Crossing Condotti

Style

Elegant neo-Baroque apartment

Setting

Chic Condotti side-street

Crossing Condotti hotel is just a laurel-wreath’s throw from some of Rome’s best assets (hello, Spanish Steps and big-name boutiques). With its oil paintings and contemporary furniture, this grown-up boutique bolthole just behind the Piazza di Spagna gives you the privacy and freedom to do as you please, and it might just have the most well-versed concierge in the city.

Facilities

Rooms

Nine individually decorated ensuite rooms, plus a Junior Suite.

Checkout

11am (but flexible, depending on arrivals). You must check in before 6.30pm (unadvised late check-ins incur a €50 call-out fee).

More Details

Rates exclude breakfast.

Also

The hotel doesn’t offer breakfast, so if you really can’t bear to drag yourselves out to one of the dozens of nearby cafés for a Roman cappuccino and jam-filled croissant, buy something to nibble on with your Nespresso coffee. If you’re staying in the Master room or Junior suite, take advantage of a private, in-room wine tasting session with a member of the Antonelli family, who’ll tell you all about the vintages and the family’s four-generation wine-making history. Opt for the ‘Superior Taste’ version – which gets you four tipples plus light snacks for €70 – or push the boat out with the ‘Top Experience’, a five-wine fiesta at €100.

Free Internet Access

Laundry

Pet Friendly

At the Hotel

Free WiFi throughout, library, coffee machine and complimentary honesty bar, laundry, desk concierge (8.30am–6.30pm). In rooms, flatscreen satellite TV, iPad Air, iPod docks, local guides, L’Occitane toiletries, tea tray, slippers, high-threadcount bedlinen. The Master Room, Junior Suite and Deluxe Room have kitchenettes with Nespresso machines, a kettle and a selection of teas, biscuits, cakes and a fridge packed with free soft drinks and Peroni.

Our Favourite Rooms

Each of the elegantly renovated rooms has been individually styled with heirloom paintings and Sicilian antiques; but all have wood floors, queen-size beds, sleek bathrooms and iPad Airs for on-the-go browsing. Superior Rooms are cosy, but cleverly furnished; most have beamed ceilings and generous welcome trays. We like Spagna’s romantic canopied bed and stone-lined bath tub; Carozze has a modern-Renaissance feel, with a flock-fabric headboard and sleek mushroom-hued bathroom with tub and shower; and Frattina is a slightly larger corner room with a walk-in rain shower. Condotti has side-by-side twin beds with shower, bath and separate toilet. With its own entrance and private courtyard, steam shower and inviting living room, the Junior Suite makes a seductive stay. Master Rooms come with a swanky chromotherapy walk-in shower, with speakers for an extra soothing soak. There's one in the Deluxe Room too, a refined space overlooking Mario de' Fiori, where period details converse pleasantly with modern fittings.

Packing Tips

A heaving wallet, if you want to buy anything in the array of designer shops around the corner (Gucci, Versace, D&G…). And pick up a bottle of bubbly for your room from the airport if you’re celebrating something special.

Children

Welcome. Under-threes stay free, and cots and extra beds can be added to some rooms, but as it’s filled with antiques and objets d’art, and has lots of steps, this is not the ideal place for wee ones or prams. Babysitting can be arranged in advance.

Gallery

Food & Drink

Top Table

Settle yourselves into one of the pretty, puffed-up sofas in the library-lounge and admire the aristocratic portraiture.

Dress Code

Black linen, cream silk.

Hotel Restaurant

There’s no restaurant, but your fantastic central location means there’s plenty to choose from locally: the concierge can help you make reservations before they leave at 6.30pm.

Hotel Bar

Help yourselves to free soft drinks and beer from the house fridge or make yourself a coffee from the Nespresso machine. If you like stronger stuff, stroll out to a bar or bring back a bottle of something for after-dinner drinks.

Room Service

None – the Master and Deluxe rooms and Junior Suite have a kitchenette, and the others have a tray of tea-making kit and devilish tasty snacks. If you run out (unlikely) restock from the kitchen, which has a fridge full of drinks, and plenty of snacks.

Planes

Rome Fiumicino is roughly 50 minutes from Crossing Condotti; using public transport, the best way to reach the hotel is with the Leonardo Express (www.trenitalia.com). It takes 30 minutes to reach Termini train station, 2.5km from the hotel. From here, a taxi will cost €10–€15). The other option is hopping on the metro for three stops to Spagna. A taxi all the way from the airport is €40 plus €1 for each bag. From Ciampino, a taxi will cost €30 plus an extra euro for each bag. Terravision (www.terravision.eu) shuttles passengers from here to Termini.

Trains

Crossing Condotti is on Piazza di Spagna, close to the Spagna metro stop. From here, it is only three stops (line A) to Termini, Rome’s main station, which is served by many lines to other regions of Italy; see Trenitalia (www.trenitalia.com) for details.

Automobiles

Driving in this city-central location may be tricky: there's no parking at the hotel, and it's in a restricted zone, with access denied between 8am and 6pm. Parking is available close by at Parcheggio Villa Borghese (+39 06 322 5934) and Parcheggio Ludovisi (+39 06 474 0632, 1.5km from the hotel.

Worth Getting Out of Bed For

Crossing Condotti's concierge is on hand every day to assist you with anything you might dream up (or make suggestions, for those less imaginative). They can fill you in on current exhibitions, recommend dinner venues or arrange a hire car – whatever you need. Rome delivers tourist bliss without much effort: a stroll along pretty much any road will lead you past centuries of history and almost inevitably lead somewhere fascinating – so step outside and follow your feet.

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