DONT stay here. Three couples booked rooms for end of October and all three of us received confirmations back on email. on arrival, NO ROOMS. They had sold all of our rooms and gave us no help in finding another set of rooms. We had to pay extra and double bunk in two rooms that evening. The guy at the front desk told us that we had to go to the rail station and stand in line for the Hotel Booking agency and he offered no help. we met another couple leaving who had the same thing told to them. in total, four rooms confirmed and then resold. these guys are crooks and should be SHUT DOWN.
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I am unable to give a full review of Sunshine House but I would like to warn others about it. I booked this accomodation over the internet & when we arrived outside the building the taxi driver was reluctant to let us out of his cab, informing us that the area was not safe for my family to stay in. He described the place as a hostel & not a family run B&B as described on the website I booked it on. Having seen the gang of young men hanging around the entrance to Sunshine House and the condition of the surrounding area, we did not take much convincing to find another hotel. Only wish I had know about this website before I booked it.

It was the worst night of my life! It is in a horrible location with gangs of youths hanging around the entrance making lewd comments to passers by.

It is run by a doddering old man who does not know what is going on.

The room was ok but we had bunk beds not a double bed as requested. The bathroom was dirty and without towels.

You have been warned!!

I found it not quite as bad as the other reviewer reported. The room I had was comfortable enough, with A/C, a TV, and a sink. (Note: the only bathroom is shared among 7 people!) Not spotless, but I wouldn't call it dirty. It is in the absolute worst part of town, but it is extremely close to the train and metro station, very convenient. Breakfast is a pre-packaged croissant and (good, as is all Italian) coffee. It was going as a solid 2-star rating until...

On my last night there just before midnight a gruff old man started banging on my door shouting what apparently was the only non-Italian he knew, "Pay! Pay now!" I hadn't seen anyone like him around before, and because of the seedy neighborhood I worried that he might have been a shady character who had gotten inside the main door and was trying a ploy to get me to open my door, since this was pretty unusual behavior for a legitimate innkeeper. I tried to communicate in a couple languages (not Italian) and all I could get was "Pay now" interspersed with salvos of angry Italian. He pretended to call the police on the phone two different times, and after a long while he eventually gave up. The fellow tending shop in the morning said that it probably had indeed been the night attendant and apologized several times for that interchange, but the whole experience still dropped my assessment of the lodging a notch.

BTW, their web site makes it look like a family operation; I never saw any of them, and where I stayed was apparently another B&B in the same building (Antonietta's House) they were either reselling or had bought.

In all, you get what you pay for, and I paid for the cheapest accommodation I could find (70 Euros/night) within walking distance of historical Roma. I'd say it rates a 1.5 / 5.0, because it could have been dirtier and I wasn't actually robbed.