Its not about having no choice, I pre-booked this place over the internet.
Myself and Mrs T wanted to go to Rome. She was particularly keen to visit the vatican, being catholic. And we also couldnt leave it much longer as she was 5 months preggers and soon would not be able to travel.
I also wanted to have a 'nice time', and as I was paying for the hotel and flights, I wanted to choose a fairly decent hotel, but Mrs T has this thing about 'cheap'.
Anyway, I found this rather nice looking hotel in the internet, 4star, swimming pool, decent price.
We got to the hotel. Utter shit. It looked nothing like the photos.
The pool had been filled in with concrete, and this was by no means a 4 star hotel.
In the room, there were NO power sockets. Fortunately I brought a travel adapter which also had one of those edison screw light fitting adapters, or Mrs T would not have been able to use her hair drier.
The bathroom. Tiny. Shower, Sink, toilet. So small you could have a shower and take a shit at the same time.
The shower door barely opened enough to let in a 5 month pregnant woman. And If I had been any fatter, I would not ave been able to get in either.
The room was also on the first floor, but as the car park outside was 'sloping' we may have weel been on the ground floor as the window was level with the ground outside. Each morning from about 6am, the next coach load of holidaymakers was being delivered, and we were fortunate enough to have the coach parked right outside our window, not only that the driver was considerate enough to leave his engine running constantly.
The hjoliday was topped off with me having my credit cards stolen on the second day.

Fucking marvellous. Never ever go to Rome if you want a good time.
( turb0t, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 8:24, 3 replies)

the thing with...
Italy and Rome is unless you get a recommendation for a place, you will either end up in 5 star beautiful accomodation, some of the best in the world - but severly expensive... Or if you go on the cheap, it will be a shanty town - literally, there is a shanty town on the outskirts...

I've spent many a moon in Rome, but with a girl that lived there - so we ate like kings for coppers - and obviously stayed in her flat...

Love it though!!!
(feedingtimeatthezoo day 1 of his bikini diet started, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 14:10, closed)

On the subject
Just out of interest where did you stay? Me and the better half are off there in the Summer and are currently looking at hotels. We were recommended one by the old man who was there last year so I'm hoping we should be ok

*Crosses fingers*
(KangerooFlapjack, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 18:45, closed)

It really was a shanty town I think.
in the dusty road that lead up to the hotel, which was somewhere in a back street, people had left bowls of dog food and cat out for all the stray cats and dogs. I cant recall exactly what the hotel was called, it was something like "The Prince", it was no way a 4 fucking star hotel, but I heard that in Italy the star ratings is worked out by the owner of the hotel by way of what he thinks he should award himself for his own hotel.
( turb0t, Wed 23 Jan 2008, 11:11, closed)