The best hotels in Rome

How to find, and reserve, the best hotels in Rome in every price range and neighborhood

A map of hotels in Rome, France
Hotels in Rome

Booking engines:
www.venere.com
www.booking.com
www.getaroom.com
www.hotelscombined.com
www.hostelworld.com

Reid's top 10 Hotels in Rome
1) Hotel Villa San Pio [€€€€]
2) Hotel Smeraldo [€€€]
3) Hotel Raphael [€€€€€]
4) Hotel Navona [€€]
5) Hotel Mimosa [€€]
6) Albergo Abruzzi [€€€€]
7) Casa Kolbe Hotel [€€€]
8) Hotel Art by The Spanish Steps [€€€€€]
9) Hotel Pensione Papa Germano [€]
10) Hotel Des Artistes [€€]
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Beyond hotels
• B&Bs
• Apartments
• Hostels
• Campgrounds
• ResidencesRome 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.

Then there are other lodging options, like B&Bs or apartments, than can cost less than a hotel and offer a more interesting experience to boot.

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:

The new Rome hotel tax
In January, 2011, Rome began charging a hotel bed tax. This is the city's doing, and sadly it is not a scam. The following tax rates are per person, per night, for all guests over the age of 10 an can be charged for stays of up to 10 days:

• 1–3 star hotels: €2
• 4–5 star hotels: €3
• B&Bs: €2
• Apartments: €2
• Rental rooms: €2
• Agriturismi: €2
• Campsites: €1(up to 5 days)

So a couple staying three nights in a four-star room would pay an extra €18.

Some hotels have begun folding this tax into their quoted rates; others tack it on when you go to check out.

There are three ways to find hotels in Rome:

Hotels in Rome from Booking.com

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I've inserted the Booking.com results for Florence in a frame below, but you may want to open it in a separate window instead, to make things like using your browser's "Back" button easier. If you stay on this page, right click to get a browser functions menu for "back" and such.

Booking.com is one of the best hotel booking engines out there, especially for European trips, offering many smaller, mom-and-pop hotels and alternatives such as B&Bs and apartments.

(I just returned from a trip to Sardegna and, though I scoured guidebooks and other online resources, I found five of the six places I ended up staying by using Booking.com.)

You may also want to peruse the offerings at the competitor booking engines Venere.com and Getaroom.com, as well as at the nifty hotel aggregator HotelsCombined.com.

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