I come to Rome very often for business and I love to stay at SanJouan. The place is so charming and the atmosphere so nice and friendly that is difficult to choose another place to stay. Highly recommended!

booked the hotel and got confirmation
then went travelling and not able to access my emails
they email me (admittedly next day) - but i cannot get my emails to cancel the confirmed booking....then eventually 8 days later they phone me (they had my number all along) to tell me the day before i was due to travel to rome that my booking is cancelled - so i am left with no hotel - i give them 6 hours to get back to me with a new hotel - they get back to in 7 hours when i have already through the tourist office found a new (and more expensive ) place to say
so my advice is if you want to try this hotel - either phone them to confirm the booking or check you emails daily

We arrived in the middle of a heat wave and woke up in the early hours, sweat running down our backs, to realize that the A/C came with a 5 hour timer. Also, the common areas where the plants grow so happily in all that humidity, are not air conditioned. This is where the lone ancient PC is set and where it systematically died every time we tried to use it. Breakfast consisted of vouchers to al little cafe' up the block, past the man peeing against the wall, graffitti and next to tthe overflowing dumpsters. Breakfast consisted of coffee and a roll. There were other options, but only for those early enough to beat the rush of people with vouchers from the nearby hostel. Worst of all was the staff who repeatedly harassed us with threats when we went in to cancel the remainder of our reservation. Five minute walk to the coliseum, yes.

Clean, stylish, excellent and free access to Internet via WLAN, kind personnel, peaceful environment.
Enjoyed my walk from Termini to San Jouan in a shade of trees, as well as the one afterwards to Colosseum and other great places in Rome.
Very pleasant experience in San Jouan guest house. Hope to visit the place again.