Nice hotel. Staff was very helpful. I saw an earlier review about lack of breakfast but we had breakfast every morning and it was included in our rate. Our room was large and very nice.

Best thing about this hotel is the location. It is central to everywhere in Rome.

We hired a guide through the hotel. His name is Antonio Paladino. His English is very good and he did a great job showing us around. He added a lot of color and interest to the sites.

Take your ear plugs if you stay at this hotel on the weekend and end up with a room over the Plazza side. Rome stays up quite late on weekends and people and traffic make noise till 3:00am!

We stayed at this hotel two times. The first time we stayed there we had a room that faced the quiet side. It was great! Unfortunately we payed the same high price for a room on the noisy side the second time and had a hard time sleeping for our early morning flight. The hotel could not move us to the quiet side as all those quiet rooms are taken first!

The hotels location is awsome, the rooms are clean and the interior is elegant but if you can't sleep the rooms sure aren't worth the $370 euros per night. So be aware that rooms on the quiet side of the hotel are taken first, especially on weekends!

Also, I found the front desk staff a little stuffy ab bit rude under pressure and not all that helpful. The roof top bar/restraurant is worth going up for a night cap, but when we ate at the restaurant we found older grey haired Maitre Di to be quite rude and arrogant! The rest of the staff were much freindlier and almost made up for his abruptness.

All and all I would have to say that the rooms at the Grand Minerve vary quite a bit so be careful and state "QUIET ROOM ONLY" on your booking if you stay over a weekend! Otherwise bring ear plugs!

The location is perfect, as everyone says--also the rooftop restaurant is to die for (gorgeous view, friendly smooth service, and delicious food), service is courteous, and the lobby is lovely. However, we stayed at a crowded time and had booked through the internet and were quite disappointed with the room itself. Though reasonable in size, it had not been renovated and looked nothing like the pictures on the website-more like a Holiday Inn, with a dark interior view, which at $450 plus per night is disappointing. We offered to pay extra for a better room, but were told none were available, even though we were booked for four nights. So, if you go at peak season, don't count on an upgrade, and I would check other hotels in the same area rather than reserving the standard room here. Then go eat in the rooftop restaurant!

Just returned from Rome 1st May 2005 after a 4 night stay at the Grand Hotel Minerve and it was superb. It was my first visit to Rome and was not sure what to expect of the hotels etc but after seeing what the other hotels had to offer I know I made the right choice. Our first room was small and not suitable for our needs and had an awful view, so after seeing the manageress, who was wonderful, we were give a junior suite at no extra cost which was just amazing. I took my elderly mother along with my sister and we had 1st class treatment from start to finish. Our room was fantastic with views of the Pantheon and the surrounding area, the chuch outside the hotel is breathtaking inside. The staff in this hotel were so helpful right from the manager down to the housekeepers, they could not do enough for you. You must have lunch or dinner on the rooftop this was the best part of our day, we would have lunch and then sit in the sun and relax for a while before going back out to see more sights. My mum has limited mobility and this hotel was absolutely no problem to her in any way. I can only say that this was one of the best hotels I have stayed in throughout the world. If I have any citicism at all it would be about the breakfast, they could do better, there was lots of friut and cereals but very little choice of hot food and breads, but everything else in the hotel made up for this.