Just recently got back from my first trip to Paris. I traveled with a friend and had a wonderful time and decided on settling on this location for my last night prior to my departure back to the U.S.
Finding this "hotel" was the first problem. There is no clear signage and is located on a major corner with other businesses and hotels. The location was close to the Termini (main subway station in Rome) but was in a very dangerous part of town with other low end hotels.
After a long day of traveling from Venice, I entered the gates and could tell from the get go that this was not what was advertised on TripAdvisor. Fear was my first reaction since the courtyard is extremely dark and, as I mentioned, hotel is located in a not so nice part of town.
I got to the reception area and was greeted by a young man that said that he had been trying to get a hold of me on my cell phone wondering where I was at. It was 7:30 p.m. and I had emailed the hotel a week in advance (and they acknowledged receiving it) that I would be there approximately 7:00 p.m. The hotel attendant then proceeded to tell me that my hotel was actually in another building and that he needed to know right away how I was going to pay for the hotel since he would be departing immediately for the evening and that there is NO hotel attendants during the night for anything, including emergencies. Only phone numbers are posted in hallways in case an emergency occurs.
After lugging my suitcases up a elevator that fit only myself and one suitcase at a time, we finally found our room which was sparse to say the least and very disgusting. The beds were actually cots. I found two fleas immediately on my bed and there were several mosquitos flying around since the windows had been kept open. My friend was bitten 5 times during the night by them and I was bitten twice. The bathrooms were also disgusting with only 1/2 role of toilet paper provided for two people and no way to get additional supplies. The hotel smelled of mold. I chose not to take a shower since I felt cleaner than getting in a disgusting stall that obviously hadn't had a good cleaning in quite some time. We looked into getting something else immediately after entering the room but since it was a Friday evening and late, we could not find anywhere and had to depart for flights 9 hours after arriving anyway so we decided to stick it out.
The only upside to this location was that the front desk did reserve a taxi for us early the next morning (which arrived on time) and we were able to depart this disaster before the hotel attendant arrived for the morning shift at 8:00 a.m.
I highly recommend AGAINST this place and continue to be baffled by the reviews.
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