After reading several reviews on hotels in Rome, we weren't quite sure what to expect, but we were pleasantly surprised. This bed and breakfast was not your traditional B&B, but rather picture it as an apartment without a kitchen. The rooms in the apartment are individual rooms that you rent out. Each room comes with a refrigerator bar, its own bathroom complete with shampoo, conditioner, hairdryer, jacuzzi and you even are supplied with slippers! The air-conditioning actually works, sometimes even too cold. As one of the reviews mentioned, there are quite a few keys in order to get in, but looking on the bright side, you feel safe. The room has no phones, which was an inconvenience, but the hotel next door has a pay phone. The staff was very helpful. Breakfast was excellent and more than enough. The scenery was breathtaking, overlooking the Vatican.

There were 9 people in our group, 5 of which were teenagers, and all of us were extremely satisfied. Apart from being a lovely place to stay, the price was right!

The Maison Royale B&B is not a true B&B. Keep this in mind when you book. You are in a very updated ensuite apartment (with only a mini bar) so this gives the impression of a hotel. The Atlante Hotel is beside the B&B and breakfast component is served on the top floor of this hotel. This is the real winner here. The breakfast is spectacular (Italian standards). The view of St. Peter's is magical and the staff are the real clincher as the hotel staff are equally as helpful to the B&B clients as they are to the hotel guests. The apartments are very secure and the usage of several keys is the ONLY nuisance but I can tell you that you are indeed secure. I suspect this B&B will eventually raise their rates from 125 Euro/night because this is too good to be true... especially with the breakfast included. Room 3 was beautiful but the street noise may be too much for light sleepers (this had a jacuzzi tub which was great after long walks) and Room 4 was similarly appointed with only a soaker tub but it had a garden view and significantly quieter. You are only 5 minutes walk to St. Peter's and 15 minute walk to the Pantheon. Everything is walkable in Rome!

Score out of 10 : 9.6 (deduction for some street noise and awkward use of the keys).

Cheers,

Tim - Calgary, Canada (A VERY frequent traveler)

Although this hotel is classified as a B&B, it is actually next to, and affiliated with the Hotel Atlantique, a 4 or 5 star property.

For the money, you'd be hard-pressed to beat it. The bedroom and bathroom were very large, and the bed was quite comfortable. The bathroom, albeit clean, had some mold on the shower wall, and the jacuzzi was not working. Again though, bottom line, it was well worth the price.

Our biggest complaint was the noise from the street below, but if you're up early, you'll be good to go.

The location was terrific. Less than 5 minutes walk to the Vatican, and 10 minutes walk to the Piazza Navona. Plenty of restaurants nearby, and the neighborhood seemed very safe.

The front desk (actually Hotel Atlantique's front desk) was very friendly and helpful.

One item to note...no telephone in the room, so bring an alarm clock along with your power adaptors.

We have just returned from a 4 night stay in Rome. We have been to Rome quite a few times and this time we decided to stay close to the Vatican City in order to explore this area in more details. We found La Maison Royale on the Internet (Romeby(-)) and made a booking approx 2 months before our trip. The reservation was confirmed and we were looking forward to our stay. Two nights before our departure we received an email from the Hotel Atalante Star (through which you book La Maison Royale) that they were sorry to inform us that our reservation with La Maison Royal was cancelled and that they were going to put us up in another hotel only 5 min away from were we had originally booked.
I quickly replied to the email expressing my confusion - especially because the hotel they had moved us to was not to find anywhere on the Internet except for 1 review on a webpage that I do not remember the name of (similar to Tripadvisor.com). This review was NOT positive and we therefore got worried about the quality of the new hotel. I never got a reply to my email and when I tried to call them the following day they only replied that the lady in charge of bookings had the day off! We tried to make other reservations at other hotels in the area just in case but EVERYTHING was booked (we were 4 people and needed 2 double rooms). We finally decided have a look at the hotel (San Valentino) and then decide once we got there weather or not we wanted to move to another hotel. San Valentni was absolutely awful! First of all it was not 5 but approx 15-20 min away from La Maison Royal. We could have lived with the fact that the TV was the seize of a shoebox and did not work, that the light switches in the bathroom kept falling of - just like the on/off thing in the shower, that the toilet was placed almost under the sink so you had to sit sideways, that the toilet seat was broken and therefore often came half way off when you tried to sit on it, that the beds felt like something from a second World War hospital, if - and only if - the rooms had been clean! It was sooooo dirty there that we did not unpack any of our stuff!! We spend the first evening on the phones trying to find another hotel, but it was absolutely impossible. The following day we tried to call La Maison Royal to complain, but the receptionist kept telling us to call back because the booking office was either closed or no one was there. We finally gave up……..
In other words, be prepared for a bit of everything if you chose La Maison Royale!