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See all**Property Location**.With a stay at OneTime Roma, you'll be centrally located in Rome, within a 5-minute drive of Baths of Caracalla and Colosseum. This guesthouse is 0.5 mi (0.9 km) from Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano and 1.8 mi (2.9 km) from Roman Forum. Distances are...
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NOT a hotel
One Time Roma... Because you'll only stay there, one time. I'll start with the good things: It's located well, we only had to go a few stops on the metro to get to wherever we wanted to go. The beds were comfortable and the place was clean, the owner (i assume, as he's the only "staff"), was friendly, but... The only reason we booked this place was, it was listed as a hotel, with breakfast included. What comes to your mind when you think "hotel, with breakfast included"?... That's right. Well... Not at all the case. As the title suggests, it is not a hotel at all, it's a room in a corridor. Not necessarily a bad room, but not what was advertised and not what we thought we were paying for. On arrival, we asked about the breakfast and were told it would be brought to our room, which was a fairly dark, street facing room. He gave me his number and said if we needed anything, to WhatsApp him directly. In the morning, I texted asking about breakfast, (2nd time asking), ignored. On more than one occasion I had a "very cool" shower, it wasn't freezing, but it wasn't comfortable, the shower was blocked too. I know I'm banging on about this, but it really was a let down, on the final night I asked again (3rd time) face to face, about breakfast, he smiled at me and said "OK". Guess what? Nothing again. So what I'm saying is, overall, its not a bad place, we just didn't get what we expected and feel we over payed.
Poor facilities
Spent 5 nights at one time Roma, the location was great lots off great cafes and restaurants nearby 20 minutes from the Colesumm and a short walk to the metro The owner put us in a room that can only be described as a dungeon it was underground basement room with the walls covered in damp the access was a rickety plastic spiral staircase that would never pass UK fire assessments After complaining we got moved to another room for four nights but had to spend the last night in the dungeon which put a dampener on our break To be fair the other room was really nice if only it had hot water, twice a day we had to phone the owner and once I had to go alooking for him and drag him out a bar to switch the boiler on or we would have missed our restaurant reservation We complained to our travel agent when we returned only to be told the owner had said we had broken a bathroom shelf and would get no refund, eventually we got 50 Euros compensation but to be honest we didn’t want it only to warn other people off the poor attitude of the owner Great location the locals were lovely just a shame the owner wasn’t similar
Pleasant Experience
Very clean room. Private bathroom (with nice amenities), free wifi, comfortable bed, cable tv (including a few stations in English), nice, remote controlled air conditioner. My room did have a spiral staircase to get to the downstairs bedroom, in case that may be an issue for you. I did not get breakfast because I left early in the morning. However, they made check out very easy for me. I got there early and they stored my luggage so I could walk over to the Colosseum and the Forum. Great location for that! Nice coffee shop next door, shopping, and many great restaurants within walking distance. Would stay again when looking for a crash pad in Rome. Thanks to OneTime Roma for a great stay!
Great Experience
Clean and nice room, Emmanuel is very kind and helpful. Great coffee place just next to the BnB to start the day. There is no curfew times but the rooms are very close to each other so you need to be quiet. You sign the time you wake up and Emmanuel comes and brings you breakfast to your room. A nice little detail, though breakfast could be a bit richer.
It's a B&B so not for everyone.
As it is not a hotel you have to warn the owner, who speaks little English, when you get there. And if you get there slightly earlier, he will make you aware of it.... we stayed in the midnight room, it smelt of humidity as it is in fact an underground room refurbished as a bedroom, so avoid it. Breakfast is only between 8 and 10, and you can get a far better one, and a cheap one, at the bar down the road. To be avoided if in Rome for business. The area it is in is well served by metro and buses.