facilities but the guest directory stated that this could be organised for free from reception which we did. A very helpful gentleman brought us 2 cups, a kettle, sugar, teabags, milk and coffee on a tray. One early problem which was rectified within minutes was that the safety deposit box didn't work properly. An engineer sorted this immediately. The hotel is in a quiet location - our room, 205, was at the front of the hotel and we weren't woken at all. Buffet style breakfast was more than adequate - served from 7-10am. Plenty of choice both at 7am and after 9am. The breakfast area was light and pleasantly decorated. Check-out was also pleasant and efficient. A quick check of their guest book indicated that most people loved their stay at this hotel. We paid £128 for 2 nights and couldn't have been happier. Yes, there were many cheaper places to stay and more pricey places but having stayed at another Best Western hotel 3 years ago in Milan I thought it would be good - I was not one bit disappointed. This is a great well placed hotel to enjoy Rome.