Visit to Rome

Restaurants in Rome

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Mad Jack’s—we went here on our arrival evening. We were hungry and went to the first restaurant we saw. It was ok, but nothing special—I wouldn’t recommend it. I had margarita pizza and my husband had pasta with walnut cream sauce. In hindsight, we should have kept looking for restaurants as there were many other good ones nearby. We didn’t even know the name of it was Mad Jack’s until after we sat down—if we had seen that we probably wouldn’t have sat down in the first place!Angelino Ai Fiori- Although this looked like a pretty touristy restaurant, it had some great pizza! I had the four cheese and my husband had artichoke pizza. It was my husband’s favorite pizza of the trip and ...Read More

Mad Jack’s—we went here on our arrival evening. We were hungry and went to the first restaurant we saw. It was ok, but nothing special—I wouldn’t recommend it. I had margarita pizza and my husband had pasta with walnut cream sauce. In hindsight, we should have kept looking for restaurants as there were many other good ones nearby. We didn’t even know the name of it was Mad Jack’s until after we sat down—if we had seen that we probably wouldn’t have sat down in the first place!

Angelino Ai Fiori- Although this looked like a pretty touristy restaurant, it had some great pizza! I had the four cheese and my husband had artichoke pizza. It was my husband’s favorite pizza of the trip and my second favorite. I thought our waiter was pretty funny too—my husband was trying to pronounce something in Italian, and butchered it. And the waiter looked at him and said no, no, no, Italian is a beautiful language!

Asino Cotto- I had the filet mignon parmesan style with potatoes and my husband had sea bass ceviche and gnocchi Roman style. All were delicious.

Café Risorgimento (?)- I had ravioli and my husband had spaghetti. Both were ok, but nothing special.

Il Portico- We loved this restaurant in the Jewish Ghetto. It had a nice ambience and delicious food. The tables were pretty close together, but that fostered us to talk to our neighbors and get some great tips! We had an appetizer of the mozzarella fritte. I had tortellini and my husband had pasta with mushrooms. We also had a half carafe of delicious house white wine.

Nonna Betta- another great restaurant in the Jewish Ghetto. I had lasagna and my husband had pumpkin fritters with couscous and pasta with sea bass.

There were a couple more restaurants, but I can’t remember their names or much about them, so I don’t think they were very good!
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Activities in Rome

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I had been to Rome a few times before, but my husband had never been. We spent most of our time visiting the most popular, must see tourist sites. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would, because I realized how much of my previous visits I didn’t remember (since it had been 12 years!).We did not arrive our hotel in Rome until about 5 pm and were exhausted from our trip. We were hungry so went to the first restaurant we saw (big mistake!). After dinner, we walked around a little, then went back to the hotel to go to sleep early.On our first full day we walked through the Circus Maximus surrounded by hundreds (maybe a couple thousand) of people who were doing the Susan G Kom...Read More

I had been to Rome a few times before, but my husband had never been. We spent most of our time visiting the most popular, must see tourist sites. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would, because I realized how much of my previous visits I didn’t remember (since it had been 12 years!).

We did not arrive our hotel in Rome until about 5 pm and were exhausted from our trip. We were hungry so went to the first restaurant we saw (big mistake!). After dinner, we walked around a little, then went back to the hotel to go to sleep early.

On our first full day we walked through the Circus Maximus surrounded by hundreds (maybe a couple thousand) of people who were doing the Susan G Komen walk. That was an interesting site and I didn’t know they had those internationally.

Next we visited the Colosseum. Unfortunately it was Sunday and very crowded. I knew that we should have purchased the Roma Pass before going to the Colosseum, because we’d be able to skip the line. But since it was Sunday the travel agencies were closed so we couldn’t purchase it ahead of time. So we waited in the line for about an hour to get in. So I suggest buying the Roma Pass first thing to avoid this. Next up was the Palatine Hill and the Forum. There was not much of a line here and we walked right in.

After lunch we stopped by the Spanish Steps and the Trevi Fountain—but it had begun pouring down rain and of course I didn’t have my rain jacket with me. We bought cheap umbrellas from the street vendors, but decided to take the bus back to the hotel after a gelato stop.

Our next day was devoted to the Vatican. First stop was the Vatican Museum. I have never been anywhere so crowded in my life. It was so jampacked that it was just not enjoyable at all. We really could not appreciate it with all the hoards of people around. Plus, it took us longer to get in that I thought it would (3 hour line), so we were trying to rush through it so we could make our scheduled Scavi tour. The Sistine Chapel was beautiful, but again, it was just too crowded to enjoy it. Lesson- buy your ticket ahead of time!

Luckily, we made the Scavi tour with about 15 minutes to spare. One tip is to leave through the guide exit of the Sistine Chapel—this put you out just by the entrance where the Swiss guards are to get to the Scavi office. The Scavi tour was quite the opposite of the Vatican Museum experience—it was a highlight of our stay in Rome. We were in a small group (about 10 people), and our guide was very enthusiastic. It was well worth it. If you want to do it, you must contact the Vatican months in advance because it’s very popular, and they only allow a limited number of tours each day. We booked our tickets in February for our May visit.

On our last day in Rome, we took the bus to the Catacombs of St. Callixtus. It was nice because our tour group was small and the catacombs were not crowded with tour groups like I thought it might be. It probably helped that we arrived pretty early in the morning. It was an interesting tour and worth the trip out there, but I enjoyed the Scavi tour more.

Next we went back to Rome to just walk around. We went to the Pantheon, Piazza Navona, then back to the Trevi Fountain to get some pictures since when we went the other day it was raining. We also visited the Capitoline Museum and a few churches.

The Roma pass gave us free bus rides for 3 days. We did notice that hardly anyone ever seemed to swipe their tickets on the bus—apparently they just do spot checks occasionally and if you don’t have a pass or a ticket on you, you could be fined. If you plan to use the bus a lot, I’d suggest getting a bus map. There were a couple of times that we had trouble figuring out which bus stop was close to certain sites.

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Fortyseven Hotel Rome

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We stayed in a standard room on the first floor. The room was modern (albeit small) and the bed was comfortable (bed not as hard as I expected, but not particularly soft either). The room was a little loud from street noise, so I’d suggest requesting a room on a higher floor if that might bother you. It didn’t bother us enough to request another room—we were so tired from sightseeing each day that we slept very well. There were electric blinds that did a great job of keeping the room dark and kept out a lot of the street noise. The bathroom was nice with a large shower with rainfall shower head.We enjoyed the breakfast buffet (it was my husband’s favorite of the trip). I enjoyed the ...Read More

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Fortyseven Hotel Rome
Via Luigi Petroselli 47
Rome, Italy 00186
39-06-678-7816

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