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on the 1st floor of a lofty townhouse. It's nothing flash but the modern rooms are a decent
size and come with en suite designer bathrooms. Breakfast is optional at €5.
HOTEL GIUGGIOLI €€
The pick of several hotels in the same building, the 1st-floor Giuggioli offers nine dapper,
pearl-grey rooms with a minimum of furniture and large, comfortable beds. Three floors
up, the Giuggioli's sister hotel, the Hotel dei Quiriti, has more old-fashioned rooms for the
same price.
HOTEL
VILLA LAETITIA€€€
ning boutique hotel in a graceful riverside villa owned by the famous Fendi fashion fam-
ily. The 14 gorgeous rooms are all individually decorated - particularly impressive is the
Crystal Room with its perspex furniture, and the Garden Room with its original Picasso -
and each comes with its own kitchen facilities. Breakfast is not included.
BOUTIQUE HOTEL
Monti, Esquilino & San Lorenzo
BEEHIVE€
HOSTEL
( 06 4470 4553;
www.the-beehive.com
;
Via Marghera 8; dm €25-30, s €50-60, d €90-100, without bathroom s
€40-50, d €80-90, tr €95-105;
;
Termini)
S
More boutique-chic than backpacker crash
pad, the Beehive is one of the best hostels in town. Run by a southern-Californian couple,
it's an oasis of style with original artworks on the walls, funky modular furniture and a ve-
getarian cafe (room prices don't include breakfast). Beds are in a spotless, eight-person
mixed dorm or in one of six private double rooms, all with fans; private rooms now have
air-con too (€10 per night). Book ahead.
HOTEL DOLOMITI €
HOTEL
( 06 495 72 56;
www.hotel-dolomiti.it
; Via San Martino della Battaglia 11; s €45-100, d €60-160, extra person
€20-35;
;
Castro Pretorio)
Welcoming, family-run Dolomiti has rooms on the 4th
floor of an apartment block. The rooms are colour-coordinated with cream walls, cherry-
wood furniture, rich-red fabrics and prints of chubby-cheeked cherubs. The same family