Twenty-four keys each, entry rates about sixty euros apart, both on the ancient side of the river and neither with a spa or a pool. Rhinoceros Roma if you want a Nouvel apartment with its own kitchen, a free gallery downstairs and the Arch of Janus forty metres off a street that empties after dark; Palazzo Manfredi if you would rather have the amphitheatre in the window of a Master Room and breakfast on a starred roof, and will sleep over Via Labicana.
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 24-key palazzo on Via Labicana with the Colosseum about 190 metres west across the Ludus Magnus, in the window of one room category, in that room's shower, and from the roof terrace.
€€€€From about €493 a night
Choose Palazzo Manfredi if
Colosseum obsessives
First Rome trip
Special occasions
Rooftop dinners
Couples on a splurge
The catch
Only one of the three room categories sees the Colosseum. On the hotel's own booking engine for 9 to 11 February 2027 the courtyard-facing Prestige was 493 euros a night and the Colosseum-facing Master 722, a step of 229 euros for the view you came for. Rooms get breakfast and nothing else, while every suite adds a one-way airport transfer, a 50 euro daily food and drink credit and a stocked minibar.
Twenty-four keys each, entry rates about sixty euros apart, both on the ancient side of the river and neither with a spa or a pool. Rhinoceros Roma if you want a Nouvel apartment with its own kitchen, a free gallery downstairs and the Arch of Janus forty metres off a street that empties after dark; Palazzo Manfredi if you would rather have the amphitheatre in the window of a Master Room and breakfast on a starred roof, and will sleep over Via Labicana.
Good questions about Rhinoceros Roma vs Palazzo Manfredi
Rhinoceros Roma or Palazzo Manfredi?
Twenty-four keys each, entry rates about sixty euros apart, both on the ancient side of the river and neither with a spa or a pool. Rhinoceros Roma if you want a Nouvel apartment with its own kitchen, a free gallery downstairs and the Arch of Janus forty metres off a street that empties after dark; Palazzo Manfredi if you would rather have the amphitheatre in the window of a Master Room and breakfast on a starred roof, and will sleep over Via Labicana.
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 Palazzo Manfredi worth it?
Book it for one thing: the amphitheatre about 190 metres west, framed from a bedroom window, a shower and a rooftop table, in a 24-key house that does breakfast up there for everyone. Pay for a Master Room or a suite, or the view is not yours. Twenty-four keys in the middle of ancient Rome, priced for the window rather than the floor area, with a one-star kitchen on the roof and almost nothing else in the way of facilities. The city is the amenity; the hotel supplies the vantage point, the breakfast and the cocktail.
Does Palazzo Manfredi have a pool or a beach?
There is no pool. There is no beach; the nearest is a drive away.
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