Worst hotel in all my travels. Made the mistake of booking Rome last minute. Always book Rome hotels before you start your vacation, or else you'll have difficulty finding room, and you will pay through the nose.
I am not a picky traveler, but this hotel was awful. They showed me a room with the toilet in the shower, and I asked to upgrade to a better room. The room I ended up with had the shower separated from the toilet, thank goodness. But the water took 5 - 10 min. to warm up. The window leading to the courtyard did not lock properly (Room30) so I worried about someone breaking in. The room door had a HUGE keyhole, so anyone from the hallway could scoot up to the door and peek in. I had to hang a piece of paper over the hole.(!) The topsheet of the bed felt dirty when I touched it. The room was so small, I could barely put my small suitcase in their so-called "closet". When we walked around the community, we felt very unsafe and nothing was open at night. The maid left my backpack right by the door, with the door wide open!
I could only stand to stay for 2 nights before getting a really expensive room at Best Western (it was so worth it). It would have only been 1 night, but we had trouble finding accomodation.
Only stay at Hotel Monaco if you normally stay in dirty huts.

I have to agree with most of the reviews on this hotel because they are all correct. First of all i must say i didn't see the room so i wil not comment on the standard of the actual room.
What i will say is that after travelling half way around the world with my wife and 2 small children, arriving at this hotel was the biggest mistake we made when we travelled to Italy.
Since we had booked and paid 3 months earlier we were confident we would get a room at the hotel even though after reading the reviews we were concerened about the standard of the hotel. We walked into it with reservations but a very open mind considering that it was only a 2 star but was shocked when we arrived and got told there was no room for us. We were asked if we could go on the other side of the city to a sister hotel for the night and then return for the following 4 nights to finish our stay in the city. After a very heated argument with the "manager/operator" we told him that we would change hotels only if we stayed there for our whole stay (the hotel was a 3 star hotel) and that they would pay for the taxi ride. He wasn't happy with this but we gave him no choice and told him that this was not good enough and we were not going to travel back and forth. He agreed with all our requests and the other hotel was FANTASITIC.
so the one thing i would say is DO NOT BOOK THIS HOTEL!!!!!!!!!!!! instead spend the extra $20 euros or so a night and stay at the Santa Prassede (see our review on this hotel).

Please DO not book this hotel, its a dump!!!!

The "best part" is this hotel (and its partners) do overbooking on their rooms.

We arrived at the hotels to have our rooms not available. They gave us excuese that we CANCELLED the reservation which we obviously did not. They also did not try to help us find another room but only to tell us look for rooms in the nearby streets.

After much arguing, they "decided" that they have only 1 room free for 1 of the nights we booked. Having not much choice, we had to accept their offer and we managed to find another hotel for the other night.

The room was a dump! Very crampy and looks like a dorm more like a hotel. Toilet was dirty as well. Breakfast was bad too as they have so little space for guests such that everyone was waiting for everyone to finish so as to have a space to sit!

Our Rome trip was ruined by a stay at this hotel!

DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT THIS PLACE. We didnt want luxury at all from our accomodation but we we got here was nothing short of a disaster. Yes, the rooms are small. The shower is over the toilet, thats how cramped our bathroom was. Our room backed onto the rear of the reception and so the vending machine kept going off all night and the noise from the kitchen on the morning was argghhhhh disturbing. The stupid cleaners through out my partners contact lenses and all we were told was "tough" they shouldnt have been in the bathroom and to call our travel agent....after trying to sort this out with them directly they switched off our hot water, NOT that there was much hot water to start with. OH and our "continental" breakfast was a basket full of croissants and a juice machine which didnt work. do not stay here, keep looking, im sure theres better basic hotels than this one.