Cheap and very Cheerful!! by Cathy24
We were on a cruise and were only in Rome for a day. We spent it round the Colloseum, Vatican and the Vatican Museums which were brilliant.Out of all the places we visited, Rome was the cheapest for food and drink. There are loads of fountains with gorgeous crystal clear ice cold water to fill up your bottles with so we didnt need to keep buying drinks. There are also public toilets at the Vatican which are very well kept.
Also round the walk to the Vatican Museums there are loads of people handing out flyers with advertisments of restaurants nearby. We went to one and got two pizzas, 2 cokes and 2 ice creams for ?16! They were the nicest pizzas i have ever tasted (and to think that we spent ?16 on just 2 ice creams in Florence!).
The area round the Vatican is lovely - if you have just a day in Rome i would spend it here (hopefully if we go back we'l go to the shopping bit). There are lovely places to sit, St Peters is amazing and the Vatican Museums go on forever ending with the Sistine Chapel. It only costs ?8 and you could literally spend all day there.
At the Colloseum there are a lot of quite pushy street vendors selling postcards and parasols - try not to make eye contact as they really try the hard sell and are hard to get rid of.
