Hotel Villa San Lorenzo Maria

Hotel is a bit weary, but everything worked fine at my room and decoration is still warm and cheerful. Shower was a bit temperamental and needs some practice to find the desired temperature, and there's no kettle at the room (that would be great). It was a mild winter and didn't use the aircon/heating, so nothing to say on that. Cleaners did a good job, and desk staff was always helpful and provided everything from giving basic advice to opening a bottle of wine. I didn't use the breakfast service, coffe at the bar was good, but my advice is: if you are adventurous, go explore San Lorenzo and find your favourite food there. Location at San Lorenzo is interesting, please use google maps and your common sense, and keep in mind this is not a 5 star Hilton with a train stop at one door and the Fontana Di Trevi at the other door (neither the room rates are the same). But San Lorenzo surprised me. The neighbour itself is bit ugly, with all the walls covered with stupid graffitis made by those accomodated far left students that plague the place (why don't they go paint the walls at their rich dads vila's?) You are a short 10 minutes walk from next metro st, few stops away from beautiful Rome and Sta Maria Maggiore is quite close by foot. There's also a cementery with classic actors buried nearby, if that's your thing. But the food... my favourite moment was waking up, going out for food and coming back to my room with the delicious goodies found and some coffee. I avoided "cool student-aimed" places and looked for small family run businesses: grangel, and the pizza shop next to it with that incredible porchetta, pasticceria paci, Pizzologia, etc, etc.. The neighborhood looked quite safe to me (using some common sense, for example I would not leave a Mercedes van loaded with skiing equipment parked there overnight, where in the world can you do that these days?) For me, the price was quite OK and didn't have any issue at all. Would use the hotel again eyes closed (maybe