Any recommendations appreciated - URL's please.

Needs to be somewhere quiet also, as last time I stayed there the noise
drove me mad.

Thanks

Brendon

Brittania was a very nice hotel and we did not notice traffic noise.
About a 5 minute walk from Termini. Am sure they have a website, but am
not at my desk now. Liz


Brendon wrote:
    > Any recommendations appreciated - URL's please.
    > Needs to be somewhere quiet also, as last time I stayed there the
noise
    > drove me mad.
    >
    > Thanks
    >
    > Brendon

[email protected] wrote:
    > Brittania was a very nice hotel and we did not notice traffic noise.
    > About a 5 minute walk from Termini. Am sure they have a website, but am
    > not at my desk now. Liz
    >
    >
    > Brendon wrote:
    >
    >>Any recommendations appreciated - URL's please.
    >>Needs to be somewhere quiet also, as last time I stayed there the
    >
    > noise
    >
    >>drove me mad.
    >>Thanks
    >>Brendon
    >
    >
Thanks Liz, will google it now.

Brendon wrote:
    > [email protected] wrote:
    >
    >> Brittania was a very nice hotel and we did not notice traffic noise.
    >> About a 5 minute walk from Termini. Am sure they have a website, but am
    >> not at my desk now. Liz


It looks really lovely, shame about the price though - £145 a
night...converted into New Zealand $ thats about $1,200 for 3 nights
accommodation...I think I will have to keep looking.

Brendon

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 19:23:59 GMT, Brendon <[email protected]> wrote:

    >Any recommendations appreciated - URL's please.
    >Needs to be somewhere quiet also, as last time I stayed there the noise
    >drove me mad.

Any hotel on Via Castelfidardo should be ok. It's very close to the
station, and the road is not too busy.
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In news:[email protected],
Brendon <[email protected]> typed:

    > Any recommendations appreciated - URL's please.
    > Needs to be somewhere quiet also, as last time I stayed there
    > the
    > noise drove me mad.



Just curious as to why you want to be near the station. I don't
think that area is as terrible as some people make it out to be,
but it's neither particularly nice nor particularly convenient.

--
Ken Blake
Please reply to the newsgroup

We stayed at Rudy's B&B on Via Napolean. Do not know if a website. Was
70Euro / night in October. Some rooms great, other so-so. Is about 3
blocks to Termini.
Bill

"Brendon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > Brendon wrote:
    > > [email protected] wrote:
    > >
    > >> Brittania was a very nice hotel and we did not notice traffic noise.
    > >> About a 5 minute walk from Termini. Am sure they have a website, but am
    > >> not at my desk now. Liz
    > >>
    > >>
    > It looks really lovely, shame about the price though - £145 a
    > night...converted into New Zealand $ thats about $1,200 for 3 nights
    > accommodation...I think I will have to keep looking.
    > Brendon

"Ken Blake" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > In news:[email protected],
    > Brendon <[email protected]> typed:
    > > Any recommendations appreciated - URL's please.
    > >
    > > Needs to be somewhere quiet also, as last time I stayed there
    > > the
    > > noise drove me mad.
    > Just curious as to why you want to be near the station. I don't
    > think that area is as terrible as some people make it out to be,
    > but it's neither particularly nice nor particularly convenient.
    > --
    > Ken Blake
    > Please reply to the newsgroup

We needed to be close as we had an early flight out, and did not want to
have to find a taxi. So we got the name of Rudy's from a taxi driver (he
had cards) and booked it for the night before we left Italy. We stayed over
towards the Opera house early in the trip.

All, I am definately open to suggestions, I just need a URL more than
anything, to be able to email them, and get some prices, thats all. (as
well as location - so I know where to send my folks).

Thanks for the help so far. Budget accom now looks to be fine, I just
had an email from my father, and he says he will have to keep getting
drunk if it's too noisy!! :-)

Brendon

I'd avoid the station area. Getting there after a 14 hr train trip
--should have been 6, but everything broke (welcome to Italy)
including the a/c, we arrived seriously sick because the temperatures
had been about 120 in those steel cans; the crew had come through and
broken the emergency seals to let in a little air at the top of each
window--we had planned to walk to our hotel but couldn't do it
physically, so took a taxi. He drove us around for nearly 15 minutes
despite our loud protests and wanted to charge us a huge amount--the
hotel turned out to be three blocks from the station we found the next
day. The hotel said a/c, but there was none. I was pickpocketed in the
area the next day--and found during the day that nearly all store
owners warned us about pickpockets. Many people at the hotel were
pickpocketed as well; shared stories with them. On the way to the
police station (the single one where English was spoken), gypsies
tossed a baby at me and snatched my passport from my pocket, which I
snatched back. The line of tourists reporting pickpocketings (you have
to get a police report if credit cards were stolen) was two blocks
long (tells you a lot about the frequency of that). My credit cards
had been maxed out in the 10 minutes it had taken me to get to a phone
to call the card companies--Visa told me it was so common in the area
that many jewelry stores in the area were in on it, sold jewels to the
pickpockets, and split the profit later; my cards had been used to buy
diamonds within minutes of being stolen. Far from getting sympathy
when telling the hotel manager in passing that I had been
pickpocketed, he immediately demanded to know how I was going to pay
my bill. All the restaurants in the area around the station had large
hidden charges that they didn't post or mention, sometimes adding more
than 50% to the bill--and three of them added items we never purchased
to the bill (usually bottles of expensive wine), which took long, hot,
angry interviews with the manager to have removed. Went on a tour
where 60% of the time was spent in totally uninteresting restaurants
and shops where the tour guide greeted the owner familiarly and was
obviously getting a kickback. The person I was with almost had her
purse snatched but managed to hang on; someone we met in the hotel had
had her purse stolen by a passing motorcyclist (A Vespa? Who knows?)
Etc, etc. My advice about the area around Termini and the parasitical
Roman culture that preys on tourists? You can guess for yourself.

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 11:54:49 -0500, Viking <[email protected]> wrote:

poor baby.


    >I'd avoid the station area. Getting there after a 14 hr train trip
    >--should have been 6, but everything broke (welcome to Italy)
    >including the a/c, we arrived seriously sick because the temperatures
    >had been about 120 in those steel cans; the crew had come through and
    >broken the emergency seals to let in a little air at the top of each
    >window--we had planned to walk to our hotel but couldn't do it
    >physically, so took a taxi. He drove us around for nearly 15 minutes
    >despite our loud protests and wanted to charge us a huge amount--the
    >hotel turned out to be three blocks from the station we found the next
    >day. The hotel said a/c, but there was none. I was pickpocketed in the
    >area the next day--and found during the day that nearly all store
    >owners warned us about pickpockets. Many people at the hotel were
    >pickpocketed as well; shared stories with them. On the way to the
    >police station (the single one where English was spoken), gypsies
    >tossed a baby at me and snatched my passport from my pocket, which I
    >snatched back. The line of tourists reporting pickpocketings (you have
    >to get a police report if credit cards were stolen) was two blocks
    >long (tells you a lot about the frequency of that). My credit cards
    >had been maxed out in the 10 minutes it had taken me to get to a phone
    >to call the card companies--Visa told me it was so common in the area
    >that many jewelry stores in the area were in on it, sold jewels to the
    >pickpockets, and split the profit later; my cards had been used to buy
    >diamonds within minutes of being stolen. Far from getting sympathy
    >when telling the hotel manager in passing that I had been
    >pickpocketed, he immediately demanded to know how I was going to pay
    >my bill. All the restaurants in the area around the station had large
    >hidden charges that they didn't post or mention, sometimes adding more
    >than 50% to the bill--and three of them added items we never purchased
    >to the bill (usually bottles of expensive wine), which took long, hot,
    >angry interviews with the manager to have removed. Went on a tour
    >where 60% of the time was spent in totally uninteresting restaurants
    >and shops where the tour guide greeted the owner familiarly and was
    >obviously getting a kickback. The person I was with almost had her
    >purse snatched but managed to hang on; someone we met in the hotel had
    >had her purse stolen by a passing motorcyclist (A Vespa? Who knows?)
    >Etc, etc. My advice about the area around Termini and the parasitical
    >Roman culture that preys on tourists? You can guess for yourself.

--
Barbara Vaughan
My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it
I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 21:55:30 +0100, B Vaughan<[email protected]> wrote:

    >poor baby.

Barbara, I know you're a big proponent of Italy, but didn't think
you'd make snide comments on someone else's misfortune. Our trip to
Rome was a while ago, but man, it was a nasty place if our experiences
are any judge.

Viking wrote:
    > On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 21:55:30 +0100, B Vaughan<[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    >
    >>poor baby.
    >
    >
    > Barbara, I know you're a big proponent of Italy, but didn't think
    > you'd make snide comments on someone else's misfortune. Our trip to
    > Rome was a while ago, but man, it was a nasty place if our experiences
    > are any judge.
    >

Viking, after reading your post (and I have only been on this newsgroup
for 3 days) - I was initially suspicious - with so much bad luck and all....

Honestly, did all this happen to you? The 'throw the baby at you'
routine? Seriously?

I ask, only as I have been there before, and though I spoke to a lady
from Australia at breakfast who's purse was stolen - she was on the Bus
from Vatican (duh) - none of these experiences did I witness.

I think there is a fair degree of targeting which 'type' of victims they
go for, and I am not in any way assuming you were an easy pic, but as
you will now know, there are certain ways to carry yourself, with a
certain demeanour etc, and I say this touching wood that something along
the lines of what you say to have experienced NEVER happens to me on my
trips.

Sorry to hear your story if it is true.
Brendon

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 22:06:04 GMT, Brendon <[email protected]> wrote:

    >Viking wrote:
    >> On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 21:55:30 +0100, B Vaughan<[email protected]> wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>>poor baby.
    >>
    >>
    >> Barbara, I know you're a big proponent of Italy, but didn't think
    >> you'd make snide comments on someone else's misfortune. Our trip to
    >> Rome was a while ago, but man, it was a nasty place if our experiences
    >> are any judge.
    >>
    >Viking, after reading your post (and I have only been on this newsgroup
    >for 3 days) - I was initially suspicious - with so much bad luck and all....
    >Honestly, did all this happen to you? The 'throw the baby at you'
    >routine? Seriously?
    >I ask, only as I have been there before, and though I spoke to a lady
    >from Australia at breakfast who's purse was stolen - she was on the Bus
    >from Vatican (duh) - none of these experiences did I witness.
    >I think there is a fair degree of targeting which 'type' of victims they
    >go for, and I am not in any way assuming you were an easy pic, but as
    >you will now know, there are certain ways to carry yourself, with a
    >certain demeanour etc, and I say this touching wood that something along
    >the lines of what you say to have experienced NEVER happens to me on my
    >trips.
    >Sorry to hear your story if it is true.
    >Brendon

I had a very good experience in Rome. Arrived in the evening,
no reservations (had changed travel plans during the train ride).
I was looking at hotels one could book when a hotel tout came up
and offered to find us a hotel. I told him my absolute price
range (which was low) and he said he could take us to a hotel
within 3 blocks of the station and we could look it over. It
was a very pleasant hotel and he would not take the tip I offered
him for carrying my bag to the hotel. Said he got a commision.
And he recommended a restaurant which was so good and cheap that
we ate there 3 nights in a row, and on the last night the
manager presented both me and my granddaughter each with a rose!
I did see some Gypsies with what looked liked drugged children
in the station. But no one bothered us and I always wear a money
belt so pickpockets are not a concern. Oh yes, the hotel learned
we were Americans and gave us free orange juice along with the
bread and coffee served for the continental breakfast.

"Viking" <[email protected]> wrote:
    > B Vaughan<[email protected]> wrote:
    >>poor baby.
    > Barbara, I know you're a big proponent of Italy, but didn't think
    > you'd make snide comments on someone else's misfortune. Our
    > trip to Rome was a while ago, but man, it was a nasty place if our
    > experiences are any judge.

I 'spose its possible for all those things to happen to as hapless
a mark as presented here, but you'd have to be a damn stupid
tourist to get rolled like that. I've suffered pickpocket attempts
and can tell you that a money-belt and a map to your hotel leads
to a much different story. =R=