| From: Reviewer has requested to be kept anonymous. |
| Date of Stay: September, 2008 |
| This was a lovely hotel - the staff were very helpful and friendly. Great breakfast, service and location. |
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| From: IG, Germany |
| Date of Stay: September, 2008 |
| The hotel is nearby the metro and it was very good. The breakfast was fine. |
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| From: Reviewer has requested to be kept anonymous. |
| Date of Stay: August, 2008 |
| This hotel is location in a church. Have aircondition, Good breakfast and good service. Not so far from metro. |
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| From: RV, Netherlands |
| Date of Stay: August, 2008 |
| Molto bello! Specialmente la terrazza. La collezione potrebbe essere un po meglio: non il caffe da una macchina. Ci ritornerei volentieri. |
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| From: Salvatore Oliveri, Australia |
| Date of Stay: August, 2008 |
| Very impressive building, decent breakfast, close enough to subway ensuring easy transportation to all attractions and the city. |
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| From: TV, Denmark |
| Date of Stay: July, 2008 |
| We spent part of our summer holiday in Rome at Domus Sessoriana, which we have visited one time before. We got a room with a lovely balcony but with no chairs on the balcony. However, we asked for chairs and a few hours later two chairs had been placed there. What appeals most to us at the hotel is the extraordinary atmosphere conveyed by the proximity of a church and a convent. This atmosphere has a spellbinging effect also on people that are not religious. Our room and bathroom were cleaned meticulously every day by friendly cleaning staff and we got very good service at reception. |
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| From: Sherif Taeima, Canada |
| Date of Stay: May, 2008 |
| Hotel was exactly as described in [your site]. Good Location, well kept, quiet, clean facility top that off with its incredibly friendly staff. Cold buffet breakfast could use a little more imagination though - but not a deal breaker at all. Enjoyed my stay and would recommend to friends. |
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| From: Cristina Fernandez Adame, Spain |
| Date of Stay: June, 2008 |
| This hotel is great: beautiful, clean and very well placed. Bus and metro station in very closed. I would recommend to everybody and if I will come back to Rome I will go there again for sure. |
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| From: Reviewer has requested to be kept anonymous. |
| Date of Stay: April, 2008 |
| The hotel was a wonderful looking building and as part of a monastery made it very special, the breakfast was good but the rooms are very basic, but worth staying in. |
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| From: AC, Italy |
| Date of Stay: April, 2008 |
| I've used this hotel for job travel. Rooms are small but confortable. It was ok. |
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| From: Reviewer has requested to be kept anonymous. |
| Date of Stay: April, 2008 |
| We enjoyed the stay in this hotel very much, the best we liked were nice and authentic interiors and much space. As for location it was about 30 min to Colosseum by foot and it was a bit tireng sometimes. |
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| From: ZN, Germany |
| Date of Stay: December, 2006 |
| We got a tip for this hotel from a friend who had studied a couple of years in Italy. The building is lovely, an old monastery built on a Roman wall and adapted to a hotel with a charm. Although they have a very nice elevator, we had to carry our luggage a bit, since there are some stairs to go before getting into the room. It didn't bother us, but it might be important for somebody. Location is very good - some 10 minutes walking distance to the underground, a bus station is just in front of the building. A walk to the Colosseum takes pleasant 20-30 minutes, but you should be advised to take a city ticket and ride buses which go through downtown (for our 4-days stay the 5-day ticket had the best value). For the breakfast you should keep your expectations low, the stuff doesn't change and no trace of Italian cappuccino - for a good coffee go to a coffee bar in the city. |
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| From: Cathy Burns, United States |
| Date of Stay: March, 2008 |
| The front desk personnel were awesome! The breakfast was far better than the other hotel we stayed in. I would stay here everytime I would visit Rome! |
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| From: Lesley Colletti, United Kingdom |
| Date of Stay: November, 2006 |
| We thought that the lovely facilities were under-utilised. For instance, there is a lovely rooftop terrace with breathtaking views of the city: why not put some tables and chairs up there,or perhaps an eaterie of some kind? We were led to believe that the hotel had a bar: it was disappointing that this turned out NOT to be the case; the rooms had mini-bars, but its not quite the same. Nevertheless, everything was great, no complaints. Probably a hotel more suitable for mature travellers(perhaps 30-40+?). |
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| From: Jan Williams, Australia |
| Date of Stay: February, 2008 |
| Very interesting place to stay. It was further to walk with our backpacks & suitcases from the railway station than expected. Room was larger enough to accommodate four adults. Very close to several restaurants and points of interest. The only negatives would be the noise from the lift well and the poor drainage in the shower. We would all return and recommend. |
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| From: BG, Germany |
| Date of Stay: September, 2006 |
| The hotel itself was very spacious and cleaned up, most of the employees were very friendly and helpful and polite. The breakfast was OK, nothing extraordinary but basic (like usual in Italy). The metro station is about 600-700m away from the hotel, which was very helpful. The homepage does not mention the roof terrace... about 200-250qm huge, phantastic view... usually it should be commercialised on the web-page. The cleaning personnel worked absolutely OK. Nothing to say...! We would choose this hotel again for our next Rome-Trip... and we only paid 69 EUR per night for a double room, which was everything but expensive in Rome. We liked it very much, the room was clean, nice (like the pictures), we had a private terrace and very huge (but a 4 person room for us). The usual standrad rooms were OK in size, but also nice. Have a lot of fun in Rome. |
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| From: Reviewer has requested to be kept anonymous. |
| Date of Stay: January, 2008 |
| We liked staying at the hotel very much! It was really clean, the staff was very helpful, the breakfast was more than ok. Only in the evening you have to be careful that you get back on time because the public transport stops urly and the hotel is a little bit out of the center. But ofcourse you could take a taxi...(which is expensive ) |
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| From: Sarah & Matt Flint, Australia |
| Date of Stay: August, 2006 |
| The hotel was quite far from the centre of Rome which made for a long walk from the Termini through somewhat questionable neighbourhood at night. The room was very small, especially for the price paid. |
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| From: Brian Underwood, Australia |
| Date of Stay: January, 2008 |
| An extremely interesting old roman building and part basillica with a lot of character. Staff were very helpful. |
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| From: Tammy Gantt, USA |
| Date of Stay: August, 2006 |
| The staff was warm and welcoming (speak many languages). I had a lot of luggage so the directions from the metro stop to the church were not as good as I would have liked. It's actually a right in front of the large church toward the park, the gentle walk by the park...then the Domus which is in the St Croce of Jerusalem...is there at the end of the park. Not far, just easier once you know you are going the right direction. Down the street in front was a great pizza/restaurant with food from Napoli..very good. Friendly service (Aida Angelini) open late. At Via G, Sommeiller, 6 Hostaria Degli Artisti (email hostariadegliartisti@hotmail.com) The place was very clean and the sites in church alone were amazing..relics room had a piece of the cross. The garden deck was super for the view and at night many of the guests sat up there enjoying the breeze (we all had AC). Internet connection was a lifesaver and I got a card for a small price at the desk to use it. Just a note about the tour company VAS Tours that has brochures at the place - they do sightseeing tours of Rome...okay but I heard many complaints from those on VAS tours-- they did not stop everywhere on the night tour as planned and the Sistine Chapel tour was more like a cattle call -- no priority to the group. It was ok for me, but others were not thrilled. The monks have a quaint gift shop in the church with homemade preserves, etc...they are really nice. Late night, I found the monks chasing a rat out of the church entry with brooms, and later at 1 am they were scrubbing graffiti from the city buses out front. (no worry the rat was not staying there...just ran in from the park by mistake!) The rooms were nice and clean. Mine was a single but still a good size, the bathroom was huge. Nice view overlooking the garden. Be prepared, there is a lift, but a few stairs up then down to get there...a very long hallway if you are at the end. I was at the end and up another spiral stairs, then at the end |
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