Fantastic hotel. Rome is one of my favourite cities and the Grand Hotel de la Minerve is my favourite hotel there. Superb location - can't be bettered - and a great hotel with gorgeous big rooms. A wonderful treat!

The Grand Hotel De La Minerve is in one of the best locations you could possibily get in Rome - next door to the Pantheon within easy walking distance of most of the interesting sites in Rome.

BUT, the hotel does itself have some issues.

We arrived on a Saturday evening to stay for 1 week - the hotel did NOT have a reservation for us. When they checked it appeared that the reservation was recieved but NOT actioned. We were placed in another (lower class) room and the best offer we got was free breakfast.

When we finally got to our real room on Sunday it was next to the Service area for the 4th floor (we were in 443!) and all night and day there was banging and crashing as people worked in the service area.

The roof top restaurant is a fantastic location for a romantic dinner but the menu within the hotel is very limited. Staying for 1 week means that you will have easily exhausted the menu - in fact, it was so limited that we could only eat in the restaurant 2 times.

Staff at the hotel are very helpful although do need to be pushed when there are issues aka no room reservation, to come a solution.

Would we stay there again? Maybe, but certainly with a more detailed check of what room we would be placed in.

My 12 year old daughter and a group of other mother/daughters stayed at the Minerve for three nights in July. We had such a wonderful experience. We had a wonderful package that included breakfast as well as a fabulous 3 course dinner on their roof-top restaurant. The food, service and view was incredible. I was not prepared to love Rome as much as I did. I'm sure much of it had to do with having a wonderfully spacious room to kick back in. We loved the Location. We walked most places but also took cabs to save some time. One plus was also a drawback with the location. Since we were a large group (about 20) we had a large coach between cities, the streets around the Minerve are very narrow (quaint) and it was impossible to get our bus to the front of the hotel. The front desk did not inform us of this problem prior to our arrival. The evening that we arrived it was very chaotic trying to arrange our own transportation from the train station where our bus had to drop us off. Fortunatley things worked out and we were able to manage our own transportation to the hotel. (on the last day of a city wide taxi strike!) Our room on the 4th floor overlooked the back of the Pantheon and a quaint courtyard. Our room was very clean and well appointed. Our maid was the sweetest woman. The bellmen were very warm and the concierge bent over backwards to help accomodate our American hair appliances.(Important when travelling with daughters!) The one area that could use improvement is the front desk. They definitely did not posess the same gracious manor as the rest of the staff. That said we would still recommend and stay at this hotel again!

this hotel has a great location, but it stops there. the service is not up to standards. the front desk does not care and good luck getting a bell hop to take your bags. the front desk knows you are a tourist so they just want you in and out. when i was there, the air conditioning in my room was not working, it took 3 trips to try and getit fixed and it still didnt work. they did nothing for me , other than to say , oh we will check into it. can you imagine this happening at a hotel in the us that charges $400 per night. i dont think so.