Alessandro Palace Hostel

Nice Location, Very Friendly Staff
I stayed here in March 2007 for three nights. The place is just a walkable distance from the central station and easily accessible to main attractions in the city. The best part is of course the very friendly staff. There is no curfew and it's open twenty-four hours. So it was easy for me to check out at 5:30 a.m. and catch my train at 6 a.m. The rooms and beds are clean and well maintained. I will recommend to anyone to choose this hostel. Good luck.

Just ok
The rooms were pretty clean and breakfast was alright. Beyond that, can't think of much good to say. AC wasn't working in our room either night and they refused to give any kind of discount. Don't think I would stay here again.

Pretty nice place.
The hostel is really close to the train station and like a twenty-five-minute walk from the Colosseum and most of the big sights. Some days it wasn't all that clean as our room wasn't cleaned every day. The internet is relatively cheap. The people working at the desk were quite helpful and the breakfast is pretty good. But if you go in the summer prepare to sweat! It's just really warm in Rome in the summer and the A/C is pretty weak. And it doesn't turn on until like 9. But overall the place is pretty good. Breakfast included. No lockers in rooms.

Comfortable, well furnished, clean rooms. Reasonable bathroom. Beds made. Balcony (though not much use in winter!). Friendly and helpful staff, including the lovely girl behind the bar! Free pizza (though cold and quite limited, so it won't replace a meal, but it's free). Friendly residents, if you make an effort yourself. Only small lockers -- will fit valuables but not luggage. Breakfast mediocre. Noise from stairwell is disturbing at night. Met some great people thanks to a really good bar with beer at good price (3 euros pint or 5 euro for three bottles of peroni). Stayed four nights and didn't see a party, but the bar was busy every night. I found that people were friendly if you made the effort and broke the ice yourself. Could use lockable wardrobes in the rooms.

This hostel is really nice and in a great location, literally a five-minute walk to the main train station and about a fifteen-minute walk to all of the major sites. The beds are clean and comfortable and the bathrooms are in great condition. Breakfast is really good with unlimited coffee! The only downfall is the pizza party is about a fifteen-minute walk and when you get there the pizza is old, cold, and pretty crappy. But otherwise a really great fun place to stay!

This hostel was pretty good. The rooms were clean and really spacious. We had a eight-bed room and it was huge! There was actual furniture, like desks and cabinets, and it was just really nice and impressive. The bathroom was cleaned regularly, and it was just a nice place to come back to at the end of the day. The air conditioning was really weak though, so that was a bit tough to take, but it was fine, and i would definitely stay here again. We were on the fourth floor though and it is such a long climb! but it was nice, and there was a clothesline up on the roof, so that was convenient. overall a really good hostel.

Why this hostel is "famous" I do not know. Beds were made daily and rooms were spotless. Great location. That was the upside. But the shower pressure and temperature sucked. The bar was cute but everyone seemed to have pre-made groups already. And if you are on one of the upper floors, it's a fair trek to get to your room. For thirty Euros PP/night it's not "all that." Very nice place but it's not a "must-stay."

This hostel was great. It's got everything you need from internet to the bar at a reasonable price. The drinks are very cheap: 2€ a drink (we went out clubbing and let me tell you that 10€ drinks are very common in Rome) and the staff is fun and good looking. This place is a must among hostels and I will definitely go back.

This hostel was extremely disappointing. In a nutshell: 1) The pizza parties don't exist anymore, though they are still advertised on the Web site. 2) Free tea coffee all day — nope. Only from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. 3) Guest kitchen closes at 6 p.m. so they can open the bar and make money 4) Our shower for 10 people was broken and it took four complaints over two days to get it fixed. 5) The staff, with one or two exceptions, were impolite, cocky and extremely unhelpful. Due to "anti-terrorist laws" you currently cannot use the Internet or store your bags in the hostel. You can down the road but again the staff were very unhelpful about informing us of this. Basically this hostel suffers from a serious case of false advertising. It's main aim is purely to make money and you end up paying for services that don't exist. Don't be fooled; you can find a better hostel for cheaper in Rome, and the six of us who stayed there definitely won't be making the same mistake again.

One of my favorite hostels. The rooms/bathrooms were always clean and the staff were always friendly and helped me out when I needed them. I met a ton of people at the bar downstairs and the free pizza was nice for us budget travelers. It's probably the worst pizza in Rome but it was free so I still ate it. My bag did get broken into there but nothing was taken, so make sure you take advantage of the small lockers downstairs. The only reason why I didn't give them 5 stars was because there were no lockers in the room. Why don't all hostels just spend a few bucks and equip the rooms with large lockers??

This hostel was great. We paid for a ten-bedroom and got a four-bedroom, plus the first night, we (my boyfriend and I) had the room to ourselves. The room and bathroom were really clean. It is located really close to the train station and Metro. The staff were really helpful, especially Chicho. My only complaint is that they said that their air conditioning was working, but I don't think it was turned on, and it was really hot in Rome. Also, the free pizza parties: get there early, because they only bring like 2 pizzas for 100 people. Overall, its clean, and cheap, and a fun place to stay.

Great location, safe, friendly staff, fun and great place to meet people as well. It was clean and I really enjoyed staying there. The staff were friendly and helpful. I would recommend it for single travelers.

I stayed in this hostel in May for four days and it was pretty good. It's located right up the street from Termini train station and from the Metro. We stayed in a six-person mixed dorm and it was nice and clean. The bathroom was clean as well, except that we had a bit of a drainage problem with our shower. The front desk staff were very nice and extremely helpful. The bar is good to go to for a couple of drinks at night but not for a major party. Breakfast is cereal, juice and rolls with jam. Overall this is a good hostel...great location and lots of friendly people.

I was here my first week ever in Europe between February 21st and February 28th. The location is excellent, because it is close to Termini, so you don't have to drag your backpacks around looking for it. From here you are within walking distance to the city's major attractions (not the Vatican, it is far). The "pizza nights" however are embarrassing. It is just burned bread with lots of tomato sauce, but it fills you up and you can save money on dinner. But make sure to be early for it because it goes in five minutes. I met incredible friends there, so I give it a good rating.

The hostel is really clean and the service is marvelous. The reception guys are very helpful and friendly. Apart from that they are all good looking. We loved our stay in this hostel even though we had children under two years of age. It was really good also for a family to stay in this hostel. You have to be careful of the other people in Rome because they can bribe you.