This hotel is clean and functional, ideal if you want somewhere to park a car and then travel into Rome on public transport, Rooms are very clean and well appointed for the price, air conditioning worked well. The staff were friendly and helpfull and all spoke some English. The bus runs past the hotel to the metro (hotel staff give you the number) then the metro costs 1 euro each for 75 minutes travel, we took about 35 mins on average from hotel to termini station. The Open top tour bus in Rome is great value 18 euro for 2 days (Adult) as you can hop on & off. We ate at La Bottegaccia which is about 400 metres from the hotel, Georgio (the owners son) speaks good English and the food is totally Italian and very good, main course and drink for four was 46 euro , which we thought was very good . It was also really friendly and welcoming after a long day sightseeing, ideal!

Booked this hotel with Lastminute.com Did get a good rate for 9 days, but so sorry we stayed here, the Hotel itself is a very fine well appointed very clean hotel, but the STAFF were so unfriendly to us bar one guy on night duty, one female member of staff was totally unhelpful and she seemed to be on most of the time we were there, the cleaning staff were excellent with laundy changes every single day and the room kept spotless at all times, breakfast is one to avoid as it is only coffee from a machine and stale pastries, with a scary member of staff hovering around, I expected to find ourselves locked up in a dark cellar some mornings LOL... the main reason I would advise anyone to avoid this hotel is its location, when you step outside the gate you are in quite a rundown residential area,with one or two small retail outlets,and nothing else,the locals look at you with suspicion as I guess not too many tourists stay in the area.

You have to get a bus to the metro and then metro into the city,which is fine in the daylight but i would not reccomend after dark for your return, the metro stop is a very rundown filthty area,with many beggers and shady looking characters. the hotel has no other facilities other than a bedroom, no where to have a drink,no food,and not even a bit of piped music, I have been in mortuarys that had better atmosphere !!

One final comment for the citys cleaning dept clean up the streets of Rome its "FILTHY" !!!!!

My daughter and I after spending two weeks in Italy visiting relatives in the Northern and Eastern parts of the country returned to Rome to visit another relative and found the Victor quite by accident. We found the Victor to be the best hotel in it price class that we found anywhere in Italy. I will stay at the Victor during my trip to Italy in early 2007

My boyfriend and I booked Hotel Victor through lastminute.com and stayed there for 3 nights 4-7 October this year. We knew what to expect from reading previous tripadvisor reviews, which we found very helpfull regarding which buses to use to get from the hotel to the metro, we even printed the reviews out and brought them with us as a reference! The hotel is closer to Ciampino airport then to Da Vinci, so if you are travelling with ryanair or easyjet this is much more convenient. The hotel itself has a lovely garden area, and is quite spacious and airy indoors. Our room was on the lower floor, the room and bathroom were big (and comfortable) but basic style-wise with white painted walls and no colour scheme, but for E42 each per night with breakfast this didn't bother us. The room had an archway with a few steps up to another area which had nothing in it but a single bed, air conditioner and two windows at the top of the wall overlooking the ground outdoors! We thought this a bit unusual but the extra space was nice, obviously if you want a view this isn't ideal.Also, although everything else was fine, I stepped onto the bed to look out the high windows, and the indoor window ledges were very dusty and the paint was flaking off, but other then that as I said the room was very clean.And I guess your not suppossed to see that area, as there is a remote control to open and close the windows and for the air conditioner.The only other complaint I have with the room is that there is no safety deposit box, so we had to make do without which was a little worrying. There is a lovely sitting area on the roof, and it felt like such a waste of resourses to have the area there with no real purpose. A restaurant or even snack bar and some sun beds on the roof terrace and this hotel would be halfway to adding another star. Breakfast was nothing special, there was barely any food left (no bread products or orange juice at all) our first morning, even though we were half an hour before end time. We got up earlier the second morning and breakfast consisted of croissants (sweet and savoury),bread rolls, cheese and salami slices, orange juice, selection of coffees, and cereal. TV only has italian channels which was dissapointing, and the only other thing worth mentioning is that most of the people working in this hotel don't have very good english, although there was one girl who did and was very helpfull to us the day of the metro strike. We had to check out during the night cause we had an early flight, and the man in reception called our room to wake us up half an hour before our taxi was due, which I thought was a nice touch. One last thing, Great little pizza place near the hotel out and down to your right, near the bus stop, best pizza I've ever had! Would definately stay here again, this kind of value for money is unbeatable in a city like Rome.