The Inn at The Spanish Steps - Reviews
Mystery Inspector's Reviews
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19 April 2010
Top 3 reasons to stay at the hotel:
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The Inn at the Spanish Steps has an unbeatable location right on the Piazza di Spagna and Via Condotti, and so just steps away from the best shopping in Rome and within strolling distance to pretty well all the amazing sightseeing the city offers. Great restaurants are abundant within a most pleasurable stroll. You’ll feel you are in the middle of all the action and you can soak in the permanent buzz around the Spanish Steps area, yet there is the tranquility and the cosiness of the hotel which you can retreat to after a day exploring the city.
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The garden terrace has the best in Italian gardening and is a most lovely place to people-watch and unwind, whether over breakfast or a pre-dinner drink (or anytime of the day for that matter). Admire the lovely apartments across the street too with their most beautiful garden terraces, and you will want to live there for the rest of your life. Bring a good travel companion and/or a good book and just enjoy the best that Rome has to offer!
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This is not a hotel but an inn, and that makes it so lovely, so intimate, and so special. It exemplifies the ‘small luxury’ concept of SLH!
Overview:
I was upgraded to a superior room with original period frescoes on the ceiling (who a delight when I was lying on the bed and looked up!) in the main building (the studio room I booked is in a different building I was told. The location is just unbeatable with the permanent buzz around the Spanish Steps day and night and on Via Condotti, and yet I can soak it all it in the hotel’s own tranquility! The hotel has limited facilities but there are enough great restaurants within walking distance and the staff at the hotel will have no problem pointing you to the right places (one even volunteered his favourite dish at a nearby trattoria Al 59 near Piazza Poppolo – the linguine with scampi – and it was indeed as good as it was claimed to be!) The garden terrace is the loveliest of Italian gardening and I would have no difficulty whiling away half a morning reading a book there before venturing out to explore all the sightseeing Rome has to offer. Pretty well everything is within walking distance too (the healthy walks mean I could make room to eat yet more great Italian food). Live la dolce vita (or Julia Roberts’ new film ‘Eat, Pray, Love’, gelato in hand) with a stay at the hotel!