Rome accommodation: how to choose

Rome accommodation. Where to choose what to choose…and why.
It’s not hard at all to find accommodation in Rome. You can choose among a wide range of different options: from a charming bed & breakfast to the most luxurious 5 stars hotel. But just because of this variety of solutions, the hard thing become picking up the right one, the one that best fit your needs.

Your budget of course will make a first selection and even if you don’t have budget limits, it will be your idea of comfort that will reduce your options into a smaller number, more easy to choose into. But it’s here, in the apparently indifference between the options that you’re going to need some help to make your decision, hopefully from people that really know the city, even better if they actually live there. And here we are.

Just as many other big cities around the world, Rome has got a lot of different souls, each one of them with its own moods and feelings, so that having your hotel in one area or the other will probably change your perception of the whole period you will spend here.
Trastevere is nothing like Piazza di Spagna, for example, and Campo de’ Fiori is at 10 minutes walking from the Vatican, but at 10 light-years in lifestyle.

Not only the area in which you chose your accommodation will affect your way of experiencing the city, but also the kind of it. Renting an apartment in Rome with a kitchen in it, for example, will make you come in touch with the local grocery store, discover the habits of Italians while shopping in one of the very picturesque outdoor food market and eventually it will make you save some money on your meals. If you choose to stay in a bed & breakfast on in a 2 or 3 stars hotel instead, you will have the chance to try some typical Italian cooking having your lunches and dinners out in a different restaurant almost everyday. An high level hotel it will probably give you a taste of Italian sense of elegance and charming hospitality and it will put you in the middle of fashion boutiques and v.i.p. locations.

Obviously these are only a few examples of the differences between the apparently indifferent options of accommodation in Rome. In this section we will give you advices and tips, we will explain what you will actually find in each kind of room of every rating and in every area, to free your mind from wrong expectations and to build new and hopefully better ones.