In general I expected more of this hotel because it was a 4 star hotel. Clean room. Small lifts. And it takes 10 min by bus to the closest station and then 25 mins to reach to the city centre. The area around the hotel didn't offer that much in fact nothing. No restaurants, no nothing. The Breakfast was the best part of all. After paying the tariff that was not cheap, we had to pay for the internet access as well. Average hotel, far from the main attractions.

This hotel, as many of the other reviewers have pointed out, is NOT 4 star! The best way to describe it is "bare minimum". I traveled there with a group so I can't really associate a cost with it, but it offered nothing but a bed and a meager breakfast. The airline had lost the entire groups luggage "temporarily" and by the time it arrived my packed clothes were really wrinkled. This 80 room hotel had not even one single iron for it's patrons to use. Nothing like visiting St. Peters looking like a frumpy mess! Thanks for nothing!

More importantly, on one morning my mother and I awoke and realized we never received our wake-up call. As we made our way down to breakfast (in the basement) we noticed the elevator wasn't working either. After breakfast, as we were standing in the lobby, the reception desk apologized and stated that both problems were due to a small fire they'd had that morning. He pointed to a wall outlet in the bar that had a smoke stain along the wall above it. At that point I cared nothing about the wake-up call or the elevator...where the heck are the smoke/fire alarms and sprinklers??????????

Booked this hotel on Hotwire, which was sold as a four star property. In a dreadful area in the northwest of Rome, the only thing worse than the location was the condition of the hotel itself. Dreary and run down are the best terms to describe it. My room, which had no functioning air conditioning nor wireless internet signal was basically useless. I immediately checked out and moved to a real four star property, The Pulitzer. Hotwre users beware: if you see a four star property in 'Rome Northwest', it is likely the Pinewood, and avoid at all costs.

It took me and my partner a while to find the hotel as the map seemed to show different. However once we had found it we were greeted warmly by the staff on arrival. We had an overall comfortable room with air-con, the bath could have been cleaned a little better though. The breakfast was sufficient, nice crossiants but no hot food, nothing too special. One fo the downsides is that the hotel is fairly out of the centre, therefore we had to have a 10-15min walk to the metro, then another 15 min trip on the metro to get to where we wanted to in the centre. Therefore we stayed out for the whole day, which was tiring especially for all the excitement of Rome, it would have been nice if we could of popped back to the hotel for a little rest if it was in the centre.

If you cross the road from the hotel in to the park area opposite, you can have an interesting view, being able to see St Peters.

Overall it was good value for money especially for the short few days we were staying for but be prepared to have to trip into the centre of it all each day.