Il Capitello is a good budget choice with a good location very close to the Vatican. it is also just round the corner from a metro station and has very good and cheap restaurants very close by. Only thing with the location is, if you've walked round all day, as you probably will -it's Rome, there's so much to see, that by the time you get back to change you won't want to go back in again. We would have preferred to stay nearer the tourist centre but we had left it too late to get something in our price range, but Il Capitello is very cheap for Rome. It is clean, has good sized rooms, a safe with key and air con. The double glazed windowns also brilliantly block out any noise from outside. The only complaint I would have, and it was a big one for us, was that we were woken up early every morning without fail and were not able to get back to sleep as the noise continued. I have read other reviews and was looking forward to the quiet and being left alone but when we stayed there the owner was there every day with the cleaning lady and sometimes her young grand daughter. Every morning they would stand outside our room talking VERY loudly, and one day we were woken up by them blasting the TV in the next room. One night the phone was ringing for absolutely ages at around 5am, even though the owner is not there over night. Although everything about the room was good, I was left so frustrated by the lack of consideration for her guests that I would not stay here again. If you are a heavy sleeper go for it, we may have just gotten unlucky. Also the TV had no English channels apart from Bloomberg and porn!
Another thing that really annoyed me was that our airline had lost our bags and when they finally found them and arranged with us to get them to us in Rome, rather than offering to stay at the accommodation to collect them for us, or even letting us do that ourselves, she took it uponherself to cancel the courier telling us we would be better to go the airport ourselves to collect our bag - hence a four hour round trip on public transport in a terrible storm - not impressed!
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