Piccolotel

Excellent value for an enjoyable stay. I enjoyed my stay at Piccolotel - I had some work in Ostiense, a short bus trip or a 25 minute walk, past the fascinating Basilica of Saint Paul. The room is clean and a good size; there is access to a kitchen (which is stocked up for an Italian breakfast). The transport links are very good - I could get to the Trastevere area on the number 8 tram in about 20 minutes. There is a good place for a cold beer and burger on Via Enrico Fermi and other cafes nearby.

We stayed at Piccolotel for about one week, it was a really great experience. Alex, the Manager, was always reachable via Phone when we had any questions. Piccolotel is also equipped with a basic breakfast. It gets filled up every day with new snacks. On each table there is also a map, where Alex marked some good places to eat cheap and the best routes to reach some attractions in Roma, it really helped us. There is also a supermarket right around the streets, so you can buy more for breakfast there if you want to. We had a problem with our Wi-Fi, it wasn't working. We wrote Alex a message about that and just 20 minutes later the Wi-Fi Problem was resolved. That is just one example of how customer friendly he is. Piccolotel is also pretty good located within the tourist attraction. For example, you can reach the Colosseum/Foro Romano by foot in about 50 minutes. The Vatican City is reachable via train in about 10 minutes. You can also get to the Colosseum by Bus, you can buy cheap Bus tickets at the Tabacchi, which is right next to Piccolotel. Towels get changed every 3 days, room cleaning costs extra (we didn't need it, but its not expensive). Piccolotel is a great stay to explore Roma and its historic sites. If I would come to Roma again, I would definitely choose Piccolotel! Always clean, extremely customer friendly and also good for your wallet. We just have one suggestion, how about some multilingual TV-channels? We searched for some German TV-channels, but we only found one. Every other german TV-channel was encrypted and so not watchable. But, if you stay in Roma, there is much more to explore then some TV-channels, so it didn't really matter :=)

Alex was always reachable and very accommodating although he can be blunt when you’re bad with directions lol. The room was how it looked in the pictures but I wasn’t expecting the toilet/bidet to be in a separate room and the shower and sink to be in the room. There was quite a few ants that I found crawling on the floor and some mold on the shower walls but over all clean room.