Italian Hotel Breakfasts ..breakout for the pasticceria!!! Hotel Royal Santina

Do we all recognize the sorry plates that get passed out as breakfast?  No matter how many stars a hotel has, the breakfasts look dismally similar.  Plates of cold cuts (in these case few and not too appetising), pastries that somehow look nothing like the great ones in the cafe on the corner, and no espresso ...just a bad square machine that puts out everything.  Ok, more stars and the espresso appears on order but is additional on the bill and never tastes quite right.  More stars and the pastries are just as bad, and you get Nutella no matter what. Oh, yes a choice of weird flavoured yoghurts ..coffee?

Now this hotel has 4 stars and I chose it for one night because it was right where I had to meet a bus in the morning.  It has coloured LEDs in the room and you can change the colour as you wish ... red for rage,  blue for cold, green for fertile I guess ...and the white: 24hr convenience store.  The wi fi works (free) and the desk chair hardly pulls out because the bed is in the way.  But it is all very clean, modern and newly refurbished.  Near the Stazione Termini, on Rue Marsala the Royal Santina only costs around 150 euro for a double room for one person.  Could not fit two international bags so better travel alone!!!  

It does the job if you need to be in the area  .attentive staff.  There was a reception for some cruise line in the lobby when I checked in: full of Americans going on cruises.

Looking forward to my return to Rome and the Hotel Art ...boutique and cool, at the Spanish Steps.