After reading so many mixed reviews we were not sure what to expect. The hotel has been renovated, so all the bad reviews are the rooms, do not apply anymore! This hotel was great! The staff was fantastic, and they all spoke english, the rooms were modern and a good size, flat screen tvs, and a beautiful bathroom, we have no complaints about this hotel. restaurant was great and the breakfast was unbelievable.

This hotel is a 20 mins bus ride from the vatican, the bus stopped is right acrossed the road, take bus 881 into the city and go from there. Small shopping center 10mins walk up the road, with grocery store. Great spot!! great value! Highly recommended!

On our Eurotrip we stayed in 5 different hotels and this was one of the best! The staff is very very helpful and the breakfast is free and wonderful! They served all different kinds of pastry's, yogurt, meats, fruit, eggs, cereal, coffee, and orange juice. The rooms were bigger than the rest we experienced in Italy (which isn't saying too much) but they are clean and nice. There is a very nice restaurant in the hotel and a bar where you can get food if the restaurant is closed. The only drawback is the bus ride to the tourist sites in Rome is about 30-40 minutes long but it's not bad. The bus only costs 1 euro (but no one ever checked bus passes so a couple of times we didn't pay at all..). We rented a car because we drove up to Florence for a couple of days but we decided it was easier to take the bus into Rome than to drive. We also saw signs in the hotel that there was a rec room on the 2nd floor with a pool table but we never made it up there to check it out!

My wife and I stayed at this hotel for four days and we were delighted with the standard of the room. The staff were helpful, polite and friendly. There is a bus stop right outside the door which takes you to Saint Peter's square . The hotel is far enough from Rome to be easily accessable by car and is handy for the airport.
B. Beckett.
Australia.

We stayed in Pisana Palace for 5 nights and all the positive reviews here are spot on so I won't go into detail about them. The newly renovated rooms were done up nicely, breakfast was plenty and services offered throughout the hotel were great. All staff were friendly and were able to honour our request for a twin room by email despite booking a double room. Very good hotel soon to be Holiday Inn Rome Pisana!

Few things that may help if you're staying at this hotel:

1) Fiumicino Airport to Hotel

The hotel provides shuttle service at cost of €35 for first two/three people plus 10 for additional passengers. But the frequency is not great, few in the morning and few in the evening. You can email the hotel for latest shuttle bus times, and to reserve your space.

Cheaper (and more frequent) option is to take a train from the airport (Line FR1 destination Orte/Fara Sabina) to Ponte Galeria which is 3 stops away, approx 15 mins. This costs €5.50 and runs every 15mins, every 30min on Sundays. Buy the ticket from ticket desk in the airport railway station and make sure to validate it in one of the yellow machines as you enter the platforms.

Get off at Ponte Galeria, walk to the main road (few metres away) and cross the road to the bus stop so that you're in direction towards a bridge. Get on bus 808 which takes you straight to the hotel in approx 20mins.

One important note though - BUY THE BUS TICKET AT THE AIRPORT! You can buy it for €1 in a shop next to the ticket desks in Fiumicino airport railway station. Don't make the same mistake as us and rely on buying the ticket at Ponte Galeria (like we were told to do so by railway staff at Fiumicino). We arrived on sunday evening and there was no way of buying a ticket in the area and you can't buy on bus. In the end, we had to take a train back to Fiumicino and took a taxi to the hotel at a cost of €55.

Note that if you're travelling back to the airport this way using bus and train, you will need to use a self service machine at Ponte Galeria to buy your train ticket as it is an unmanned station. This is in Italian although was just about easy enough to guess after a few attempts!

2) Food at Hotel

The hotel bar serves food so that if you arrive late, you can eat there at a reasonable cost in comparison to the hotel restaurant which seemed expensive. Bar serves beer (pint/bottles) and all sorts of other drinks. Food wise, big enough pizza for one costed €6. They also have toasted sandwiches, amongst few other options. Pint of beer costs €5 - usually served with crisps and peanuts. Very good bar to chill out in after a day of tourism or travelling!

3) Safety Deposit Box

Hotel website advertises that rooms come with a safety deposit box. This is NOT the case. But there are safety deposit boxes managed by the reception free of charge.

4) Bus to/from Rome

Bus 881 runs from right outside the hotel (cross the road) to Vatican. From there, you can get on bus 571 which goes to Colosseo (you can't miss it)!

If you need to get to a metro station, I'd recommend 881 to Vatican and then connect onto bus 982 (same stop as where 881 drops you off) to Ottaviano metro station. Hotel advises to get 881 to Cornelia metro station but reality is - 881 doesn't stop there and you can't see the station from the bus. likewise, we couldn't find the 881 bus stop from Cornelia when coming back from city centre. If you find yourself stranded in Cornelia, taxi back to hotel will cost just under €10.

Hotel shop sells one day bus pass (€4) but didn't have 3 day option (€11) or 7 day option (€16) so buy them somewhere in Rome city centre. Not sure if hotel sold single tickets though.

Hotel is about 20-30min (or more depending on traffic) away from centre but we already knew that from the reviews here. The hotel is very good value for money for those who don't mind a bit of travelling like us! Oh and be careful with bus times. 881 and 982 runs until about 11.30pm but others may stop running earlier. 571 from Colosseo stops at approx 7pm. Check the bus stop sign!

5) Shops

Supermarket is 10 mins walk up the road, just follow the main road heading towards Rome city centre. Only open in the daytime though! There is also a pharmacy attached to the hotel although we didn't need to use it.


Overall, very good hotel, recommended!