Both put ancient Rome at the door for similar money. Rhinoceros Roma for a longer stay in a Jean Nouvel apartment with a full kitchen; The Inn at the Roman Forum for a short break, with breakfast and aperitivo on the roof and barrel-vaulted Roman galleries off the lobby.
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.
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.
€€€€From about €390 a night
Choose The Inn at the Roman Forum if
Couples
Ancient Rome first
Short city breaks
History on foot
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.
Both put ancient Rome at the door for similar money. Rhinoceros Roma for a longer stay in a Jean Nouvel apartment with a full kitchen; The Inn at the Roman Forum for a short break, with breakfast and aperitivo on the roof and barrel-vaulted Roman galleries off the lobby.
Good questions about Rhinoceros Roma vs The Inn at the Roman Forum
Rhinoceros Roma or The Inn at the Roman Forum?
Both put ancient Rome at the door for similar money. Rhinoceros Roma for a longer stay in a Jean Nouvel apartment with a full kitchen; The Inn at the Roman Forum for a short break, with breakfast and aperitivo on the roof and barrel-vaulted Roman galleries off the lobby.
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.
Is The Inn at the Roman Forum worth it?
Book it for the archaeology off the lobby and the garden on the roof, not for facilities, of which there are none. Take the Junior Suite, plan dinner out in Monti, and get written confirmation of which building your room is actually in. About fourteen rooms in the middle of ancient Rome, with a 2,000-year-old cryptoporticus behind the reception door and a garden on the roof, and almost no other facilities in the building. The rate buys the address and the archaeology rather than anything you can use, and the room you are given may not be in this building at all.
Does The Inn at the Roman Forum have a pool or a beach?
There is no pool. There is no beach; the nearest is a drive away.
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