Hotel is a 5 minute walk from Bologna metro station, which is 5 minutes on the metro from the Colloseo station. Convenient for getting around and a massive saving on those hotels situated in the "centre". Staff were all very friendly and obliging. Lift was broken the first day we stayed, 6 floors (12 flights) up to breakfast and that before a day walking Rome’s streets!! The room had no window, but was well insulated from outside noise, but not from Mr & Mrs Loud in the room next door, there are a few rooms without windows. Otherwise it was clean and comfortable; the safe and a/c were useful. Breakfast was the normal continental affair and was generally good quality. Ask for proper Italian coffee from the staff rather than use the coffee machine at the buffet which produced revolting instant based stuff.

Stendahl Bar on P.zle delle Province does decent lunch & has food/drink to takeaway. There are great restaurants around Cavour metro frequented by Romans. Avoid Coliseum on Saturday; it’s heaving. One ticket does Coliseum/Forum/Palatine & is valid for 2 days. OAPs generally get in free (except the Vatican!). St Peters is quieter after lunch. Capitoline museum entry only valid for 4 hours after 1st entry, making a day there tricky. Metro ran a reduced service 14:00-17:00 with packed trains every 8 mins!

My wife, daughter and I have just recently come back from this Hotel (booked via Venere) and pleased to report that we were very happy with all apsects of this hotel and service.

As we landed at 10am at Ciampino airport and figured that we couldn't check into the hotel until 2pm, we decided to have a bash at taking public transport with our suitcases and hand luggage. We bought our tickets for 7 Euros in total for all three of us which was cheap considering it would have cost us 45 Euros by taxi. Anyway, it was an experience! Lol! We struggled to get on the busses because it was a free for all and we were just didn't feel right pushing our way on. It took us three attempts before elbows came into play and we successfully managed to get onto the third bus that came along (and there was a wait of 40mins between each bus). We managed to find our way to the hotel four hours later, through the pouring rain and after doing plenty of running around. It was a good way of engaging with the locals and I'm glad that we did this. Most people we asked for help from didn't speak any English but they tried to assist nevertheless. I was pleased with the locals. The authorities are a different breed, they spoke English but couldn't be bothered to help.

The Hotel staff speak very good English so we didn't have any language issues and found them to be very friendly. I thought staff member Omar was the most helpful and friendliest. Our room and bathroom were clean and well made up. Air con didn't work so well but I didn't make an issue about it.

This was a surprise trip for my wife's 40th Birthday and I was pleased that the staff had remembered this from a note I had sent them in advance and they brought up a complimentary bowl of fruit with a note wishing her a happy birthday. This was a nice touch and I had completely forgotten that I had mentioned this in my booking. I just wanted them to wish her a happy birthday so the bowl of fruit was a nice touch.

The hotel is in a bit of a grotty location and as somebody else has mentioned it can look a bit miserable after dark when all shutters are down. We didn't feel intimidated or threatened in any way, so don't be put off.

Nice Chinese restaurant around the corner with good reasonably priced menu and very friendly service.

An Irish bar across the road but I only popped in there for a quick drink. Seemed okay.

The Hotel is 500m from nearest metro station (Bologna) which is a bit of a walk up a hill. I'm very unfit but it did me some good.

Free safe in room is a plus. We got quite excited about the sky tv only to find out that there was only one English channel. We missed out on the X-factor final this year as a result (We are sad...I know!). The mini bar was reasonably priced and not a complete rip-off.

Overall, we were happy with our stay and would definitely recommend it.

This is a great hotel . I booked a twin bedded room which was modern , large by Rome standards and very clean. The bathroom although it did not have a bath it had a fantastic power shower. The bathroom was excellent and was spotless with a great supply of towels etc. The room had Sky t.v. and a mini bar.Breakfast is the usual buffet style with plenty of choice and good quality. Breakfast is served on the 6th floor with nice views. The staff at the hotel were very helpful and friendly. The only thing that i could fault the hotel on was it states it is in the university part of town so i was expecting trendy / cheap cafes - shops etc but there was none. The location is good about 5 mins walk from the subway (not 400 meters) and it is only 3 stops into the centre. The location felt safe. I would defintly recommend this hotel.

We had booked this trip, 10 days, months in advance with travelocity. So we get to the hotel and and we are in this big lavish sweet. Later that night, they tell us they have to move us to another room, becuase they over-booked, and didn't have enough room. So we thought, ok. We had also brought an extra person on this trip. We had called the hotel and travelocity. This person speaks Italian, so we made sure she called to verify, months in advance. So they say that they are going to charge us 500eu for the extra 9 days. This was not acceptable, because we had paid extra for this person through travelocity. They said there is nothign they can do. So we are up in our other room on the 4th floor. Later morning the next day, the person at the desk told us that there was a ripped curtain, and we were going to have to pay 100eu for the curtain. We did not rip this curtain, we had just gotten into the room. So that was our bad stay with the hotel. There were some good things. The cleaning service was nice. The workers were nice for the most part. The breakfast was typical Italian breakfast- light. The hotel is ok in location. It takes about 10-15 min to walk to the nearest metro, which isn't bad. I would love to say we loved the hotel, but there we just some of these issues.