Need to know
Rooms
96, including 28 suites.
Check–Out
12 noon, but flexible, subject to availability. Earliest check-in, 3pm.
More details
Rates don’t include breakfast, but you get free access to the Roman Baths (sessions must be booked), the Earth Lab for eco-friendly activities and tips, and a Guest Experience Manager to act as a personal concierge.
Also
The hotel’s common areas and some Superior rooms will be accessible for guests with mobility issues.
At the hotel
Spa with Roman baths, hammam, sauna, steam room and ‘biohacking’ room; meditation space; gym; roof terrace; organic fruit and vegetable garden; alfresco courtyard; Alchemy Bar; Earth Lab; boutique; free WiFi. In rooms: Lavazza coffee machines.
Our favourite rooms
The two styles of two-bedroom suite (Lata and Mellini) will have the sort of assets befitting of their Baroque shell, with vast terraces, classically beautiful views, and the odd smattering of antiques or a service entrance for staff to discreetly enter a kitchen. However, the Corner Suites will be a touch cosier and have dual-aspect views – including the Altare della Patria. Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola (who’s many credentials include being awarded the Order of Isabella the Catholic by King Juan Carlos I of Spain) has done a stellar design job, using soothing hues and modern silhouettes to create glamorous contemporary spaces, while paying tribute to Rome’s history, using cocciopesto-textured walls, Travertine and polychrome marbles, and local artwork.
Spa
If you’re getting a little stiff in the gluteus maximus, get thee to the spa, which has its very own set of Roman baths (a caldarium, tepidarium and frigidarium) for soaking and soothing. There are also five treatment rooms for therapies using all-natural Seed to Skin and Biologique Recherche products, a roomy hammam, sauna, steam room, solarium and a brisk ice fountain. Plus, if you feel like a gladiator post-tournament, a ‘biohacking’ room will have smart bits of tech to ease any aches. Then, take a philosophical pause in the meditation room, or try your hand at aerial yoga.
Packing tips
With all the wine bottles, bags of pasta, cheeses, meats and more you’ll be bringing back with you, there’ll be little room for much else, but definitely leave the reviled-in-Rome selfie stick at home.
Also
The spa’s Alchemy Bar will have a range of natural ingredients you can use to mix your own shampoos, body washes, scrubs and more.
Pet‐friendly
One dog (under 10kg) can stay in a room. There’s a fee of €50 a night, and you’ll get food and water bowls and a bed. See more pet-friendly hotels in Rome.
Children
Children will be able to stay – the two-bedroom suites are family-sized, baby cots can be added to most rooms, and babysitting can be arranged, but this some rooms might be a touch too rarefied for rowdy young ‘uns.
Sustainability efforts
Palazzo Salviati Cesi Mellini – the Baroque 18th-century residence of papal nephews and cardinal-elders – is Unesco protected, and so great pains have been taken in its conversion. Its figure- and column-encrusted façade has been brought back to stateliness, as is the central staircase, and Patricia Urquiola has been true to the locale in her design of the rooms, using largely local materials and traditional methods such as cocciopesto textured walls and Travertine marble in bathrooms. The chief executive officer overseeing the update studied culture and art in Florence and has said: ‘This is more than a building to me. It is a human project’, so it’s guaranteed to be completed with a lot of love. And, the group are sponsoring the refurbishment of the neighbouring Church of San Marcello’s façade too. But it’s not just about the bigger pictures: the hotel will be entirely free of single-use plastics; have a compost machine to recycle waste; use herbs, fruits and vegetables from a rooftop garden to supply the kitchen; install LED lighting; and have underfloor heating in bathrooms. Plus the hotel will re-invest in itself, with 0.5 per cent of profits going towards sustainability efforts – to learn all about it, and pick up some eco-tips, visit the onsite Earth Lab.