Hotel Orazia

( 3 stars , Rome , Italy )

Very pleasant 2 week stay. Staff polite and helpful. Location perfect. Front rooms overlook a lovely park and street bustle. Would choose among top two on return.

The Room was small, but allways very clean. I traveled alone, so I wished that the employees would be a bit more helpful and approaching.The street doesn't looks like expected,but actually there I found everything I was looking for(internet-point, Pizza to take away, an shop). It's good to know, that the Metro Station is nearly in front of the house.

The hotel was very good for the location / price, and the staff were friendly and helpful. The rooms need to be touched up though, like walls repainted so that they don't appear so "dingy".

Total rip off! No hot water, no heat (in November it's cold), broken toilet, car alarms blasting from a very busy street all night. Dirty room. Despite the fact that only 4 rooms were occupied in the entire hotel, they wouldn't assign me a new room. But that's not the worst. This area is very dodgy - dubious people hanging out in the area and there is no street entrance to the hotel. The hotel is only located on the 5th floor of a large office building that is deserted at night. You have to enter into a courtyard, find the (usually broken) elevator in an alcove, and then usually walk up the 5 mostly unlighted flights of stairs to the 'hotel.' Once you're there, it looks like a hotel, but I would strongly advise any women against using this hotel due to the neighborhood and the unattended, unmonitored area between the front door and the 5th floor entrance. But that's not the worst thing. The worst thing is that, after a sleepless night, there's no coffee in the morning! There's a machine that dispenses hot chocolate and hot water and a mysterious brown liquid it says is coffee, but it's more like mud. The final insult! Worst hotel in Italy!

The hotel was a little difficult to find as it is down a side street and not on the square as we thought when booking. The area is run down and the door is in need of cleaning/painting and was not onpened very quickly when we used the bell. Once inside the hallway and elevator are very old and run down so we were a bit worried about where we had landed ( I was with my 13 year old daughter who was scared!). However on arriving into the hotel foyer our fears were reduced and once we saw the room we were very happy that we had received the 3 star quality which we had booked. After this initial cautious arrival we found the staff pleasant the the hotel location very central for sight seeing and shopping. (We walked a lot on the first day!). I would use the hotel again.

Taps are very old and the one of the shower must be repaired. Every time we close the bathroom door, we got the handle in our hands. It must be repaired. The reception on the 5th floor is not very useful.

This hotel offers clean and comfortable accommodation at a very reasonable price. Given its location, the hotel was also remarkably quiet, with reasonable breakfast facilities, although it's advisable to arrive before the breakfast rush at around 8.30. It's situated on the 5th floor, which makes the lift an absolute necessity. The room was clean, comfortable, air-conditioned and fairly spacious.

It was very clean and quite nice, the shower was tiny, and had nowhere to place toiletries, but that was the trend in Italy...It actually had both styles of electric outlets for edison blades and italian 220v style. The bed was really hard, beyond firm in my opinion, and of course the double bed was two twins put together. It was definitely a pricier place, but it was nice, had good variety of continental foods for breakfast.

We chose this hotel largely because of its location near Termini as we were coming from La Spezia and were only over-nighting in Roma and would be going on to the Airport fairly early the next morning. Having been to Roma before, I remember that the Piazza Emmanualle area was very pleasant but that was 40 years ago. We arrived fairly late on a dark drizzly night. The taxi took us through some of the more deserted and grafitti adorned streets of Roma from the Termini Station. He dropped us off at the junction rather than pulled up at the front as the street was one way. It was fairly dark and deserted at the time and it was a bit worrying (to say the least) to find that the hotel lobby was on the fifth floor and the ground floor vestibule totally empty but for a very old creaky lift. Pictures in the shades of 'Bates Motel' flashed through our minds. However, the night receptionist was very pleasant and changed our room immediately when we found the first one assigned smelled heavily of stale tobacco smoke. The furtniture and fittings were well up to standard though the room was a bit small. The breakfast was up to standard and the day receptionist was most helpful in directing us to Termini. Day light also brought out Piazza Emmanualle in all its glories and the surrounding looked much better than the night before. The walk to termini was pleasant and short.

It's your standard 3-star Roman hotel. The staff is nice and speaks a decent amount of English. Be happy with it. You're in Italy. If you don't want people to speak Italian, stay home. You don't speak Italian when they come to the U.S., so quit complaining. It was good being able to walk to the train station and being right on the metro line, although we only took the Metro once (the Roman metro is notoriously sketchy, although certainly has improved since my last visit).