After spending one and a half weeks traveling thru Europe...this hotel was a nice place to land at for the last days in our trip. The hotel is away from the center of Rome but it is 10 min away from the Vatican City. The room was quite large for it being a European room....It was quite noisy but it didnt bother me. I would be very tired once I got to the room and the beds are comfortable. The restaurant in the hotel is very good and priced good also. YOu do have to pay to get more channels than originally you are allowed on the tv and IT IS WORTH IT!! Overall, the hotel is a very nice place to stay at.

I have just returned from Rome and I stayed for 6 nights at this 4* hotel!!I would not recommend this hotel.I changed room 3 times firstly due to the fact that the room was right beside the lift very noisy,then air conditioning was not working and toilet & minibar were leaking & thirdly noise.The walls are paper thin.I choose this hotel as I thought with it being outside the city it would be quieter.The housekeeping is sloppy,things are not replaced & minibar was restocked.Some of the staff were very rude.However I would like to mention Ghia & Simon ( Food Service )who were very friendly & helpful.Some of the reception staff ( Ladies!! )need a lesson in manners.They were sniggering & very rude.The male members of the reception team were helpful & professional.I was leaving at 7am but was told by reception I could grab some breakfast before I left,I met a very rude waiter who told me coffee was all I could have dispite the fact the buffet was all laid out.Having paid for a 4* I was disappointed.Rome is a wonderful city but unfortunately for me I did not get much rest at night so for what its worth stay in the centre of Rome.Take good walking shoes as you need to walk to see Rome.

Booked this hotel rather early, so we got a good price. The hotel is a 4*, which after travelling around Europe for 6 weeks, I cannot disagree with. It has a kettle, fridge, good sized bed, decent bathroom and nice air con.

Breakfast is nothing to write home about, but filling and tasty nonetheless.

There is an overland train station a 2 min walk away, which is connected to the metro. Day passes include metro and overland trains in Rome, so the fact that it is not a metro stop is irrelevant.

Not a honeymoon hotel, but if you get a good price that does not offend you, the slight out-of-town location is not a problem at all.

The not so Grand Hotel Tiberio. This hotel is listed as a 4 star but I would find it hard to give it a 3 star rating.

We arrived in Rome early evening on the 25/08/2008 staying for 4 nights.

I arranged for a private transfer to the hotel with Airport-Shuttle.com which I had found on the net, no problems there, the driver didn’t speak English but that was ok, it’s about a 30 minute drive & cost us €90 for the return trip, you pay the driver cash, a taxi is about the same price & it was worth it for a ride in a nice Mercedes.

When we arrived we were advised that our room was a basic one but there was an upgrade available, a superior room which also had a balcony (room 509), seeing both we decided to upgrade at an extra cost of €35 per night, this room was advertised as €295 per night on the hotel charges list so it should have been a good one.

The electricity works by inserting your room key in a slot on the wall, ours worked with or without the key so that was a good start.

Now for the bad bits, the shower head was all rusty, the shaving mirror had a crack the full length of it, the floor was wooden and every time you went out on to the balcony the edging strip came away, the kettle lead didn’t reach the power point so you had to stand it on the floor to use it, house keeping cleaned the room daily but I still found personal items that the previous occupants had left behind & they should have replenished the milk etc each day but they didn’t.

This is a good one, there is SKY TV in the room, I was told there was only 1 English Channel but the cheek is they charge you €5 to activate it, I have never paid for TV before and I wasn’t going to start now.

The air conditioning was working but it makes a hell of a noise, you couldn’t sleep with it on and with it off all you could hear was a low droning noise which was almost as bad, I’m glad we were only there for 3 days I couldn’t put up with it for two weeks!

We took a look at the gym but all we found were painters redecorating the area by the lift.

The good bits, the hotel offers a courtesy bus to take you into Rome, it leaves at 9:00, 9:45 & 10:30 with a pick up at 6:00pm if you need it, the minibus holds 8 & fills up fast so you need to book it at reception the day before, early. When I say they will pick you up at 6:00 it was more like 5:40 and they don’t wait so I would get there by 5:30 if you don’t want to miss it.

You can get the bus (990) It takes about 10 minutes and stops by the Vatican wall, you get the bus tickets from the local bar, tobacco shop, you can’t get them on the bus, the nearest bar is out of the hotel and turn left, at the bottom of the road (50 yards) turn left, its 30 yards up on the left, the tickets cost €1 for a single trip of up to 75 minutes or €4 for an all day ticket, to validate the ticket you put it through a machine on the bus, it’s a little yellow box in the middle of the bus, the drivers not interested and we didn’t see any ticket inspectors, (right or wrong if you buy a 1 trip ticket and don’t validate it as we didn’t you could use the same one all week, (this is what we were told the locals all do!)

The bus stop is out of the hotel and turn left, at the bottom of the road turn right and it’s 30ft down on the right, just down from there is a small supermarket where you can get milk etc, the rooms have a fridge so it will keep, its open until about 8pm I think.

Being August most of the little shops in the area are shut but you can find the odd one open, we ate at a small pizza shop one evening and it was very nice, 2 drinks 2 large pieces of pizza and a Arancine Siciliane, (meat and rice thing a bit like a scotch egg without the egg) €10 the lot. Just walk past the bus stop to the bottom of the road, follow it round to the left and its 100 yards up on the left.

There is no shopping centre as we know it in Rome, there is a large centre with over 200 shops outside Rome but you need the bus to get there, (well worth a visit) take the 990 from the hotel to the Vatican, cross the road and take the tube to the railway station, then get the 38 bus to the shopping centre, you can’t miss it when you get there, it’s called PORTA DI ROMA, when you leave the centre get the bus at the same place you got off as it does a full circle back to the train station, I would get a day bus ticket for €4 as it covers all bus and underground travel. It’s a lot easier than it sounds, trust me.

There are several things to look out for when using the restaurants and shops, the closer you are to the Vatican the dearer they are, and they add a service charge, they added €5 to our €22 bill so be ware, a bottle of water costs €0:60 if you get it from the small supermarket at the Trevi Fountain to €2:50 by the Vatican, a standard can of coke is €1 - €4:00 depending on where you get it and half a larger was €6:00.

Eating on the hoof is always cheaper and just as easy and will cost you a lot less.

I could go on all day with this so if you have any questions please e-mail me: joe@jhoward7.wanadoo.co.uk and I will see what I can answer for you.

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