Hotel Laurentia ***
Roma Italy
Largo degli Osci 63
Tel +39 064450218
Fax +39 064453821
Cap 00185
City Zone of Rome
City Center Termini
University La Sapienza
San Lorenzo
hotel to anyone visiting Rome - it has the comfort and facilities of a hotel much more expensive. The staff are extremely helpful - maps were given and locations of bus and tram stops and even free tourist advice on routes to take to give the most economical use of our time! The rooms were as expected, air con, fridge and a safe were all very useful and the rooms were large enough and comfortable. The breakfast room, lounge and bar area's were very nice and just like the photographs on this site. Breakfast was a cold buffet of breads, biscuits and pastries, cereals, tea, coffee and juice - you can't go wrong and as much as you can eat to start your day off! Hotel location was 15mins walk from main termini (but make sure you have a good map) and 2 mins from 71 bus stop in Piazzale Tiburtina (which you get in central Rome at piazza Silvestro bus terminus) offer hotel rome. Between the bus, metro @ Termini and the tram at the end of the road you can get to whichever tourist spot you require quickly and cheaply. The local area looks terrible by day - graffiti everywhere below head height - but by night comes alive as a bit of a hub for wining and dining. It is a student area without the noise or rowdy behaviour or of the UK - everything from a supermarket and cheap takeaways to very good restaurants are in the immediate area and the prices reflect you are out of the tourist traps but it is. All in I couldn't have wished for a better base to stay in Rome and the pricing is superb.