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I plan on visiting rome this summer with a friend (or multiple friends). Last year (not rome) I slept in hostels and they were great for the price. How are the hostels in Rome? (or other cheap lodging)

also: Is the city worth the visit? Can you survive with english? And how hot will it be begin september?
>> Rome Anonymous
Everyone speaks english, you forget you are in a foreign country. Checkout Hotel Ercoli. Rome is small. I walked across the majority of the city in an hour.
>> Anonymous
nun filled
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i didn't stay in any hostels, but the city is def. worth visiting. as for site-seeing (which was low on my priority list), if you plan on seeing the vatican either get to the lines before 6AM, pay some other sucker in line to hold a place for you while you go elsewhere for the 3+ hour wait, or skip it. there's plenty of hash if you go to the right bars and ask the right ppl, and you can certainly survive with english albeit with much frustration, however if you speak spanish (as i do) 75% of what you hear is comprehensible.
if it's an italy trip, skip pisa, it's crap and everything closes by 8pm. Florence is on par w/ Rome IMO, and Verona had the best food by far. Venice is where it's at though, fucking waterworld (pic related)
>> Anonymous
>>14195
Florence is great, but Pisa isn't crap.. it's just a small town, like Siena. They're worth a short visit (one afternoon or so). I don't know why you found Verona food so good.. maybe being smaller than Rome and Florence there are less shitty tourist-oriented restaurants, but that's just it.
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Rome is beautiful, but people there...fucking idiots. Verona is also beautiful, if you know where to go. Maybe not "mainstream" monuments like Rome, but still great to see. And yeah, food's better, in Rome they try to ass-rape at any occasion, in Verona even the most economic restaurant is a nice place.
Rome: 1- yes 2-no 3-warm but not hot
Verona: yes 2-yes 3-warm (with bad weather could be cold)
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>>14197
Siena was 9000x better than Pisa
>> Anonymous
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Simply avoid the region east of central station and the principality of the station in general, then you should be set. Telephone calls from there are really cheap though.
If you decide to go elsewhere than a hostel, 3 stars is the absolute minimum. 2 stars will get you "hotels", in which toast and orange juice are green, in which there's no tv, no good shower and no service at all.
From my experience Italians have the worst English in all of Europe. They can't even give you simple directions. Oh, and the police have fun running over you with their segways. Pretty much every Italian I have talked with was unfriendly - except for the foreign citizens. I don't want to generalize and perhaps I have met the wrong people and perhaps it's even my own fault for having a bad day or two, but at least that's my experience. Take it with a grain of salt.

The city is nice, though, and certainly worth a visit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome#Climate
>> Anonymous
psst, it's only a model
>> Anonymous
>>14195
seconded on pretty much every point, although dunno about Verona food, i had a pretty crappy meal there
>> Anonymous
>>get to the lines before 6AM
There is another way. St. Peter early, the Vatican Museum later. Lines to the museum can get as long as a kilometer, but before noon you can get in without any wait. St. Peter isn't as restricted and entry is possible very fast, so there isn't too much of a line.