We booked this hostel in January, printed out the confirmation. On our arrival the receptionist told us that there is no room for us in that hostel, that they didn't receive the booking. Ha gave us a map and pointed an other hostel, near the Termini, he assured us that there are four-bedded rooms in that hostel too. So we left. Freestyle hostel, where they had sent us proved to be a nightmare, there were only 9 bedded dorms, and everything was dreadful. We found out that the owner has 11 hostels, and no matter where you book, they send you from a hostel to another. If you book a better hostel, they will surely send you to another one, worse. They don't care about the people, on our stay in Freestyle, 3 groups arrived they were all sent back and forth from one hostel to another. They tell lies like the water pipes have broken, and the place is flooded or the hostel is being renovated and you have to leave. The whole hostel thing is a big maffia, better book an apartment.

So we get there after taking a long train in and they tell us we are being upgraded to another place because they were overbooked. So, after trekking to the hostel, they send us back to the train station (where we origionally came into) and did not reimburse our fare. Thanks for the email letting us know of the change in plans...no ahead notice. Then we get to this terrible place called Ciao Roma...we learn we dont get included breakfast and dinner as was stated through Happy Days and that they stick us in a room that does not even lock. we had to shut the door with a chair...so when we left during the day, our room was wide open. We didnt get what we paid for and didnt stay where we booked it. The hostel was crap, the room smelled, and they were highly unprofessional. They also screwed over another couple who arrived with us at Happy Days and sent them with us to Cia Roma. They requested a private room private bath and they booked the room that they requested 3 weeks prior to somebody else without even telling them. And, the people who run Ciao Roma are never there and when we needed to pay they said they would get there in the morning...the failed to show. As a result of waiting for them, I missed seeing the Vatican. No Food. No service. No Professionalism. No Honesty...some freaking upgrade. Stay here if you like being cheated out of your money. If your sensible, go elsewhere.

Finishing a 10-day tour I arrived in Rome. After taking a taxi to the address on this hotel I could find no sign of it. Knowing that some hostel/hotels have very little signage I double checked the doorlist. No sign of the hostel. I asked the shop next door and they had never heard of the hostel. I tried calling their phone number several times and got no response (they finally answered two days later and even then they didnt have my booking). In the end I stayed somewhere else for my visit to Rome.