This hotel was pretty fab - triple room - extremely large with lovely bath and shower, clean and funky - 100Euros a night, great service, lovely. Of course there is a catch - no real air con and when we openned the windows the road was mega noisy. However we were pretty tired most nights so it didn't disturb our sleep that much.

I picked this hotel really because it was near the Pyramide station - 2 stops from the Collosseum. The area looked a bit dodgy but it was nice to get away from the tourist masses. Anyway we got on the packed metro in the morning to go to the Collosseum - and as my father got off the train he realised that his wallet had been stolen - so I jumped back on and just very calmly said that his wallet had been stolen and that I was going to press the alarm and then call the police. I knew who had done it and they were directly in front of me so I said to them - Did you steal it? .. As you can imagine everyone looked at me blankly and thought that I was crazy for making such a fuss. Unfazed and very angry - I reached for the alarm, making sure that I had blocked the doorway to stop any suspects getting off and then I turned around and someone had picked up the wallet and handed it to me - as the suspects had thrown it on the floor. Luckily all they had taken was the cash which was only 20Euro and £10 and not any of the credit cards.

We were very lucky for the situation to not have been worse because of course that would have ruinned our holiday.

The moral of the story is that it could have happenned in any big city in the world - I mean we are from London for Godssakes - so just always keep important things in zipped hidden pockets and carry as little as possible with you.

Other than that Rome was wonderful and people were absolutely lovely.