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U-Visionary Roma Hotel
Rome, Italy · Independent · Accessible Luxury
Go down below Via dei Maroniti and you end up in a bank vault: the strongroom Deutsche Bank once kept here is the hotel spa now, three rooms behind the vault door holding a Finnish sauna, a Turkish bath and a whirlpool. Four minutes' walk from the Trevi Fountain, U-Visionary keeps thirty rooms in dark wood and loud fabric, hands every guest a phone for the length of the stay, and puts its bar six floors up on the Terrazza Clementino.
- 30 rooms
- Neighborhood: Trevi
- Rooms from 248 sq ft (23 m²)
About U-Visionary Roma Hotel
- The spa sits below street level in the former Deutsche Bank vault, and guests walk in through the vault entrance to reach the sauna, hammam and whirlpool.
- Clementino works on two levels: a restaurant and bistrot at street level, and Terrazza Clementino on the sixth floor for aperitivo over the rooftops.
- The Trevi Fountain is about two hundred metres away and the Spanish Steps roughly seven minutes on foot, but the hotel is inside Rome's restricted traffic zone, so guests arrive without a car.
- Every guest is handed a smartphone for the stay, and high-resolution screens in the public rooms take over part of the front desk's job.
- Entry-level rooms start at 248 sq ft (23 m²).
History
U-Visionary Roma occupies a building at Via dei Maroniti 12, a short lane a couple of hundred metres from the Trevi Fountain, and the most telling thing about its past is what sits under the ground floor: the spa was built inside the vault that Deutsche Bank once used on this site. Guests enter through the vault and find three rooms holding a Finnish sauna, a Turkish bath and a whirlpool tub.
The hotel is part of the Roman group Tridente Collection, which also runs Rome Times Hotel, Rome Life Hotel and a sister U-Visionary in Venice. There are thirty rooms, worked in dark wood against bright fabrics, with the rooms and table settings developed with Salvati Rappresentanze. The house leans hard on technology as a service idea: a smartphone is issued to each guest for the duration of the stay, and large screens in the public spaces handle part of the interaction with staff. Clementino Ristorante & Bistrot occupies the ground floor and Terrazza Clementino, the rooftop bar, sits on the sixth.
The setting
Via dei Maroniti is one of the narrow lanes in the Trevi rione, roughly two hundred metres from the Trevi Fountain and about seven minutes' walk from the Spanish Steps, with the Pantheon under a kilometre away and the Quirinal immediately uphill. The street name comes from the Maronite community that had its Roman college in this quarter. The whole area sits inside the city's restricted traffic zone, so it stays walkable and cars mostly stay out, and the rooftop takes advantage of the low skyline with a view across the domes.
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