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Originally Posted by
CHSBoater
...makes sense to stay near the station since all we'll want to do is get cleaned up, grab and early dinner and go to bed, then get up early to take the train. So, any advice on where we could stumble out of the train station and into bed, then hop back on the train the next morning. Budget probably <= 200 euros. Quiet room would be nice...
I've had a place bookmarked for myself for when my situation would be similar to yours, but I've yet to stay there. It's super close to Termini, but I'd feel safe enough walking from the station to the hotel at 4pm and back at 8am if I use my "street smarts", (I'm female and travel solo FWIW). By street smarts I mean that I'd have checked out via google street view the exit from Termini, and the route to the hotel, and "walked" it virtually, so that once there I could walk with purpose directly to the place, without stopping to pull out a map. Versus emerging from Termini with that doe-eyed lost expression, standing in one spot to pull out my map - you know, all the behaviors that make tourists prey in any city, especially when standing in front of a main train station.
Regarding your budget of keeping it under €200 a night, I plugged in sample dates starting with November 1st and onwards, and the rates I'm seeing would work for you.
It's part of a chain and classified a 4 star (which is determined by the amenities it offers):
UNA Hotel Rome
My thoughts on how to book is to stick with the hotel's official website, unless a third party's booking engine appreciably can save you money. Here's the official website:
UNA Hotel Rome - 4 star hotel Rome centre - Hotel Rome near train station
Big caveat: be sure to request an internal facing room, ie. courtyard room, because otherwise the street noise could get in the way of your plan of getting to sleep early. If it was me, I'd put the request in the reservation itself, AND a week before the stay I'd contact them via email or even call them to confirm my upcoming reservation and to let them know my number one request is for a quiet room. (I also travel with ear plugs, which is always a smart backup for any traveler, IMHO).
Here's is location and walking directions from Termini on google:
https://goo.gl/maps/4pYV6pDV5o62
And here is the
hotel via google's streetview. (Don't mind that this link has 26 Via Giovanni Amendola marked in its upper left hand corner - the view itself, if the link works, is across the street at the hotel's address of 57 Via G. Amendola, which you can see if you zoom in.)
I could have sworn I've read a FTer account of this place, but I did a search for UNA and came back with nada.....