We booked Susy for six nights following great write-ups on this site. The B&B is in an apartment block in residential Rome - about 2kms from the Vatican. It comprises of three well presented bedrooms and a rather ornate dining room where guests partake of a rather dubious breakfast (one choice of cereal and packaged air-line type food such as dried toast and croissants). Can't vouch for the coffee but the tea was not good. There are two concerns regarding this B&B. First, there is no on-site assistance. Many people arrived, resident guests were left to let them in and they were then obliged to phone the woman who appears to run the place (?Susy). Second,there appears to be an obsessiveness with the saving of electricity. The main hallway has no natural lighting and is on a timer-switch. Unfortunately, the hall light switch is a fair distance from the front door and on numerous occasions my husband and I almost fell over in the dark trying to locate it. There are notices everywhere requesting that lights be extinguished and the dining room which could act as a communal meeting area is perpetually in darkness. A cleaner visits daily to arrange breakfast and clean the rooms and there is an expectation that guests do not loiter over breakfast and leave their rooms before 10am in order for cleaning to be undertaken. Communication is a difficulty if you do not speak the language. My ten week course in Italian in no way assisted me to explain that our room overlooked a busy street and I had purchased ear plugs in order to sleep. In the end I used sign language and we were moved to a quieter room after three nights. Communication also broke down on our last day - when Mr. Bush decided to visit the Vatican and parts of the metro was closed as a security measure. A list of taxis in the B&B was out of date, the phone (then located in the dining room) was of no assistance and the cleaner refused to use this and/or our mobile in order to phone for a taxi. We were shown the door of the B&B, wished 'Buongiorno' and the door was shut in our faces. Tip: find a hotel which provides the services a tourist will benefit from in Rome.
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