| From: ST, Japan |
| Date of Stay: September, 2008 |
| My first vacation trip to Italy and at first had difficulties finding the hotel, when I took the Sistina exit at Spana station. It would have been easier if I took the Spanish steps exit or Barbenini station. |
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| From: Arnaud Conflant, France |
| Date of Stay: August, 2008 |
| The hotel was very well ocated and the staff was very nice and helpfull !! i would recommand this hotel to anybody |
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| From: MA, Italy |
| Date of Stay: June, 2008 |
| It's wrong to call it Hotel, it's just bed and breakfast, very poor services, small rooms, no breakfast, totally different from web pages descriptions. Price is very hight for type of services offered. Pessimo in tutto, meno di un Band B, prezzo sconsiderato per la tipologia. colazione inesistente. stanze minuscole, personale non qualificato. |
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| From: Maria Laura Veytia Orozco, Mexico |
| Date of Stay: April, 2008 |
| Room too small, cleaning bad, we moved to the albergo International on via sistina 79 ph.69941823, excelent for the same price, very clean, better rooms. |
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| From: FD, USA |
| Date of Stay: April, 2008 |
| Not a good deal. Also charged 2 Euro per night to put a lock on a "hole in wall safe". Breakfast room didn't have enough space for guest. Bathroom had NO window and step-up, so watch yourself in the dark! Staff does NOT understand as mush English or Spainish as they let on. WOULD NOT VISIT again |
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| From: HP, Mexico |
| Date of Stay: March, 2008 |
| Very tiny rooms in a great location for sightseing around rome center. Bathrooms are spacious. People outside the room and frontdesk are very noise at night. The front desk is in the second floor but there is an elevator. |
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| From: AR, USA |
| Date of Stay: February, 2008 |
| The location was excellent, the room large and well-furnished, and the staff were so friendly and helpful (one made reservations for us at two fantastic restuarants we will go back to.) My only complaint is the doors that opened up to the hotel room hallways were so loud. Every time someone came in or out it woke us up. The doors and walls were thin so it was hard to sleep. But otherwise, a great value. If you weren't planning to sleep in anyway, then definitely stay. |
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| From: Mrs Jocelyn Rowe, United Kingdom |
| Date of Stay: February, 2008 |
| We had to move out after the first night because:- 1.There was no bath as the advert had led us to understand. 2.The floor of the bedroom was uneven and unsafe. 3.The bathroom was unclean,with no soap. 4. The air-conditioning screeched much of the night until we found out how to turn it off. 5.The curtains had no lining so the street lamp was shining brightly into our bedroom all night. 6.The flow of water into the bathroom basin was almost non existent. A thoroughly unsatisfactory experience--one night was more than sufficient!! |
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| From: RD, Netherlands |
| Date of Stay: October, 2007 |
| I read several comments on diferent pages about this hotel and not all were positive. Now we stayed there, I can judge for myself. I guess they fired the staff that was incompetent, because we only have positive experiences with that. Polite, friendly employees. The room was on the streetside and yes, it was noisy. The bathroom smelled a bit funny, but besides that it was fine. The breakfastbuffet was sufficient, certainly for Italian standards. The coffee was not cold en there was enough choice. When we left, we asked the girl at the reception to get us a cab. A limousine (Jaguar) picked us up, but the trip to the airport cost just as much (50 euros) as the trip with the taxi we took on our way in. In that case I don't mind being driven in Jaguar! The Spanish steps are just a minute away and we walked to almost everything we wanted to see. The location is very good! If we ever come back to Rome, we would certainly stay here again, but we would request a room not on the streetside. I don't know the view at the back of the hotel, but at the streetside there are just buildings in your view, so you don't miss a lot at the backside. Just one tip: do not eat at the restaurant 'La Tavernetta' in the same street as the hotel. It is a tourist trap. It seems nice from the outside with a very friendly doorman, but when you get the bill it is not so nice anymore! Very expensive and small portions, though good quality. I think 13 euro's for a bottle of water is a bit overdone, even for Italian standards! |
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| From: Corrado Marino, Italy |
| Date of Stay: October, 2007 |
| Booked two double rooms, obtained one room with four beds. Check in delayed form 12.00 to 14.00. shower without hot water |
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| From: CB, USA |
| Date of Stay: April, 2007 |
| This hotel was really nice. The only problem is that they should have told us to get off at the Barbarini stop on the subway. Had we done that we would not have had to carry our heavy luggage up the Spanish steps. The hotel was great though, no complaints. Great location, a little noisy but fine if the room is cool enough to close the windows. I would give it an A overall. |
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| From: SB, United Kingdom |
| Date of Stay: March, 2007 |
| Bit noisy and breakfast was VERY basic, but apart from that a reasonably priced hotel in a great location in Rome. |
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| From: SB, United Kingdom |
| Date of Stay: October, 2006 |
| As others have said, this hotel is in a great location and, although it's not preferct, it's fine as a base if you aren't going to spend a lot of time in the hotel. |
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| From: LF, Italy |
| Date of Stay: October, 2006 |
| Excellent location and very friendly competent staff. |
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| From: HJ, Denmark |
| Date of Stay: October, 2006 |
| Excellent and very welcoming service. |
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| From: Laszlo Kollar, Germany |
| Date of Stay: October, 2006 |
| Issues: the whole thing looks and feels like a 2 star hotel, not a 3 star. one of the rooms smelled like an ashtray, though I asked for non-smoking rooms (room 203) the answer was they do not control the guests. The door lock (for room 205) stuck in the first morning, it took 10 minutes to get in the room. The receptionist was alone, hanging on the phone for 5 minutes (taking a booking) before she could say hello, while our taxi was waiting downstairs (we wanted to proceed right away). Breakfast is from 7:30 only, so we had to plead for a breakfast at 6:45. I will not go there again. |
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| From: Anthony Woodhouse, United Kingdom |
| Date of Stay: September, 2006 |
| The Trinita dei Monti was the perfect base for our 4 day break in Rome. It is about 200 yards from the top of the Spanish Steps. It was quite expensive, but no more expensive than any other comparable hotel that is as central. Rome is expensive. Reception is on the first floor, so you have to enter via a rather unwelcoming doorway and ascend to the first floor (via stairs or lift) All the staff we met, from receptionist, cleaner, breakfast girl, and night staff were courteous and efficient. Tourist maps were provided at reception. Breakfast was bread roll, sweet croissant, cereal, tinned fruit, fruit juice and coffee and it seemed you could have 'seconds' but you felt a little guilty in the small breakfast room. Rooms were cleaned and towels changed every day. Our room had air conditioning, a minibar and tv, (only Italian channels). There is a safe for valuables, the key (and lock) collected from reception - free of charge. Bathroom had shower, toilet, bidet and hair dryer. Before our stay, I read other comments about it being on a busy road and therefore quite noisy, so ask for a room at the back. I would imagine nearly all hotels in Rome are on busy roads and suffer from noise. I asked for (and got) a room at the back, and certainly the room was indeed very quiet, but the view is a solid concrete retaining wall (from some sort of villa behind, up the hill) it encloses a small courtyard and is about 80 feet high. We were on the 2nd floor and the wall was WAY above us. This is not a complaint, I'm just describing the hotel. We only found 2 innacuracies in the website details and these didn't trouble us at all. 1) The Bar, there isn't one ... it now seems to be the breakfast room. And 2) The PC/Internet area. Well that was just a desk in a corridor. There was no evidence of a computer. It is an old hotel furnished in and an old fashioned style and is within walking distance of tourist Rome and I would thouroughly recommend it |
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| From: Santha De Zoysa Mrs., Sri Lanka |
| Date of Stay: August, 2006 |
| The location of the hotel was excellent. We could walk across a lane to the Via Veneto, up the road to the Spanish Steps,7 mins.to the Fontana Trevi, down the road to the Piazza Barberini. However the bathroom attached to our room needed new fittings. The commode had a crust of limescale.The room rate was O.K.but for a small hotel the reception staff were impersonal. I would choose another hotel on the Via Sistina on my next visit. |
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| From: DM, USA |
| Date of Stay: August, 2006 |
| This Hotel had a great location. The breakfast room was small, but the rooms were large for Europe. The bathroom had a problem in that there was a smell from the drains. The breakfast was great and the staff was excellent and helpful. |
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| From: Ramona Shelburne, USA |
| Date of Stay: July, 2006 |
| For Rome, and particularly the Spanish Steps area, this is an amazing find. It really is 3 minutes to the Spanish Steps and most hotels in this area are twice as much. The rooms are a little older, but they're big and spacious. Our television didn't work right, and there is no computer for public use, but for the price, location and overall package, you're getting a lot. And besides, what do you need TV for when you're staying in Rome! The reception was great. Our concierge, Marco gave us a lot of great tips and was very welcoming. I've stayed in a lot of hotels in Rome and this was by far my favorite. Location makes a big difference in Rome and this hotel is in the absolute best spot possible. |
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