It wasn't the worst place I've stayed in but it is still far from the best. Although it's kind of a funny story now so it's hard to be completely negative about the place.
Well the huge selling point is the location. It's about a minute up the street from the Forum, 5 minutes from the Colosseum, 5 minutes to the Birthday Cake. Really awesome location.
What wasn't good was the place itself. Without explaining too much, I'll just say that seeing the night porter with only a towel around him was not really what I expected. The breakfast is horrendous. I don't know why they bother giving you two croissants that have come out of a packet. They're chewy and really minging.
It was difficult to find also. On the main street (Cavour) its the end towards the forum and it's a big brown door with no signage (that I noticed). Then you enter and go in a lift up to the floor that the hotel is on.
The room itself was a little small for how much the room cost and the bathroom isn't a separate room, it had walls but was just a raised kind of cubicle area in the corner of the room.
The air conditioning was really good though. Looked pretty new.
The things I liked about the place were the decor. Was kind of traditional looking. They key into the room was huge so there was sort of an air of authentic tradition. The bed was massive as well which was good after 10 hours walking around Rome.
Of course the location was by far the best thing. When I think about it now, being so close to everything we wanted to do by far outweighed a bad breakfast and overpriced room.
I don't think I would recommend it though. There's probably nicer places on the same road.
- Labelle Hotel Rome
