Terrible experience. Very noisy, dated, worn and dirty room.
The staff very rude and unhelpful. The breakfast is just nothing, horrible coffee and hard roll. If you don't want to ruin your holiday do not stay here.

Just home from our New Year's break in Rome and I have to admit it's hard to write this review in an objective manner after the treatment myself and my partner received at the Hotel Martini but here goes. Firstly, the positives, and there were, admittedly, a number of them with the Hotel Martini,

- Decent location
- Charming building
- Basic but well maintained room

Now for the negative and what a great stinking negative it was;

Upon arrival the old lady at reception hiked up the cost of our stay for four nights from EUR480 to EUR880 - even though I had received confirmation of the original price by e-mail and had the reservation voucher number to hand! Apparently there had been a 'big mistake with the computer'. The lady's argument was that the Hotel Martini would 'never agree to EUR480 for four nights at this time of year' - it was a New Year's break.

Apparently an email was sent to me explaining all of this and because I didn't reply to it - hard to reply to an email that you never received - my booking was cancelled.

Despite this, there was - 'luckily' said the lady at reception - one very last room available in the hotel for four nights, to the very same spec that we'd been looking for! After a three hour flight from Dublin and all the accompanying hassles of such a trip myself and my partner were in no position to argue. There and then our trip became a budget break with much of our spending money now gone.

Hopefully we'll get back to Rome some day but we certainly won't go anywhere near this place. For the record the Hotel Martini is way too noisy as its location - just off the Via Nazionale and adjacent to some sort of church that gongs mercilessly in the mornings - ensures that you're awake with the birds.

We stayed for five days, and found the Martini to be of average to good quality. Rooms are small, but that's general in Italy in 3 or 4 star hotels. We were originally in a larger room but it was over the Irish pub below and the noise at night made it impossible to sleep. So we were moved to an inside, a very small but at least quiet, room. But very small. One man at reception is fantastic, exceptionally helpful, and makes the best cup of cappuccino I've ever had--all of it comes with a beautiful smile and gracious manners. The hotel needs a bit of sprucing up, could have a few more amentities, an extra pillow or two, a better breakfast although we were generally content with what we had. Location is excellent, ten minutes walk from Termini and a walk down the street to the Victor Emmanuelle monument and the archeological sites near it, Both the Trevi and the Spanish steps also an easy walk. All in all, we were satisfied.

We originally had arrived to Repubblica hotel in Via Nazionale, but this place was so horrible we fortunatly found Martini hotel one block up across the street. The same price but really what a difference! This place was really clean and the staff incredibly welcoming- a jewel hard to find in Rome´s budget hotels. We had a great stay would defintaly go back.