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Hassler Review
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Hassler 
- Address: Piazza Trinita dei Monti 6, Piazza di Spagna, Rome, 00187 | Map It
- Phone: 06/699340
- Fax: 06/69941607
- www.lhw.com
- Price range: $$$$
- Location: Piazza di Spagna
Fodor's Review:
As an inscription in marble at the adjacent Santa Trinità convent announces, Non est in tota laetior Urbe locus, there's no more delightful place in all the world. Well, that does explain why this famous hotel was built to take advantage of the spectacular view from the peak of one of Rome's seven hills. Here, in villas atop the Pincian Hill, Poussin, Piranesi, Ingres, and Berlioz once enjoyed having all Rome at their feet. Today, movie stars and millionaires do the same by staying at this hotel, which sits just to the right of the church atop the Spanish Steps. The outside may be fairly unmellifluous -- the Swiss Wirth family rebuilt the hotel exterior in 1939 -- but the guest rooms are certainly among the world's most beautiful and opulent. If you're not willing to pay V.I.P prices, of course, you get more standard-issue rooms at the rear of the hotel (and the lowest priced of these are overpriced for what you get elsewhere), but many are soigné and some come with views of the Villa Medici park. Better, the hotel has become a Disneyland of elegant bars, restaurants, and retreats. The Rooftop Restaurant (which guests use for the breakfast buffet) is world-famous for its view (ask for the plan that points out the monuments along the skyline) if not for its food; the Hassler Bar was where Princess Diana savored one of the hotel's "Veruschkas" (pomegranate juice, vodka, and champagne); the Palm Court Garden, which becomes the hotel bar in summer, is a riot of flowers; and the new Salone Eva is a stunning homage to 19th-century style, with enough tufted velvets, satin drapes, embroidered pillows, red banquettes, and passementerie to please even Valentino.
- Hotel Details: 85 rooms, 15 suites
- In-room: safe, Internet, Wi-Fi.
- In-hotel: restaurant, bar, gym, laundry service, parking (paid), no-smoking rooms. minibar.
- Rate includes: European Plan
- Credit Cards: AE, DC, MC, V
Member Reviews & Ratings:
Great place - especially if you smoke
Posted by AnthonyCr from London on 2/14/07
Great room, good service. But the otherwise excellent bar seems to have a special exemption from the Italian non-smoking law. The smoke wafts into the restaurant yet the bar manager says it is beyond his power to stop. I complained in writing to the manager but received no reply. A very poor show.
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