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The 10 best hotels in Rome

Only ten make the cut. Rome's centre is small and its quarters are not, so the hotel question is less about distance than about what the street outside is doing after dark. One address here is a pedestrian cul-de-sac that ends in steps; another sits on a square that fills with touts and stays busy late. These are ten we would book, from about 95 euros a night to 2,000, each here for a different reason.

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Editor’s note

Four of these ten opened between 2023 and 2025, which is a real change in a city that mostly sells old buildings. We have judged the new ones on what they hold rather than on the opening, which is why a pool, a bathhouse and a spa are counted here and the brand names are not. The edit runs from about 95 euros a night to 2,000, and the honest part is that the top of that range buys facilities rather than more Rome.

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  • 17 Sept 2026Edit published: ten hotels, ten reasons.

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Palazzo Manfredi: The Colosseum from the terrace at sunset
The viewColle Oppio
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Palazzo Manfredi

A palazzo of 24 rooms and suites on Via Labicana with the Colosseum about 190 metres west across the Ludus Magnus, in the window of one room category, in that room's shower, and from the roof terrace.

Why go. Aroma on the roof, one star in the 2026 MICHELIN Guide Italia.

The catch. Only one of the three room categories sees the Colosseum. For 9 to 11 February 2027, the courtyard-facing Prestige was 493 euros a night and the Colosseum-facing Master 722, a step of 229 euros for the view you came for. Rooms get breakfast, while the hotel lists a one-way airport transfer and a 50 euro food and drink credit per stay for suites only, so check what your rate includes. Read it →

€€€€From about €493 a night

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Orient Express La Minerva: The atrium under its glass roof
The iconPigna
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Orient Express La Minerva

Orient Express's first hotel anywhere, in a 1620 palazzo behind the Pantheon, with a seventh-floor terrace that frames the dome about a hundred metres off and a hammam under the lobby.

Why go. Two MICHELIN Keys, confirmed in the 2026 selection.

The catch. The view is not in the entry rooms, and it is not in the first upgrade either. The hotel's own words put the Pantheon or Piazza della Minerva in five of its fourteen categories, plus some but not all Deluxe Rooms. The Junior Suite with View is described by the hotel as a view over Rome, and the cheapest category the hotel itself says faces the Pantheon is the Stendhal Suite, at 3,842 euros against 1,105 for a Classic on a January 2027 night. Read it →

€€€€From about €1,105 a night

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Bvlgari Hotel Roma: The natatio, twenty metres of green marble
The grand oneCampo Marzio
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Bvlgari Hotel Roma

Bvlgari's name on a 1930s rationalist block facing the Mausoleum of Augustus, managed by Marriott and built around a 20 metre mosaic pool under eight marble columns.

Why go. A 1,500 square metre spa, eight treatment rooms, open 7am to 9pm.

The catch. January and February open near 2,000 euros a night for the 33 square metre entry room, and May and August pass 2,700. Read it →

€€€€From about €2,000 a night

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ROMEO Roma: The spa, and its orange forms
The design oneCampo Marzio
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ROMEO Roma

A listed 16th-century palazzo relined by Zaha Hadid Architects, with a pool that runs out into the garden on a glass floor above a Roman workshop.

Why go. Alain Ducasse's first Rome kitchen, open to the dining room.

The catch. Il Ristorante opens Tuesday to Saturday for dinner only and La Terrazza Thursday to Sunday, so a Monday or Wednesday arrival gets one or neither. Read it →

€€€€From about €1,015 a night

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Six Senses Rome: The travertine bath circuit
The spa oneCentro Storico
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Six Senses Rome

A restored 18th-century palazzo on Piazza di San Marcello with Patricia Urquiola interiors and a travertine-lined bathhouse that was built for the hotel rather than dug out of the ground.

Why go. Six minutes' walk to the Trevi Fountain, eight to the Pantheon.

The catch. The bathhouse that justifies the rate admits nobody under 16, so it is closed to you if you are travelling with children, and non-residents buy in at EUR 85 for 75 minutes, which is why it is rarely yours alone. Read it →

€€€€From about €1,125 a night

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Eitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj: Piazza Navona from the terrace
The all-rounderPiazza Navona
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Eitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj

Twenty-one rooms inside the Collegio Innocenziano, the building Borromini began for Innocent X, with a fourth-floor terrace over Bernini's fountain on Piazza Navona. Seventeenth-century frescoes are in some Deluxe Suites and the one Luxury Suite, not throughout.

Why go. A fifth-floor cocktail bar with the Pantheon one way and St Peter's the other.

The catch. Most rooms look at the cloister or the side lanes, not the square. The hotel's own site says so, and only the categories sold as City View face Piazza Navona. A midweek January 2027 night ran about 460 euros for a Deluxe Suite and about 730 for the Deluxe Suite with View, before city tax, and the two are not the same room, since the view category is sold in a larger size band. Read it →

€€From about €195 a night

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Rhinoceros Roma: St Peter's through an opening in the wall
The special oneVelabro
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Rhinoceros Roma

Twenty-four apartments that Jean Nouvel left half unrestored, kitchens and bathrooms sealed into stainless steel boxes, stacked above a free art gallery beside the Arch of Janus.

Why go. Retrobottega took the whole fifth floor in April 2026, with the Palatine across the parapet.

The catch. No spa, no pool, no gym and no lobby to sit in. The rate is sold as bed and breakfast, but breakfast is groceries restocked in your kitchen rather than a room you go down to, and guests who expected a five-star breakfast service say so. Read it →

€€€€From about €430 a night

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The Inn at the Roman Forum: The cryptoporticus, laid for dinner
The intimate oneMonti
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The Inn at the Roman Forum

A small house on a pedestrian lane in Monti with its own Roman cryptoporticus off the lobby at street level and breakfast on the roof above the Imperial Forums.

Why go. Staff that guests single out by name, in review after review.

The catch. What is sold as one hotel is seven separately licensed units at five addresses on two streets, Via degli Ibernesi 8, 23, 30 and 32 and Via Baccina 4, under three different companies, and the hotel's own website sells four of them as separate collections. The Autograph collection is at Via degli Ibernesi 23, licensed as a holiday apartment to a different company, and is priced the same as the main-house Elegant rooms. Nothing states that guests in the outlying units get the same round-the-clock access to the crypt, so ask. Read it →

€€€€From about €390 a night

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Donna Camilla Savelli: Borromini's unfinished front on Via Garibaldi
The insider oneTrastevere
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Donna Camilla Savelli

Ninety-four rooms in the monastery Borromini began in 1642 for Camilla Virginia Savelli, entered through his own unfinished facade, with the first and second floor cells re-adapted as the Deluxe rooms.

Why go. An arcaded cloister and a citrus garden around a 17th-century fountain, where breakfast is served.

The catch. The hotel's own rooms page says room assignment is random in the Executive, Deluxe and Chiostro Prestige categories, which is the middle of the ladder. The room in the photographs is not the room you are promised. Read it →

€€From about €220 a night

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Hotel San Anselmo: The villa under its Roman pine
The smart moneyAventino
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Hotel San Anselmo

A family-run villa on a quiet Aventine square where every room is decorated differently and a double books from about EUR 95 a night in January on the hotel's own site.

Why go. Three minutes from the Knights of Malta keyhole, seven from the orange garden.

The catch. The rooms are small and the hotel publishes the figures itself: Economy 14 square metres, Double Budget 15, Twin and Double 16, Deluxe 20. Book on the square metres, not on the category name. Read it →

€From about €95 a night

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Which is the best hotel in Rome?

None of the ten is "the best". Each is the best for a different reason, and that reason is the tag on its card. Answer three questions in Better Fit and it will pick the one for you.

What is the best hotel in Rome for families?

None of our ten is built for that; The Inn at the Roman Forum comes closest.

Which is the best value hotel in Rome?

Hotel San Anselmo. A family-run villa on a quiet Aventine square where every room is decorated differently and a double books from about EUR 95 a night in January on the hotel's own site.

Where should I stay in Rome?

Rome's centre is smaller than the map suggests. The Pantheon is a twenty-five-minute walk from the Colosseum and twenty-seven from St Peter's, and you can cross the historic centre end to end in roughly forty minutes, so the address is not buying you time. It is buying you a street. Start at the Colosseum end, on Colle Oppio, where Palazzo Manfredi stands on Via Labicana with the excavated Ludus Magnus over its west wall and the nearest arches of the amphitheatre under 200 metres past it. Colosseo-Fori Imperiali station is 360 metres off and has served Metro line C as well as line B since December 2025. The street carries buses, trams and scooters and stays busy rather than rowdy after dark.

How did you choose these hotels?

Independently, through extensive research, trusted sources and first-hand visits. Hotels cannot pay to be included, and every one of the ten has to exist for a different reason.

Where to stayWhere to stay in Rome: the areas, and the hotels we book in themThe areas of Rome, who each suits, and which of our ten hotels sits in each, on one map.Read it Before you bookRome before you book: the practical facts we checkedAirport fares, city tax, the Metro, driving, seasons and what is included: the facts behind this edit, checked and dated.Read it Airport guideRome's airports: Fiumicino or CiampinoTerminals, lounges, the walk from the plane to the taxi rank and the fastest way into town, checked against the airports’ own information.Read it

Where to base yourself in Rome

Rome's centre is smaller than the map suggests. The Pantheon is a twenty-five-minute walk from the Colosseum and twenty-seven from St Peter's, and you can cross the historic centre end to end in roughly forty minutes, so the address is not buying you time. It is buying you a street. Start at the Colosseum end, on Colle Oppio, where Palazzo Manfredi stands on Via Labicana with the excavated Ludus Magnus over its west wall and the nearest arches of the amphitheatre under 200 metres past it. Colosseo-Fori Imperiali station is 360 metres off and has served Metro line C as well as line B since December 2025. The street carries buses, trams and scooters and stays busy rather than rowdy after dark.

Twenty-five minutes north-west is the centro storico proper, where no Metro line reaches. Orient Express La Minerva fills its own island site on Piazza della Minerva, a hundred metres behind the Pantheon's dome, with Piazza Navona six minutes away and the Trevi Fountain ten. Six Senses Rome is a few streets east on Piazza di San Marcello, off Via del Corso: Trevi six minutes, Piazza Venezia five, the Pantheon eight. This is the walking heart of the city, and transport is the price of it. Spagna and Barberini on line A are fifteen to twenty minutes on foot from either, so you use the surface network: the interchange at Largo di Torre Argentina, where tram 8 crosses to Trastevere, or the buses over Piazza Venezia.

North again is Campo Marzio, the shopping quarter between the Corso and the Tiber, and it goes quiet early. Bvlgari Hotel Roma faces the Mausoleum of Augustus across a square pedestrianised in 2025, with Via Condotti five minutes away and the Spanish Steps eight. ROMEO Roma is five minutes north on Via di Ripetta, three below Piazza del Popolo, with the Pantheon, Piazza Navona and the Trevi Fountain all roughly fifteen. Spagna and Flaminio on line A are six to eleven minutes' walk, closer to a Metro than most of the centro storico manages. The catch is dinner: Via del Corso empties when the shops shut, and you walk to the Pantheon or Piazza del Popolo to eat.

Piazza Navona is the opposite trade. Eitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj has its door on Via di Santa Maria dell'Anima, a one-way cobbled lane with no pavement, sixty metres from Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers and seven minutes from Campo de' Fiori. The Pantheon is seven minutes off, Piazza Navona is around the corner, and the noise comes with them. The square fills with portrait sellers and restaurant touts and stays busy late, the bars of Via del Governo Vecchio are minutes away, and guests report hearing them set up again in the morning. There is no Metro here either: Spagna is twenty minutes' walk, and the 64 bus is the route people actually take to Termini.

Two quieter addresses flank the ancient centre. Rhinoceros Roma is on Via del Velabro, at the foot of the Palatine, forty metres from the Arch of Janus, with the Circus Maximus seven minutes away, the Jewish Ghetto ten and the Colosseum nineteen. It empties completely after dark, and with two tables on the whole street dinner means ten minutes to the Ghetto or ten over the Ponte Palatino into Trastevere. The Inn at the Roman Forum is on the far side of the Forums in Monti, on a cobbled pedestrian cul-de-sac that ends in steps, four minutes from Via dei Fori Imperiali. Monti is one of the livelier quarters, with bars around Piazza della Madonna dei Monti four minutes away, while the lane itself goes silent. Cavour on line B is seven minutes uphill.

The last two are each up a hill, the Gianicolo across the river and the Aventine on this side of it, and both suit a second Rome trip more than a first. Donna Camilla Savelli is on Via Garibaldi where it climbs from Trastevere to the Gianicolo, six minutes above Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere. Hotel San Anselmo is on Piazza Sant'Anselmo near the top of the Aventine, three minutes from the Knights of Malta keyhole and seven from the walled orange garden, ten downhill to the Circus Maximus and ten down the other side to Testaccio. Trastevere has no Metro at all, so it is bus 115 or tram 8; the Aventine has Piramide and Circo Massimo on line B, each about thirteen minutes downhill. Both hills empty after dark, which is the reason to be on them, and both mean a climb home after dinner.

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