This hotel stated that they are situated near to the Vatican city, this is not so, it is a 10-15min walk from the hotel to Via Boccea where the number 46 bus stops, a three day Roma pass bus ticket can be bought across the road from the hotel for 11euros, the bus service is very good. Once you arrive at the bus stop, buses are frequent, it is about a 10min journey, then you must change to a number 49 bus, to be able to get off opposite the Vatican Museum entrance, this journey can take about 40mins might take longer depending on traffic. The restaurant, in the hotel, which only serves breakfast, has the same variety every day, namely very poor quality cornflakes, croiassants, and a kind of choux pastry roll, butter, small tubs of jam,tea and coffee.
The room was spacious and clean, on the fifth floor facing the road which was very noisy about 6.00a.m., the air conditioning switches off about 1.30 in the morning. Other hotel users can be heard talking, coughing, laughing etc, well into the early hours. There are no tea/coffee making facilities in the room and you cannot get a fresh cup of tea/coffee until 08.00a.m. when the breakfast room/restaurant opens unless you pay at a machine in the lobby, but no tea. The 2ft 6ins wide mattresses are on a sort of box and very hard, I put my mattress on the floor the second night with two folded blankets under to enable me to sleep I did ask at reception for a second mattress but they did not understand, they spoke very little english. The sheets were very clean and the thin tea towel linen type towels bath/face were changed every day, the sheets are not, the swimming pool was empty. If I were advising anyone where to stay I would suggest a hotel in the Cavour or Venezia area, then you are near to all the attractions but the Vatican making only one journey necessary and less expensive to travel, we had a taxi back to the vatican entrance one day, during rush hour, about three miles and it cost €18.97, as we had walked a long way and were exhausted, you need very comfortable footwear. There is litter and cigarette butts everywhere. We saw all the usual attractions which were awesome and incredibly beautiful, we joined a guide in a party of about 20 for the Vatican and Colessium which were excellant. We would not go back to Rome as it is very expensive and the restaurants do not cater for vegetarians only mundane/bland spaghetti.

The Hotel is situated in a very calm neighbourhood in the west of Rome, about 500 meters from Cornelia Metro Station. It is definetely NOT close to St.Peter as stated on the homepage, but bus and metro connections are good and frequent.
Our double room was relatively newly decorated and clean. There were traces of mould in the bathroom due to a very poor ventilation. The clothes rail in the wardrobe was broken and there was a lack of coat-hangers.
We witnessed a shortage of hot water on our last day when two buses of Spanish tourists left in the early morning and all passengers took a shower simultanously, this shouldn't happen in a three-star hotel, I know youth hostels who do better. The breakfast is simple but better than Italian standard, staff is friendly and helpful. Towels are changed daily and we found our room always tidy and well ranged on our return from the city.
The minibar offers soft drinks, local Peroni beer and two varieties of wine on very reasonable prices, satellite TV has RAI 1 to 3, all Berlusconi-Mediasat channels, TVE 1 (spanish), BBC World and Sat 1 (german).
Restaurant was closed during our stay so we couldn't check it out. Avoid the "Bar Gregory" across the street, they have no pricelist and seem to charge the double from tourists. Supermarkets, Bars and Pizza-to-take-away-shops are on Boccea street close to the Hotel.
There may be better three-star-hotels in Rome, but this one has some advantages as the calm surrounding, a free parking in the yard, a relatively rich breakfast and resonable prices (official prices are around 150 € per night but most seem to pay less than 100 € per room per night when booking in advance).

Fairly speaking, it is confortable enough (I stayed there for 5 nights). Most staffs are nice. I got a large two-bed room although I booked a single one. The room is very clean.

This hotel is a bit old, the air condition works but a bit noisy, and the room has poor sound insulation between adjacent rooms. The breakfast is ok. There is some little odor of tabacco or cigarette in the corridor and when you opening your room door, but tolerable (I guess the odor was attached on the carpet or wall).

The light is dim everywhere. I highly suggest, if the manager see this review, that you should brighten your illumination in your room and your dining hall and your lobby, and renew all your carpets and wallpapers to remove the ordor and refresh the style.

It is a 10-to-15-miniute walk to the metro, to the second from the last station of the line A, namely 'Cornelia'. The road where the hotel situated "via Gregorian XI" is in fact not a main line, so it is a dark walk when you come back from metro station to the hotel in the late night. But I think it is ok since it is in the resident region. At least I walk back safely every night.

So the hotel is ok and I should give it 3 stars. But the following scene did happen one morning and reduced my rating of the hotel greatly. Here I cite verbatim:

I, to the reception desk staff: "Can you do me a favor, to confirm the flight for me since the operators are all speaking italian?"

The reply of the staff (impatiently): "No, you can do it yourself."

As it is, he continued refusing to help. I was very surprised. Finally I tried to do it with the help of some others. I just dont know that, for a staff of a 3-star hotel, in Italy, is it a sin or shame to confirm the flights for your customer? Or in Italy the desk staff never did so? It should not happen in any hotel costing you 100 Euro per night, and should not happen in any staff of any hotel.

The Marc Aurelio hotel was not quiet the hotel that me and my friends expected. From the moment we checked in we could see that it would be a stressful time. The staff at the font desk could barely speak english. We finally got the keys to our room, and at first we were surprised at the fact that it was the old traditional key as opposed to the electronic entry system. The coridors had a pungent smell o them, the order was dirty and very off putting. Our room also had a unpleasent smell to it, but we thought if we put the air condonitioning on it my reduce the smell. This was immposible as the air con was not functioning at all, so the only option left was to leave the window open. The beds had no blankets in them, they only had sheets, we finally found the blankets on the floor inside the wardrobe. Once we opened the blanket we found a lot of hair in them and decided to not use them all together. The bathroom had no door lock on it. we decided not to let this bother our stay too much.
when we tried to see if we could get our room changed we were told they were fully booked and it would be difficult. the restaurant area of the hotel also had a pungent odor to it and this put us off eating there. so we didnt not have breakfast at the hotel in the morning as the breakfast was just warmed up food. the safe in the room was not working so this meant us all carrying or passports and other valuble items with us at all times. There was also very little warm water when having showers in the morning.

the hotel is quite far from the city centre and there is not information about any buses that can take you to the hotel. the walk from the metro station is about 15minutes. the hotel is at the second to last stop of the metro.

The hotel is a fair distance from the Chiampino airport too, so tavelling to the hotel from the airport by taxi is expensive ( around 60 euros), and not many of the taxi drivers know where the hotel is situated exactly.

Overall i would say the hotel is ok if one just wants a place to sleep at night and nothing else, and it's a bit too far from any of the tourist areas of rome



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