Yes it's clean, affordable and the location (10-minute walk to St. Peter's Square) can't be beat, but here are my negatives:
1. When we got into our room the first time, I got bitten by a mosquito. A mosquito doesn't hang around clean environments, so there must've been something nasty it was attracted to nearby. Not a good sign.
2. The bedsheets and towels were scratchy.
3. Maybe because we stayed in an economy room but we were not provided an iron. They gave us one when we asked for it, but then they took it back without telling us. They went into our hotel room while we were out and when we asked about it, they said that management thought it was a risk to give us one. So we had to steam our clothes for the rest of our stay, which isn't the real issue. They went into our room without telling us and that I do not approve of.
4. Apparently, they turn off the air conditioning in late October for the entire building. So our tiny room rose to an uncomfortable 72 degrees in the evening, with nothing but an open window to help cool us down.
5. Their breakfast runs from 7am to 10am, but if you're not there before 9am, barely any food will be left. They don't bother to fill it for the remaining hour. And while they offer a hot breakfast of sausages and scrambled eggs, they were pretty bland.
6. While the place is conveniently located to the Vatican, it is, however, not so for all of Rome's other sights. It would take us over 1/2 hour every single time we needed to see anything east of the Tiber River. There is a bus stop at the end of the street but Rome's buses are unreliable at best, since they get bogged down by Rome traffic. Roma S. Pietro train station is a 7 minute walk, but then you're tied down to regional train schedules, which could run every 10 minutes during peak hours but only every hour off-peak.
I whole-heartedly would not recommend this place. read more