A unfortunate stay in room 303Posted: Sat, Jul 19 2008Location:
3Rooms:
2Service:
1.5Value:
2If you check the website for the Giorgi, you will find a picture of a charming room nicely decorated and very appealing. We did not have that room. As earlier reviewers have noted, room 303 is in an older part of the hotel and in serious need of renovation. There is no carpet on the floor, the wallpaper is starting to come off the walls, and the shower is broken. When we arrived at 2:30 in the afternoon, the room was not ready (which we were not told until we had hauled our luggage up in the ancient closet-like elevator). We did gain access to the room to leave our luggage. The room had an unpleasant odor coming from the bathroom. Fortunately, when we returned and the room was clean and the odor was gone.
If you check out the hotel on Expedia, you will see that the Hotel advertises things such as Climate Control, High Speed Internet, and Bathrobes. The front desk controlled the air-conditioning. There was one computer near the breakfast room for the use of the entire hotel, which costs 2 euro/half hour. On the second day of our stay, we returned to the room to find that my husband's robe (his personal robe--not one provided by the hotel) was missing. Evidently, housekeeping removed it with the dirty towels. No one knew what happened to it and no one cared. Will we stay there again? I think not.
This was an expensive hotel and did not come up to the standards of the supposed lesser hotels we stayed at in Nice, Venice, and Florence. Although it was very conveniently located near the train station and metro, I would prefer a hotel more on the outskirts of Rome next time.