Best Western Blu Hotel Roma

If you like sleeping on your ironing board, you are going to love the beds at this place. Leave your spines at home. Don’t say I didn’t warn ya. Good location and good if you are just looking for the basics. less

The hotel is very nice and good price. The staff is friendly and helpful; the rooms are clean and safe. However, if you are touring the main sites in Rome this hotel is very far. You have to either tax a taxi or take a bus to the metro and then the train in. Also, there is a city tax added to your bill of 6 euros per person per night, so be aware as I don't see it on the website. They have breakfast for an extra 6 euros per person. You can add this on to your reservation, but it's the same price if you do that or if you just pay as you go. I recommend not adding to your reservation, becuase you don't save any money that way and you may night eat the breakfast every day. The selection is good, with a selection of crossiants, breads, jams, cake, yogurt, cereal and coffee. Most days there was also eggs and some type of sasauge (seemed like cut-up hotdogs). I would recommend you eat at the local cafe that is on the way to the metro station, much better. Also, the room has no working thermostat. We were there in April and the heat in the room was too much that we had to open the window every night. Also, you are supposed to have a coffee maker in the room, but ours didn't have. Overall though this is very nice hotel at a great price for the budget minded. less

Guy on the desk was fluent in English, very helpful, very competent. Room was small but adequate and the bathroom was spacious, well laid out and spotlessly clean. Good breakfast with a better than average range of options, staff were suitably attentive. Chose the hotel as I was arriving and leaving Rome at the nearby railway station but totally content with what I got. Hotel restaurant is closed on Sunday but there’s an excellent pizzeria 5 minutes walk up the road. less

My wife and I arrived at this hotel on a Sunday at 2:00 PM. The first eyesore I noted was the deteriorated façade. Gravel spilled from a rundown street into an unkempt courtyard at the entrance of the establishment. Across the street were a partially demolished brick wall and neglected houses. The service desk had only a receptionist who treated us courteously, handed us a map, and warned us about crime in Rome. No bell desk, no concierge, and no restaurant because it closed on Sundays. The room was very small. A little low-framed double bed had been crammed against the walls, so it allowed a narrow space for one person to move inside the room. If in the middle of the night you needed to go to the bathroom, you would have to climb over your bedmate or slide down to the foot of the bed. One reading lamp hung above a single rudimentary nightstand. Across from the bed, a doorless wardrobe stood in a corner, almost attached to the nightstand. It contained several hangers and a tiny safe. A plain corner desk with one simple chair sat next to a little window. A small TV hung above the desk on the same wall where a hair dryer hung too. The bathroom had a small shower, no bath—although the website had indicated shower/bath—a sink for a single guest, a plain toilet and a bidet. Back in the reception area on our way out to another hotel, the receptionist was kind enough to call a taxi for us. less

Our soccer club team with close to 40 travelers stayed at the Blu. Hotel was clean and all the staff was very nice. Breakfast on the morning had hot items (eggs and bacon) along with other continental breakfast items. Expresso machine was a favorite for all. The Tubertina subway station is about a 10-15 minute walk which will allow you access into Rome center. Our group found several places to eat outside of the hotel but our favorite restaurant was a Italian place on the way to the subway station just before the main intersection. There is a grocery store also across the street from hotel. Security was good and nobody had any problems while in the area for the week. Since we were in between cool and hot seasons, the A/c system was not working and needed to open windows for ventilation and cooling. The fresh air was nice but this would be my only complaint about the hotel if your traveling between seasons there. Otherwise good, clean value hotel in the suburbs of Roma with easy access into the city center. less