Hotel Sonya

This hotel was pretty good. In a nice spot very close to the train station, and an opera house across the street. The rooms however looked pretty run down and old. Now this is coming from a Canadian so we have different hotels there, but the walls were pretty gross, the toilet leaked, and I’m pretty sure I heard either rats or bats at night (this was with the door closed). My room had 2 beds, one a double and one a single. Overall pretty mid.

This is a hard one to review because the location was amazing, the staff were great and the room was large and yet the fact the AC is basically non existent really crushed my view of this hotel. We were on the 3rd floor 338 I think, and the room when opened for us by the bellhop was well over 90 degrees. He said the room doesn't have AC on until the guest card is in this slot, so I assumed it would cool down since we left a card in the slot all day and night. I was wrong, but thankfully it was a cooler night and we could at least open the window for some cooler air. After sweating in just my boxers on top of the sheets all night and hardly sleeping I asked the gentleman at the front desk to see if he could fix our air or change our room. He said he would have someone check it out. We then explored Rome and came back hours later hot and sweaty to a still not cool room. I asked the front desk what the issue was and he indicated that the AC was working as sweat was running down my face. Realizing that this is obviously an issue the hotel is aware of but won't correct I told him to let me use the fan he had on his desk till we checked out so I could at least have some air movement in the room. He was kind enough to let me use it, but I would never stay here again as I am terrified what it would have been like on warmer days. The fan helped a little, so if you are stuck here with this issue and you didn't catch the reviews about the AC, take the desk fan. Maybe if enough people take the fan from the front desk they will fix the issue.