Rome, anyone been?

[mudcow007]

going on friday til monday

any one been?

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Yes, a couple of years ago.

Going again next week funnily enough. It's great.
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[P.addy]

What is great about it? Genuinely interested as fancy a break there.

[sidewinder]

Gladiators

[mudcow007]

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

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[MarJay]

I've been there many times for work. I never got to see the centre but apparently there is a fountain in the centre called the Trevi Fountain which is spectacular.

I stayed near the Megelli hospital which is a dump hole. Ambulances making noise at 3am, graffiti everywhere etc. Be warned of men in the airport who take your suitcase and lead you off to a 'taxi' which is actually a hire car. Apparently they'll then take you to your destination via some random point and then charge you 150 euros.

Even the normal taxi drivers can be dodgy, the hotel I stayed in wasn't well known so I showed them the street name and he took me to some random spot nowhere near. I had to cough up 110 euros for the privilege. I should have just said Megelli Hospital ffs.

Everyone I've spoken to who has been there on holiday absolutely loved it. My time there wasn't good, but I was there to work so perhaps that had something to do with it.
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[DrSnoosnoo]

Been there once, along my travels.

There's obviously The Vatican which you can walk around and see how much money those bleeding Catholics have and walk up a huge set of stairs to get on the roof and look over Rome.

Trevi Fountain is nice to sit and watch, I'm a sucker that can sit and look at flowing water forever.

Colloseum is a good walk around, you really get a sense of what it was like. Lots of exhibitions showing bones of bears, lions and other shiz that they brought from around the world to kill, and weapons n stuff.

Definitely worth a short break!
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[-Matt-]

Really nice place

Went mainly to see the historic stuff, haven't ventured outside the centre much but you can easily fill a long weekend there if you're interested in the sights.

If not plenty of cheap wine to drown away the time with in scenic locations. I'd be cautious at night though its got a bit of a cosey romanticised image, but as with any large city areas at night can be pretty dodgy if you wander down the wrong back street.

[Sabs]

Watch out for taxi drivers ripping you off. Handed a cabby a 50 euro note for a ride and all of a sudden it became a 5 euro note and he forgot English instantly. I was pretty ill at the time so couldn't argue. Other service based people I found pretty bloody miserable overall and not that welcoming.

The city is nice. Colosseum was decent and the Vatican City is worth a visit. If you go on Sunday, the Pope is probably giving a mass which you can attend but check if it's on first. It also has some weird opening hours from what I remember, look it up before you go, you don't want to miss out if you were planning on doing it. Very busy place as one would expect. Trevi fountain is OK, again, very busy and I thought it was pretty small, not what I expected. We got an ice cream from a shop on the corner and walked straight by. Pantheon was pretty good, in fact the architecture in general is very impressive, it's a nice place. Probably less busy in January, it March I think when I went.

[Richy CB1000]

Been twice, love the place. Stayed right near the Vatican, plenty of Police so always felt safe.

Get around quickly use one of the official bus thingy's to see all the stuff.

St.Peter's, even if not religious get in there at a quiet time, there's a small chapel half way down on the right, Mary Magdalene or whatever, it'll rock you to your boots. I spent an hour in there....

There are some good tours to do with the film. Plus eat down the side streets, better and cheaper family style Hotels.

[Polarbear]

Watch out for pickpockets, even worse than Barcelona!

Saying that, I went with a welsh mate to the six nations a few years ago to see Italy v Wales and stayed a week. Pissed, the only person in Italy wearing an English rugby shirt

Had a wonderful time.

However, the very same bar we were getting pissed in that night was the one the Spurs fans got attacked & knifed in not too long back and that was right in the tourist area.

There are nutters everywhere of course, but Italy has some of the nuttiest nutters.
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[hachi8]

Been a few times. If you're staying in the centre then just use the tube, its the best way of getting round. But you can walk the main tourist attractions if you prefer. Colosseum is pretty awesome and the tube stops right outside. Trevi fountain is way overated imho.

Rome is good for a couple of days...after that you may get bored unless you venture out.
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[Eddie Hitler]

Yes, I have been a few times.

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[mudcow007]

cheers peeps

[map]

Yes, many years ago. Loved it.

Stayed as a hotel/pension near the Colosseum.
Did the touristy bits.
Colosseum ok, Liked St. Peters/Vatican Did Sistine chapel. Was really taken by the double helix staircase in the museum.

Just enjoyed walking around. Stumbled on (not literally) the Spanish Steps and Trevi Fountain (they're close together). I also liked the laid back approach to life.

I was also taken by how cheap it was. This when compared to places further north like Florence (I was travelling around a bit).
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[MarJay]

[Walter Sobchak]

busy as fuck, that was in November '12

Everywhere is pretty excellent though, nice city, very pretty. if you're going to the Colosseum then definitely do the forum as well, I found it more interesting personally and is/was included in ticket price of the Colosseum.

We managed to do 90% of the main tourist attractions in a day (under 7hrs) - the only thing we really missed was going inside St. Paul's, but you've got 2 days so you should have a relaxing weekend of it. If you want to go inside St. Pauls, then definitely get there early, queues were proper mental after dinner time.

Walk, even on our limited time-frame we saw most things and found everything easily walkable, it's no London. I think we did Vatican square to the Colosseum in 20 mins on foot, you see a lot more on foot, especially when you get "lost" like we did down some dodgy back-streets

Trevi fountain - be especially alert here if it's busy, it's fucking rife with pickpockets, well, the whole City is tbf, but trevi was mental as fuck, never seen anything like it with the amount of people, spoke to loads of people who were done over there when we were there.

And stay within the old city parts, it gets pretty ghetto on the outskirts, graffiti and shit everywhere.

[mudcow007]

Got back yesterday, twas awesome!!

things i learnt

Italian wimmin are hot
old stuff is cool (Colosseum etc..)
italians are mental at driving

it was really good, not really that expensive

oh an Russians are 'orrible

[DrSnoosnoo]

[J0Al1]

Smashing city
Crazy busy roads
Great food

[BravoCharlie]

damn i wish i saw this post before you went!

glad you enjoyed it, i went in august 2012 and had a cracking time - although in august it gets almost TOO hot - 40c the day i went to the Colosseum!

did you see much in terms of tourist spots? the vatican, Colosseum and Trevi Fountain were my favourites
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