This super central hotel ticks all of the boxes for just about any trip to Rome. Hi there,
my name is Kevin and I make honest and to the point narrated video tours about unique hotels
and flights all over the world. This is video 146 and today we are at the Hotel Chapter Roma,
a member of Design Hotels, in Rome. Stick around the full tour starts in 10 seconds.
Welcome to Rome. If you’d like to know the exact rate that I paid for this stay or my
next five videos in queue, please check out the description below.
This is going to be a quickie today. Originally I wasn’t even sure if I’d be filming this hotel
since it was just a meeting point for me and my traveling party- but I thought it deserved
a video. In the future, for smaller hotels like this, transit hotels or when I just don’t
have time to do a proper review, I’m going to be publishing 60 second Shorts instead of full format
videos. Don’t worry though, there will still be at least two full length videos every week.
The entrance is certainly understated and I walked past it twice before actually finding
the hotel itself. The location is the prime selling point here, so let’s take a look.
From either of Rome’s airports, the Chapter Roma is around a 30
minute drive and will put you truly in the center of things, in the Regola district.
To put it into perspective if you’re unfamiliar with Rome, you will literally
be surrounded by all of the sights that Rome is famous for, these are just a select few.
The 42 room hotel opened in May of 2019 and is in a renovated heritage building
dating to the late 1800s. Designed by South African Tristan de Plessis,
the hotel is meant to pay homage to the area’s industrial past.
Here in the lobby lounge and bar, named Heybaby, an extensive drink and small
food menu is served throughout the day with the style here meant to be “Gritty but glamorous”.
As I mentioned, this hotel is a member of Design Hotels, a collection of 300
independent hotels across 60 countries which loosely falls under Marriott’s Bonvoy
umbrella. Each property is design forward and reflects a completely original design.
You’ll find a mix of exposed brick, raw steel, brass and copper set in
juxtaposition to vaulted ceilings, herringbone floors and mid century italian furniture.
Let’s head up to the room, I’ll be able to show you a peak at two categories today,
first up is the Baby Double King category.
The room is nicely outfitted with a lot of original design touches such as an actual key to
turn on the lights, brass radio knobs to control the lighting and a mix of textures and tones that
gives the room a modern vibe without completely leaving practicality in the rear view mirror.
A very well stocked, perhaps overstocked mini bar leads us to the nicely sized,
but sparse bathroom, complete with a large walk in shower and single basin.
Onto the
second room, which is half the size and half the price. This was actually my room and believe it
or not, was bigger than I was expecting and also more comfortable than I was expecting.
Advertised as a French Twin bed, in reality it's what we would call a Double bed in the US.
Then there was the bathroom which I actually
thought was better outfitted than the larger room, albeit without a window.
Heading downstairs for breakfast which was a good
mix of a la carte dishes and a small continental buffet spread.
Last up we have the hotel’s signature restaurant Campocori which is meant
to be sexy, dark and lavish, inspired by New York Italian restaurants in the 1930s.
For me, the menu was a bit too fussy for the scale of the hotel,
but power to them for the creativity. I did find it interesting to be in an Italian
restaurant in Italy that was referencing a restaurant in New York, referencing Italy.
And that is that- told you it’d be a quickie. On the the Flip Flop Score. Overall, it is pricey,
but all hotels in Rome are pricey so it’s all relative.
Price aside it was a nice accommodation and served it’s purpose with an outstanding location,
comfortable rooms and nice breakfast spread. I hope you enjoyed this video today, if you did,
please give it a big thumbs up and subscribe so you don’t miss a beat. I’ll see you next
time in Business Class on board Ethiopian Airlines from Rome to Addis Ababa. And yes,
my cruise videos will be coming soon, but they’ll be out of order as they are a beast to edit.