Holiday Inn Rome West

RE: What's Near the Holiday Inn Rome West

by mccalpin

Well, unless you are professional walkers, there aren't any sites within what you would call "walking distance". St. Peter's is about the closest thing, and it's 6 kilometers (3.6 miles) to the east, and most of Rome is beyond that. Actually, the back end of the Vatican is only about 3 kilometers away, but you have to walk all the way around to the other side to get into St. Peter's.

The hotel website is at http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/hi/1/en/hd/romva?irs=null

The area along Via Aurelia is residential. You will find grocery stores and laundries and the other shops that are found in a residential area. This will include restaurants and bars, by the way, so you will probably be able to walk to both nearby. This area has a lot more vegetation and trees than much of Rome, so it will not seem like you're in the center of a major city (as, indeed, you are not).

One thing this hotel is very convenient for is access to the ringroad (not far to the west). If you had a car, you could easily go west on Via Aurelia to the Gran Raccordo Annulare, and then go around town avoiding the traffic in the city center. Thus, you would go to the airport and Ostia Antica (southwest of town), Castel Gandolfo and the Castelli Romani (south and southest of town), Tarquinia (northwest of town), and so on.

The website says that there is a shuttle into town from 9:00 to 19:00, and the schedule is published at the hotel - you'll need it. There are almost certainly several bus routes going down the Via Aurelia, but most won't go past the Vatican, I suspect. See www.atac.roma.it for the official website for the bus and subway system (look for the British Union Jack for English).

Note that taxis in Rome are not terribly expensive, so that if you take the shuttle into town in the morning, but want to stay and eat late, taking a taxi back shouldn't be a big problem.

Bill