Stayed 4 nights at Hotel Julia in August at the start of the three week trip around Italy. The location was great, it was clean & quiet and that is all there is to rave about.
The location was fantastic. 5mins walk to the Trevi, Via Del Corso, Spanish Steps. Piazza Venizia and other sites are not very much further. Plenty of food, shopping, transport & conveniences around the corner.
The room was tiny with a tiny window overlooking a back street. The bathroom was functional and clean like the room. No fridge however there was a barely functioning airconditioner. Bed was small and uncomfortable. The room was quiet apart from some repeated door banging early one morning.
The breakfast was terrible! While all hotels in Italy only do continental style breakfast, this was by far the worst we had. The breadrolls were disgusting and looked like an insect nest inside! (affectionately known thereafter as 'insect bread'), some lousy ham, plastic cheese, sour yoghurt and dishwater coffee. Ham, cheese & coffee are impossible screw up in Italy!!!!
We rarely spent any time in the room but made full use of the convenient location but not much else. Staff were reasonably friendly but not very helpful with information. They did not even know that there is a laundromat/internet point in the next street over.
My advice would be to skip breakfast, enjoy the location but try to get the best deal possible as you do not get much for your money apart from location. We paid €88/night mid August but refused to pay €135/night when we tried to book a night in September on our way out.
Rome is a complete rip off at every instance so I would be hard pressed to suggest an alternative really. I read the reviews but was not quite ready for how far below average it was.
