Tiny rooms, tiny bathrooms, but not at all unexpected for Rome in this price range. We stayed here at the beginning of an Intrepid tour and found it quite a hike from the train station with luggage, but not a bad walk without luggage. Breakfast is sometimes included - you get a voucher to take next door for a coffee and pastry (note: Italians don't "do" breakfast, get used to espresso and a pastry!).

Staff were friendly, one in particular a little *too* friendly, propositioning myself and a couple of others.

An OK place to stay.

If you make a reservation at Hotel Castelfidardo, you might not be staying there. It's actually a network of several hotels that go by different names and you don't know where you might wind up. My room (in an unstaffed B&B in an apartment across the street) had a broken toilet flusher, incredibly hard bed, finicky TV and incredibly loud, drunk neighbor stomping around at 3 am.

What really prompts this review, though, was the treatment I received from the Castelfidardo staff. After the man at the front desk took me across the street to my room, he felt it necessary to comment on my looks and then touch my face. This really crossed the line of what could possibly, loosely, be construed as professional behavior in a hotel room and made my stay unpleasant.

We booked this hotel through our travel agent, but before we checked it on internet. It seemed to by good hotel near to centre so we´ve decided to stay there. When we came there the hotel was as we expected. It was good, clean, man at the desk was kind and helpful.

Room was small but clean, with TV, good beds and at night was silent.

The bathroom was very small but also clean, with towels and hot water which was important for us as we were there in february and weather was quite cold.

Breakfast were really very tiny, only one croissant or cake with coffee or cappuccino or tea. But we woke up early at morning so it was good start of a day.

The hotel is max 10 minutes of walk from TERMINI station (metro or bus). About Two minutes from hotel is supermarket.

Location:
Right near Rome Central Station, about 4 blocks or 5 minutes brisk walk.
Nearby to good food, able to join bus tours, etc.
The people around the neighborhood were not too bad, a few gypsies but otherwise I generally felt safe.
A supermarket located very close by, I saved many $$ by shopping there.

Hotel generally:
The hotel is old and has character. The elevator is manually operated, you must open and close the doors by hand, then only press the button once everything is ready. It was sometimes quicker to walk up 4 flights of stairs, but I enjoyed the novelty.
The hotel can be hard to locate for the first time, you need to press the doorbell to get inside (extra security is OK with me)

Check-in:
The staff were a bit rough, but still helpful. Quick check-in

Room:
Small room. Air conditioned, but difficult to use. There are no blinds on the window, only a big solid shutter (ie either completely open or completely shut). This is probably just a "Europe" thing, I hadn't been to Italy before. The room smelt of cigarettes when I first arrived, so I left the windows open for a while which cleared the smell quite quickly. There was ample space around the bed for luggage. Not a huge room, but big enough for me. The bed wasn't too comfy, you get what you pay for...
No noise from outside, very quiet.

Facilities:
None

Breakfast:
None included. There was food nearby, so this wasn't a problem.

Tours:
The tours offered through the hotel (brochures in the room) were very expensive, but on par with other tour companies. I'd suggest shopping around before you spend the money.

Overall:
The hotel was good value. Next time I think I will stay in a hostel though, save my money.