Garda Hotel Rome

( 3 stars , Rome , Italy )

+ All staff very friendly and helpful, particularly reception if you wnated to book something or wanted to know how to get somewhere. - Pity there is no shower curtain and mattress could do with changing - had compressed where so many people had slept on it.

+ Excellent location and the friendliest hotel staff i have ever come across

+ The hotel staff were wonderful and the breakfast selection was good.

+ - the staff was helpful and kind - - the rooms (or at least my room) are very small. - although the reception is modernly decorated, the rooms are very old fashioned (when you enter to the room, you feel that you are in a different hotel). - you could hear noices from the rooms nearby. - the breakfast area is not big enough to accomodate all visitors, so you had to wait for a table

+ Difficult to find as it's 2 floors of a much larger old building. signs outside are very small.

+ Conveniently situated and reasonably priced - It was only when one got into the bath that the plug could be found and there was only a shower attachment - no shower screen or curtain so we thought we would be unable to bath or shower for 3 days!

+ The hotel is in a fantastic position, especially for the price. - The walls are a bit thin, we could hear everything in the next room and had to get reception to tell them to be quiet at 1am in the morning, which the successfully did.

+ The location. drinks in the mini bar were really cheap, 2 euro for beer. - My bathroom was a bit dodgy, very fragile shower screen, hairs that weren't mine, dirty mirror, shower not so good. poor noise insulation from reception and surrounding rooms, not enough blankets and not enough heating.

+ The hotel staff were extremely pleasant and helpful, the room was clean and tidy and quite attractive. the minibar was much cheaper than drinks from street vendors. hotel generally was well decorated, clean and in modern style yet comfy and had pleasant feel to it. - Breakfast was of minimalist continental style - but ok. hotel was just a few minutes walk from the spanish steps and trevi fountain - but a bit further out from old rome etc - but just a few minutes walk from underground/metro station so very easy and cheap to reach everywhere. couple of broken tiles in bathroom but nothing too bad and room was still quite nice.

+ The water taxi was able to deliver us to the bck dock of the hotel. that was great. no having to haul the luggage ourselves. the staff at front desk were extremely helpful with directions and tickets to theatre. the breakfast buffet was exceptionally generous. i would stay there again.