Small, very small, room with security buzzer at front door that did not work most of the time. Front desk half a block away. Neighbor was robbed at night while sleeping.

Centrally located, very accomodating staff and nice clean rooms. Breakfast was good too for the price we paid (EUR30 nightly). The worst part was that electricity kept cutting off and we ended without hot water on one particular occasion which meant cold water like what you get out of a fridge!! We had to wait to shower.

It is not your typical hotel - it is housed in a Palazzo which means apartment block therefore the hotel entrance is shared with other apartment owners, one of which was not so keen in seeing tourists using the lift which stops very often (lift is very old and you have to use a 10cent coin). The room in which we stayed is located in a former apartment which was converted into hotel rooms.

Reception of the hotel picasso is actually located a corner away at the hotel caravaggio. One one occassion we had breakfast prepared early since we were leaving for a day trip. Overall the hotel has many positive attributes and the inconveniences were tackled by the staff positively therefore it served the purpose well of a budget hotel.

We stayed here in June 2010. We picked this hotel because we were on a tight budget and were looking for something cheap and cheerful. That is almost what we got. We chose this hotel as we used online reviews and the majority of them claimed this to be a great hotel. We can only say this was an OK hotel.
Firstly this is not really a hotel, is appears as if it is overflow rooms for the Hotel Caravaggio across the street, where you check in and out. The room was ok, small, very much a budget room although you are not paying budget prices, and the air conditioning did not work properly. In the heat of Rome city in June the air conditioning did nothing to comfort us, it also let in an awful lot of mosquitoes which didn't make us anymore comfortable.
On arrival, we didn't exactly get a warm welcome, even though we were soaked to the skin from rain, we were made wait to check in, although there was no other guests checking in.
We were then brought across the street, to the first floor of a separate building, which houses a few rooms, this making up the Hotel Picasso, from what we could see. It came across as if these used to be old staff rooms which they converted to guest rooms although for the price you are charged for them there was not much effort put into them.
There is internet access in the lobby of the Hotel Caravaggio across the street, they also held a 'Happy Hour' there in the evenings.
The location was ok, just off Via Nazionale, a main street with shops and restaurants, with Piazza della Repubblica at the top. Besides this all of the other attractions were a good walk away.
We personally would never stay here again, and I would tell my friends that if they have that much money to spend on a hotel to look elsewhere as this is not worth the money. We stayed in other hotels in Italy and got a much better deal for half the money, although keeping in mind this is Rome.
We would not recomment this hotel.

This place is absolutely awful. We arrived in Rome after more than a week in other parts of Italy to find the staff rude, pushy, and totally unaccommodating. The room was so small we couldn't walk around the bed without crashing into each other and the bathroom so small the door didn't even open all the way. The website says no smoking, but don't believe it... the room stank of stale cigarette smoke and there was an ash tray in the nightstand. The "bed" wasn't even a bed... it was two cots shoved together and neither of them had much support left in them, and one of them was so dead that I sank down over a foot when I sat on it. We lost the equivalent of a whole day dealing with the fiasco that arose out of this hotel, including the chaos that resulted when we checked out early after we (luckily) found an alternative. For not much more per night, you can go and stay at the Albergo Santa Chiara hotel, a stone's throw from the Pantheon, with MUCH better services and MUCH better location and MUCH better staff. We are a young professional couple and don't need much, but this was wholly unacceptable. A truly awful experience.