Fantastic hotel with great staff. The breakfast was very good but evening meal was expensive for what you received. The courtesy bus was excellent and the drivers were so helpful to us with a disabled member of our family. Courtsey bus was late one day and the hotel provided a free taxi, could not have asked for better. Lovely quiet location for the kids. thoroughly enjoyed are stay and look forward to returning in the summer months when the pool is open.

Where does one begin? One of the best things about this hotel is the wonderful service - right from the warm welcome at the reception, the friendly courtesy at the bar (not to mention excellent drink choices), and the delightful enthusiasm of the maitre d' in the restaurant. My partner and I were made to feel like stars right from the outset!

The rooms were spacious, very clean (the bathroom was particularly luxurious!), and our room, on the fourth floor, was on a corner so there were balconies with views both to the East and the North.

I didn't get to use the swimming pool but from the outside, it looks great.

One of the best features of this hotel seemed initially to be a disadvantage - its distance from the centre of Rome. It is approx 3km from the Vatican and a similar distance from Trastevere - so a 10 - 13 euro taxi ride. However, its location in a rolling park area of Villa Doria Pamphili means that it is really quiet and tranquil. My previous stay in Rome 10 years ago was in a city centre hotel - and the sound of traffic was unbearable. In Hotel Pamphili, I slept like baby.

And the restaurant - although a typical hotel restaurant, the service which was excellent and the food which was delicious (try the insalata polpino with orange!).

My only criticism is a small one - I have to declare my interest as a jazz singer but please please please invest in getting the bar piano tuned, and tell the singer/ piano player he can perform without recourse to the horrible electric casio backing track!

Otherwise, a wonderful stay - Grazie Molto!

We booked this hotel at only $100 a night through hotwire. When we told the manager that it was our 10th wedding anniversary, he upgraded our room. Our room was spacious and we had a stunning view over the pool and into the ruins. It was quiet and the staff was friendly and attentive. The bathroom was very nice and we had a large and comfortable bed. Other reviewers have complained about faded carpeting or peeling wall paper. There is just a tiny bit of that but I never would have noticed it if I hadn't read about it first. It is just normal wear and tear for your typical european hotel.

The hotel boasts an American-style breakfast which they intend to compare against your standard European continental. This means you get the usual pastries and cold cuts plus a few hot items like mass produced scrambled eggs and little sausages. Not excellent but a perfectly fine way to start the day. Coffee was made to order and was excellent, and there is fresh squeezed orange juice.

The hotel lobby could use some updating, and there is this wonderful sort of unintentionally kitsch bar where a one-man show is performed by a lounge singer and his keyboard.

As for the complimentary shuttle service, yes, you are dependent on it to get into the city but we found this to be no problem at all. Plus, Rome is SO noisy, we were grateful to have our quiet resort hotel to come home to after a day of exploring trying to navigate the scooters and other tourists.

Of all the hotels we stayed in during our tow-week trip, this one was a great value and I would stay here again without hesitation for a stay longer than three nights.

This hotel was booked as part of our Globus tour (a family tour). The first thing to know is that this hotel is about a 20 euro cab ride from city centre. It had a lovely swimming pool which we took full advantage of - it was Rome's first heat wave of the summer. We toured in the morning until around 1-2pm and headed back to the hotel for some pool time - everyone appreciated it. It brought us back to life for dining and walking in Rome central in the evening.

I was not impressed by the dining room, it was servicable, that is as much as I could say. Not much of an ambience, more of a feeling of a sectioned-off room.

The setting of the hotel is impressive - you could be anywhere, you are truly set apart from the hustle of the city. It is quite tranquil. Lots of lush trees. I believe that it borders on Rome's largest park.

Our room was fine, with a balcony. Our son was with us, so we had a cot in the room for him. Everything worked fine.

All in all, I would recommend this hotel to those who are going in the summer who want a place to get away from the touring for a little, to re-charge their batteries by the pool.