B&B Hotel we wanted a quite European break, but the B&B hotel has very small rooms – small as in where the double bed has been slotted into the room - there is just the width of a small cabinet at each side and then it’s the wall. I don’t know which room is pictured on the web site, but the table was a fold down unit off the wall and seating was literally perching at the bottom of the bed. There are no chairs in the room.
Bathroom is small and confined, wedge yourself between the toilet roll holder and the single shower cubicle (which the shower head was impossible to secure in a fixed position) and you can use the toilet. Don’t use the hook adjacent the WC to hang clothes or towels, as this swivels of the wall and whatever was on it gets dumped into the loo.
Breakfast as promoted on the site is ‘A full buffet breakfast is included in the price and served to guests directly in their room’ Reality is a very basic (and I mean basic) continental breakfast which is left out on a table in the hall at which point they elect to plug in the coffee and fruit juice machines – after which they are promptly disconnected.
Its advertised as ‘Offering fantastic value for money, this low cost Rome accommodation provides the ideal option for travellers looking to make the best of Rome on a shoestring budget with some home comforts and luxuries thrown in there as well’ At 450 Euro for three nights bed and Breakfast, I must have a very different understandings of ‘Value for money’ notwithstanding the poor £ to Euro conversion, its still very expensive for what it is.
Its only good point is location being central you are ten minutes stroll away from most attractions. But it’s not the 500 yards (as advertised) away from the Termini. It’s a good twenty minute walk with your cases, nearer a mile than half a mile
Rooms are clean. Our room had security bars (Prison) and I assume the way in was the Fire Exit out? Because we couldn’t find any designated route
The ‘hotel’ appears to be on the first floor with residents living on the above floors. Ground floor ins a small receptions – small as ion when we checked in there were two people in reception checking in and I had to wait on the step because we couldn’t fit 4 people in.
Lastly don’t dare close the door firmly going out, or some bad tempered Italian guy who lives on the ground floor comes out after you, giving you instructions on how to close doors.
Would we return – I don’t think so, 10 minutes tube ride from the city there are better value, better facilities with four times the room size (no joke)