This was a great hotel for doing Rome. Very central opposite the Station termini - so great for drop off from airports. Staff helpful and friendly. Breakfast great - lovely croissants! Could do most of Rome on foot from here. 10 min walk to colleseum. Can also reccommend restaurant by hotel

The best thing about the Hotel Gioberti is its location. We took the airport train to the Roma Termini across the street and were checked-in within 10 minutes of arriving in Rome. Very busy neighborhood, don't even think of leaving your windows open because of the traffic noise, but once the windows are closed, the soundproofing is great and it's relatively quiet for a huge metropolitan area.
Cons: The bathroom was small, the hairdryer is a joke (20 minutes and hair still wet). The beds are rock hard and there aren't adequate electrical sockets. Internet access is 3 euro per hr. Typical cold breakfast buffet. Pros: Extremely convenient to Metro and bus stations. Felt safe even at night (lots of police and pedestrians in the area), lots of take-out cafes close by (try the tavola caulda next door, awesome roasted chicken and potatoes). The rooms have mini-refrigerators and safes. If you're satisfied with 2 star amenities and won't spend much time in your room, then this hotel is OK.

Proximity to the Termini Station is the only positive. The locality is dirty/seedy, you are constantly harassed by beggars and there seem to be many poor immigrants of African origin wandering around. I don't think this is an area you would want to wander round after dark.
No way is this hotel 4 star - a little over 2 star at best. Whilst the rooms were quite clean they were somewhat utilitarian, the bed was hard, our room looked out onto a central well with washing lines from tenements opposite strung across the void.......unsightly and no privacy - you couldn't have your windows/curtains open because you were so closely overlooked. Breakfast was a basic cold buffet. No room service and little information given about any other services available. Rooms on the front would be no better because of traffic noise & fumes.
The toilet in our bathroom broke down 5 times during our 5 day stay - same problem each time - it wouldn't flush and would malfunction again within a few hours of the "engineer" fixing it. A few times we had to resort to sluicing the toilet overnight with waste bin filled with water from the shower! We never received any expression of regret from the uncaring hotel management or indeed the offer of a move to another room.
Never stay there again and would advise others to steer clear of this one.

I’ve been meaning to write this review for some time.

I stayed at this hotel last September (2008) I wanted a hotel near the station so I could make a quick exit for the express train for the airport first thing in the morning. This is not a great hotel, in-fact it is a very poor one.
The only good thing is that it is close to the platforms for the airport train and it had good aircon and good sound proofing.
The bed was hard and uncomfortable a small shower that hadn’t been cleaned properly and had several old bars of soap in the soap dish covered in black hairs. It had high speed internet access, but there were no spare plucks sockets to plug in your laptop, without having to unplug something else.
This is not a good place to stay and there looked like there were better hotels close by, would I stay there again, NO.