The bar is now back on the ground floor – very nice, and beer now only 3 euros, coffee 2 euros. We found the (Riviera) breakfast to be fine – available were also fruit, yoghurts, cheeses and cold meat. The metro station is only 10 minutes away (OK, 11 minutes coming back !), you can buy tickets at the tabacchi on the north–east corner of the traffic lights junction, in order to avoid the machines at the station.

The hotel restaurant is still a bit slow. The Mozzarella & Pomodora (see below – 4 minutes walk) is the best value by far – fixed price menu 13 euros 50 for 3 courses and 2 drinks if you have pizza (lovely thin base) for the main course. For a meat course instead of pizza its 16 euros 50 but this is includes an extra course – best to decline the pasta course or you’ll be full up. The starter course is really lovely (you get one of 5 at random), especially if there’s a few of you on the table and you share them around. Get there at 7:30 (when it opens), as it gets quite noisy later on.

The Michele (see below – 2 minutes walk) is lovely a la carte food, with a good choice – for example about 18 euros for (large) starter plus main course, or 15 for main course plus dessert - both excluding drinks.

The residential road where the Burro & Sugo is, is Via Onorio. Full of locals.

Lunch time (not evenings) out of the hotel and turn left, and down to the end of the road (2 minutes), the café on the corner is very good value - 6 euros for a pasta dish, fruit salad, bread, and water. The young lad serving the coffees will explain what the dishes (that are on display) are - in very good english. Or there are small inexpensive cakes, and lovely ice cream.

A perfectly fine hotel, and not a bad journey at all into the city centre.

The Oly Hotel was a pleasant stay for my family and I. Although the rooms were quite small and some of the staff could not speak English, the hotel was still alright. From the staff that could speak English, we received a lot of help. The room was very tidy and the showers had unlimited hot water. Also, electrical outlets were easily available for charging our cameras and cell phones. In the lobby, there was free internet connection which is good for business men and women staying at the Oly Hotel. The next morning, my family and I enjoyed a great breakfast. With fresh fruit, hot chocolate, toast and jam, cereal and milk, fresh baked pastries, eggs, cheese, and so much more. The service was really great in the restaurant. Although the Oly Hotel was not the best hotel stay in my life, it most definitely was not the worst. As we toured around Roma we discovered that the Oly Hotel was the only 4 star hotel. All the other hotels we came across had 3 stars or under. So if you are going to Roma, the Oly Hotel is a comfortable experience, however, if one has younger children, it is quite a walk to the metro station.

We recently spent three nights here with Riviera Travel.
Overall the place was not too bad, and although the staff were a little remote, they were never less than polite. The food at breakfast was adequate - no more, no less. The catering staff were swamped by numbers though, and this is hardly excusable as they surely knew how many to expect for breakfast. We had one evening meal at the Oly and it was quite good and served in a professional manner.
The room was reasonable and clean, but perhaps a little smaller than we were led to believe. Our bathroom facilities were reasonable, although it did take a while for the bath to fill. A number of our fellow travellers, however, did experience some problems with both the toilet and bath.
The hotel is situated in a quietish area about 1Km from the Metro and very near the bus stop. The route to the Metro is "decorated" with graffiti - which is sadly endemic throughout Rome - and this can give a feeling of menace around the area. However, we never felt intimidated or threatened.
Overall the Oly was ok and suitable for a short stay.

My husband and I travelled with Riviera, and were forewarned by the reviews. But first of all it is not true to say that there are no other places to eat other than the hotel, go right, right and right again and the Michele is on your left, or go right, then left into the Via Antonio Pia,then take the first small road on the right which winds through a residential area and the Burro & Sugo is on your right as the road descends. Just a little farther on , on the Viale Leonardo da Vinci is a pizzeria and the Mozzarella & Pomodora. All these places had good reports from our group although the Michele was thought to be a bit expensive.

The food in the hotel was poor. Breakfast was what you would expect when it is described as "continental" but that does not excuse the "orange " juice that was a purple pink colour and tasted of water, nor the eggs which were not just hard boiled but refrigerated and the coffee machine broke down. The croissants were the best things there.

Almost all of us opted to eat in the hotel the first night - the set meal was 30 euros. I suppose it was not too bad but very ... s.l.o.w. Most people went out the next night but we stayed in and wished we hadn't. The pasta was cold and tasteless, the main came with "salad" which turned out to be wet, refrigerated green beans, served late. This meal too was very slow and that was strange with so few people to serve. We sat there for about three and a half hours, taking advantage of the free wine. If the meal had been better and efficiently served we would not have had so much. We heard that one group had refused to sign for the meal. We complained to the manager as we were leaving and he said he thought it was good value for money. No, it was not! We asked if anyone else had complained and he said, rather revealingly, "Not this morning!"

We didn't like the bar, it is below ground and does not have a relaxing atmosphere, being all black polished surfaces with hardly any chairs, not the sort of place you would want to spend any time at all, in fact it was bleak. The prices were 6euros for a small bottle of beer and 8euros for a gin and tonic.

On the plus side the hotel was clean, and our room was fine. That said we would not want to go back there and it is a twenty minute walk to the station.