Hotel Meridiana is located in a back lane in what can be described a dodgy looking area but which makes for an interesting experience. The reception is on first floor with no lift - the man on reception was extremely gruff and more interested in his computer screen than us although the lady at his side was more helpful. However the older gentleman on reception later on and the cleaner/breakfast lady were both wonderful and hospitable. Breakfast is brought to your room and consists of croissant, bread roll, packet toast, orange juice poppers and condiments - which proved a bit cumbersome and messy to eat especially when sharing 3 to a small room. Despite its size, the room itself however was very new and clean - the bathroom and room floor tiles were still super shiny!

Our friend booked this hotel and it looked good on the web. It was on the wrong side of the train station in a very rundown area. The rooms were small and ours had dirty walls. Plumbing was excentric and there was mould on the ceiling. Spent as little time in the room as possible and would have left if we had booked it.

As another reviewer, we were also transferred to the (in)famous Hotel Bianca which is a really poor place compared to the rooms in Meridiana.
They had the cheek to tell us the shower was broken in the rooms and nobody could stay there the first night we arrived. I immediately asked for a discount which was just laughed at!! In the end they gave us 10 EUR...
Despite the showers not having worked the next morning our room was miracoulosly not ready yet and when I mentioned this they offered again the room without water! I'm sure there was no room without water at all.

The room appeared to be nice once we could finally move into it but painfully small.

Breakfast delivered to the room?? Well, we were taken to a small bar in the next street where we received our croissant and the worst cappuccino I had in Rome.

On top of that I couldn't leave my luggage there until 6 in the afternoon because the guy who was at the reception only worked until 4pm!!
And as someone else also mentioned credit card was not accepted so in the end we had to bring some cash.

Rome is a lovely city but if you get treated like this at your accommodation (which by the way is one of the most expensive in Europe - I mean where else do you get a room at a 2-star hotel for 130 EUR???) it can really give you some headaches...

I don't know about other hotels from this range in Rome but I definitely wouldn't recommend this one to anyone.

We stayed there for 4 nights on the 24-25 and 29-30 of June 2005. The first 2 nights were reasonable - the rooms were new and decent, althought it was located at the deadend of a street.

What really pissed us off was the fact that when we arrived on the 29, we were informed when we got there that as the hotel was full, they were placing us at hotel bianca instead, also another 2 star hotel but in a terrible state. construction was going on in that hotel, plus it was very very old!!! this totally spoilt out trip! and i am sure this was not the first time they did so. what is irritating is that we booked it via hostelworld, which would obviously state that the 4 -person room was available at that time, hence that was no valid reason why we were switched!!

do not let this happen to you, DO NOT STAY IN THIS HOTEL!