We stayed here 4 nights in October 2011. The roof top became our start and end to the day. Good drinks, and the view is great

We stayed three nights and my wife and I really loved our experience at Marcella. The staff were extremely helpful, friendly and entertaining. Our room was spacious, the Roof Terrace was a great way to start the day with a surprisingly great breakfast and end the day with a couple glasses of wine. We met and shared a few fun late nights with some fabulous Australian, English, Canadian, Italian and Swiss people.
Great times. Great hotel. Will be back.

Stayed at the Marcella Royal in March for an anniversary treat. Not a bad little hotel, away from the main hustle of Rome. Check in was quite efficient and our room was ok, although was quite dark as it had shutters on the windows that would not stay open and our window looked out onto the wall of other buildings. The roof terrace was too cold to use in March and as there isn't another bar we ended up getting our drinks and taking them down to the reception to drink which was ok but not ideal, also the drinks are very pricey, if we had realised how expensive we would have stayed at the restaurant where we had dinner for after dinner drinks. Breakfast was ok if you only want continental breakfast, wasn't over impressed with their cooked breakfast but maybe we have been spoilt by british hotels full english. The restaurant overlooks the rooftops of Rome which sounds idealic but in reality is a view of more satelite dishes than you can count. We visited all the usual tourist traps and had a guided tour of the Vatican which we prebooked with Viators which was really good and well worth the money as our tour guide was really good and it enabled us to beat the queues, however we also booked a selfguided tour which was good as we wanted to backtrack over some of the things we had seen with the Viator guide but if you are not with a tour guide you cannot follow exactly the same route which was a bit annoying. St Peters is huge and everything is Rome is enormous. Visited the Colleseum but was more impressed by the one that we had seen in Tunisia. The Roma pass is well worth getting as it covers all your travel on the Metro and the buses, if you have only every been on the London Underground you MUST experience the Rome Metro, it only has 2 lines, A and B but they are very efficient and the buskers on them have to be seen. Castel S'Angelo is worth a visit although thier coffee shop is expensive as is everywhere in Rome for eating and drinking. A lot of the museums etc are shut on Mondays which is worth noting if you are on a short break and want to see as much as possible don't include Monday as a day to visit attractions. We used a restaurant just down the road from the hotel that they recommended called La Pentollacia which was really nice and very friendly and although not cheap was good value for money.

We stayed four nights from November 4 to 7, 2011. The front desk staff was friendly and very helpful, We took the Leonardo Express from FCO to the Termini station when we flew into Rome, then walked to the hotel. It was bit of a hike with luggage, but not incredibly difficult as the streets are fairly oedestrian-friendly.

Our room (#326) was ready at 10 in the morning when we arrived and the service throughout the stay was great. The breakfast in the morning on the terrace was amazing: even in November, the views are inspiring. Each day was the same, but that is usually the case in buffet-style breakfasts: eggs, bacon, bagels, tea, free cappuccino, fresh juice, yogurt and muffins. No fresh fruit, but not much is in season in November so we were happy with canned peaches.

We were catching a cruise out of Civitavecchia (the port about an hour from Rome), so we took the train to the port, also, which was an easy and uneventful experience ( 7 euros each versus $100 USD for shuttles or cabs) It can be challenging getting heavy bags off the steep, narrow train stairs alone, though, so be prepared.

Do NOT miss the gelato shop around the corner from the Marcella Royal: Caruso's at 13 Via Collina (literally half a block away.) There are ATMs near the hotel, and several good cafes with pizza and salads at reasonable prices. Our only complaints were that the room was tiny (very nice, quite comfortable and perfectly clean, just very very small) and the noise at night outside in the city can be astonishing (trash trucks, motor bikes, noisy walkers and heaven knows what else.) Ask for a room AWAY from the street if possible. The street views are great but the noise was intense. ALso, at times the free wifi in the room was spotty (so we wnet downstairs to the free PC in the lobby) but the good cafe right next door made up for that: try the linguini with clams for 4 euros along with a huge glass of white wine- ah- Roma!