Well what can I say, as my husband and I have a hectic work life we have decided to just have short breaks and our first one we chose Rome, not ever having been before we didn't really know where to stay, looked at lots of hotels and booked the Veneto Palace, breakfast included and the reviews were good. I will be doing a separate review on the hotel. We arrived at the airport on Saturday 18th June and decided to get the train to the local station near the hotel, as the hotel wanted £65 for the journey, this was very very easy and the train staff all speak English, the train to trimini is every 15 minutes
and takes 30 mins and cost €12
each. We exited the train station and taxis are waiting outside, I always ask how much before I go anywhere, €10 to the hotel, wonderful, this journey took 7 mins, hotel staff welcomed us and showed us to our room, compact is a word I would use but clean and cosy, we decided to get some dinner and headed for reception, maps were on reception and he circled whereq the points of interest were (very handy,). I asked good old Google "restaurant near me" followed the map and found ourselves in a town centre with restaurants and shops, very nice meal and headed for supermarket, picked up milk ( no tea/coffee making facilities, so I take a travel kettle and tea bags, coffee and sugar). Slept like a log and the next day we ventured out towards the Spanish steps, we were headed off by the big bus tour man who talked us into purchasing a 3 day pass, main route, purple route and night route €98, 🥴 we decided to get on straight away, amazing sights and very well documented, saw the fountains, collaseum (amazing) headed for stop number 6 - Vatican and got off, walked across the bridge and up the main Street, WOW, what an amazing sight, WARNING do not eat there, 3 small potato crochets, 1 glass of wine and 1 small beer €33 🥺. After an hour we came away and decided to walk the 45 mins back to hotel and found amazing Street artists, shops, bars ect. Amazing day out. The flowing day we decided to go and do sbopping and saw the trevi fountain, absolutely a sight to see, Spanish steps were lots of steps lol. Everything is within 45 min walk , just get the 1 day bus hopper as it doesn't take you next to all the sights you have to walk. The clothes are cheaper than the food lol, we took £700 for 4 nights and still put £300 on the card - this was 80% food, very expensive , €65 just for 2 pizzas and 2 drinks. Would I go again - YES I WOULD.