This hotel is in the middle of NOWHERE!!!! It takes forever to get to the city. It is a very clean and very nice hotel. The buffet type breakfast is fabulous, and the staff are very nice, but it is such a hassle to get everywhere. You have to take the shuttle bus to the train station and ride the train around. If you do not mind this than this hotel is perfect.

The Hotel is clean and nice. The staff are great. BUT, the location of the hotel is really far from everything. If you want to go downtown, then euther use a taxi which cost at least 25 Euros and 45-60 minutes each way or take the hotel shutel and metro. If you stay here then you go out in the morning and propably come back late at night. As you see there is no way to go back for some rest.

I've been to the Holiday Express Inn, Rome East, last November 2nd, 2006 for 3 days with my wife and our 2 kids.
I have read some bad comments and hesitated for a while but finally decided to go for it. The price was very interesting.
I have to say that the hotel is very clean, the rooms are large comparing to european standard and the staff was kind with one exception but that's an exception. The breakfast is very good.
The hotel is actually located outside Rome at about 2 kms from the nearest metro station (Ponte Mamolo).
The metro takes you to Rome Termini (central) in 15 mns and I do not consider this as a problem.
The only problem is that you need to take the shuttle to go to the metro station. The shuttle is a courtesy of the hotel and the trip is less than 5 minutes but DO NOT expect to walk to the metro as you need to cross highways and we haven't seen walkways.
Also the shuttle departs from the hotel and back every 30 mns from 7h30 to 11h00 and then from 17h00 to 22h00.
A taxi from downtown would cost around 20-30 Euros.
Next to the hotel there's a large supermarket that closes at 21h30 but no restaurant or animation.
As a conclusion, if you're looking for a good quality/price ratio, if you don't need to have a break at the hotel during the day then you could find this hotel ok for you.

Knowing Rome quite well we booked this hotel.However even the taxi driver from the airport got lost and did not know where it was.The taxi was also 65 euro which is rather expensive.Once at the hotel they provide a 1/2 hour bus service to the nearest metro but unfortunately this only seats 16 people and many people were complaining as they could not get a seat on the bus (the hotel did not offer to put more transport on despite the hotel being very busy - we struggled to get a table at breakfast !).It is not possible to walk to the metro, also the metro is not in a good part of town so it would not be ideal travelling back late at night from the center of Rome - we did not see any taxi's at the station .Therefore i would only recommend this hotel if you are happy to drive- the hotel is basic but clean , the staff are helpful but their English was not great .The bar is very very basic and not somewhere you can really relax but the breakfast buffet is ok.At £99 a night it was far too expensive for just a bed which is a long way out of the centre.