If “The Golden Women” had been Italian nonnas, they’d really feel proper at house at Casa Monti, a boutique lodge within the coronary heart of Rome’s oldest neighborhood. Because of its endless combos of patterns, textures, prints and tchotchkes, the brand new lodge seems like an previous good friend, “a pal and a confidante,” if you’ll.
Immediately welcoming and overwhelmingly charming, Casa Monti, discovered on the picture-perfect cobblestoned By way of Panisperna, is a feast for the senses and a shocking boutique addition to Rome’s booming lodge scene.
This is the whole lot you could find out about staying at Casa Monti.
What’s Casa Monti?
Casa Monti is a small boutique lodge with simply 26 rooms and 10 suites from Leitmotiv, a family-owned French hospitality firm with different boutique properties in Paris and Megeve, France. The design-forward lodge’s interiors had been crafted by Laura Gonzales and impressed by the Italian concept of “sprezzatura,” a kind of intangible model the place the whole lot works collectively although every particular person half tells you in any other case; it is one thing that may’t be realized, many Italians say.
Casa Monti is a small participant in Rome’s burgeoning lodge scene, which has just lately seen the opening of an Version, Bulgari Lodge and Six Senses, amongst others. However what makes the lodge so particular is its dimension — and its location in Monti, a neighborhood that dates again to the times of historical Rome (the Colosseum is a couple of minutes away by foot).
At this time, Monti is a residential-feeling neighborhood filled with artists, classic and boutique retailers, cafes, and nightlife.
How a lot Casa Monti prices and how one can guide it
Casa Monti is a boutique lodge that’s at present not a part of a loyalty or factors program.
That stated, you’ll be able to guide straight with the lodge, with charges beginning round $375 per evening (although charges are usually upward of $600 in the course of the busy summer season months).
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Rooms at Casa Monti
Casa Monti has 10 several types of rooms and suites, starting from the entry-level Cosy Room, good for a solo traveler, all the way in which as much as multiroom suites with loads of house to unfold out.
Throughout my late-August keep, I checked in to an enthralling Superior Room with home windows overlooking the By way of Panisperna. Measuring about 269 sq. toes, my room had a luxurious king-size mattress sitting towards a wall of brightly coloured wallpaper with an identical headboard and even an identical tissue field on the nightstand.
Additionally on the nightstands had been a Bluetooth speaker, an iPad with details about the lodge, and occasional desk books. Above the stands I discovered worldwide energy retailers, together with USB retailers, had been conveniently positioned.
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Throughout from the mattress was a striped sofa, a TV (with Chromecast!), extra of that enjoyable yellow sample as seen on the headboard, a small armchair and a bit of espresso desk.
I had let the lodge know forward of time that the day of our arrival was my husband’s birthday, and so they pulled out all of the stops and had this lovely chocolate birthday message and dessert ready within the room.
With the photograph above, you may get a really feel for all of the textures and patterns all through the room … sprezzatura.
Within the room’s small entryway, a minibar space had a tea kettle with numerous tea choices, a Nespresso machine, loads of glassware, and a minifridge with native beers, spirits and the opposite normal bar fare. One good shock was some complimentary Italian snacks, like combined nuts and sun-dried peppers.
There was additionally a big closet within the entryway space, in addition to a protected.
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Within the lavatory, deep-red tile work contrasted with impartial earthy tones and delightful marble within the bathe and on the vainness. The room additionally consisted of the bathroom, a bidet and a towel rack with fluffy towels.
The water stress within the rainfall bathe was good. And after combining that with the stunning odor of the Susanne Kaufmann soaps and shampoos designed solely for Casa Monti, it was a real feat to drive myself out of the stress-free bathe.
And although my room did not have a balcony or terrace, the view out my tall, skinny home windows onto By way of Panisperna was really fabulous.
What we ate and drank at Casa Monti
Casa Monti has two bars, one off the foyer (pictured above) and a small rooftop bar with indoor and outside seating, plus a restaurant on the principle degree.
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Upon arrival, we loved refreshing welcome cocktails within the colourful foyer bar, aptly referred to as Casa Monti Bar. It was filled with patterns and textures, like darkish wooden accents, zebra-inspired print upholstery on the partitions, artsy lamps and a cheeky mirrored ceiling.
Casa Monti Rooftop is one other eclectic expertise with a menu of cocktails, wines, beers and snacks (suppose: combined cheeses and fried zucchini flowers). As soon as once more, the inside design is a hodgepodge of this, that and the whole lot in between. If something, the rooftop bar reveals that the lodge’s designer, Laura Gonzales, is actually a grasp of her craft. What may have simply been gaudy or garish become one thing ornate and surprising — sprezzatura.
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Although I did not have a reservation, I used to be capable of get a desk outdoors after only a few minutes of ready, although I might suggest making reservations forward of time simply to be protected. At my shiny blue desk, I wasn’t essentially capable of see out to Rome whereas sitting down, however the views of town had been magical whereas standing up. They had been even higher with my La Fioraia cocktail (18 euros/$19) made with flower-infused Tanqueray gin, raspberry shrub and lemon.
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For my husband’s birthday dinner, we sat outdoors at Casa Monti Ristorante, a restaurant serving seasonal Roman meals with slight regional variations from Sicilian chef Umberto Tuccio.
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Highlights of our dinner included a mouthwatering caprese salad with burrata over a tower of contemporary summer season tomatoes and basil (16 euros/$17), a easy however delectable tonnarelli cacio e pepe (21 euros/$22), and a zucchini risotto with gambero rosso shrimp (30 euros/$32). The meals was beautiful, the service was nice and we had a beautiful time having fun with the contemporary Roman air, even when it was a bit heat in late August.
Facilities and issues to do
Casa Monti could be huge on design at first look, however its listing of issues to do on-property focuses on consuming, consuming and sleeping. The lodge would not have a fitness center, nevertheless it does have the one Susanne Kaufmann spa in Rome. Sadly, I did not have time to go to the spa throughout my whirlwind journey to the Everlasting Metropolis, however those that do can go for remedies like a 50-minute alkaline deep-cleansing facial (135 euros/$141) or the 80-minute Susanne Kaufmann signature physique therapy that features a physique scrub and therapeutic massage (190 euros/$200).
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Insider suggestions for staying at Casa Monti
- In my expertise, Rome is finest found on foot, and Casa Monti is correct within the coronary heart of town. You may shortly stroll from the lodge to the Colosseum, the Roman Discussion board, the Trevi Fountain and past. Simply you should definitely pack comfy strolling sneakers as a result of Rome may also be steep at occasions.
- Purchasing in Monti is severe enterprise. I’ve discovered a few of my favourite secondhand gadgets at shops within the neighborhood. However my favourite retailer in Rome is SuperOdra, an idea boutique on By way of Leonina, only a few minutes away from the lodge.
- In case you’re touring with the household or children, the Household Suite has a fundamental bed room with a settee mattress and a bath, plus a second bed room to accommodate, in whole, as much as six individuals.
Accessibility
Casa Monti has two accessible rooms, plus wheelchair-friendly elevators (although they are not essentially the biggest I’ve come throughout). Public areas are additionally wheelchair accessible and accessible to these with restricted mobility.
That stated, I at all times suggest that company who may want accessible rooms attain out to the lodge straight to substantiate what’s obtainable.
Backside line
Casa Monti is without doubt one of the most charming boutique accommodations I’ve stayed at in recent times. It is a bit of bit kitschy, it’s very cool and it is in one in all my favourite neighborhoods in the entire world.
If you would like an enthralling place to remain that is proper within the heart of the motion, look no additional than this stylish boutique, its magazine-worthy bars and pleasant workers. And if you end up up on that rooftop sipping cocktails overlooking Rome’s seven hills, you may simply hear the voice of a special golden lady, Lizzie McGuire, pop into your head: “That is what goals are product of.”
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