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The Best Hotels in Rome
A selection of my favorite hotels in Rome, Italy
The Eternal City is a layer cake tracing 2,500 years of history, from ancient Roman ruins and medieval artisan quarters to the papal city planning and elegant palaces of the Renaissance, a slew of fabulous baroque churches, and some bombastic fascist architecture to top it all off.
Finding a reasonably priced place to stay in the throbbing, living heart of it all takes a bit of work. Rome has hundreds of hotels; half of them are overpriced, another third of them are slung into the streets around Termini train station—nothing wrong with the area (anymore; used to be dicey), but it's a good half hour by bus or Metro, and 45 to 60 minutes on foot, from the historic center that you came all this way to see. If I had a choice, I'd stay in the center.
I've spent more a decade combing the streets of Rome to find the best inexpensive lodgings in the heart of downtown. Here are my favorites, in every price cateogry. I've also noted the neighborhood in which each is located; there's a full description of each on the City Layout page, but in brief: "Termini" means near the train station, "Tiber Bend" means near the Pantheon, Piazza Navona, and Campo de' Fiori, and the others are self-evident.
Super-Cheap Hotels, Hostels, & Campgrounds in Rome—Under €50 ($70)
Where to Find Cheap Hotels in Rome
As in many cities, the heartland of cheap hotels in Rome is the streets surrounding the main train station (Termini). Also as in many cities, the streets around the station comrpise a boring 19th-century grid lying a good half hour by bus or subway from the city center and most of the sights you came to see.
Still, when the best hotels downtown are full, you're likely to find rooms available around Termini. The streets north/northwest of the station are the nicest and have a better clutch of quirky, fun, inexpensive hotels, while the streets to the south of Termini (towards the church of Santa Maria Maggiore) tend to be a bit seedier and full of bland—if relatively cheap—tourist-class hotels.
This odd arrangement is a legacy of the fact that, 15 years ago, things were reversed: it was the area to the south that was nicer (and therefore filled with cookie-cutter hotels catering to packaged tours and bus groups) while the area to the north was dicier (and hence full of backpacker flophouses, which—since the neighborhood has been cleaned up—have renovated themselves into funky little hotels).
Hotel Pensione Papa Germano (Termini)
Fawlty Towers (Termini)
Hotel Colors (Vatican)
Camping Village Flaminio (Outskirts)
Cheap Hotels in Rome—Under €100 ($140)
Hotel Marcus (Tiber Bend)
Hotel Fenicia (Termini)
Hotel Des Artistes (Termini)
Fraterna Domus (Tiber Bend)
Casa Kolbe (Ancient Rome)
Pensione Panda (Spanish Steps)
Hotel Mimosa (Tiber Bend)
Moderate Hotels in Rome— €100–€150 ($140–$210)
Hotel Coronet (Tiber Bend)
Hotel Aventino (Aventine)
Hotel Smeraldo (Tiber Bend)
Hotel Navona (Tiber Bend)
Hotel Pensione Parlamento (Spanish Steps)
Hotel Sole al Biscione (Tiber Bend)
Premier Hotels in Rome— €150–€250 ($210–$350)
Albergo Abruzzi (Tiber Bend)
Hotel Nardizzi Americana (Via Veneto)
Hotel Sant'Anselmo (Aventine)
Hotel Campo de' Fiori (Tiber Bend)
Hotel Villa San Pio (Aventine)
Perfect Splurge Hotels in Rome—Over €250 ($350)
Hotel Raphael (Tiber Bend)Grand Hotel de la Minerve (Tiber Bend)
Hotel Art at the Spanish Steps (Spanish Steps)
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» B&Bs in Rome (from €30)
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This material was last updated October 2006. All information was accurate at the time.
Copyright © 1998-2008 by Reid Bramblett. All rights reserved.
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