We stayed there for 5 nights. The room is smaller than we expected however is still acceptable. Everything is clean and neat and gives us some sort of homey feeling. We liked the marble floor and the classic wood furniture. A lot of closet spaces.
The breakfast is served at our room and is pretty good: a jug of orange juice, cappucino, dried toast with different jam and butter (yes butter), yogurt and a small package of cake. We really liked it that we had a different type of cake everyday. The bed is so so - well, how often we would like the bed other than our own bed at home? Air Conditioning is strong and quiet. There is a water filtered tank near the entrance which offers icy cold water - it is really a bonus especially when you forgot to buy bottles of water before you come back to your room.
The location is great; we walked to St Peters Square 4 times (one time was at night for taking photos) and Vatican Museum. There are a few eatery places and good restaurants that we liked. A small supermarket nearby as well. It is close to subway stop Cipro and many buses stop nearby.
The reason we did not give it a 5-star rating was because of the bathroom. It is very clean and new however the showerbox is extremely small. If you are a female with size over 12 and if you are a man with size extra large and waist line is 40" and up, you have to squeeze your tummy in and out each time. I checked their pictures on a couple of websites before I wrote this review. Their pictures showed that the bathroom was in blue; and the shower was with curtain but not with glass box. I am not sure if it was an old picture or it was a different room. We don't remember the # of the room we stayed at, it was either room 1 or 2 - the first one on the left hand side. Our bathroom is in white and the shower with the glass door. We also checked the shared bathroom which is across from our room, it is exactly the same design and the size of the shower box is also the same. So if your size is over average, you may have to double check with them before booking. Also, there was no place for the shampoo/shower gel inside the shower box. I ended up have to leave it on the base and kneeled again to pick it up (remember the size of the shower box).
I read that one complained it was very noisy. I agreed that there were noices coming from the water pipes once in a while, however it did not bother us. I do not agree that the walls are paper thin as we did not hear anything. It must be the room that they stayed at.
I do agree with someone saying that they want cash over credit card. When I booked the room through Expedia, they said I could pay by credit card. However, they sent us an email reminding us that they do not accept credit card but cash.
The owners are very nice and we enjoyed our stay there - only except the challenge of getting in and out from the shower box which we sometimes found it quite funny to us. Having said that, we highly recommended this place.
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