Totally overpriced hotel, you pay for the location. The rooms we had, 260 euro per night, were ridiculously small and bared no comparison to the pictures on the website. Tiny bathrooms and rude staff. Do not book if you can help it

Booked this hotel as a surprise for my wife for our silver wedding anniversary in March 2007.
Great location!! Yes, you can see the Colleseum from the roof garden. Approx 200 metres yet far enough away not to get too much traffic noise.
If only I had read the reviews here on Trip Advisor before I booked it last November!
The Celio is 'compact'. Our ground floor room was rediculously small, the bathroom not much bigger than you'd expect on an aircraft! Shame, as the place has all the potential to live up to the grand facade but it sadly fails to deliver. We didn't pay budget prices, but we were there to enjoy Rome, which we definetly did, so we made the most of the place. Breakfast was just about acceptable and almost laughably served in the tiny courtyard under a gazebo. If we'd have been spending more than 2 nights there, or had other guests with us, I'd have been looking to move hotels. We have, however, been married 25 years and our sense of humour prevailed.
Rome is fabulous, though I have to say we were disappointed to see so much graffiti around the place.
We found a superb little wine bar/restaurant just around the corner from the Celio. Reasonably priced and superb service. If only I could remember its name. I'll get back to this post soon as I do!
So, if staying at The Celio, keep an open mind, don't expect too much or plan to spend too much time in your room!

My first room had bugs and very noisy. The owner/staff was quite unfriendly and not at all helpful. I found the rooms (the one with out the bugs) small and the bath too small to turn around in and I am a little person. I felt unwelcome in the common area when the owner and his wife were there using the area.

I was shipping my luggage back to the US and the owners' comment was " I can't be responsible for your luggage". This was after I told him Fed EX was to pick up my luggage the day I left. This is just a sample of some of the details of my stay. All in all I would pay extra to have helpful friendly service and clean rooms.

The Celio is in an amazing location, the backdrop of the colliseum is marvellous. The hotel itself however is awful considering how expensive it was.

Good points - nice mosaic floor, clean, good bed.

Bad points - The bathroom was so small, I am a size 14 - any heavier and I could not have got into the bathroom. A man if he so wished could pee, brush his teeth and shower his right leg at the same time. Ridiculous.

There were no niceties, brochures, tips, recommendations, not even a box of tissues.

Breakfast - was in a tent in the courtyard & and that is being generous. (4 m by 4m) Breakfast was stale bread and croissant. Not what we had anticipated.

Staff were incredibly rude, and made you feel as if you shouldn't be taking up precious space in the hotel. Rude & unhelpful.

Would never recommend this hotel or return to it. Such a shame, and an expensive waste of money.