Our trip to Rome was phenomenal. We had a lovely stay at Orto di Roma for 4 nights in a room with 3 single beds as we had requested. The room was immaculately clean, with air conditioning, flat screen TV, small fridge, comfortable beds and pillows. It had balcony, although no view. This was not important. The room was spotlessly cleaned everyday, shower was good with good pressure, no complaints at all about the room itself. Lift was available and that was nice for my mother and sister who needed some assistance. The room we were given, however, was above where they cooked the pizzas for the adjacent pizzaria, so we smelled bread baking very early on rising and sound from the restaurant carried somewhat. This was not really an issue. We did ask not to be placed directly above or near the restaurnat and I guess they honored that. Note to others: If not, it will be noisy. The staff was fantastic. Very helpful, especially with direction, advice, etc. The reception desk is always staffed. Any thing you want to know about, ask Paolo. He is your man, although they were all great. You can buy metro passes to get started in Rome from the hotel. They can also provide you with a pretty good free map, tell you which bus to use to get where etc. Breakfast bar was very good. Good variety and fresh. Coffee bar with a barista. Note: Both baristas are rather unfriendly, but who cares, you are in Rome. Location of hotel is all right. Takes 20-30 min by bus to get to the metro station Basilica di san paolo (line B) that then takes you anywhere else you want to go. so, give yourself plenty of time to get to places. Look into the Roma pass. It was a good deal.

It takes about 45 minutes to get from the hotel to the centre of Rome - basically you want bus number 764 heading toward the left as you come out of the hotel drive to the Laurentino Metro stop. The benefit is that it is very quiet in the area where the hotel is at.

Breakfast was a selection of bread stuffs, cheese, ham, fruit, cereals, yoghurts and some sort of cake. There's juice, tea and coffee. It's served from 7-10am.

The rooms are clean. We were fortunate in that we were in the main hotel. It's obviously been redecorated lately. Each room is en-suite and has shutters to make the rooms dark in the day time. The beds were two twins pushed together but topped with foam so you really couldn't tell it was two separate beds - and very comfortable. The rooms each have a fridge with a mini-bar; prices are as expected, but there's enough room to store your own stuff in them. TV seemed to be in Italian only - no English channels. The hotel has a computer in the lobby with free internet connection.

Not all the staff speak English. The restaurant attached to the hotel was really good food, great service and great value for money.

Actually stayed in September 2009. The hotel was OK, but our room was very noisy as it was situated just above the restaurant which was always busy. It was a mission to get into see any of the sights of Rome as you had to get a bus to the subway first and these were not that frequent. Room was clean and service was OK. Overall, OK for the money though next time I would get something closer to the city.

The hotel was okay, small and noisy, but clean. Friendly people.

The restaurant near the hotel was very bad. Bad food, very bad service.

I can recommend the hotel, because price is okay for 3 star hotel, but do NOT eat at that restaurant is my advise.