Travel advice & practical information for travelogue:

'City Trip Rome'

Useful addresses

New York

Consulate General of Italy
690 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
Tel.: +1 (212) 439-8600
Fax: +1 (212) 249-4945
E-mail: info.newyork@esteri.it

London

Italian Consulate General
38 Eaton Place
London SW1X 8AN
Tel.: +44 (0)20 7235 9371
Fax: +44 (0)20 7823 1609
E-mail: consolato.londra@esteri.it
Web: www.conslondra.esteri.it

Paris

Embassy of Italy
51 r Varenne
Paris 75007
Tel.: +33 (0)1 49 54 03 00

Tourist Information

Main office: Centro Visitatori Azienda di Promozione Turistica di Roma
Via Parigi 5 (near Piazza della Reppublica)
Open 9 AM to 7 PM, closed on Sundays.
Branch on Termini Station open 8 AM to 9 PM.

TransportationVervoer

Get a CIS ticket (Carta Integrata Settimanale) for public transportation. It is valid for a week, costs 12,40 euro, is for sale in every tobacco store (Tabacchi) and can be used on the subway and in buses. See for more information about bus and subway: www.romaturismo.it.

Accomodation

Via Charming Accommodation Rome you can book over 880 hotels Bed & Breakfasts & apartements in Rome.

Hotel Reservation Desk Rome offers another 300 accommodations.

Via À la Carte Vacations Rome you can even book around 400 hotels in Rome.

Many hundreds hotels in Rome are also bookable via Cheap Hotel Reservations Rome and Budget Hotels Rome.

Money

Italy belong to the European Union and has the euro as its currency. Bank (which close early) change money and there are ATMs (bancomat) everywhere.

If you know in advance which places you're going to visit, you can find out online if and where there are ATM's where you can use your MasterCard and Cirrus or Visa to withdraw money.

Food and drink

Italy is the country of pizza, pasta and excellent meat dishes. Italians consider pasta a starter. But there are cafés everywhere, where you can have a slice of pizza or some pasta for lunch. Italians have dinner relatively late. Usually restaurants start receiving guests around 8 PM. Some are even closed before eight.

All over Rome you'll find drinking fountains. The water is clean and drinkable. An alternative is buying bottles of water: "naturel" or "frizzante", this last one being carbonated.

Telephone and internet

There are phone booths all over the place. Most use phone cards, for sale at tobacco stores and kiosks. European cell phones work in Italy.

Here and there you'll find internet cafés, where you pay 5 euro per hour.

Plan your trip to Italy online

Through online reservation systems like À la Carte Vacations you can book airline tickets, hotels, rental cars and holiday houses. You can build a fly-drive itinerary with maximum flexibility, book a flight plus a hotel hotel for a night or weekend. Without the limitations of package deals from travel organisations and most times for a much better price.