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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Traveller from Leicester, England - Feb 2005
We arrived at the Marc Aurelio after walking around aimlessly from the Metro Station looking for the hotel for about 30 minutes. The hotel was very clean, and the staff were friendly. The bars on the bedroom window and the rubbish piled up outside left alot to be desired.
Breakfast was ok, pretty standard continental breakfast.
A bit dissapointing that the 'relaxing' American bar was not open, which would have been well worth it for the hotel in our opinion, as it was too far to walk to any decent bar or restaurant.
The air conditioning is absolutely dreadful, it comes on when it wants too, even when the room is already very cold. It is also extremely loud, especially at 5am in the morning.
The hotel states it is close to the Vatican City, if you call 5 stops on the Metro close, then you won't be dissapointed.

looked very nice from front ,rooms very clean but beds small
much too far from centre of rome and no bar in the hotel
towels very thin also, but worst of all was the very noisy air conditioning system which made sleep almost impossible
would not stay there again.

We stayed here for 4 nights ... unfortunately we had to pre-pay for the full stay, otherwise we would have moved. It is nowhere near Vatican/Trastevere and the nearest metro station is at least 10 mins walk away, which is the last station of the line! We had only lukewarm water late at night and early morning, when we mentioned it to the staff, they were apologetic but there was still no hot water.
I wouldn't recommend it for anyone who would like to stay close to the city centre.