This small hotel is clean and quiet, being tucked away between the apartment buildings on a side-road off the major Viale dei Quattro Venti. I love the Italian language and culture, so I found living in a local neighbourhood delightful. The front desk staff all spoke English, and we got by elsewhere in the area with my broken Italian and the good humour of the local proprietors and workers (many of whom spoke enough English to help us at need).
We stayed in a room with a kitchenette, which we stocked with supplies (so affordable!) from a local supermarket. The kitchen was missing a few essentials (like forks), which we acquired from a general store, but nothing the hotel provided was broken. The room was small by North American standards, and the shower did not drain particularly well, but it was clean and quiet, and had its own private bathroom.
A streetcar (tram) (no.8 “P.za Venezia”) stops at the bottom of the Viale dei Quattro Venti (a fifteen-minute walk from the hotel) and runs through Trastevere to the Piazza Venezia and the heart of Ancient Rome. The no.8 “Castello” will bring you back again. A train from the Quattro Venti train station, which is a mere five-minute walk from the hotel, will take you to the Vatican City. (Just remember to buy some bus tickets at a newsstand or bar before boarding either of these.) At the end of our trip, we caught the train from the Trastevere station (on the streetcar route) to get to the airport.