July 26, 2010

Believe me, it is absolutely nothing they promise and show in the pictures. It's a dark, putrid hole. Even the hotels that are rented by prostitutes by hour are better.

I wanted to book this hotel over the phone, allured by the price, and the receptionist surprisingly (never in Italy happened this way) asked me for my credit card number to reserve the room. When I saw the promiscuous neighborhood, the bad entrance, the smelly hallway that led to the hotel, which was in a rented apartment... and the smoky and molded room, I wanted to go somewhere else.
The receptionist was smoking like a snake in the narrow hall, so when I entered I practically couldn't breathe (I have high tolerance, I used to be a smoker myself !) She had the doors open to the couple rooms she was offering, so practically all the smoke was spreading in the rooms. When I asked if she can refrain from smoking since the space is so tight, she said: "I don't know if i can".
I told her that I won't stay here even if it is the last hotel on earth. She said that she would charge my card anyway, although when we spoke over the phone she promised that she won't do that if i don't like the room.

Those people are crooks, believe me. She charged my card, although I left right away and slept somewhere else.

Don't go there, it's full of reasonable B&B and clean hotels in Rome.

1) Cialdini Inn represents apartment with three rooms and one desk in the vestibule.

2) There is WC, “hidden” behind a curtain in the vestibule, which smells in the entire apartment.

3) Very strong doubts about the cleanliness in the room. The top blanket was pretty dark.

4) There is no hot water for more than 3 minutes because the boiler in the room is tiny. No way two people to take shower one after another in at least one-hour period.

5) Our welcome info was that they will move us in another apartment the last day of our stay there, because of some reason …”a person will come to repair the TV set”…or something. No excuses. No possibility for comments.

6) The last day we packed everything in order that they are going to move us.
They did not even arrange a place where to move us.
So we went all the way around the building of the “hotel” together with a non English speaking girl and then we went back.
We didn’t receive explanation, because she did not speak English.
So we unpacked again our things and stayed there.
The people in the next room had the same experience as ours the same day.

6) Nobody knows where the manager is.

The location is fantastic but the rest...
The relation price-quality it's out of time for the service.
The breakfast (when served, not daily) were so poor that we need to have another one near there.
The room wasn't cleaned daily and the towels weren't changed daily too.
We do not recommend this B&B (yes, it's not a hotel, but we were expected more and you expect more when you pay around 400 €uros for almost a week).

We booked this inn online and was nothing like the description. The location was great across the street from the train station, taxis, metro and buses. Close to restaurants and sight seeing. The staff was helpful when they were there, we arrived in the morning and they were there to greed us until mid morning, once they leave they don't come back until the next morning which is not helpful in case of problems or emergencies. The rooms need upgrading and the remote controls needed batteries. We asked for them and finally got them after a few days. The towels were not changed every day or even after 3 days and the staff was not around to get clean ones. The garbage was not taken until we checked out which is unacceptable. Besides the location this hotel has nothing to make us want to go back. I knew the breakfast was cappuccino and sweet bread but every day, after the second day I was tired and bored of it and did not eat it. Will not recommend this hotel.