the hotel is great but the woman who works there is not friendly, the other guy who works there was very friendly he was about to clean our room when she came in and told him not to clean our room, when we book the room the check out said 10.30 at morning but the lady came at 10.00 and say we have to leave the hotel or we will pay for staying more. but of course we didnt leave till what our paper said 10.30 and i would not pay a penny more. if the manager of the hotel see this i will say u should get her off the job she is not friendly to the guests. let me say that she is a stupid. my name is Jagathai Hasan i stayed at room number 7 my phone number is [-] u welcome to call me, but i suggest u to get her off the job

We stayed at the Casa di Iginia e Paolo during the Easter week-end in 2010.

We really didn't enjoy our stay there for the following reasons :

- the room we had didn't look at all like the pictures on the website.
- the room was extremely small (not enough space to have our suitcases open...), dirty (the wall were full of black marks) and extremely old fashioned.
- the room laked of fresh air and was kind of damp, as there was no window
- the towels were not changed every day but every two days which they should have told us before (we put our towels on the floor the first morning and they were back on the towel rack the next day ... not very nice...) the towel at the bottom of the shower was never changed in the 4 days we were there.
- the bathroom looked like it was not finished
- the walls are paper thin. We could almost follow the conversation of the people in the next room.
- the breakfast was extremely simple, to say the least, with some old cornflakes, milk, a pack of industrial toast bread from some discount shop, coffee and tea which didn't taste good.
- in the morning, the owner put the music as loud as possible to get the customers out of there so she can clean the rooms. When I am on holiday, I don't always want to be out of my room by 9.30 and I certainly don't want to be told when to get out by the owner!

The only thing we like about it is the location. It's from walking distance to the Spanish Steps, which is what attracted us in the first place. Maps don't lie so it was indeed next to the Spanish Steps. At least one thing we didn't get disappointed about...

In a nutshell, this place looks more like a bad youth hostel and for 83 euros a night, I think it's a rather expensive one! I definitely would not recommend this place.

This is not a fancy hotel, it is a legitimate Rome B&B. The room was spacious and clean, we had our own bathroom which was also clean. The staff was very friendly, calling to make us reservations at Galleria Borghese (which was sold out, make your reservations weeks in advance), letting us use their computer, and putting on a decent breakfast. From the Termini we took a short bus ride, walked two blocks and arrived. It was a short walk to the train station - good location. This is not the place to stay with children, but for a couple it was great!

On arrival they tried to put us in a broom-cupboard, which they called a room (No.12). When we asked if there were any bigger rooms available, the initial welcome evaporated very quickly, and we were led to Room 14. We were told "don't complain tomorrow if this room is too noisy, you can't change again".

The shower head was dangling on a piece of plastic, the toilet roll holder fell off when you touched it - lots of minor repairs needed doing, which gives the impression that no-one gives a damn about the place. Our soap ran out, and was not replaced even though I asked. Even the soaps in the shared bathrooms were watered down so much you couldn't get a lather!

The breakfast was horrendous - croissants in plastic - cheese slices in plastic - I suspect the plastic would have had more taste...
Even the orange juice tasted rather strange.

If you don't want to run a B&B why do it? If you do, please be prepared to put a bit of effort in.

As for the location, it was the worst I had ever stayed in in Rome and the public transport there was awful - the 910 bus ran about every 30 minutes, but was often very late, and then two turned up together.

Never again!