Favorite one- and two-star hotels/B&Bs in Rome, Florence, Venice?
Mar 5th, 2006, 10:34 PM
#21
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 2,224
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
fly-girl, didn't mean to scare you off, Hotel Europa was fine for the price of 70 E/night in Florence. I do hope you love your new hotel though, I'm at the point where I'm willing to pay a little more (but not much!) for a litle something extra. I feel like if Europa just put some new paint on the walls it would work wonders but they seem resistant. I guess every little bit adds up to higher overhead for them. A very nice family, I'm sure they'll continue to do well with all the positive press they recieve.
Mar 6th, 2006, 02:02 AM
#22
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 231
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Try also Hotel Colomba...great location, you can walk everywhere, great breakfasts, free internet and host Roseanna is Australian and very helpful. Rooms are big, clean and have cable TV and a fridge!
Use the hotel website for prices and book through them directly.
Use the hotel website for prices and book through them directly.
Mar 6th, 2006, 02:06 AM
#23
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 231
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Sorry an addition.. we have only jsut got back from Europe. When we were in Rome we stayed in an apartment in Rome..Campo Fiori again great for walking everywhere and an apartment In Venice in Dorsoduro.We preferred staying in an apartment as we could have a coffee or cook a snack when we wanted!
Mar 6th, 2006, 07:12 AM
#25
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 87
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I'm staying next week at Residenza del Proconsolo in Florence for 120E for a Double Superior room and the B&B all'Orologio in rome for 120E a night. Both look good online and I'll post reports when I get back.
Mar 8th, 2006, 07:12 AM
#26
Guest
Posts: n/a
Thank you again, everyone, for all your help. It is so helpful.
I posted a new thread, "Bragging Rights", now that our airfare is set and the plan is actually in motion. Hooray! So excited. I will ask my daughter to send names of B&Bs she sees and likes in Florence. She has recommended the Casa Rezzonico in Venice, which she has already visited, and it looks nice on the web, plus they are available for about 150EU. Anyone have any experience there?
In Rome, we're still needing a charming central B&B, near the Spanish Steps perhaps. Also a B&B in Aosta and Nice. In fact, I'll re-post below our itinerary as it stands now:
Yesterday, I was able to snag Mileage Plus tickets round-trip, into Rome and out of Nice, in early May. I'll have 15 nights ( I feel like a glutton!). My daughter is studying in Florence this semester and it will be the two of us having an Italian adventure. She's proposed the following itinerary, based on Eurostar routing, which even gets us to the Cote d'Azur for the last night or two:
Roma (3 or 4 nights)
1. Flight arrival at 1:50 p.m., lazy leisure, nap, adjust, go out to dinner (Piazza Novona or Campo di Fiori), maybe see the Trevi fountain, sleep
2. Vatican City (St. Peter’s Basilica, Sistene Chapel/School of Athens), Pantheon, dinner near the pantheon because there are great restaurants there, sleep
3. Coliseum, Forum, Trevi Fountain, Dinner around Spanish Steps, sleep
4. Optional day--??
Note: I think staying near the Spanish steps is great because you are right near the rail line to take you to Vatican City and also to the Coliseum. Also, it’s a nice area in itself.
Cinque Terre (2 nights)
1. Morning Train from Roma to Pisa (Eurostar) and Pisa to San Margherita, spend the afternoon walking around the coastal town, maybe catch the ten minute bus along the shore line to Portofino and have dinner there, come back to San Margherita for the night
2. Take the Cinque Terre boat down the shore and see all of the five towns from the water, get off at the last city, walk between the downs, stopping for snacks and breaks. You can either buy a 3 euro trail pass for all five towns, or for 5.40 get access to all trails and trains between towns, so if we decide we don’t want to walk all of them, we just start hopping on trains. They are minutes apart on the train. In the evening take the train back to San Margherita for dinner and bed.
Note: We don’t have to stay in San Margherita, I just have a great and really reasonable hotel for us to stay in there-- it’s really cute. We could stay in one of the five Cinque Terre, but they are all really small and it seemed harder to pick a place. San Margherita is more of an actual little town and it gives us the option of going to Portofino. If we were to actually stay in one of the five Cinque Terre, I would suggest Vernazza. We do need to get ourselves to San Margherita in order to get to Firenze though.
Firenze (3 nights)
1. Take a morning train from San Margherita to Firenze, check in, spend the afternoon just walking around and relaxing, we can pass by the big things like the Duomo, Santa Croce, and the Ponte Vecchio. Dinner, sleep
2. Day around Firenze, visit Villa Spelman, San Miniato church (really worth it for the view), eat at one of the view caffes up there, visit Pitti Palace, eat at one of the really good trattorias on the less touristy side of the bridge, sleep
3. Day trip to San Gimignano from Firenze, we get on a bus not a train for this. (You don’t have to do San Gimignano but it was one of my favorites and it’s a nice city break), back to Firenze, sleep
4. Spend another day until mid-afternoon in Firenze, see the Ufizzi Gallery and the David at the Accademia, mid-late afternoon get on a train to Venezia (Eurostar)
Note: We can see more or less museums/art/ whatever, but we do have to decide what we are going to see and when we are going to see it, because you need reservations for the Uffizi, the Accademia, and the Pitti Palace, so we don’t waste tons of time in ridiculous lines.
Venezia (3 nights)
1. Arrive after dark in Venezia, which is actually a great first intro to the city. I have a really cute place to stay and all we would have to do would be get on the Venezia shuttle bus on the grand canal, get off at Ca’Rezonnico, and our hotel would be less than two blocks away. The canal is gorgeous at night and you would get to go under the Ponte Rialto. Check in, dinner, sleep.
2. Spend the day exploring Venezia, Campo San Margherita, Campo San Marco, the clock tower, Venezia Basilica, dinner, sleep
3. Another day around Venice, Ponte Rialto, canals/boat, whatever else we please, dinner, sleep
Note: I didn’t get to see a lot of the real traditional touristy stops because it was flooded from Carnevale, so I don’t have as good of a grip of what we do and don’t need to see. Venice is more about just walking around though, so we don’t have to cram a lot in.
Aosta/Chamonix (1 or 2 nights)
1. Morning train to Torino (Eurostar) and transfer to Aosta, explore in the morning, its supposed to be a really cool city, and in the afternoon take the gondola over to Chamonix. Spend the night in Chamonix or Aosta.
Nice (2 nights)
1. Morning train to Nice to explore that town and nearby towns??
I posted a new thread, "Bragging Rights", now that our airfare is set and the plan is actually in motion. Hooray! So excited. I will ask my daughter to send names of B&Bs she sees and likes in Florence. She has recommended the Casa Rezzonico in Venice, which she has already visited, and it looks nice on the web, plus they are available for about 150EU. Anyone have any experience there?
In Rome, we're still needing a charming central B&B, near the Spanish Steps perhaps. Also a B&B in Aosta and Nice. In fact, I'll re-post below our itinerary as it stands now:
Yesterday, I was able to snag Mileage Plus tickets round-trip, into Rome and out of Nice, in early May. I'll have 15 nights ( I feel like a glutton!). My daughter is studying in Florence this semester and it will be the two of us having an Italian adventure. She's proposed the following itinerary, based on Eurostar routing, which even gets us to the Cote d'Azur for the last night or two:
Roma (3 or 4 nights)
1. Flight arrival at 1:50 p.m., lazy leisure, nap, adjust, go out to dinner (Piazza Novona or Campo di Fiori), maybe see the Trevi fountain, sleep
2. Vatican City (St. Peter’s Basilica, Sistene Chapel/School of Athens), Pantheon, dinner near the pantheon because there are great restaurants there, sleep
3. Coliseum, Forum, Trevi Fountain, Dinner around Spanish Steps, sleep
4. Optional day--??
Note: I think staying near the Spanish steps is great because you are right near the rail line to take you to Vatican City and also to the Coliseum. Also, it’s a nice area in itself.
Cinque Terre (2 nights)
1. Morning Train from Roma to Pisa (Eurostar) and Pisa to San Margherita, spend the afternoon walking around the coastal town, maybe catch the ten minute bus along the shore line to Portofino and have dinner there, come back to San Margherita for the night
2. Take the Cinque Terre boat down the shore and see all of the five towns from the water, get off at the last city, walk between the downs, stopping for snacks and breaks. You can either buy a 3 euro trail pass for all five towns, or for 5.40 get access to all trails and trains between towns, so if we decide we don’t want to walk all of them, we just start hopping on trains. They are minutes apart on the train. In the evening take the train back to San Margherita for dinner and bed.
Note: We don’t have to stay in San Margherita, I just have a great and really reasonable hotel for us to stay in there-- it’s really cute. We could stay in one of the five Cinque Terre, but they are all really small and it seemed harder to pick a place. San Margherita is more of an actual little town and it gives us the option of going to Portofino. If we were to actually stay in one of the five Cinque Terre, I would suggest Vernazza. We do need to get ourselves to San Margherita in order to get to Firenze though.
Firenze (3 nights)
1. Take a morning train from San Margherita to Firenze, check in, spend the afternoon just walking around and relaxing, we can pass by the big things like the Duomo, Santa Croce, and the Ponte Vecchio. Dinner, sleep
2. Day around Firenze, visit Villa Spelman, San Miniato church (really worth it for the view), eat at one of the view caffes up there, visit Pitti Palace, eat at one of the really good trattorias on the less touristy side of the bridge, sleep
3. Day trip to San Gimignano from Firenze, we get on a bus not a train for this. (You don’t have to do San Gimignano but it was one of my favorites and it’s a nice city break), back to Firenze, sleep
4. Spend another day until mid-afternoon in Firenze, see the Ufizzi Gallery and the David at the Accademia, mid-late afternoon get on a train to Venezia (Eurostar)
Note: We can see more or less museums/art/ whatever, but we do have to decide what we are going to see and when we are going to see it, because you need reservations for the Uffizi, the Accademia, and the Pitti Palace, so we don’t waste tons of time in ridiculous lines.
Venezia (3 nights)
1. Arrive after dark in Venezia, which is actually a great first intro to the city. I have a really cute place to stay and all we would have to do would be get on the Venezia shuttle bus on the grand canal, get off at Ca’Rezonnico, and our hotel would be less than two blocks away. The canal is gorgeous at night and you would get to go under the Ponte Rialto. Check in, dinner, sleep.
2. Spend the day exploring Venezia, Campo San Margherita, Campo San Marco, the clock tower, Venezia Basilica, dinner, sleep
3. Another day around Venice, Ponte Rialto, canals/boat, whatever else we please, dinner, sleep
Note: I didn’t get to see a lot of the real traditional touristy stops because it was flooded from Carnevale, so I don’t have as good of a grip of what we do and don’t need to see. Venice is more about just walking around though, so we don’t have to cram a lot in.
Aosta/Chamonix (1 or 2 nights)
1. Morning train to Torino (Eurostar) and transfer to Aosta, explore in the morning, its supposed to be a really cool city, and in the afternoon take the gondola over to Chamonix. Spend the night in Chamonix or Aosta.
Nice (2 nights)
1. Morning train to Nice to explore that town and nearby towns??
Mar 8th, 2006, 10:16 AM
#27
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 7,092
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Maureen, I'm doing something similar. Leaving in two weeks to meet my daughter who is studying in Rome this semester. Although I've been to Italy before, I'm looking forward to having my daughter act as tour guide and translator. In Rome, I'm staying at the Daphne Inn for E120/night including tax and breakfast. They actually have two locations very close to each other, one at Trevi and one at Veneto. Although I haven't stayed there before, it's gotten very good reviews.
Mar 9th, 2006, 08:08 AM
#30
Guest
Posts: n/a
Louisa, I just booked the Daphne Trevi for my daughter and I. My rate is higher, probably because it's for two people and May is high season-- it's 180EU with a ten percent discount for cash (which I will definitely take advantage of). There are over 50 tripadvisor.com reviews which are all glowing. Their e-mail responses have so far been quick and helpful, so it sounds perfect for us.
Please let me know if it's not, ok?
Where are you staying in Venice? So far, I'm seriously considering the Hotel Riva, which people on this forum like, and the Casa Rezzonico, which my daughter has seen in person.
Have a great trip with your daughter! (Keep the mother-daughter stuff down to a 'dull roar', as my Mom used to say!)
Please let me know if it's not, ok?
Where are you staying in Venice? So far, I'm seriously considering the Hotel Riva, which people on this forum like, and the Casa Rezzonico, which my daughter has seen in person.
Have a great trip with your daughter! (Keep the mother-daughter stuff down to a 'dull roar', as my Mom used to say!)
Thread
Original Poster
Forum
Replies
Last Post
wheretheroadtakesus
Europe
5
Jan 14th, 2019 05:51 AM
