ŠŠŠ»ŃŃ ŠŠ¾ŃŠøŠŗTLTR: This is not a 4 star hotel. The location is great, but literally everything else is a compromiseā¦
Let me start with 2 advantages of this hotel, since it wonāt take long. The first is location. You literally take the north exit from Roma Termini to Via Marsala, cross two streets and take a right - and you are there! Itās that simple :) The other advantage is breakfast: itās the same everyday, but itās decent, much better than I expected.
And now to the disadvantages⦠First and foremost: there was black mold in the bathroom! Lots of it. Why ālotsā? Because the acceptable amount of mold in the bathroom for a 4 start hotel is zero.
Second, the bed didnāt have a headboard. Do you know the acceptable number of headboards for a 4 start hotel? You guessed it: at least one :) The bed was actually two beds crammed together (which I donāt mind), but there was no duvet cover! Seriously: there was a sheet to sleep on, a separate sheet to cover yourself, a warm blanket and a sheet to put over it! Needless to say that during the night the sheet that was between the body and the blanket would be carried away. And yeah, all this 3-in-1 construction was tucked under the mattress like the future of Italy depends on it! What the actual ****?! Do you sleep like that at home? I bet you donāt; so, why would you sleep like that in a 4 star hotel?!
Thirdly, there were no slippers, no microwave, no ******* table to eat from, no teakettle, no iron, no shower curtain, nothing! What we got was two paper cups in the bathroom and thatās it. 4 star hotel class service, right? It gets better! If we wanted hot water, we had to go downstairs from the 4th floor to get it from a broken *** mid-sized boiler located right next to the reception desk! Dear guests of this 4 star hotel, please donāt mind my wife getting some hot water for her noodles while you check in and pay tourist tax, itās fine. When in Rome, you knowā¦
Fourthly, the quality of everything in the room was not great⦠to say the least. The walls were dirty, the hair dryer was really bad, the bottom of the bathroom door was broken. What the ****, guys?! Have you heard of amortization of assets or something? Not cool, not cool. I pay the tax, you fix the ******* door, ok?
Lastly, my favorite⦠there was such a big gap under the front door of the room that everything that was happening on the hotel floor sounded like it was happening in our corridor. I donāt mind people walking past our door, but it really felt like there constantly was a stranger in our room. Couldnāt sleep well because of that. And let me tell you that there was some loud love-making somewhere on the floor⦠and I felt like a couple was ******* in our corridor! 4 star hotel experience? Not by a bitā¦
All right, let me tell you why I put such a stress on this ā4 star hotelā thing. The problem is that in Italy stars in a hotel donāt mean anything! I mean, they mean that the building has a certain amount of facilities, space, etc., but there is no correlation with the quality of staying in a room. Seriously, we stayed in a 3 star hotel in Venice and the room there was much better!
To sum it up, this hotel is nice if you need a quick stay next to the railway station⦠but if you plan to spend more than two days in it⦠just pick something else if your budget allows. If not: well, you still got the location and the breakfast :)
P.S. Cheers to the Asian and the African girls at the reception desk! You are the best :)
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