It is a very poor hotel. Poor location. Very noisy. Very shabby room (2 stars is a joke). Poor breakfast. Stay away from it.

Just came back from Rome and stayed at Hotel Center 1 for 3 nights. The hotel location is off the tail end of the termini in what could be described as a grimey not too touristy area. Prepare for a 15 minute walk from the station to the front desk of hte hotel. The front desk service here appears to be run by older senior folk who do not know English at all. Although the rooms are clean, the walls are paper thin and noise from outside and from the lobby can flow in easily. Each hallway has motin detectors which turn on the hallway lights and each room has a vent which shines light from the hallways into each room. Therefore if someone comes back to their room at 3am, the hallways will light up and your room will get somw light too. This is not very good if you are trying to adjust to the jetlag and need some sleep. The morning breakfast is very continental, packaged crackers,buns, orange drink (not juice), and coffee.
Bottom line, this is a no frills, you get what you pay for semi hostel type place..Proceed with caution..

the room was really nice for the price, i stayed in centre three hotel. lovely clean bathroom and room, breakfast was nothing to write home about but it was totally adequate. in all honesty the area wasn't the best but in saying that rome doesn't have a main strip like most cities, so it was fine. i found the metro a little bit far away, but the bus station was really near and the buses i found were better than the metro. so all in all i found the hotel to be fine, and any taxi i hopped in to dropped me home and knew where it was, just to give you an idea of how central or not it is....the tourist maps that are given out of the area, this hotel is just off the map, near the end of termini station.

It is disgraceful that after paying for a booking 9 months in advance (travelling July 2006)a fee is charged for moving the check-in and check-out dates by 1 day with 48 hours of placing the booking and 9 months before travelling. Someone has the use of your money for 9 months yet no flexibility is applied. Be careful when you place online bookings. It is my first and last - former Expedia user.