We visit Rome in the middle of February ( 4 people) and stayed 3 night at MAX Hotel. The Hotel is a small one, at the 3rd floor of a building with several hotels. The stairs and the elevator is not 100% clean but that didn't bother us that much.

The location is perfect- near Termini Station and its easy to get anywhere :).

The hotel room was perfectly clean so was the toilet. There was a TV, fridge and personal safe in every room so you can leave your valuables there. The towels were changed every day.

The stuff was really nice to us. In the first day we arrived at the Hotel at 11:00 am and they give us our rooms (even though the check-in was at 1:00 pm ). Last day we had our plane at 10:00 pm and they let us live our luggage there all day long.

There is a bag thing though: the coffee at the Hotel is really bad. :)

PS: the hotel is not hard to find if you send 10 minutes on the internet before the trip to search for the location.

It was almost impossible to find the place. The stairs and the elevator were very dirty. The halls of the hotel smelled very bad because the staff bathroom was open and so near to our room. We booked one room for four persons and the just but four beds one really close to the other, I think it was a room for two adapted for four. I strongly discourage to don't book this place.

Hotel Max in a word....Disgusting! It is located near the main train station - but that being said the location is very seedy . Trying to find Hotel Max is very hard too, it is located in a building with different hotels on different levels. So the front door does not say Hotel Max very clearly - so look carefully. There is a lift there, but it is very small and rickety and I would hate to be stuck there. Sometimes the liff does not come at all - then you have to use the stairs! And that is another nightmare itself - the stairs are dirty, littered by cigarrette butts, garbage - and i even found a filthy towel there. The staff barely speak english - so don't try and ask for directions. The rooms are dingy and you feel scared walking in the corridor which is dark and protected from the stairway from hell by a door that is rarely closed (even though you are supposed to) so who knows who will be waiting there for you. The rooms appear to be nice, but the toilet leaked, so there was water all over the floor. The television is apparently just for decoration - it does not work at all. The rooms do have a safe (can be used for free) which is a bonus in Rome. Each day the cleaning lady gave us one less towel - and we ended up having to ask for a hand towel. The shower is tiny - European showers apparently are - but no where else we stayed was this small. If you are a large person - you probably won't fit in the shower - awful but true - and even if you are as thin as a rake - your elbows will have bruises from hitting the side of the shower. Breakfast is included - but i prefer to think of it as amunition - if you get mugged, a few of these breadrolls would make great projectiles! They are so hard! And the coffee - well don't even go there. They provide a few jams for the breadrolls but these were awful. So don't think because breakfast included, you will actually get breakfast - budget for breakfast outside the hotel. All this being said - it is a budget hotel - so expect budget conditions - but I really think there are better options out there for comparable prices. I know Rome is such a city where you only want to sleep in your room (because there is so much to see), but really one needs some standard there. Good thing about it, it really makes you appreciate your home. I would never stay there again and perhaps only recommend it to my worst enemy.

We planned to stay in Hotel Siracusa, but it seems they didn't want a large group (41 persons) there, so a few hours before we left to Rome we heard to hotel changed to Hotel Max... Anyway, we left and we were going to try to make the best of it since we didn't knew where we were going to end up, because we didn't had the chance to google the hotel anymore before leaving...

When we arrived there, we noticed that there where 6 hotels in one building. We had to climb to the 3rd floor, where the reception of Max is situated. The which we had to pass every day was disgusting. It was dusty, with cigarettes all over the floor. We really didn't trust the elevator... That says enough...

The organisation was a mess! It felt like they weren't prepared for a large group like us!
When the chaos was over, we finally had to chance to go to our room. The first thing we couldn't ignore was the terrible smell coming out of our room when we first opened the door. We immediately opened the window and when we came back to the hotel later that evening, the smell was almost gone. For some reason the cleaning lady closed the window every single day when we were out of the hotel, so the room was smelly again..
The room was also very tiny, and there wasn't enough space for 3 people to put their luggage.

Breakfast was really poor, we all got 1 piece of bread and you could only choose between nutella, honey and jam. The first day i tried to drink cappuccino but it tasted like it was made from water from the dishes... Hot chocolate, which i tried the day after, was okay. When we were still hungry, we went to 'DESPAR', a supermarket, to buy some cookies/chips/...


Now let's be positive:
The location is great!!! The Central station (Termini) is just 2 minutes away, so you can easily take the train or underground to anywhere!

Our bathroom's size was big when you compare it to the size of the bedroom. There were also fresh towels every day! That was really pleasant!

The staff was okay, but they were having discussions all the time with eachother... (Or anyway it seems like they were...)


Generally, our stay was okay, but it wasn't the best hotel i've ever stayed in...
For a study group, it you don't ask for a lot of luxury, it's not that bad..