We visited Rome for 5 days from the end of July 2017.
Yes, you are right this is the hottest time of the year there and it was close to 40 degrees but we dealt with it as I will soon discuss.
Our hotel for the duration once we got there was the 3 star Hotel Regno – not 4 star as British Airways were sharing it as and we had a standard room.
The most important thing for us about this hotel was that it was bang in the centre of Rome on Via del Corso – a 2 minute walk in any direction and we were in front of a major landmark in the city.

Pretty much as soon as we got out our Uber there was a porter from the hotel waiting to take our luggage, check in was simple, we got a friendly welcome, a map and advised where all the sites to visit were.
Okay, here’s where the ‘moments of humour’ start/continue. The porter said he would take our luggage and he would meet us outside our room. Great! We thought and he toddled off to the elevator area with our suitcases.
We followed in the same direction a minute or so later and remember when it comes to elevators – I’ve got “previous“.
Inside the elevator, we pressed the button for our floor – a slight movement but no doors closed. Basically we spent a good few minutes in there debating over should we press the ‘door close button’ then our floor and that it must work because the man just went up with the luggage.


Maybe there’s two elevators, we thought, we got out and looked along the corridor and there was another one but it was a service elevator or as we shall now refer to it – a “secret” elevator.
Bear in mind, the whole time that our elevator farce was going on and also perhaps take into consideration we were excited (and a little drunk) because we were on vacation – the reception man was just two or three feet away and must have heard the whole thing/pantomime!
He either didn’t come to our rescue because he was busy doing something else or because he just didn’t fancy dealing with two idiots from Scotland who couldn’t work out how to use an elevator.
In the end we decide it would be easier to use the stairs. Well, You would think so, right? Wrong!
The layout of the hotel is quite odd. Lots of nooks and crannies and ups and downs. So much so that there seems to be “secret staircases” as well as secret elevators. Fuck it, there’s a secret hotel within the hotel, I’m sure of it!
I understand that they are ‘service’ areas and not ‘secret’ but for the duration of the stay I couldn’t help feel that those ‘secret’ ways were a lot easier to navigate and possibly nicer than the ones the guests had to use inside the ‘actual hotel’.
In the photos below the stairs in the ‘hotel’ are the carpeted ones and the other ones were taken through the windows of the ‘secret’ doors.







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Thanks 🙂
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Sounds like a great trip 🙂👍
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Thanks! It was fab but very, very hot as you will soon be able to read about 🙂
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