Bang in the centre of Rome a couple of minutes from the termini station this is an ideal location for exploring & sightseeing the city on foot.
It is walking distance from the colesseum, trevi fountain, roman forum, spainish steps & Imperial Rome. We only actually only caught a bus to Vatican city everything else was in walking distance. Was fab! Lots of shops and restaurants close by also.

The room was small but lovely clean and an ideal base. Couldnt fault it! No breakfast or breakfast room exsisted, as we were told it did on the booking reservation.

Only down side: - On arrival we informed the reception that we would be paying by credit card - They agreed it was fine. The day before we were checking out, we went to pay and they informed us the credit card machine was broke. And then decided they dont accept credit cards.
The manager became quite heated with us and requested cash. We refused and insisted we would pay in the morning on check out with credit card. As i previously read in a travel book hotels try this as a tax dodge!!! Be aware. Following morning they accepted credit cards again - weird hey! They obviously knew they wud have credit card or nothing..... ha!

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.