Both are architecture stays for longer trips, with no spa or pool. Donna Camilla Savelli, from about 220 euros, is Borromini's monastery with breakfast in the cloister garden; Rhinoceros Roma, from about 430, is Jean Nouvel apartments with full kitchens and breakfast as groceries, for travellers who cook in.
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.
€€From about €220 a night
Choose Donna Camilla Savelli if
Baroque architecture
Quiet in Trastevere
Second Rome trip
Garden breakfasts
Longer stays
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.
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.
€€€€From about €430 a night
Choose Rhinoceros Roma if
Architecture trips
Long stays
Couples
Cooking in
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.
Both are architecture stays for longer trips, with no spa or pool. Donna Camilla Savelli, from about 220 euros, is Borromini's monastery with breakfast in the cloister garden; Rhinoceros Roma, from about 430, is Jean Nouvel apartments with full kitchens and breakfast as groceries, for travellers who cook in.
Good questions about Donna Camilla Savelli vs Rhinoceros Roma
Donna Camilla Savelli or Rhinoceros Roma?
Both are architecture stays for longer trips, with no spa or pool. Donna Camilla Savelli, from about 220 euros, is Borromini's monastery with breakfast in the cloister garden; Rhinoceros Roma, from about 430, is Jean Nouvel apartments with full kitchens and breakfast as groceries, for travellers who cook in.
Is Donna Camilla Savelli worth it?
Book it for the building: the monastery Borromini began in 1642, its facade, cloister and garden still there and the church still working next door, at four-star money in a city that charges far more for far less. Take a Deluxe Room, the one category the hotel itself says was converted from the cells, ask for the garden side, and eat in Trastevere. The case rests entirely on the building: a 1642 convent with its cloister, citrus garden, stone staircase and church still standing, kept quiet behind a wall on the Gianicolo slope. It is far bigger than the rest of this edit at ninety-four rooms, and far cheaper, and there is no spa, no pool and no gym to spend the difference on.
Does Donna Camilla Savelli have a pool or a beach?
There is no pool. There is no beach; the nearest is a drive away.
Is Rhinoceros Roma worth it?
Book it for the building. Twenty-four Nouvel apartments with kitchens, a free gallery underneath and Retrobottega on the roof, on a street with the Arch of Janus at the end of it. Take the Suite, expect no spa and no breakfast room, and eat out most nights. Design is not a layer here, it is the entire proposition: three joined Velabro buildings left deliberately unfinished, with stainless steel boxes dropped into the ruin and a public art gallery under the apartments. Everything a five-star hotel would normally add, a spa, a pool, a lobby, a breakfast room, has been left out on purpose.
Does Rhinoceros Roma have a pool or a beach?
There is no pool. There is no beach; the nearest is a drive away.
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