Once we had reacehed the hotel we were very pleasantly suprised at the friendly and welcoming staff and also the excellent service given to us. The breakfast was lovely, loads of different foods available and worth getting up for!! The main drawback is the location of the hotel, it is in the middle of a residential setting and the inital trip to the hotel on our arrival to Rome proved very tiring and exhausting. However once the journey to the main city was mastered this became managable and achievable every day. Just a few remarks to help make yr journey easier .... do not take a taxi from the airport as this proved to be very expensive (someone was charged 90 euros for one way!!!). Instead consider buying a Roma pass on your arrival at the airport for around 23 euros, this allows unlimited travel on the metro and buses for 3 days and also freenentrance to 2 main attrations. To get to the hotel... take a train from the airport to Termi station (additional 12 euros), then take the metro to Colli Albani, get off at this station and get the 664 bus to Cappenelle, ask the driver for Appi Claudio, from there its a few minutes walk....... Happy hols!!!

They are thieves! The cleaning attendance come in your room without authorization, even when you have up the DO NOT DISTURB sign! The room service was awful.

My partner and I were pleasantly surprised at the quality of this hotel. The room was fabulous with a VERY large bed and wireless internet available. Plus because it's a pretty new hotel, it looks the business. Food there was good. The breakfast buffet is big and you can pig out on a variety of food. Plus the restaurant there wasn't bad. The pool is quite small, but it is nice to have it there (it isn't busy because people tend to spend more time in the city than the hotel). The shuttle bus runs hourly to the local metro station, and it is very easy to get to the city (metro costs 1 Euro). Plus the shuttle bus runs to and from the city in the evening. For a couple spending 5 days in Rome, it really was perfect. However, there are some things that people may find annoying: - There is NOTHING in the local area at all. Apart from a supermarket that we found pretty handy. - The hotel has no other amenities. There is a restaurant, bar and pool (roof terrace was a let-down). So if you're bringing kids that need to be entertained 24/7 it may be a bit difficult. I hope they try to add maybe a pool table/table tennis/ arcade etc in the future. It is very close to Ciampino Airport. But if you're going to Fiumicino like I did then DON'T GET A TAXI!! Cost me 50 Euros which was a bit steep. You can get a train to Roma Termini and then Metro to Arco di Travertino which works out A LOT cheaper. I did this for the return journey and it was easy. We had a great time in Rome and thoroughly enjoyed our stay in the hotel. We got a great deal and it was a bargain for the money we paid.