DOMUS SESSORIANA

Hotel tranquilo, bien conectado. Muy buen servicio, especial mencion a Steve que nos atendió estupendamente.

Lot of people moaning about the hotel, didn't bother us at all as it's just a place to sleep & shower, good central location within a 30 min walk to colosseum. Nice roof top terrace, continental breakfast. Bed was firm but OK, shower was OK, location brilliant. What mor do you need. Will stay here again in a few years no doubt.
Staff friendly and helpful.
50 euro taxi from airport to hotel, this is a must as the metro is rammed, and gets you there in 25mins.
Good restaurants nearby and I do recommend Marco G's just a ten min walk away. Plenty of E bikes & scooters to hire to whizz you around the city, though I do recommend keeping to the bike lanes or parks as roads are busy and hectic.

No frills accommodation, but what an incredibly beautiful setting!!!

I stayed solo for 4 nights in February 2024. B&B - the breakfast wasn't great as other reviews say. Cheap ham and "plastic" processed cheese slices, croissants, pastries, biscuits, jam portions, yoghurts and cakes (those didn't look appealing). The bread wasn't great, dry - one slice I had was stale. Coffee and juice was OK. Same choices every day. I agree with other reviewers that having to queue and wait to be served isn't as good as a self-service buffet - almost every hotel I've stayed in has self-service. It's more guest-friendly.
My room (P11) isn't recommended - it was obviously one of the older ones needing brightening up. It was small and dark, with one small window; some black scuff marks on the wall. Nowhere to put gel or soap etc in the shower. The shower itself worked fine but I'd have preferred hotter water. Also there was no standard Euro plug point available for recharging phones - reception had to provide me with an adaptor. See room photo.
My room safe didn't work initially - I needed 2 visits to reception to get that sorted - it got fixed at the end of day 2. The toilet flush was temperamental too - a handyman came and did some fixing and it worked for a few flushes after that, then stopped again. I went out and left it, when I came back it worked once - but didn't want to flush for a second time.
No wifi in the room - only reception and the roof terrace. The pictures of the terrace show what's probably the best feature in the hotel. Nice views over the rooftops. They didn't serve breakfast there during my stay - I guess it's possible in the warmer months.
I didn't rate the location, there isn't anything nearby except the interesting (and very ornate) old papal basilica St Giovanni in Laterans. It's 10 minutes walk along the road through the small park. That church is worth a visit, typical "no expense spared" - lavish fittings and top quality marble - see photo.
The nearest major sight is the colosseum, a good 2 km (1.5 miles) away. The forum is around 3 km, and the Pantheon 4km.
Spagna and Trevi fountain both around 3.5 km and St Peter's square is around 6 km.
The Church curiously attached to the hotel (St Croce in Gerusalem) is also worth a visit as it's one of the 7 pilgrimage churches in Rome. It has relics supposedly taken from the crucifixion - a piece of wood from the cross and a nail that was used to impale Jesus's wrist. The church is oddly sandwiched between the two hotel wings. This means going from reception through a connecting door in the church wall into the entrance to the church, then through another door in the opposite wall into the hotel block. It also means that when the church itself is open, anyone could access the hotel block without being noticed by reception - they simply walk into the church entrance then through the unsurveillanced door in the church wall. It also means that the accommodation block becomes a sort of gloomy austere labyrinth - it's around 5 minutes to get from room P11 to the breakfast bar tucked away at the back of the old monastery cloister wing. And I got lost 3 times trying to find the right exit!
I didn't like my stay in this hotel and won't recommend it. Too austere, it felt a bit like I was a monk for a week! The area it's in has a run-down unpleasant ambience. There weren't any typical trattorias nearby - except one nice small cafe, Caffe Italia. The nearest eateries were rather small functional bars or restaurants with plastic tables and chairs and little appeal. Or tourist trappy cheap eateries with pictorial menus outside.