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  • Musts

    Walk Everywhere… Rome is more of an open air museum than capital city. Take in the Colosseum, Roman Forum, Spanish Steps, Piazza Navona, The Vatican, Borghese Gardens

    Get the ceeps in the Capuchin Crypt

    Hop on a Vespa Tour

    Porta Portese Flea Market on Sundays

  • Seasons

    A year round destination really. June can be incredibly busy and July/August a little hot

    April/May and October/November can be great months to enjoy the city under blue skies

  • Events

    Papal Audience - every Wednesday that the Pope is in Rome. Tickets required through Winter and service is open air in Summer. Check the schedule here.

Budget: Condominio Monti

From £80 a night Bed & Breakfast

A cute and playful three star where architects kept the spiral marble staircase for grandeur but made rooms light, bright and practical.

Best of all in the heart of Monti, you are a left turn, hop, skip and jump from Romes best attractions.

Boutique: Hotel Locarno

From £300 a night Bed & Breakfast

This was for a long time Romes best kept secret. With a stunning rooftop, cocktails in the courtyard pre dinner and complimentary bikes to use, it feels more like staying with your wealthy Italian nonna than run of the mill hotel.

Thanks to encouragement by the hotel’s owner, Caterina Valente, the street is full of independent shops and artisans including hat-makers and perfumers.

Blow Out: Hotel de la Ville

From £850 a night Bed & Breakfast

Let’s start with location, for in order to reach the hotel you will thoughtlessly tick the Spanish Steps off your to do list, de la Ville sits at the top of them. Enter the reception stage left off the Via Sistina to doormen so charming there is now a picture of them beside the description of ‘warm welcome’ in the dictionary.

You'll enter a large and lofty space where a collection of mismatching, de-shaping orb like mirrors deck the walls and the floor is clad in Roman mosaic. The fun continues through to a transparent lift, geometric carpets, textured walls and heavy embossed doors. Yet inside your room, peace. Towering windows flood the space with natural light, shutters open wide with views on Ancient Rome and a breeze that makes the curtains dance.

Pizza & Gelato

  • Forno Campo de’fiori - pastries and slices of pizza to be eaten in the sun of Piazza Farnese

  • Gelateria al Teatro - seasonal and floral flavours to travel back to

Dinner

  • Da Enzo al 29 - get someone who speaks Italian to book, they hang up if you speak English

  • Al Moro for old school classics and sitting across from bickering politicians

  • Santo Palato - neo-trattoria and Tucci approved

Lunch

  • Mercato Centrale - grab some food from the best suppliers in the country and then source a wine bar to get the perfect by the glass pairing

  • Go to Trastevere and find a restaurant with a queue to join 

Drinks

  • Stravinskij Bar at Hotel de la Ville for the best people watching of all time. Must pre-book, must anticipate expensive cocktails

  • Bar del Fico come for an aperitivo stay for the flatbreads