I went to the flaminius hotel with my friend, both of us being 18 yrs old wanting a short city break werent too sure what to expect, having read some awful reviews and some good ones we were expecting to be slightly disappointed.
However this hotel did not disappoint us in the slightest, after battling with the metro and the trains to get to La Celsa, when we arrived there in the dark after a long day of travelling I was getting quite stressed and when we left the metro station it was like we were in the middle of nowhere, however we asked a friendly local who pointed us in the right direction and we found it after 200m.
We found one of the consierge, extremely helpful and was willing to help with everything.
We had a new double room, where within 5 minutes I had managed to cut off all the electricity by pressing a green button, I wouldnt recommend you do this!
Anyway the decor was very modern, we had a lovely big room with a flat screen tv which unfortunately the only english channel was CNN which got a little repetitive, but it was ok!
It was extremely clean the floor was spotless and the bathroom was small but everything was packed in nicely, a big shower cubicle, which had a reasonably powerful shower.
The breakfast was lovely, the crossiants were fresh and a wide selection of jams and nutella, also there was different breads and cheeses, or cereal, cakes and fruit. Which was good to fill up on and set us up for the day.
The travelling around is the only downside as it is quite a way out of the way, however you can buy a tram ticket for 1 euro which lasts for 75 minutes and easily gets you to where you want to be.
There is a resturant next to the hotel which is a family run place which serves pasta and pizza, Im sure in the summer months would have more people in it, but we got take away pizza and a bbottle of wine for 25 euro which was reasonable as the pizzas are a good size.
Overall we thoroughly enjoyed our stay, and loved Rome, it is good value for money and for a short break I would go back.