OK so my friends and i booked this hotel because expeida gave a great deal and on the map it looked VERY close to the vatican....
Lets start that there is NO shuttle that picks you up. I requested that and got a privet car that cost me $70 euro from the airport to hotel. (if you get a cab...its like between $30-$40 euro for the ride from the airport 2 the hotel)
OK fine...so we get in and they give us keys and a map and tell us the bus is here, the train is here, but you are better off with taxi's, they r reliable. OOOK>.so like a million dollars later after taking taxi's everywere.... (ALSO>..we asked for a taxi the second night and as one pulls up to let some other guests out and we try to get in..the reception girl comes running out and tells us we have 2 wait for the taxi SHE called...and for that taxi to basically..SCRAM..how professional)
then as we r checkin in, they tell us...basically they r going to move us after the 2nd night 2 thier other hotel...wow, THANKS. they try 2 win you over with a "free breakfast" but we left so early in the a.m....it wasnt worth it.
THe rooms are sooo old!! the bed is SOOO hard!! my tv didnt work (no batteries in remote) the a.c was broke, no shower door, not enough light anywere in the room. My friends had the same problems with thier rooms.
then they moved us to thier OTHER location...Palazzo Carpegnia...which we thought would b just as bad....WRONG..its WONDERFUL! wish i was bumped here since day one...brand new everything in the rooms!!! such a pleasure...STILL TO FAR FROM EVERYTHING U WANT TO SEE IN ROME! but u are at least on a main road where u can grab food or a taxi or the bus.
so good luck...i would skip this hotel in a heartbeat and spend a litttle extra to get a higher class hotel somwere near the center of rome (by the coloseum would b best)