The Top 17 Hotels Near Forma
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Bougainvillea tumbles over sun-bleached terraces above a private Tyrrhenian cove, and the white-and-yellow stripes of the beach club have barely changed since Slim Aarons pointed a camera at them. This clifftop resort on Monte Argentario holds a Forbes Five Star and a spot on the World's 50 Best Hotels list. Fifty rooms and cottages mix terracotta floors and exposed beams, and the bar pours a Pelican Martini to anyone who needs convincing this is still the place to be.
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A marble statue of Emperor Augustus, on loan from the Torlonia Collection, holds court in the five-metre entrance hall of this luxury hotel on Piazza Augusto Imperatore. Rooms come in four color moods, bathrooms run to rare stone and bespoke mosaics, and the spa pools draw on ancient Roman bath architecture. Niko Romito oversees the restaurant upstairs. It sits at number 22 on the World's 50 Best Hotels list, which the building wears lightly.
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Perched on Monte Mario in a 15-acre park, this grand Waldorf Astoria hotel sits apart from central Rome with panoramic views stretching to the Vatican. The 1960s architecture and Franco Albini interiors give it the feel of a very well-maintained time capsule, and the private art collection roaming the corridors would embarrass most museums. Alfresco pools, a sprawling spa, and La Pergola on the roof round out the picture for guests who prefer their Eternal City with elbow room.
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The terraced garden, tucked behind a modest Via del Babuino façade, is where the hotel makes its case. This is a Forbes Five Star Rocco Forte property in Rome's historic center, and it runs on the kind of quiet discretion that old-money travelers still seek out and new money has learned to imitate. The rooms are contemporary without trying too hard, the staff are composed, and the city feels surprisingly far away once you're inside.
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A former school of architecture on a quiet street off Via del Corso, this Forbes Five Star boutique hotel looks more like a tucked-away townhouse than anything that would charge what it charges. Inside, jewel tones and midcentury modern furniture share space with gilded moldings and ornate Roman detailing. The guest-only living room and library make it feel less like a hotel and more like staying in someone's very well-appointed palazzo.
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A former convent on the Gianicolo hill, this urban luxury hotel sits between Trastevere and the Vatican with a pool, a proper spa, and a cocktail bar housed in a deconsecrated church. The gardens are genuinely Roman in scale, and the suites lean into the imperial history of the site with a straight face. A Forbes Four Star property that earns its quiet by being slightly removed from the chaos below.
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Perched at the top of the Spanish Steps, this Forbes Five Star hotel has been the discreet address of choice for the kind of guests who travel with security details. The rooms are gilded, the concierge seems to know everyone in Rome, and the doormen have apparently been charming arrivals forever. It's old-school luxury in the most literal location possible, with the whole city spread out below.
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Perched at the top of the Spanish Steps, this Forbes Five Star Rocco Forte hotel puts you at the center of Rome before you've even left the building. The 104 rooms mix contemporary interiors with that signature Forte polish, and the rooftop Cielo Bar has the kind of 360-degree view over the historic center that makes it hard to remember you came to see the city itself.
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A Forbes Five Star hotel on the corner that inspired Fellini's La Dolce Vita, which sets the bar uncomfortably high for everyone else on the street. Rooms run to high ceilings, custom furniture, and a sense of space that Rome's older hotels rarely manage. The Via Veneto neighborhood is quieter than you'd expect from its mythology, and the views over the city from the upper floors explain why the address has been coveted for so long.
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Art deco curves and inlaid panels run through a former 17th-century convent in the Tridente, making Palazzo Ripetta feel more like a private gallery than a hotel. The owner's contemporary art collection fills the public areas, which keeps things from tipping into period-costume territory. Seventy-eight rooms lean into pale tones with rich accents. The rooftop bar and open courtyard draw Romans, always a decent signal. Forbes Four Star.
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The Ferragamo family's fourteen-suite hotel sits above one of the family's own boutiques on Via dei Condotti, which should tell you everything about the register. Original sketches by Salvatore himself hang alongside photographs of 1950s Rome, giving the rooms a quiet backstory that most luxury hotels buy in bulk. A guests-only rooftop terrace wraps around the skyline, and the concierge thinks in terms of vintage Vespas rather than museum pamphlets.
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A palazzo tucked just off the Spanish Steps, Hotel d'Inghilterra has been putting up traveling writers and film stars since the nineteenth century, and the guest list reads like a syllabus. The recent renovation kept the antique mirrors and curated artworks but quietly updated the rest, so 79 rooms now manage to feel like a grand private residence without the cobwebs. The Forbes Four Star hotel's Café Romano handles breakfast and beyond downstairs.
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A luxury hotel tucked just below Via Veneto, close enough to everything without the tour-group foot traffic. The 93 rooms lean into quiet, muted tones and considered craftsmanship, and the building's 1930s bones still show in the right places. A garden restaurant, an arboreal lounge, and a rooftop plunge pool keep things from feeling too spare. Two secret cocktail bars are hidden somewhere on the property, which is either charming or infuriating depending on your mood.
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A twelve-room hotel tucked behind the Quirinal Palace, in a patrician villa the family actually lived in for most of the last century. The rooms feel less like a hotel and more like staying with very rich, very tasteful relatives who've gone away for the week. A Forbes Four Star property, it runs small enough that the staff knows how you take your breakfast before you've asked twice.
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A grand hotel that sits right on the edge of Villa Borghese, which means you get the park on one side and the Roman chaos on the other, and you get to choose how much of each you want. The lobby is all old-world stateliness, the rooms run elegant rather than trendy, and the restaurant looks out over a proper Italian garden. The kind of place where the city feels like a day trip you can return from.
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A statue of Neptune guards the entrance, which tells you everything about the register this hotel is operating in. Murano chandeliers, original furnishings, and Art Nouveau bones that have never needed updating fill a property on the Via Veneto, Rome's old parade route for the glamorous and the self-conscious. The staff wear their livery like they mean it, and the whole place carries itself with the quiet certainty of somewhere that has never once questioned its own taste.
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Murano glass chandeliers, marble columns, and hand-painted frescoes set the tone at this grand luxury hotel a short walk from the Termini and the Baths of Diocletian. The wrought-iron elevator, one of Rome's oldest still running, is worth a ride just to say you did. Top-hatted doormen and round-the-clock butlers handle the rest. A major renovation refreshed the rooms and added a curated art collection without disturbing the gilded excess.