Asrikrishna
ngày 14 tháng 10 năm 2024
First the good: this hotel has an amazing staff member: Daniel who is easily the most knowledgeable and helpful person on all matters Rome.. Also appreciations for John who makes excellent cappuccinos at the breakfast counter. Now for the not so good: In our ten days in Italy, this was easily the worst hotel my family has stayed at. Relying on our travel agent and online reviews, we thought it would be a small but comfy city hotel near to the Termini railway station. The reality is that it is a very old building on a busy street with cramped interiors, an ancient elevator and dysfunctional ventilation that made it difficult to sleep (hotel manager said Rome City rules do not permit airconditioning ...but other hotels did have it. PLUS: Rome is quite WARM in early October). Windows if opened lets in loud noise through the night from the restaurants on the street below. The old rooms on the 3rd floor had a strange decor like they were built for a movie set of the 1940s... and the 'new' rooms have a very creepy blue UV lighting in the corridors. After much protests and two nights of misery, we were moved to another room where at least the ventilation was good. Breakfast was a poor spread of store bought sweet croissants in a cramped room - except the coffee by John, nothing was good. From the reviews, I gather that there are better rooms that other guests have stayed in - or were upgraded to. Ours were very bad and perhaps it is due to our nationality or skin colour - or both. The manager - Diego? - for whom I have read some praise here - was unnecessarily rude to us - and to other Asians who complained. I let it go as my family did not want to et into an argument with this short tempered guy and spoil what was otherwise a nice family holiday. He has a thing or two to learn from his Asian counterparts about how to run a hospitality business. On the whole, I will not recommend this hotel based on our experience. There are far better managed hotels in Rome.
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