Hotel Medici Rome

... ride to Rome, very easy no hassle at all. After a short cab ride to our hotel, we're ready to start exploring Rome. Off we go with a hotel supplied mad and a good sense of direction. Without really trying, we find the Spanish Steps. Kinda cool. lots of ...

... lay over.   I do not know why, but this time we were not given STPC which includes a stay in one of the nearest hotel by the airline. Instead we were given only food voucher. As the kids were getting restless, hubby & me decided to check the Oryx ...

... After this we headed over to Trinit dei Monti, another fountian, obilisk landmark.  From hear we headed north to the VIlla Medici which has a garden in it. They were closed though which was a downer.  Also, there were several attempts to get me ...

... was going on all around. On leaving the square we soon came across the Spanish Steps with the imposing Villa Medici above.  We paused for photos, and to watch more street dancers, before continuing on past the Fontana del ...

... day visiting lots of places + Eric, Gail and I met my friend Miranda out for dinner (Miranda was staying in a pimp ass hotel, The Hassler, for work). Miranda literally bumped into Sean Connery on the breakfast line at the hotel. + long day and another ...

The walking tour of Rome went from the small chapel that houses the 'Mouth of Truth' (Santa Maria in Cosmedin), up the road and across the Circus Maximus were we got to walk on the gravel that Charlton Heston drove his chariot around. Well not quite the ...

... , we didn't have to go through any form of customs in Rome.  We had to wait about 45 minutes for the Holliday Inn Medici hotel bus.  We met an inurance agent from Canada and a couple from San Diego while waiting.  We also got to see a ...

... ... started at the spanish steps -- crowded with people just chilling, drinking wine -- went up the steps, found the villa medici (only to find it's owned by the french...) and then headed back down the steps...not even sure why the steps are ...

... a girl!)  So I did not go into the Galleria Borghese.  For a while, in FLorence, surrounded by all things Medici, I was having a debate regarding the Medicis and the Borgias.  They were both powerful families and both had large holdings of ...

Bonjourno from Roma! We've just arrived here from Florence, where we stayed in the unfortunate Hotel Medici...not one of our best experiences with no air conditioning and no lift! We are looking forward to sleeping tonight after bells and street noises ...

... about what to see and provided her phone number in case we had an emergency. I was a little worried about getting to our hotel in Rome once Agnese told me the Termini Station was rather a dodgy place. It turned out to be fine and the walk from Termini ...

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... We ate breakfast, then headed out into the cool, overcast day. Leaving our flat, we climbed up the Spanish Steps, to the Villa Medici, then into the gardens of the Villa Borghese. Our plan was to try to buy tickets to see the gallery tomorrow - but ...

... a lunch of pizza funghi and beer (Rome ain't got nothin' on Pat's Pizza as far as I could tell) I had intended to visit the Medici Villa, but when I got there it appeared to be closed. I was standing there reading (or trying to interpret) a sign out front ...

... doesn't matter (if you're into pastas & pizzas anyway). The first day didn't end well though, as the bus back to my hotel was jampacked, so it left; THE LAST BUS. We had no choice but to sneak into the bus to Sheraton Roma & take a taxi from ...

... ; With a overnight layover in Seoul and connection in Paris, we arrived around 10PM to our hotel just outside of historic Rome.  The hotel provides a free shuttle bus which will be useful to go sightseeing.  The hotel exterior is old looking but ...

Well , Im finally here. I had a 3 hour delay at Toronto because the air condition wasn't working. I arrived at my Hotel pleasantly surprised.. The Sheraton Golf. My room window opened up to the golf course and courtyard. Two huge Italian trees right ...

... including Cellini's self portrait in the back of Perseu's helmut; over the Ponte Veccio to the Palazzo Piti, where the Medici (bankrollers of the Renaissance) lived. The costume museum, including clothes from the 13th centruy through to now, was very ...