Hotel Ariston

We were booked this hotel through a Costco travel package. I likely wouldn't stay at this hotel again. Pros! GREAT location, clean, AC in the room, comfy bed (though some might find it on the more firm side), shower, bidet, most standard essentials you expect in a hotel (except conditioner and wash cloths), a fitness room, help up to your room with your baggage and the sweetest staff. Before I list the cons, none of them ruined our stay nor detracted from the experience we had in Rome which is why I only took one star away. The cons, some can be easily fixed and some are just how they are. The room is too big for the AC; ours ran constantly at the lowest setting and it never cooled the room completely, with the shades drawn the whole time. The shower door needed a simple screw driver to get it to roll smoothly on the track, the shower heads also need to be cleaned as they spray any which way. If I were any shorter (5'5"), the bathroom mirror would have been literally unusable. There was no place to put the soap bar after using it. The toilet paper holder touched my leg when I was sitting which made it unusable, and I'm a small person. There was no place to hang our towels so they would completely dry between uses; we ended up hanging them from the bathroom window curtain during the day. When our room was freshened up our pillow cases were still wet and the top sheet was as well. Instant coffee was provided in the room. No wash cloths or conditioner provided. The TV had no English channels that we found, which was the least of the issues considering we spent very little time in the room and at this point, bring our own electronics. A lot of these are minor details! We still enjoyed our time in Rome and appreciate Ariston for the clean and cool room to rest our eyes between days of endless sight seeing

Our room was located on the 6th floor, and it was decent, but when I walked down to the other floors, I noticed the carpet and walls were dirty and old. We were lucky ours was nice. The breakfast really needs to be improved. Their food options are not very appealing. Also, the location of this hotel is not the most safe and definitely not clean. It's walking distance from the train station and metro.