Description: Okay... this is more my style for traveling in Europe. No echos of a Holiday Inn or Hilton here, and that's the way I like it!
Hotel Milo shares a building with three other hotels, each on different non-contiguous floors. Not a lot of rooms, and each one is probably different. But its primary selling point is location, location, location... less than two blocks from Roma Termini. You can walk, bus, train or cab almost anywhere in the city from here, and we did (all four).
It's a leisurely walk to the Forum and the Colosseum. From Termini station we took a bus to the Boboli Gardens and the Galleria Borghese, and the train back to the airport. The 11 euro train fare was the most we had to spend on transportation during this stay.
Restaurants are everywhere in this neighborhood, and I particularly recommend the gelateria at the corner of Via Principe Amadeo and Via Gioberti, just a few steps to the left as you exit the hotel's entry courtyard. Who am I kidding? I would recommend every gelateria that I visited during the 17 day vacation!
But then I digress. Okay, so the air-conditioning system was essentially a rotating fan and an open window. We didn't care, we were in Rome! And the staff were incredibly helpful. One desk clerk showed unlimited patience trying to find a restaurant for us, based on a very poorly spelled name provided by a friend.
The room was a fairly good size, although my American-sized body might have enjoyed a larger shower. But that's the way life is sometime. I'll admit, we had some misgivings when we first went down the street, Roman glitz it isn't. But things were safe, the neighborhood is about as quiet as you might expect for a city neighborhood, and you're close to everything - okay, the Vatican's a little farther away, but there are buses for that.
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