A swimming pool or a bathhouse. ROMEO Roma for a quiet house and a pool that ends above a Roman workshop, on the rates that include it; Six Senses Rome for travertine plunge pools included for everyone 16 and over, with the Trevi Fountain close by.
The design oneA 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.
€€€€From about €1,015 a night
Choose ROMEO Roma if
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.
The spa oneA 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.
€€€€From about €1,125 a night
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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.
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The verdict
A swimming pool or a bathhouse. ROMEO Roma for a quiet house and a pool that ends above a Roman workshop, on the rates that include it; Six Senses Rome for travertine plunge pools included for everyone 16 and over, with the Trevi Fountain close by.
Questions people ask
A swimming pool or a bathhouse. ROMEO Roma for a quiet house and a pool that ends above a Roman workshop, on the rates that include it; Six Senses Rome for travertine plunge pools included for everyone 16 and over, with the Trevi Fountain close by.
Book ROMEO Roma for the building: a listed palazzo relined in ebony and marble by Zaha Hadid Architects, with a Roman workshop under the pool and restored painted ceilings in five suites. Come for the architecture and the quiet rather than a scene, and time the arrival around the restaurant days. Design is the entire argument and the price says so: 74 rooms inside a listed palazzo, relined in ebony and marble, with a Sisley Paris spa and a pool that ends on glass above Roman ruins. It is deliberately quiet, and the bars, the garden restaurant, the spa and the pool are for guests only, save a public aperitivo on the roof on Thursdays and Sundays, so the buzz has to come from outside.
It has indoor and outdoor pools. There is no beach; the nearest is a drive away.
Book it for the bathhouse and the address, give it three nights, and put a treatment on the first afternoon before the walking starts. Ask for a high floor away from Via del Corso if you sleep lightly, and expect to eat out most evenings, because Rome is at the door. A design-led palazzo in the middle of Rome whose case rests on the bathhouse built into it, priced at the top of the market. It is a base for the city rather than somewhere to hide, and the wellness rather than the kitchen is what you are paying for.
There is no pool. There is no beach; the nearest is a drive away.