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HOTEL EMMAUS
Budget Stay at Vatican City

You’ve been granted an audience with the Pope, but he’s keeping you waiting. “Come back tomorrow, domani, domani” says the Cardinal. "Maybe next week," says the Bishop. Ah, the intrigue of the Holy See. Or maybe you just want to catch a Wednesday Mass on the steps of St. Peter’s Basilica, or meeting up with traveling friends who say “hey, let’s meet at the St. Peters Square Obelisk it's right in the middle of the piazza, can't miss it” and looking for a hotel near the Vatican City complex that will save a little of your Rome travel budget.

The Hotel Emmaus is located almost directly across the street from the Vatican on the less touristy southern side of St. Peter’s Square, just off the Via di Porta Cavalleggeri. A 3 star tourist class hotel with a budget friendly price range the Hotel Emmaus has been recently renovated. The rooms are a little ordinary and some of odd sizes, but in Rome you don't just sit around in your room, and the locale has a certain character for Italian tourist class and the sense of being part of the city rather than just a touring visitor. The neighborhood has several nice restaurants with street side tables to watch the world go by with a glass of Italian wine, and a few local nightspot bars. Two doors away is a popular Chinese restaurant. Okay, you didn’t come to Rome for the Moo Goo Gai Pan, but even in Italy pasta and pizza every day can get to you. The hotel bar is just a little corner stand-up affair where you can discuss Italian politics with the night clerk. You won’t understand what he’s saying, but no-one understands Italian politics, anyway. A local vegetable street market is about three blocks away, held most days of the week. The more tourist crowded area of Vatican City in the Borgo district with the souvenir shops, more pricey restaurants, and ever-present fake designer sunglass vendors are a short walk across St. Peter’s square. The Castello St. Angelo and Tiber River walk past the Palzzo di Giustizia are a reasonable stroll as well.

The hotel says it’s within walking distance to the Colosseum, Trevi Fountain and the Spanish steps. Technically true if you have the tough feet of a Roman Legion soldier, and Ceasar could throw a coin across the Tiber when the wind was right, but you may want to take the bus which stop a half block away or the Metro (See Rome in Ruins - A Walking Tour). To get to the Emmaus Hotel from the Rome main train station (Roma Termini) take bus line number 64 (there are stalls outside the terminal where the bus lines stop) and get off at Porta Cavalleggeri stop, just opposite the big eye window of the Vatican audience hall (Aula di Udienze). You’ll probably see priests with their business briefcases waiting to cross the road. You can also take the Metro to or from the Santo Pietro rail station metro stop about four blocks away. If you’re driving, the hotel doesn’t have parking, but you can park in the Vatican visitors and bus parking structure off Via Cavalleggeri or find spaces on the neighborhood streets nearby if you watch the parking signs, but getting through Rome by car is an adventure all its own. The Via Gregorio VII from the west of the city turns into the Via Cavalleggeri.

The hotel can arrange a bus tour of Rome with an English speaking guide or help you with Vatican Mass schedules. If you want to reserve tickets for a visit to the Cistine Chapel without the lines or arrange tours, check the Vatican website. Yes, even the Pope is online, but don't look for his myspace page. © Bargain Travel Europe

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Via Delle Fornaci 23-25
Rome 00165
+39 06 6380370

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