See my review of the Baltic Hotel in regards to background. The Porta Pia is owned by the same people. After the problems we found with the Baltic, the Porta Pia was a good but basic hotel with friendly staff. It was ok for a 1 night stay (possibly 2) but not for much longer. more

Booked the Porta Pia directly via email. No problems whatsoever. Hotel room was clean, bathroom clean. The only downside is the location of the nearest Metro and its only a 400m walk. just use the bus instead. All the bars and restaurants around the Hotel were very acceptable. We were out late at night and felt perfectly safe. more

We stayed 5 nights in this hotel on August 2007. The room was clean and appeared like it was recently renovated, it had all that we needed including a flat screen TV & airconditioner. The bathroom was compact but clean & pleasant. The hotel itself is actually a few apartments put toghther in an apartment building on the second floor.... more

I did not have high expectations of this hotel, based on the internet photos. However, I was pleasantly surprised at how clean & bright the room was. Everything was working great! There was also a mini-mart 2 doors away and bus stops werewithin easy reach. The downsides - there was only 1 plug in the room (inconvenient if you have... more