I am sitting in my room of the River Chateau as I write this, using the free internet service. I usually can't be bothered writing reports but I just had to in this case because I actually found the River Chateau here on tripadvisor. Finding a hotel in Rome that was clean, classy and a reasonable price was a difficult call and it took a great deal of research. Given some of the prices i saw and the stories I heard it was with some trepidation that we pulled up outside after a 20 hour flight from Australia.

This hotel is certainly as good as the reviews make it out to be. It's clean, the staff are wonderful, the breakfast is great (plenty of choice, available from really early to 10.30 a.m.). The staff can't do enough to help you. Our room has a balcony, free internet, LCD TV, fabulous marble bathroom with mosaic, hand painted designs on ceiling, quality fittings throughout. The room has a turn down service every night with sweets left on the bed, lovely slippers, thick terry robe... what more can I say. 5 star service at a 3 star cost.

The local area is also great; taxi driver told us the gelateria and cake shop down the road is famous throughout Rome - it was FABULOUS and there is also a small market for fresh fruit and veg and a bread shop/pizzzeria within a 5 minute walk. The Ponte Milvio bridge is just over the road from the market. Yes it's a way into town but I am so glad we didn't stay in town. Here it's quiet and pretty - well worth the 35 minutes on one bus and an MRT into town, or just the bus goes straight to the Vatican area.

Normally I would keep a place like this secret, but I don't think we'll be back in Rome for a while so I thought I should do the right thing by the hotel and the tripadvisor community. Do yourself a favour and stay here.

We booked this hotel for a three night stay last August 2006, through
a website, and gave our credit card as guarantee (only to be charged in the event of no show). Unfortunately, we had to cancel our Italian
vacation and gave proper notice (over two months) of our hotel cancellation. We had no problem with the other two hotels we had booked in Orvieto and Sorrento - only this one! They charged our credit card 150 Euros on the day we were meant to arrive (10th August 2006) Well, to cut a long story short it took us countless telephone calls and faxes to the hotel and weeks to get our money refunded and then they mistakenly credited us twice. They took about five months to point this out to us and ask for the money back, after which I emailed asking for their bank details, to refund them. They did not respond - typical. Having, this month, checked our account we find that they have, without authorisation, charged our credit card again the 150 Euros!! Needless to say we have lodged a formal dispute with our credit card company and have emailed the hotel, although again, no response from them! They have acted totally unprofessionally and incompetently throughout this saga and this has cost us dearly in telephone calls (from the UAE to Italy) and faxes and, now, quite a substantial difference in exchange rate, costing us even more money!

Would not stay here in a million years!!

We went on a pre-wedding trip and stayed overnight to find that the hotel had misunderstood our requirements for the wedding/honeymoon stay. To rectify this, they agreed a much reduced rate on their sumptuous suite.
All food at the hotel is fantastic, though evening meals were expensive.
The staff are friendly and speak English very well and are patient while you try your Italian.
Best of all for us was the tranquility as soon as you stepped inside the hotel. Rooms were spacious, clean and so peaceful.
I would recommend, if you don't mind the taxi fares to get into town, that you stay here.

It is not close to Rome, but my wife and I enjoyed are leisurely walk to the city center. I believe it took about 30 minutes. There are buses to farther away places like the Vatican. The hotel and people of the town were very helpful in guiding us through the process.

The Hotel was beautiful, quaint, and quiet. The rooms were spacious for Rome. Customer service here was good. The front desk spoke excellent english and provided us a map and useful information. Internet access in the room was a huge bonus. Breakfast was also very good. Eating on the veranda, weather permitting is a bonus.

For the few people who spoke ill of this place, it seems that their expectations must be put into context. I have traveled extensively through Italy and stayed 1 or 2 hotels that were around 400 Euro a night hotels. This said, I can say this is one of my favorite hotels that where we stayed. You can often find deals to stay here at lower rates than listed. Hunt around at Hotels.com, venere.com and others. We managed to stay here for a bargain price.