I was supposed to stay here for 4 nights in October buy my trip got moved to November instead. I thought I had canceled this hotel with Priceline, however on the first day of my supposed stay got an email from Hotel Fenicia that they charged by card due to "no show". I called the hotel directly and explained what had happened and that there must have been intercommunication. I was fine with paying part of the fee but since it was only the first day of my "stay" and they had 3 more nights to rent out my room, I agreed to stay with them in November if they were to carry over 1 or 2 nights of my booking to that stay. The owner told me "rules and rules" and there was nothing they could do. As a result, they lost me as a customer and charged my credit card for 4 nights even though they likely rented that room out after the first night. This is borderline robbery on their side and I am extremely disappointed with how this situation was handled.

When we got to rome, we stayed at what we thought would be a nice hotel off hotels.com. It was terrible. So my boyfriend and his friend set out to find a good place for us to stay and visited around nine hotels on foot. They returned and told us they booked two rooms at Hotel Fenicia.

The hotel was awesome. It's a tiny group of rooms run by an older Italian couple. The rooms were tidy and small, but the twin beds pushed together were comfortable. The pillows were big and poofy. The desk was tiny and claustrophobic so we didn't use it. Shower was smaller than any i'd even seen on a cruise ship. You could tell that some of the blankets were worn and been repaired by hand. It's the care that the couple puts into the hotel that really makes it awesome.

The internet at the hotel is wifi and free, but it's very slow and only allows a couple people to be connected at the same time. It's about a block from the train station and super convenient, and lots of little food places around there are open late. The tavern resteraunt about two doors down is staffed by some very friendly chefs.

I'd heard that Rome (particularly near the train station) was sketchy, but this place felt very secure, and I wasn't worried about leaving camera gear in the room.

I've already recommended this place to other friends who want to visit Rome.

When I was searching a hotel for Rome on the web, I wasn't happy with the price that was offered. A friend recommended for us to try our luck to search for a hotel nearby Termini station once we were there. It doesn't sound like a brilliant plan, given we arrive on a bank holiday, nevertheless, we decided to be adventurous.
When we arrive Rome, we were looking aimlessly aroung Termini station, there were tonnes of hotel around the area, suddenly a man approached us and ask if we are interested. We were a little hesitant, as his hotel is quite close to the station (the idea is, the closer it is, the more expensive it would be), but we went up to have a look. The lift was incredibly small, can only fit 2 person at most.
The rooms are good, looked newly refurbished and very clean, it comes with air-conditioning, TV, and mini-fridge. And the price the owner offers were 90euros per night without breakfast. I think it's lower than the published rates.
They offered us a room facing the main street, which we thought might be noisy, and they agree to change on the 2nd day as they have no vacant rooms on the 1st day. But it wasn't that noisy so we sticked to the same room for 3 nights.
The owner preferred cash settlement at check out, but nevertheless accepted card when we explained that we do not have sufficient cash.

if i could give this hotel a lower rating, i would.... we arrived around 10pm in the evening and were confronted with a man telling us that becuase we had arrived so late in the evening that they thought we were not going to show up, so they sold our room on.

He then had the audacity to say that he had tried to process our credit card details as a cancellation. Thankfully for us, our partciular Visa card has enough security to prevent people using the number without the card.

He then said that he had a room in a partner hotel across the city, but we would have to pay for it at his hotel. This is where things got really dodgy, i informed him that we would only pay at the hotel we were staying at and asked that he call them so i could ensure that they had a vacancy. He was very reluctant, but when he did call them, he insisted on speaking to them. Lucky for us we both speak resonable Italian and were able to ascertain that the room did not exist. At this point we simply up and left, and were able to find a really nice hotel around 500 metres away.

I cannot comment on the comfort of the hotel as i didnt not get to see a room, but would seriously advise people to be careful if booking at this hotel as the owners are obviously dodgy.