ROME - Where to stay and how many nights?

How many weeks do you have for the trip?
I'd say one week if you have an apartment with air conditioning, but that's without any other context.

Personally I love Rome, always rent an apartment from Sleepinitaly and prefer in stay in the historic center which would be the area around Campo d. Fiori, P. Navona, or the Pantheon. Trastevere is a nice location if you stay not too far from the river which you will cross to get to the historic center. Is this is your first time there?

As far as how long to stay you have to decide what you want to see and work out a plan. For a first time visit a week would be great. In that time you could get the train up to Florence or Orvieto for the day or do Ostia Antica for a change of pace. That is if you will not have just been traveling and seeing these places. What are the other travel plans? Read lots of Rome rip reports to help with figuring out Rome.

The link you posted only goes to the Rome apartments main page. What apartment(s) are you interested in -- how many people, etc.?

Many of those apartments in the center are probably booked already for June.

If it were me, I would stay at least 5 nights, and better would be a week. There is so much to see in Rome I don't know where to start. And it depends on what your interests are.

We are pretty open for Rome for 5 days, July 18th to 24th.
We are going to Como and Switzerland for our last 2 weeks before our flight from Zurich on August 6th.

So, pooky, how many people? What's your budget? What are you interests?

We are 3, 2 kids and I.
My daughter studied Rome and some of the Goddess this year, so she is very excited on seeing the Coliseum.

Well, the Colosseum will take a couple of hours at most, if you take a tour inside. (Hint: buy a Roma Pass as soon as you get to Rome. That way you can bypass the big lines at the Colosseum and other venues, which are people waiting to buy tickets.) Because the Colosseum is right next to the Forum and the Palatine Hill where all the famous Roman emperors and politicians lived, and the Capitoline Hill on the other side of the Forum, that fills in your first day. there's a museum on the Capitoline Hill that also is on the Roma Pass.

the pass also gives you 3 days of free rides on the buses and trams in Rome. BUT you must stamp the pass in the yellow box on the bus the first time you use it.

I don't know what you mean by "some of the Goddess".

On the second day you can go to the Vatican and take the tour of the church and the libraries (the library tour takes you to the Sistine chapel.)

There's lots of ruins, churches, etc. besides this. It all depends on your interests. Just walking around Rome and people-watching and sitting having coffee or drinks is fun. It's nice to see all the fountains. It's very pretty at night around the fountains. Did you daughter learn about the aqueducts that were built 2000 years ago to bring water to Rome?

Why don't you buy a good illustrated guidebook -- best to get a small one, not a big thick one.

I have the top 10 for Rome and I'm studying it.
I found a nice apartment close to Ponte Milvio.
There are so many options available for when we'll be there, but I don't know where it would be a good place to stay.

Is Ponte Milvio a nice area?
What about Monti?
I see that I could run along the river on Ponte Milvio area.

I don't want to pay more than 100E a night.

You might want to visit my website...
www.passagetoroma.com

First go to the library area. You'll find lots of free downloads, including our updated guidebook that covers 6 days. It tells you how to print it out, or you can put it on an ebook reader. You'll also find official Rome tourist brochures and maps. The Google Map area has our tours mapped out. It is all free, nothing to sign up for, nada.

The MP3 files are out of date, so I wouldn't bother downloading them, but I should have the updated ones ready by mid-June.

Sleep in Italy is a very good agency, but you are cutting it close on the time.

dave

Thanks Dave,

I see still a lot of availability for the week of July 18th.
I just don't know what area is a good area to stay for day trips.

Ponte Milvio is not convenient. Monti might be good, depending on what the address is. With 5 days in Rome, I'd do at most one day trip, because Rome has so much to see.