Hotel Meridiana is a nice hotel in Via Calatafimi, near Termini railway station. Rooms are clean and cosy. Staff is helpful and friendly and I would stay there again in the future. Many attractions are near and can be visited by foot. After all that's the best way to get know Rome.

To start off, be aware that this hotel is located in a sketchy part of town near the "Termini" which is the train station. So if you are considering booking any hotel in this area its probably not going to be great. The lobby is located on the second floor of the hotel. The room my friend and I booked was supposed to have two twin beds, however we entered the room to see a queen bed and what looked to be a twin size bed. We then opened the windows and our room looked out into the back of a large, rundown apartment complex. I recommend not even opening the blinds if your room is on the back side of the building. At night it gets loud (again I can only speak from living in a room on the back side of the building) and in the morning you can hear just about anything move outside or above your room. The shower did not drain well and sometimes flooded although that tends to be the case around much of Europe. Also, there is no internet available in our room although there was an internet cafe around the block. The man at the front desk was pretty helpful for the most part and the hotel was in a good overall location, in terms of proximity to metro station and the coliseum. The staff at the hotel also allowed us to keep our bags at the hotel while we went sightseeing given our flight wasn't unti 9 P.M. There was always someone at the front desk as well which made us feel safe about leaving our room for long periods of time. This hotel was nice but I feel like there are better hotels out there that can offer better amentities. However, this is a good hotel for the amount we paid.

This hotel is without doubt the worst I have ever stayed in, and I'm one of those people that always makes the ebst of things in hotels. Got there in the middle of the day to be told we'd have to wait four hours for the rooms to be ready. We were travelling in a large group of around 30 (school trip) and were split into 10 rooms. Each room was incredibly small, and rather dirty, but did have a fridge and a safety deposit box which we didn't have to pay for, but no air conditioning which we HAD paid for. Our shower door in the bathroom was broken, and wasn't fixed so we kept having to go next door to shower in our friends' room. The room was on the bottom floor with a large window that the maid kept leaving open even when we asked not to so anyone could have gotten in; luckily nothing happened though. We were staying there as a B&B and the breakfast food was terrible! It was just rolls, jam and bad fruit; no cereal or even a toaster.
Rome itself though is amazing. The location of the hotel is fab for walking to the all the main attractions, although you probably will need to get a bus to the Vatican as that's quite a bit away. The bus service is very good though. Just beware of pickpockets in the streets and men hassling you to buy fake goods. Would go back to Rome, but not this hotel.

dreadful hotel when we asked where breakfast was we were taken to a cafe in the next street for a roll and coffee. They refused to accept anything but cash despite advertising they take visa. Room view was like Hitchcocks film rear window, please give it a miss!!!!