Fiesta Terrace Hostel

Fiesta Terrace Hostel is located in the city of Rome. It is a fifteen-minute walk away from the main train station and five-minute walk to the metro. The Colosseum and the Roman Forum can be reached in fifteen minutes on foot.

The hostel offers double, triple, and quadruple rooms (some with en-suite), and six-bed mixed dorms. There are four shared bathrooms with toilet, bidet, basin, and shower. There is twenty-four-hour hot showers, however the drainage in one is not very good and the bracket to hold the shower head is missing. The bathroom floors get very wet and muddy. but are mopped up fairly quickly by the staff.

The dorm rooms offer spring bunk and single beds, and some of the mattresses are very saggy and uncomfortable. The room is very squashy and there is no natural light, even when you open the curtains. The room is pitch black even at midday and you have to turn on the light to see anything.

There is a terrace with tables and chairs, which closes at 10:30 p.m. every night. However, the manager did let people stay up until midnight one night because they had cooked a late dinner in the kitchen. There is very little light on the terrace. The terrace is the only place to sit in the hostel, which means you have to go to bed at 10:30 p.m. when it closes. The kitchen is very basic, with one small fridge. The stove is difficult to use and there is no kettle.

Security is average. You have to be buzzed into the building and the hostel floor. A key to the building, floor, and room is provided, but dorm room doors are rarely locked. There are no lockers.

Internet access is free for twenty minutes on one computer and there is a small selection of books, but none in English.

Overall, Fiesta Terrace is an average hostel. The lack of both natural light and a lounge makes the atmosphere and the character very dreary.

— Avis exclusif de Hostelz.com
October 2006