Stopped At Aris Garden 19-04-200 to 22-04-2007
We arrived at the Hotel at a cost of 45€ from Da Vinci Airport . Quite a good location. No information in the Hotel, you me need to join a secret society to get information from the staff.
Lovely Outdoor Pool , but please dont dive in as theres no water in it, you may have to climb in and pretend to swim as if it was filled. I asked about the indoor pool , and was told " It was being refurbished" but I think It didn't exist realy. To get to the city of Rome a 10 Kilometre bur trip then a 20 Kilometre metro trip was required, so you were totally drained before you arrive in the city.
I advise that if you need more than 4 hours sleep per night forget this place as the staff were throughing beer crates and chairs and tables about ubtil 02-30 in the worning. I had to get up in the early hours several times to complain but felt I was totally wasting my time trying to speak to the moronic security staff, as they said " It was not the hotel stall", after I found out it was by watching from an upstair windon , so as well as being noisy and loud mouthed they were also liars.
I would advise anyone to give this place a miss, and try for a place closer to the city with better staff that were on Planet earth.
Geoff Barnett UK

We arrived early Sunday evening to find no chef on duty but an offer of a set meal (20 Euros) was made. Having travelled for many hours our party gratefully accepted this offer, not the best decision we have ever made.
The following evening several of our party gave the restaurant another go as we were assured there was a chef on duty. If anything the food was even worse. No choice at all, just a set (unappetising) 3 course meal. Needless to say none of us used the facilities again.
There is an excellent restaurant around the corner but be wary of ordering the Florentine steak as it will double the price of your bill! Several of my colleagues also recommend the restaurant in the local, nearby sports centre.
We found the hotel reception area to be dirty, and the staff unhelpful. I discovered on arriving home that my daughter had twice rung and asked for a message to be passed to us. We never received these messages.
I had read mixed reviews of the hotel before arriving but was unprepared for the lack of advertised faciliites. The bar was rarely open and the indoor pool was "not working" a phrase heard regularly in answer to all queries.
The hotel is in a lovely area and excellently placed for visiting Rome and the surrounding area but that is its only good point in my opinion. We were offered the excuse that we had arrived at the beginning of the season but this does not excuse poor choice of food or having drinks served in plastic beakers and cups and with plastic spoons for breakfast)
I thoroughly recommend visiting Rome and also the very interesting Ostia Antica but suggest you find an alternative base.

Hotel is adequate itself -- room was a fine size (outdated decor for sure) and the pool was nice in July. Hotel staff was on the friendly side and there is a good restaurant literally around the corner and as you are nowhere near a tourist area you get to eat with the local Romans.
The down side, if you're in Rome for the sites or if you're looking for a hotel near the airport, is that the hotel is in a residential neighborhood which is poorly connected by public transportation (if you have a rental car you might be in OK shape). The hotel does not have a shuttle and the day we were there the taxi cab drivers decided to strike -- getting to the hotel became a nightmare. This is not the hotel's fault but if it happens you'll wish you had a downtown hotel or accommodations closer to the airport!

We found this hotel to be excellent. The location was ideal to venture into rome without city centre prices. The hotel offered a pool, gym, and all services you would expect for a european hotel of its calabre.

The surrounding area offered good shoping and an excellent pizzeria called Mirkos. Which included an english menu (for those who's italian was lacking)!

Access to Rome was through a bus ride from outside the hotel to the efficiant metro service. The metro is the heartbeat of Rome - anywhere is accessable.

The highlight of the trip was (apart from the Colloseum, Roman Forum, Spanish Steps, Vatican, Trevi Fountain etc). was the excellent restaurant called Sitar. Located on Via Cavor this (from a British prospective) was the most amazing Indian meal we have ever experienced. The host was excellent and the food was 1st class.

From an American point of view (not mine thank christ!) the service was crap - no ice - no Dunkin donunts, can't get the Yankee's on this TV, no bagels, etc.

If your new to a city break Rome is the place to visit - if your American? Where can you visit?