A quiet Aventine square against Piazza Navona. Hotel San Anselmo, from about 95 euros, suits a second Rome trip and light sleepers, with breakfast in the garden and a steep walk back from dinner; Eitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj, from about 195, suits a first trip, two minutes from Navona.
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.
€From about €95 a night
Choose Hotel San Anselmo if
Couples
Second Rome trip
Quiet sleepers
Garden breakfasts
Walkers
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.
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.
€€From about €195 a night
Choose Eitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj if
Architecture lovers
First Rome trip
Short city breaks
Baroque interiors
Couples
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.
A quiet Aventine square against Piazza Navona. Hotel San Anselmo, from about 95 euros, suits a second Rome trip and light sleepers, with breakfast in the garden and a steep walk back from dinner; Eitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj, from about 195, suits a first trip, two minutes from Navona.
Good questions about Hotel San Anselmo vs Eitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj
Hotel San Anselmo or Eitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj?
A quiet Aventine square against Piazza Navona. Hotel San Anselmo, from about 95 euros, suits a second Rome trip and light sleepers, with breakfast in the garden and a steep walk back from dinner; Eitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj, from about 195, suits a first trip, two minutes from Navona.
Is Hotel San Anselmo worth it?
Book it for the Aventine and the villa, not for facilities it does not have. A themed Double with a balcony, breakfast in the garden and dinner walked down to Testaccio, at a rate that leaves the money for the city. Check the square metres and the room number first. Thirty-four rooms in a family-run villa where the decoration is the whole proposition and the facilities list is almost empty: no restaurant, no pool, no spa, a garden and a bar. You are paying for the Aventine and the rooms, and eating in the city every night.
Does Hotel San Anselmo have a pool or a beach?
There is no pool. There is no beach; the nearest is a drive away.
Is Eitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj worth it?
Book it to be inside the building: the Collegio Innocenziano, Borromini's spiral stair and the terrace above the fountain, at a four-star rate in the middle of the centro storico. Pay up for a Deluxe Suite and ask for one of the frescoed ones, take a room off the third floor, and eat breakfast upstairs. Almost all of this is the building: twenty-one rooms in the Collegio Innocenziano that Borromini began, a cloister, his spiral staircase and frescoed ceilings in some of the suites, two minutes from Piazza Navona and priced as a four-star. There is no pool, no spa and no gym, and the restaurant and rooftop are shared with the city rather than kept for guests.
Does Eitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj have a pool or a beach?
There is no pool. There is no beach; the nearest is a drive away.
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