Hotel Atlante Star
, Rome
Reviews - Hotel Atlante Star
- Age Group: 51 - 60
- From: United Kingdom
- Traveller type: Family Traveller
- Age Group: 51 - 60
- From: United Kingdom
- Traveller type: Mature Couple
Breakfast was mediocre to poor - coffee tasted as though it was yesterday's, warmed up. Bread rolls too dry to eat.
Positives were that we found the staff courteous, no problem with overcharging as rooms were prepaid by Travelocity.
We had one dinner and one lunch and found the food excellent, if a bit expensive.
We would like to visit Rome again, but will not stay there again
- Age Group: 41 - 50
- From: United Kingdom
- Traveller type: Weekend Breaker
- Age Group: 18 - 25
- From: United Kingdom
- Traveller type: Weekend Breaker
Once we had decided to give up and settle in room the hotel manager rang us and offered us a complimentary dinner, with drinks, in Les Etoiles. Naturally we accepted this offer and the meal and service were fantastic. In addition to this we were given a car to take us back to the airport four days later.
As someone who has stayed in a variety of hotels across the globe, I can not help but feel let down and mislead by this hotel. Whilst no one can moan about a free dinner and champagne, I feel there is no way the Atlante Star should qualify as a four star hotel. I agree with comments below that the rooms are nothing like they are on the website and quite frankly, are no way worth the money. To anyone who is planning on staying here - don't bother! Pay attention to reviews such as the ones featured here (I should have) and stay somewhere else.
- Age Group: 41 - 50
- From: United Kingdom
- Traveller type: Family Traveller
- Age Group: 41 - 50
- From: United Kingdom
- Traveller type: Family Traveller
- Age Group: 51 - 60
- From: United States
- Traveller type: Other
Do NOT expect the Hotel Atlante Star to match the quality of other four star hotels. This hotel should NOT be placed in the four star or even 3½ star categories. At best, it belongs in the three star category.
Too late, I learned the hard way about this hotel's common practice, well documented by guest's reviews on websites, of over-booking its hotel rooms. Its bait-and-switch policy lures a travel-weary guest to a supposed four-star hotel and then offers the guest a stay at its apartment, an overpriced dump about a block away from the hotel. This hotel policy enables them to charge for rooms in a low quality facility that would go vacant if it were not for this cynical trick on guests that had confirmed reservations for the Hotel Atlante Star, as we did. We attempted to find other higher quality accommodations but were unable to do so because they also were completely booked; we had not much alternative but to accept the Hotel Alante Star's offer for the first overnight stay at the apartment, the room was about what you would expect for a one star hotel, but at about twice the price.
The hotel staff, the desk clerk/ concierges in particular, made mistake after mistake after mistake, and all of the mistakes were in the hotel's favor and /or adverse to the guests. I concluded that the hotel's staff could not be that incompetent, that most of these mistakes were not honest ones, and that the management of the Hotel Atlante Star and its desk clerks/ concierges are skillful and well-practiced at deceiving and fleecing their guests toward an objective of profit-taking by any means.
The hotel's shabby treatment of its guests extends beyond the over-booking of hotel rooms to overcharging for hotel rooms - charging more than the rates clearly specified on written, confirmed reservations for the hotel. Our confirmed reservations clearly specified that our hotel rooms would cost 175 Euros /night for the evenings of 9/26 through 9/28. Yet the hotel presented us with an advance bill, at my request, for 180 Euros per night. It took me three different discussions on 9/27 and 9/28, totaling more than 1 ½ hours, to correct the overcharging for the rooms. I asked twice to speak to the hotel's manager for assistance on the evening of 9/27 and the morning of 9/28, but he was not available. Given the extraordinary difficulty I had correcting simple and obvious overcharging errors, I cannot believe these mistakes were honest ones. I wasn't surprised to witness, on the evening of 9/27, the same type of difficulty experienced by a TV crew from a well-known international news organization.
Concerning its over-rated and over-priced restaurant, only about half of the restaurant has a view of St. Peter's Basilica. The attitudes of several of the waiters were condescending. The table linens for the buffet breakfasts were unchanged and soiled from the previous evenings dinners. The food offerings at the buffet breakfast were the most Spartan, least generous that we have experienced at any of the dozens of four-star hotels we have stayed at in Italy and elsewhere in Europe.
The information about the Hotel Atlante Star, provided on numerous travel and hotel websites, is very misleading. The rooms we received looked nothing like the one shown on the websites. Our room was small and cramped and had a view of a dreary alley with lots of laundry hanging on lines. The websites information about the hotel's amenities offered a complimentary airport shuttle but does not indicate that a free trip from the hotel back to the airport is not included. The websites present a picture of a nice table setting at the outdoor; rooftop area of the hotel, but the hotel did not serve food there during our four-day visit. In addition to being small and cramped, the bedrooms are noisy with very little soundproofing. From our rooms, no. 501 and no. 511, we could hear a couple arguing at 3 AM. Also, these two bedrooms were located beneath the restaurant and kitchen floor; late at night and early in the morning, everyday, items were frequently dragged or rolled across the upstairs floors, creating sounds that sounded, at first to me, like thunderstorms (my wife had to use earplugs). When one books and pays for a bedroom for three people, you should know beforehand that the bed for the third person is a cot: there is not enough room in the bedroom for a third bed. We didn't know that.
Other miscellaneous issues included an inadequate supply of hot water for shower purposes. The hotel would not cash a VISA traveler's check for 100 Euros, this was the first time I have been unable to cash a traveler's check at (what is supposed to be) a four star hotel. We were unable to obtain a fully itemized easily understandable receipt for the hotel bill; the desk clerk could only provide us with a list of adjustments and corrections to the missing original bill, which is meaningless without knowing what the original, erroneous bill looked like.
There is indeed, unfortunately, much more that I could document about the poor services and facilities of this hotel, but hopefully, this was more than enough information to help you avoid making the same mistake of staying at the Hotel Atlante Star.
To the management of the Hotel Atlante Star - the travel public is catching on to you.
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Historical Traveller Reviews of Hotel Atlante Star
Friendly with great location
from A TripAdvisor MemberJust back, stayed 18-20 March 2004 Hmmmmm
from A TripAdvisor MemberOverall a very average hotel in convenient location for Vatican & St Peter's. Will go back to Rome but not here. TOP TIP : Try ice cream parlour next door.
Expensive, but not that bad
from A TripAdvisor MemberRooms(deluxe) were small and expensive, but clean and warm. Restaurant very expensive ( a good alternative can be found right across the street) Staff were friendly and helpful although the drive to the airport was a bit scary. Corridors and lifts small and dark and needed some redecoration. Two star hotel in an excellent location. You only sleep there as there is too much to see and do in Rome.
A hot, noisy closet of a room at a ridiculous price
from A TripAdvisor MemberI was furious and went upstairs to tell him that this was totally unacceptable. Somehow a room had become vacant on the first floor.
Again, it was extremely tiny, but at least it had a decent bathroom and was decorated nicely. The problems occured when we tried to sleep.
Since there seemed to be no air conditioning, we were forced to sleep with the small window open, which faced a noisy, smelly alley of fire escapes strewn with drying laundry hanging on lines. The noise kept us up both nights. We were just glad to get out of there.
This was May, 2003, and we're going back to Rome to visit our son in a few weeks, but we won't be staying there!
The only good thing about the hotel was the wonderful view at breakfast on the top floor looking out towards St. Peter's. It was lovely. The waiter was friendly and attentive. Too bad the whole experience wasn't like breakfast.
A Total Dive
from A TripAdvisor MemberPleasant Stay!
from A TripAdvisor Membert believe the pix on the website
from A TripAdvisor MemberHad a wonderful three day stay at the Star!
from campiPeter's was breathtaking. We had no problems with service, staff, elevators.
No AC and tiny rooms!!!
from A TripAdvisor MemberWonderful hotel, misrepresented by earlier reviews
from A TripAdvisor MemberRecommend asking for a room on high floor with view over the Vatican.
Earlier reviews had left me concerned but we were very impressed with every aspect of this hotel and enjoyed our stay immensely. Not one for writing in reviews normally but felt this hotel was being misrepresented. A big thank-you to all the staff for the great kindness shown to us and our baby. Would definitely choose to return to this hotel in the future.
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Other names for Hotel Atlante Star
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- Address: 34 Via Vitelleschi - Rome - 00193 - Italy
"Don't Believe What you read on this site!!" - DC
"This is no 4 star hotel" - Geoffrey
"Nothing like shown on website" - Lesley
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