After having learnt Italian for some years my dream was to visit Rome as it seemed very central like London to get around in. When we got off at Ciampino airport on the motorway to central Rome Termini I had to get used to right handed driving and lack of driving manners. I saw how scruffy the suburbs were with graffiti and the rest, but i looked ...

Italy Hotline (http://www.italyhotline.com) provided two tours for us during our stay in Rome, a day-long tour of the Vatican and Castel St. Angelo and a day-long tour of Ostia Antica. Both tours were wonderful, due in part to our guide, Ann. She gives great tours and has a wonderful sense of humor ~ a necessity with our quirky group. She answered ...

Rome is a nice place if you are very interested in history or the Catholic church. Otherwise, most of the people are rude, the service is slow and many in the restaurants try to cheat the tourists. The metro is not too bad, but the people are not very helpful. One would think that Romans would be nicer because a lot of their revenue comes from ...

The positives were the food, the cappucinos, and the historic sites. The people unfortunatley were very rude, the air in the city was poor due to the high traffic, and the taxi driver's try to cheat you. Stayed in Italy for seven days. One day in Florence and one day in Pompeii. The rest of the time was spent in Rome. Great to get out of the ...

After a couple of years of planning I finally went to Italy. As a non-romantic, I was skeptical at first but once I got there, I find Rome to be better than what I expected. The only factor that concerns me the location of my hotel--the Caravel, which is located in a sketchy suburb south of the city. Fortunately, I never got pickpocketed or ...

Rome has lots of history and sites to see as well as friendly peolpe. However everything else is miserable. Restaurants are expensive for the food you get, the city is filthy and covered in graffiti, not one toilet apart from in the hotel had a seat, service in cafes can be good but also can be very bad.

Everything in the center is twice the ...

i went for about a 2 week trip to europe about 3 summers ago when i was 13 and the every last place we saw, was rome. and i have to say, it was so beautiful that i dint want to leave.

The people are warm and friendly! (I speak no italian, but I am 75% italian and did make an effort and the people had no problem reciprocating.) Most of the ...

We went on a 12 day European cruise which began and ended in Rome. On the first day, we mostly saw the airport and the freeway that took us to the cruise ship. Venice and Florence were the highlights of the cruise, so Rome had a lot of elite competition. When the cruise was over, the ship landed in Rome and for 3 days, we stayed in a very quaint ...

I spent a week in Rome and the only thing I can say I didn't like about it was the Euro. The exchange rate with the US dollar is terrible. Rome was one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. The entire trip was magical! It is overwhelming. There is so much to see but some places kept bringing me back, like Trevi Fountain and the ...