I Love Touring Rome, Italy - Hotels In The Termini Station District

The Termini Railway Station is located just east of central Rome. Don't think for a minute that this area is challenged when it comes to tourist attractions. For example, there are the Baths of Emperor Diocletian, the largest baths of all Rome. Just imagine, in its heyday it covered over 30 acres (13 hectares) with changing rooms, gymnasiums, libraries, meeting rooms, theaters, concert halls, sculpture gardens, vast basins for hot, lukewarm and cold plunges, as well as mosaic floors and marble facades. Not much is left, but part of the Bath has been incorporated in the National Roman Museum, a favorite place for housing newly found antiquities, and in the Renaissance Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli. The neighborhood also is also home to the Piazza della Republica with a McDonalds in case the kids or you get homesick and the Fontana delle Naidai (Fountain of the Naiads) which you may prefer viewing while the kids are elsewhere. For your convenience we have listed neighborhood hotels in approximate order of cost, starting with the least expensive. We have personally verified all website addresses making sure that they include English-language pages.

The Beehive is quite an alternative place to stay with its vegetarian café and garden hosting art exhibitions and yoga sessions in the summer. It's ecological so there is no TV, no air-conditioning, and the bathrooms are shared. The lounge provides free, high-speed Internet access. Breakfast is not included. There are 6 rooms, 1 dormitory that sleeps 8, and 3 off-site apartments. It is owned by an American couple who moved from Los Angeles to Rome in 1999. The address is Via Marghera 8 - 00185 Rome.

The Yes Hotel is also a budget choice but one that offers flat-screen TVs. On the other hand, there is no Internet access. The reception is open 24 hours a day. The public areas are all air-conditioned. The hotel has a bar and 22 smallish rooms and 1 suite. The address is Via Magenta, 15 - 00185 Rome, Italy.

The Starhotels Metropole is part of a chain with 20 hotels in Italy plus 1 in Paris and another in New York City. This hotel has been recently renovated. It has 236 rooms some of which are non-smoking and equipped for the disabled. The hotel offers secretarial service and simultaneous translation as well as a banquet and a shoe polishing service. There is a bar and a restaurant. There are 8 meeting rooms. The hotel address is Via Principe Amedeo, 3 - 00185 Rome.

Leon's Place Hotel is one of the newest hotels in Rome. It opened during June, 2008 in a glamorous Nineteenth Century building. Its rooms are furnished in contemporary, minimalist style. There's a restaurant, a cocktail bar, and excellent well-being facilities that include massage rooms, gym, sauna, turkish bath and hydromassage, and a swimming pool. The address is Via XX Settembre, 90/94 - 00187 - Rome.


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