This hotel is a good citybreak choice - based on price and location in Rome, just off the Via Cavour, in a quiet street yet within minutes of the Termini railway station, so no need for taxis...and great for exploring Rome and its art and architectural historic sights, conveniently on-foot. We had sent an email requesting a balcony room but when we arrived we were told that the one balcony room had already been taken but instead we were offered what the receptionist described as the best room in the hotel. Later, we discovered that no rooms have balconies. Given some over reviewers' comments about small rooms, this is something to expect in Rome but we were very satisfied with our first-floor room and can recommend room 101 because it is a suite, with views over the street (yet we had booked only for a double/twin room!) This is ideal if your partner or travelling companion snores, as one of you can sleep on the sofa-bed! Each room also has satellite tv (but not BBC World) so 2 separate televisions can be watched. If we are being hyper-critical, a deserving little moan would be about the shower which was more like a tap...and a rather unpleasant-looking (and too short) shower curtain causing water easily to be sprayed on the floor. The breakfast is quite basic with both coffee and juice-drinks from a machine (not great!) with the main criticism being that breakfast finishes at a rather unnecessarily early 10.30a.m. The bar is a bit-of-a-joke being grossly understocked and with the receptionist doubling as bar staff (valiantly putting on a brave face given the bar's inadequacies)... so don't count on the bar as a great place for ambience and good choices of drinks because it most certainly will fail you.
These minor criticisms are more than compensated for by the hotel's good location and we found the staff to be both efficient and friendly.
For a choice of restaurants close-by, we'd recommend taking a left turn out of the hotel, and right into Via Panisperna (but avoid at all costs one of the closest: 'La Carbonara' which was our big mistake of our trip, if not the worst we had come across in Italy(!) - but the rest were very good, especially 'Do Do' on the right of Via Serpenti, further on. (Turning left is the Colosseum...)
So, on balance we would both recommend this hotel - principally for its location it has to be said - and relaxed, human-scale style - and we'd consider staying again, in the future.
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