If you want an inexpensive place to stay where you can trust the people you are rooming with and enjoy great kindness and hospitality this is the place. Andrea is very kind, he made some pasta for me when I arrived late from my flight, the bedding was all clean and the third night I realized that I had mis-coordinated my rendezvous with my husband who arrived a night early from London, and Andrea took it in stride and gave us his double bed and he slept on my single. He and his roommates were all kind, honest and helpful, I would recommend them. The Vatican is 5 minute walk. The Colosseum is about 30 min. I didn't use a bus the entire time I was in Rome, but I am 39 and in pretty good shape. Bed is an older mattress with older bedding, but its clean and was comfortable.