“Hotel Bright. It might seem like a bargain, but its not.”
If you are thinking this hotel offers good value for money, you could not be more deluded. The simple truth is that by paying an extra £100 per night/room for an hotel much closer to the city centre, not only will your money be very well spent, but it will be much more convenient too. Once you have deducted what you will spend on taxis, the difference is not so much overall. The Hotel itself is clean, tidy and well presented, but the rooms are tiny. Two people can not occupy the same area of the nine by nine foot square space, most of which is taken up by the regular sized double bed anyway. If you are light sleeper stay somewhere else. The walls are paper thin, so the same applies to honeymooners! The person keeping you awake through loud snoring is in fact in the next room, could be above or below too.
The windows may as well be boarded up, as there is no view worth seeing from them. Unless you like the very noisy and busy main road to the front, or the industrial estates the side and rear. I can assure you your heart will sink the moment you arrive a the roadside, there is no path either outside the Bright.
If a bandit in a taxi tells you there is a suppliment to pay after eight in the evening, he is lying. You may haggle of course, but best to use a White cab with the meter running instead. The bus service from the hotel (508) runs at irregular times and does not go directly to the city, but stops at the train terminus. Now you must now endure the grubbiest stations and trains. Do not use after ten in the evening or alone. You have been warned.
The taxis will charge about £25 euro from Rome, you will probably have to give directions, as most look rather blank at the mention of the Bright. It's only eight kilometers outside the city centre, but somewhere most don't ever go.
Food at the hotel is provided by be establishment next door. Breakfast is adequate.
As with everything here it is grossly overpriced. Generally at least twice you might actually think it is worth. Ironically the best value food is inside Vatican city! All very sensibly priced, even the entry fee £12 is very good value considering all you get to see. Go Wednesday morning and you will see his holiness 'live' addressing the masses in the square. Now is a good time to get in line. Ignore everyone selling tours at so called special rates and VIP entry etc. They are lying. It's only ten euros for an audio guide once inside.
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