| Accommodation in Rome: hotels or apartments? | | | | around the world to see the Vatican, or the |
| 10th February 2007 | | | | Colosseum or the Spanish Steps or any of the most |
| Author: Paola Lo Russo | | | | popular spots of the Eternal City. |
| Choosing an accommodation when you go abroad is | | | | Please note that this has nothing to do with budget: in |
| much more than just choosing a place to sleep at night | | | | Rome there are apartments and hotels of any kind, |
| and wake up in the morning. Choosing the | | | | from the most luxury to the most simple one, which |
| accommodation for your vacations or your business | | | | means from the most expensive to the cheapest one. |
| travels in a city like Rome is even more delicate: it | | | | It's just a matter of style. Do you feel more like a |
| means choosing a lifestyle. There are so many | | | | visitor to be taken care of and seduced or a traveller |
| different things linked to staying in an hotel or in | | | | who prefers independence? The kind of |
| apartment here, even if the most important thing, | | | | accommodations in Rome you will decide to book will |
| you're probably thinking, is the city in itself, which is | | | | have a huge influence in the way you will remember |
| exactly the same wherever you decide to spend the | | | | your time in the capital of Italy. |
| nights. And you're probably right: Rome is so beautiful | | | | Did you choose an apartment? You will definitely |
| and packed with history and art that you will never | | | | remember that day in which you shopped in that old |
| want to stay indoor. But still, there are several different | | | | grocery store or in that typical outdoor Italian market |
| ways to enjoy the beauties of the eternal city, and | | | | and you went home to cook your own lasagna with |
| mostly those things that do not fit in the category | | | | the recipe some lady gave you along the way. Did you |
| "sightseeing musts" of your guide. It's totally different to | | | | go for an hotel? You will remember the typical Italian |
| live in an apartment or to lodge in an hotel. | | | | kitchen you tasted in so many different restaurants or |
| In a Rome apartment you will be able to prepare your | | | | the monuments and museums you had the time to visit |
| own breakfast and meals just the way you're used to, | | | | because you know someone else would have already |
| to have your private bedroom and at the same time | | | | been taken care of your needs as you would have |
| to share a living room or a dining room together with | | | | stepped back in the hall of your hotel. |
| the rest of your family or your group of friends. In an | | | | So now that you know why you should take the hotel |
| apartment you will not have to put any sign to not be | | | | way or the apartment way while you're in Rome, the |
| disturbed, because nobody will enter in what you will | | | | choice is up to you: make it your way! And don't make |
| be considering as your home in Italy. | | | | this the choice of lifetime: remember that anywhere |
| In a Rome hotel, instead, you will be spoiled by the | | | | your bed in Rome will be located, it will be under the |
| kindness of the staff, by their care and services, and | | | | same sky the Romans used to look at two thousand |
| you will enjoy breakfasts, lunches and dinners together | | | | years ago. This is already enough to make everyone |
| with the other guests prepared for you to satisfy | | | | going: "Wow!". |
| every kind of desires, to meet people coming from all | | | | Paola Lo Russo is a true expert of travel to Italy. |