hi we will be staying in italy rome and florence and venice in august . we are looking for hotel room for under 70 euro. we need it to be close to metro. we are a family of 3 (with a 6 and a half year old)
we are leaving this saturday so please advise asap.A clean aicondtioned place can be got for under 70 euro???????/
thanks everyone

Adec-you will be hitting the low season, so it is possible to get low rates, however, it may not be possible at such a late date, check these websites:

www.eurocheapo.com
www.venere.com
www.kayak.com (kayak actually comes up with hotels that are not on venere, I've noticed)

Good luck.

I must disagree that August is low season for Italy. While many locals may have headed to the beaches or elsewhere, tourists from everywhere else are visiting Italy and using the hotels you want. The websites posted above might give you some hotels but E70/night limits your possibilities. I have not stayed in budget hotels for years but AC was not that common in Italy when I did. Perhaps that has changed. The Lonely Planet guides and Rough guides tend to have many budget listings which may help you.
The major train stations will have a hotel booking office which may be helpful if you do not find anything before you leave. I suspect this may be your best bet as this is very late planning for a trip to some of the most touristy destinations in Europe.
I am also not sure by what you mean by close to the Metro. Do you mean subway as in Paris? If so there is no metro in Florence or Venice and the Rome metro is not as useful for tourists as those in London, Paris, New York, Tokyo etc. Venice is easily walkable and I used to find budget hotels around the train station, Florence central is also walkable although you may use the bus sytem if you find a hotel on the outskirts of the city.
The bus sytem in Rome may be more useful to you than the metro. I wish you good luck

MJS-you may disagree, but you'd be incorrect-all you have to do is check any of the websites-their low season is ALWAYS August-I stay in Italy in August, and know very well what types of deals you can get.

As a matter of fact, if you go on eurocheapo or venere right now, you'll find rates of 70 euro available for August-for doubles.

adec picked the right time period to get the best rates.

Hi

Florence: http://www.istitutogould.it/foresteria/ or http://www.bedinflorence.it/ or http://www.locandastarlight.it or http://www.leonardohouse.it

Venice: http://www.diaconiavaldese.org:8080/...eria/index.htm

Rome: http://www.bbbluerose.com

Book ASAP. Good luck.

I do not wish to belabor this point but if you go to any of the above websites (or any others)for individual hotels/B&B's you will find that August is high season with low season usually being somewhere between November and March with exceptions for holidays. I should also add that in traveling as a family that the 6 year old will usually be charged extra for another bed to the tune of E10 + and the booking services do not always price with all taxes. I have usually found that booking/negotiating with the hotel directly gets me the best rates. One might be able to get a room last minute at a good price. I do not think that getting a triple with air conditioning in August for E70/night inclusive in Venice/Florence/Rome will be easy. I do not think it will be impossible, just not easy.

I think it's darned near impossible to find a decent place with air conditioning for three to stay for under $70 in any of those cities.
I'm just curious: Why would you wait until 2 days before your departure to start looking for places to stay?

Ooops, I mean 70 euro....which really doesn't increase your chances by much!

For Rome, you could stay at a convent...the prices seem OK each of them is different some with AC, here's the website:
http://www.romeguide.it/FILES/cas_rein.htm

Have a good time and good luck!

This is spontaneous! I went to laterooms.com just to see, and there are rooms. Just for fun, in Florence is the Diana Park Hotel, air conditioned, etc., its in your price range... I have no idea where it is in Florence...wasn't a 4* that is for sure but the rooms looked quite adequate!
Best of luck.

I suspect you could find a lot of places to stay provided you aren't necessarily picky about the locations.

Girlspytravel is right it's low season at the moment & the hotels are cheaper, this is because there are no Trade fairs in August in Milan. the edreams reservations site has the Starhotel Splendido for €70.00 this weekend. I have stayed there many times it's at the Central station & is 4 star.

But Clark? They didn't list Milan.

You might find a few specials,but August is definitely not low season in Rome ,Florence and Venice.Not by a long shot.

Adec, are you 'pulling our legs'? No offense, but this sounds like a troll...
Two days' time, with A/C, a triple room, and under 70EUR??

<leaving THIS Saturday>
An obvious troll from a newbie!!!

Maureen, that's exactly why I raised the "how come" question earlier today!
Despite what other posters have written, I find it hard to believe that a person could find a "clean aicondtioned [sic] place" for three for under $70 in Rome in a couple days.

I do know that most hotel rates in Venice do go down in August--not sure if it's the lowest rate of the year, but they do go down.

You're right suzie, I got this mixed up with another post on another forum. Grrrrr
Well getting back to this post. It will be very difficult to find something for 3 people in Rome & Florence for such a low budget, probably impossible.

Rufus T-I've looked at the rates for some of the hotels I've booked,and they charge high season rates for August.I can't guarantee that they all do,but I haven't seen any great deals.