This is one of the oddest travel articles I've seen so I had to share. Recommending Rome in August, not that telling you at the end of July helps ...
Posted by
UK (London - Chelsea Harbour)
176 posts
Wow! That was interesting. And everything the piece recommends is WAY too spendy for me. Things to aspire to. ;-)
Posted by
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
4624 posts
I must not be doing life right, $15,000 for a 4 person tour of Rome is a bit outside of my budget.
Posted by
Chicago
2100 posts
Clickbait...
Katie Parla once advised me personally about a little restaurant near Campo de' Fiori called Ristorante Emma, owned by the Roscioli family. My wife & I got in and out of there for around 50 Euro. That was in 2017 so she must hang with some higher-class company these days.
A $15K tour....what a disservice this piece of garbage article is for how reasonably priced most things in Rome are. I could literally spend 3 months in Rome for that, and live & eat very well. It would be January 15-April 15, get the hell outta Dodge before Easter. Find an efficiency someplace for less than 100 Euro/night, shop at the market for breakfast and lunch, dinner out every night, 1-2 gelato/day. The competition between restaurants is fierce--at least it was before Covid.
For 2nd week of April next year, for 4 of us just booked a 3 BR, 2 bath AirBnB for $666/night, right by Campo de' Fiori, 1st floor, spacious place. So it still can be done.
Posted by
Charleston & Birmingham
4627 posts
The hotels, tours and restaurants mentioned in that article are for the "Do I look like I fly Commercial?" travelers.
Posted by
Forest Grove, OR
11798 posts
Rome is quiet in August: if you live in a Roman neighborhood away from the Centro Storico. When I worked there, my afternoon bus in August was frequently a poor-person's limo: I would be the only fare! On our neighborhood's busiest thoroughfare, Viale Parioli, you could picnic in the middle of the street at 6:00 PM in August whereas the rest of the year it was a chaotic pandemonium of bumper-to-bumper traffic, double-parked cars, scooter, buses, and pedestrians.
As to restaurants, we had one strange Saturday night dinner at a revered restaurant near the American Embassy where at 9:00 PM we were not only the only reservation but the only clients for dinner. Still, we were served with grace and style although the staff out-numbered us. But this was more remote from where the majority of tourists gather. And certainly not in the league of those who pay $15K for a day tour!
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430 posts
Rome in August, how hot is too hot? Been to Rome tons and I would never go in August. J