Grand Hotel Palatino

Supposed to be upscale hotel? Ummm....No....no free wifi (rip off prices) stained sheets ... very rude ... I could go on but I would rather spend my time with the future & not the past :) ...

... Trafalgar Tour event titled "Great Italian Cities." Trafalgar bussed us into downtown Rome where we were checked into our hotel, the Grand Hotel Palatino, and met our tour guide, Marisa. She was a delightful Croatian woman, an excellent organizer and a ...

Here I am, sitting in the Grand Hotel Palantino in Rome, Italy! Whew, what a day! By the way, Happy Birthday to my Daddy, I didn’t get to say it to him in person, so nooooooow…Haaaappy Birthday to youuuuu, Haaappy Birthday to youuuuu, ...

... my roommates, Kathleen, and she introduced us to ehr friend that she met on the plane, Lindsae. Taking a bus to our hotel, The Grande Palatino, we immediatly left our bags in the room and stopped for pizza at a nearby restaurant. We ordered a Margharita ...

... four of us and it was 19 for a bottle and it was actually really good! Wine is soooo cheap here! Its insane! Anyways, we got our hotel rooms I'll take pictures and post them later. We got a 7 day metro pass (Its just like the L in Chicago) and we jumped ...

... do to make the transfers nicer for the ladies: a good-looking driver. It felt like an eternity to get to the hotel on those neverending highways. Most of the staff was Romanian, which could only mean a smooth check-in, with no translating from ...

... ! We walked around but didn't go inside because we had a tour of it the next day. After that we went back to the hotel and my room was finally ready. Both of my roommates had their stuff in there already and I met Catherine she's from Maryland, and I met ...

... St. Angelo and a few other small places. I did enjoy the bus tour a lot just because my feet were really starting to hurt =S...But after all of our touring we got to head back to the hotel and relax for a little while until we had an orientation meeting. ...

... an English speaking tour. It meant not waiting in line, and getting a bit of history about this magnificent structure, and entry into the Palatino and Roman Forum. At another 11 euros, sure I'm in and it meant I was not waiting in the heat. A bit of ...

... we got moving and then it was fine.  We passed many sights, the Santa Maria Maggiore, the Colosseum, Circo Massimo, Palatino.  Traffic is crazy.  The drive along the Tiber and past the Trastevere where cousin Carmen lives was gorgeous. ...

... us take it out... she just said, 'It's fast.'  ......well.... whatever... We made it back to join the free tour of the Palatino Garden.  It's up on a hill.  It's quite pretty but what remains were just some brick walls.  It'd be ...