The hotel staff is definitely interesting - there's a language barrier and you feel like you're bothering them every time you go near the desk. Although when our train tickets never arrived at the hotel, they did try to help us!

There's a small grocery store/internet cafe that was awesome, we went there a lot!

The hotel is not next to any major sights, but it is near many trolleys and buses. It was pretty easy to get around.

The breakfast was just ok, but was free. The rooms were bare, but we didn't spend too much time there. The hallways are very long and winding and the hotel is MUCH bigger than it seems.

Worth the stay if it's a good price.

Booked into this hotel with our tour group. The hotel is clean, decent, and looks nice but we felt there were some problems.

Noise: The hotel is located on a major traffic area (circle) which led to a lot of noise. We had to sleep with the window closed a lot of the time which led to stuffiness and humidity in the room.

Bathroom: The bathroom in our room smelt very very much like mold and we could see a lot of it growing on the tiles and the ceiling. I don't think it was the healthiest of places to be in.

Location: Near the train station, it isn't the safest place to be. We didn't do much walking around at night. As one of the nicest things to do in Rome is walk around at night, shop, have a gelato, etc. it was disappointing to be in an area and at a hotel that did not offer any of this. On the plus side, the hotel is fairly close to a major church called San Giovanni in Laterano but don't try to visit at night.

Pros: We did enjoy the beautiful terrace garden and bar on top of the hotel. It was very nice.

Breakfasts: Nothing special here. The usual Italian hotel breakfasts of commercial ham and cheese, pastry, and machine made coffee. Try going outside to the bar/cafe near the hotel. For under a Euro you get a cappuccino to die for.

Restaurants: There is a very good restaurant near the hotel called the La Pecora Pazza. The guys running the restaurant are funny and serve up some great dishes.

All in all, I'm sure you can save a few bucks staying here but I don't think it is worth it paying to stay in this area. You'll end catching taxis all the time, especially at night.

I stayed here with my study abroad group for only one night, and it was one of the most depressing nights I've had ever. Seriously, this place is a hole. The bedrooms are abysmal, dark, and depressing. The bathrooms are disgusting. Of all the places I stayed in Italy, this was by far the worse. Not to mention it is in a bad part of town. Not close to anything in central Rome, and admittedly could be dangerous as we were told by locals. Our move to our Roman apartments were a welcome relief!

Also, the staff was not helpful and rude.

Recently stayed at the hotel on my honeymoon booked through Gate 1 Travel as part of a Venice, Florence, Rome package. Im not sure if its the "norm" there or not, but there was a mass group of College students staying at the hotel on a big college group trip. I think it was a couple different schools there at once actually. The day we checked in I thought there was a line out the door to check in because there were hoards of kids with their luggage, in the lobby and streaming out the front door, I couldn't get in so I stood in line. After a minute or two I asked if this was the line to check in, and they said no, so they had to pass the word up to everyone to part the red sea and let us through to the counter. The room was small but efficient. Luckily when I was checking in I told them that I was on my honeymoon and hoped for a nice room. (I heard some rooms are nicer than others there, for the same price, maybe on different floors) then they told me they gave me a good room. Thank God we weren't on the same floor as the massive group of college kids because the hallways are all solid and tile on the floor, which works like an amphitheater for sound traveling down the hall, so it can get pretty noisy in the rooms. My wife likes sleeping with the TV on anyway, so we kept the TV on at night and that helped drowned out the noises that could possibly keep us up in the halls at night and in the mornings. The breakfast seemed pretty typical to what I had experienced in my previous hotels in Italy, nothing grand but it does the job. Again with the college kids staying at the hotel it seemed like most of the time when we went to and from our room, there was a big group of them hanging out right in the lobby. It almost seemed like 85% of the people staying in the hotel while I was there was with a college group. The front desk was helpfull with my questions, but a few of them didn't seem very excited to help, kinda like it was a chore.
The 571 Bus stop is right in front of the hotel and takes you around to some of the touristy places, but don't try and take it on sunday or you will stand out there for 45 minutes like we did, and find that it doesn't run on sundays. The underground metro is a few blocks around the corner and goes to most touristy places or is within a reasonable walk to them. The little pizza shop next to the hotel right after the internet cafe, has very reasonable prices and has good pizza for something quick and good.

So all and all, check to see if there are cleaner nicer rooms available for the same price when you check in. If you can tolerate it, I would leave the TV on at night to help the hall way noise. My room was on the other side of the piazza, so I didn't hear much traffic noises.