Casacau

Style

Time-capsule pieds-à-terre

Setting

A coin toss from Trevi

Decked out with vintage finds, Casacau offers secluded and surprisingly peaceful boutique apartments in the centre of Rome – in a 17th-century building just steps from the Trevi fountain. Helpful and well-informed hosts have curated the seriously alla moda Sixties-inspired crash pads, of the kind flamboyant Italian fashion dames Anna Dello Russo or Anna Piaggi would approve of, using dramatic fresco-printed headboards, era-spanning art prints, a sprinkling of antique trinkets, and turquoise and tangerine-hued mid-century modern kitchenettes for self-catering flexibility.

Facilities

Rooms

Six one-bedroom apartments with kitchenettes. All apartments are non-smoking.

Checkout

10am, leave keys in the room on check-out. Check-in, from 3pm.

More Details

Most rates include a breakfast bag, delivered to your door each morning, with fresh pastries, bread, eggs and milk. If you don't have breakfast included, baskets are €15 each.

Also

Unfortunately, Casacau isn't suitable for guests with limited mobility.

Free Internet Access

At the Hotel

Free high-speed WiFi throughout. In-rooms: Olivetti typewriter; a kitchenette with a digital stove, kettle, Moka coffee machine, cutlery, tableware, cookbooks, biscotti and pasta; a mini fridge filled with milk, butter, eggs, yoghurts and free bottled water; air-conditioning and luxury bath products.

Our Favourite Rooms

We’d happily pack up our possessions and wave arrivederci to our former lives to make any of these unique stays our new home. The Studio Apartment has a mini two-person sauna, one of the Corner Apartment's beds is an art installation you’ll be eager to turn into an interactive exhibit, and the Master Apartment's secret passageway (through a cupboard) may lead to an inward-facing balcony rather than Narnia, but it’s a magical touch nonetheless.

Packing Tips

Encase your essentials in scuffed vintage luggage and faded tapestry carpet bags – hi-tech Samsonite has no place here – and bring a few spare euros to toss into the Trevi Fountain.

Also

There’s no reception at the hotel, but you’ll have staff contact details that you’re welcome to utilise round the clock. Don’t forget to send a copy of your passport to the hotel prior to arrival.

Children

The Master, Balcony and Top Floor apartments all have a sofa bed for up to two children and the two Corner apartments each have a kitchenette and can be connected for families of four. Babysitting and baby-monitoring equipment can be arranged on request.

Gallery

Food & Drink

Top Table

Enjoy a throwback feast – with retro tableware, designer plates and gold cutlery – at your vintage kitchen dining table.

Dress Code

Don a Pucci-print silk bathrobe and swish about with abandon, and bring Mr Smith’s smoking jacket for a sophisticated slumber party.

Hotel Restaurant

There’s no restaurant on site, but friendly owner Pino will point you in the direction of his favourite eateries, as well as lots of local markets and food shops, so you can make use of your kitchenette.

Room Service

A breakfast bag is delivered to your door each morning. If you need anything extra, or an after-hours snack, put a request in with the obliging hosts.

Planes

The closest is Ciampino GB Pastine International Airport, a 30-minute drive from the hotel, or Leonardo da Vinci Fiumicino airport is a 40-minute drive. Private transfers can be arranged from both between 8am and 8pm for around €75 each way.

Trains

Termini train station is 4km from the hotel. Freccia Rossa (www.freccia-rossa.it) runs a regular service connecting Rome to Florence, Naples, Milan and Venice.

Automobiles

Unless you’re a dab hand at dodging Vespas and play the car horn like a prodigy we’d advise exploring the city on foot. The hotel is in the city's restricted traffic zone; if driving, leave your ride in the car park 50 metres from the hotel, which charges €30–50 a day, depending on the type of car.

Worth Getting Out of Bed For

Casacau’s Michelin-awarded Pino Cau can devise a Roman itinerary for you, but in this enviable location a wander brings its own rewards. Lose some loose change in the Trevi Fountain – just a few steps from the hotel – while admiring the hippocampi-adorned bas reliefs, then stroll past the dashing Column of Marcus Aurelius in Piazza Colonna. The remains of Hadrian’s Temple are in Piazza di Pietra; keep an eye out for the Fontanella del Facchino, a 16th-century ‘talking’ statue on Via del Corso. The Time Elevator’s (+39 06 6992 1823) 4D cinema – on Via dei Santi Apostoli – offers a Ridley Scott-style take on Roman history, and five minutes from there the Scuderia Quirinale (+39 06 3996 7500) showcases old and new masters in the atmospheric galleries of the former papal stables. Adonises and Medusas await in the Roman National Museum (+39 06 3996 7700), but if you’re head’s spinning from historic landmarks, head to Via Condotti by the Spanish Steps to buy a list of labels that reads like a fashion-week seating plan, or explore the quirkier boutiques in Via del Boschetto and Via Panisperna. End your day swishing and sipping a few fine Italian vintages at Roscioli restaurant (+39 06 687 5287) on Via dei Giubbonari.

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