Going to Rome this summer for three days pre-cruise.

2 couples no children.

Looking for premium hotel experince, one person in party hates small rooms, everyone looking for gracious service and relaxing not hassled experience.

Booked 2 deluxe category rooms at the excelsior due to starwood platinum status as well as great experience there 10 years ago. MY wife and I had a huge room with an ok bath. But we loved the via venetto and the "old world experience" of the property, we really were looking forward to going back.

After reading reviews on some other sites I am not sure this is what we thought it was, but some sites seem to have folks that just do not look at things the way we do and I am having trouble filtering the noise from real data.

I got nervous though and looked at lhw properties as we have leaders club privleges. Found two "studio" doubles at the eden. Now that Rome seems to be getting overun with visitors and it will probably be crushed in June when we are going, I am not counting on upgrades at either property as much as I once was.

Any advice from recent visits at either hotel would help a ton. I have both reservations active but feel guilty keeping them and would like to release one so someone else can obtain.

Please try not to suggest a third hotel as availability is now really tight and i need to get this done.