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Hotel San Anselmo, a family-run villa on the Aventine, has the lowest starting rate of our ten and includes breakfast. Donna Camilla Savelli puts you in the convent Borromini began in 1642, with its cloister and citrus garden, at four-star rates, and Eitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj sits inside his Collegio Innocenziano by Piazza Navona, classed as a four-star.

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At a glance

  1. Hotel San Anselmo: The villa under its Roman pine

    Hotel San Anselmo

    A family-run villa on the Aventine, with breakfast included

    Aventino · From about €95 a night

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  2. Donna Camilla Savelli: Borromini's unfinished front on Via Garibaldi

    Donna Camilla Savelli

    A 1642 Borromini convent with a cloister, at four-star rates

    Trastevere · From about €220 a night

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  3. Eitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj: Piazza Navona from the terrace

    Eitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj

    Inside Borromini's Collegio Innocenziano, classed as a four-star

    Piazza Navona · From about €195 a night

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What we looked for

Our ten Rome hotels run from about 95 euros a night to 2,000, and these three start lowest, each giving more than the rate suggests: a family-run villa on a quiet hill, or a building by Borromini, one a convent above Trastevere and one a palace by Piazza Navona. In each, the room worth booking is not the cheapest but the first category with what the building is known for.

Three things move the real cost. Rome's city tax follows the licence, not the rate: 7.50 euros a person a night in a four-star, 10 in a five-star, for up to ten nights. Breakfast is included at Hotel San Anselmo and Eitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj, while at Donna Camilla Savelli it comes with the bed-and-breakfast plan, not every rate. And the calendar: January and early February are cheapest at Hotel San Anselmo and Eitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj, November and mid-August at Donna Camilla Savelli, with April to June and September to October the city's peak.

Hotel San Anselmo: The villa under its Roman pineThe smart money

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Hotel San Anselmo

Aventino, Rome

Hotel San Anselmo has the lowest starting rate of our ten Rome hotels, and it is a four-star. It is a free-standing apricot villa near the top of the Aventine, family-run and a hotel since 1960, and each of its 34 rooms is decorated differently: a four-poster in black and gold, walls painted with grotesques, a Baudelaire poem written across the plaster. Breakfast is included in every category, with cheeses, cured meats, eggs, pastries and fruit, served in a gilded room, in the garden in warm weather or in your room at no extra charge. There is no restaurant, pool or spa, and you are not paying for them.

The rooms are small, 16 square metres in the Double, so if you will spend daylight indoors, take the 20 square metre Deluxe: for winter 2027 stays it ran about 30 euros a night more, the clearest step up in the house.

The room to book

Double

16 m²

At 16 square metres it is the first tier with antique furniture, a marble bathroom with a tub or shower and, in some rooms, a balcony: the room the hotel is photographed with.

Every room, and why

Ask which room number you are getting, and ask by name for Gold, Romeo and Juliet or Poetry if the decorated rooms are the draw.

€From about €95 a night

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Donna Camilla Savelli: Borromini's unfinished front on Via GaribaldiThe insider one

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Donna Camilla Savelli

Trastevere, Rome

Donna Camilla Savelli is a Borromini building at four-star rates. Borromini began the monastery in 1642, and you still enter through his unfinished brick front, with the church in use next door, a cloister of arcades and a garden of citrus trees where breakfast is laid in good weather. Rooms and public areas were restyled in a 2024 refit, and there is a restaurant of its own, Contempo, where a chef from Salerno cooks Roman dishes with Campanian ingredients.

The value is in picking the right rung. The Classic and Superior are in the modern wing; the Deluxe rooms are the nuns' former cells, with period furniture and some over the cloister garden, and cost only about five per cent more than the Executive below them. Book the bed-and-breakfast plan, since breakfast is not in every rate.

Deluxe Room at Donna Camilla Savelli: the bed under a beamed ceiling, an antique writing desk and a framed TV

The room to book

Deluxe Room

20 m²€411 a night

The first category made from the monastic cells, for about five per cent more than the Executive: the cheapest way to sleep in the part of the convent you came for.

Every room, and why

Ask in writing for a Deluxe over the cloister garden and repeat it at check-in, since the hotel assigns this category at random.

€€From about €220 a night

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Eitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj: Piazza Navona from the terraceThe all-rounder

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Eitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj

Piazza Navona, Rome

Eitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj is the famous address on this list. Its 21 rooms are inside the Collegio Innocenziano, which Borromini began for Innocent X in 1654, round the corner from Piazza Navona. Borromini's spiral staircase is still in use, a well stands in the cloister, the rooms were refurbished in 2024, and breakfast, cooked to order, is served in the frescoed fourth-floor rooms over Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers. It is classed as a four-star, and that is how to read the rate: a four-star price for a Baroque palace. For scale, Orient Express La Minerva and Six Senses Rome, a few minutes from the Pantheon, start above 1,000 euros a night in January; the Classic Double here starts around 195 in low season. Put part of the difference into a Deluxe Suite, the cheapest category where some rooms keep seventeenth-century frescoes.

Deluxe Suite at Eitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj: a large bed, two armchairs and a patterned tile floor under tall curtained windows

The room to book

Deluxe Suite

32 to 40 m²

Twice the Classic's floor area, a king bed, room for four, and the cheapest category with a chance of seventeenth-century frescoes: the rung where the building starts.

Every room, and why

Email before arrival asking for a Deluxe Suite with the floral frescoes, and ask not to be on the third floor, under the breakfast rooms.

€€From about €195 a night

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How to choose

Your tripBook
The lowest rate, with breakfast includedHotel San Anselmo
Borromini's architecture, with Trastevere belowDonna Camilla Savelli
A longer stay, with a garden to come back toDonna Camilla Savelli
Piazza Navona on the doorstepEitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj
A first visit, mostly on footEitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj

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Questions people ask

Good questions about Rome

What is the cheapest month to stay in Rome?

January and February at most of our ten, with the middle of August close behind at many. Among these three, Hotel San Anselmo is cheapest in January and early February, and the dates around Valentine's Day cost more; Eitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj is cheapest in January and February; and Donna Camilla Savelli in November and mid-August. April to June and September to October are the peak, and Easter week and the Christmas and New Year period lift the whole city.

How much is the tourist tax in Rome?

It is added per person per night to the room rate, and the property's licence decides the amount, not the price you pay: a four-star charges 7.50 euros, a five-star 10, a three-star 6, a top-band guest house 7, and a licensed apartment or bed and breakfast 6. Nothing is charged after ten nights in a row, and children under ten pay nothing. Donna Camilla Savelli and Eitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj are four-stars, so 7.50 euros a person a night, paid at the property.

Is breakfast included at Rome hotels?

It depends on the hotel and the rate. At Hotel San Anselmo it is included in every category: cheeses, cured meats, eggs, pastries and fruit, in a gilded room, in the garden in warm weather or in your room at no extra charge. At Eitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj it is included too, cooked to order and served on the fourth floor over Piazza Navona. At Donna Camilla Savelli it comes with the bed-and-breakfast plan rather than every rate, so choose that plan when you book.

Are cheaper hotels in Rome far from the sights?

Not these three. Eitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj is round the corner from Piazza Navona, with the Pantheon about seven minutes away. Donna Camilla Savelli is six minutes above Piazza di Santa Maria in Trastevere and sixteen from Campo de' Fiori. Hotel San Anselmo is the furthest out, near the top of the Aventine, about ten minutes above the Circus Maximus, twenty-five from the Colosseum and thirty from the Pantheon, and the hill is the reason it is so quiet at night.

How much is a taxi from Fiumicino to central Rome?

A fixed 55 euros per car to any address inside the Aurelian Walls, which takes in all three hotels here; inside the ring road the fare is capped at 80, and from Ciampino the fixed fare is 40. The Leonardo Express leaves Fiumicino for Termini every fifteen minutes, non-stop, taking 32 minutes and costing 14 euros. Eitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj's own transfer costs the same 55 euros, and from Donna Camilla Savelli, Roma Trastevere station has FL1 trains to the airport with no change at Termini.

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.

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