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We stayed here on Monday 29th May for 3 nights. We had a car so we had to choose a hotel with parking. This hotel is a lovely large old building, but modern inside and nicely refurbished, it has a long driveway, away from the main road which is very busy but you don’t hear any traffic, which is a plus. Parking is in front of the building being away from the main road it is safe to leave the car there until you wish to leave. If you follow the hotel route for driving you can easily miss the entrance to the hotel as the hotel signs are on a low level wall on the driveway entrance and you can't see the hotel from the road. However if you reach traffic lights at a large crossroad junction you've gone to far, the hotel entrance is just before this junction on the right hand side, next to the entrance is a large raised sign for parking. Trust me we didn't find it the first time. When we were driving down this road all the other hotels looked awful so I was greatly relieved when we saw this one. We found the reception staff were very friendly and helpful.
A few downsides, if you have to stay on a Monday night be warned, make sure you don't have a room near the kitchens (room 3, first floor), a cleaning company comes in between 4-7.00am to jet wash the ovens. It was impossible to sleep so we gave up and got the 6.30am metro to the Vatican, which turned out a plus (see below). We left a complaint at the desk and asked to be moved. However when we arrived back mid afternoon, no one had seen the book and they were fully booked, however they asked us to wait for 10 minutes to see what they could do and they did upgraded us to a three room suite (free of charge) on the 3rd floor for our last 2 nights which was lovely with a bowl of fruit for an apology. I think it was because we remained pleasant during our complaint.
I also recommend that you don't order the Veggie sandwich from the bar, it was disgusting, two pieces of white bread with cold runner beans and carrots? and both times we ordered French fries they arrived luke warm, however there club sandwich was good, so mixed reviews. We didn't eat in the Restaurant so I cannot comment on that.
So on that note I would recommend this hotel as apart from what I have mentioned I couldn’t fault it.
Few tips for Rome:
Metro – 8 minute slow walk from hotel, go to bottom of driveway, cross over the road which has a crossing with lights, turn right towards MacDonald’s which is on the corner then left, the metro entrance is directly opposite you on the pavement. There is a café on your left just before which sells cheap coffee less then 1 euro, all the locals use it. The metro tickets have to be purchased from a machine, its actually cheaper to purchase 2x 1 euro tickets which are valid for 75 minutes instead of 2x 4 euro ticket for the whole day as when your in Rome its easy to walk to all the sites, so it only cost 4 euros for the two of us each day. The metro is easy to use only two main lines A and B and the hotel is on Line A Cornelia, one stop from end of line and the tickets are valid for all lines as we used them to jump onto Line B for the Coliseum.
If you visit the Vatican (11 euros each) unfortunately I recommend that you catch the 6.30am metro, 3 stops, when we arrived there were already 30 people waiting in the queue at 6.50! we decided that one of us stayed in the queue whilst the other walked around to Saint Peters Basilica (free) which opens at 7.00am, we then swapped and managed to both visit it before the Vatican opened at 8.45am by this time the queue was down the road. If you go later you can waste the whole day queuing, you also miss the crowds inside.
I was worried about pick pockets but never felt threatened, however there were a lot of beggars who come around when eating outside and become a nuisance. Two days is more than ample to see all the sites unless you visit all the museums as well.
Hope this was of some help.
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