12 Best Cheap Hotels in Rome: Doubles Under €125 (2026)

Termini and Via Nazionale: the cheapest beds and both Metro lines. The streets around Termini station have more hotels than anywhere else in Rome, and lines A and B cross at Termini. The sights are a Metro ride or a 20 to 30 minute walk away, and the Via Nazionale side, towards Monti and the Quirinale, is the nicer end. Hotel Des Artistes is the cheapest hotel on this page: a Double Standard of 14 square metres was €85.50 on its website rate for Tuesday 19 January 2027, city tax extra. It's on Via Villafranca, a quiet side street in the Castro Pretorio district, and the hotel puts Termini a five-minute walk away. It's non-smoking throughout, with a flower-filled roof terrace, and it holds 4.3 on Google from 1,371 reviews.

The trade-off is the area: Castro Pretorio, near La Sapienza university, is a district of offices and apartment blocks rather than a pretty one, and the walk to the station is through the busiest part of Termini. Castro Pretorio Metro (line B) is about 6 minutes' walk. A Triple Standard of 17 square metres was €115.20 the same night, good value for three.

Hotel Aberdeen is on Via Firenze, a quiet street between Via Nazionale and Via XX Settembre, about 3 minutes' walk from Repubblica Metro (line A) and about 10 from Termini. It's a 37-room hotel in a 19th-century palazzo, founded in 1980 and renovated in 2004, with frescoes from the 1860s in the breakfast room and a buffet breakfast. The Basic Small Double Economy was €89.25 on the website rate for 19 January.

As the name says, that room is small; the next category up is the better choice for two people with big cases. The Trevi Fountain is about 15 minutes' walk.

Hotel Nardizzi Americana is a few doors along Via Firenze, and its selling point is the roof terrace, where you can have breakfast or an evening drink. A Standard Double or Twin was €94 room only, non-refundable, on 19 January, €109 with free cancellation and €110 with breakfast. The hotel puts Repubblica Metro 300 metres away, and it has family rooms if you're travelling as three or four.

Like the Aberdeen, it's in a residential block rather than on a lively street, so evenings out mean a walk into Monti (about 10 minutes) or the Metro.

Hotel Virgilio is a family-run 3-star on Via Palermo, a quiet street parallel to Via Nazionale, a 5-minute walk from the Quirinale according to the hotel. An Economy Double of 12 square metres was €100 room only, with free cancellation until 13 January 2027, or €124 with breakfast. It has 1,204 Google reviews averaging 4.3, and it's about a 12-minute walk to the Trevi Fountain.

Twelve square metres is tight, and the Economy Double's full-size double bed can't be split into twins; the 14-square-metre Double Classic takes either. Repubblica (line A) and Cavour (line B) are both about 9 minutes away on foot.

Monti and the Colosseum: a real neighbourhood, a few minutes from the arena. Monti is the old quarter of steep lanes, wine bars and trattorias between Via Nazionale, Santa Maria Maggiore and the Imperial Forums, and it's where the cheap rooms closest to the Colosseum are. Hotel Paba is a small hotel on Via Cavour, about 7 minutes' walk from the Colosseum and 4 from Cavour Metro (line B). A Double Economy was €100 room only on the website rate for 19 January, and it holds 4.5 on Google, joint highest on this page with The Colours of Rome.

Via Cavour is a main road with buses, so ask for a room on the courtyard: of the Classic doubles, the hotel says two face the inner courtyards and one Via Cavour. The Double Economy is, in the hotel's words, slightly smaller than the other rooms.

Hotel Santa Prassede is a small boutique hotel in a 17th-century building on the Esquilino hill, about a minute from the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. The hotel puts Termini 9 minutes away on foot, which makes it a handy arrival from the airport train, and the Colosseum 15 minutes (1.3 km). A Double Room was €100 room only, non-refundable, for 19 January, shown as including taxes and fees.

It's on the station side of Monti, so the walk to the lanes around Piazza della Madonna dei Monti takes about 10 minutes. Doubles come with one double bed; two singles are on request only.

Hotel Duca d'Alba is a 4-star with 31 rooms on Via Leonina, in the middle of Monti, and the hotel puts the Colosseum and the Roman Forum 300 metres away. An Economy double or twin in the annex, 12 to 15 square metres, was €111.60 for 19 January. Cavour Metro is about 2 minutes' walk, the closest of any hotel on this page.

The price is for an annex room a few steps from the main building, and the rooms are small. The lanes of Monti around Via Leonina have restaurants and bars, so expect some street noise on weekend nights.

Hotel Grifo has been on Via del Boschetto, one of Monti's prettiest streets, since 1976. Many of its rooms have terraces over the rooftops, and the hotel says its rooms have been fully renovated. The cheapest doubles, at €122 on 19 January, are 14-square-metre rooms in separate buildings: one at Via del Boschetto 87, opposite the main hotel, and one on Via dei Serpenti, a short walk away.

If the terrace is why you're booking, choose a room in the main building, which costs more. Breakfast is a supplement. Cavour Metro is about 5 minutes' walk and the Colosseum about 11.

Trastevere: evenings out, no Metro. Trastevere, across the river, is the lane-and-trattoria quarter where Rome goes out at night; it has no Metro, and tram 8 runs to Largo Argentina in the centre. Hotel Carmel is a small, simple hotel on Via Goffredo Mameli, about 6 minutes' walk from Santa Maria in Trastevere. On 19 January its cheapest double, with a private bathroom outside the room, was €88.40 with breakfast, non-refundable, and an en-suite Double/Twin €91.53 room only. It also offers kosher assistance and can set up a Halavi kitchen for Shabbat on request.

It averages 3.8 on Google from 250 reviews, the lowest on this page, so treat it as a clean, basic base rather than a treat. Via Mameli climbs towards the Janiculum, so the walk home is uphill.

Hotel Trastevere, formerly the Antico Albergo Manara, is a recently renovated 3-star on Via Luciano Manara, overlooking Piazza di San Cosimato and its morning market, a few steps from Santa Maria in Trastevere. A Superior Double was €104.95 on 19 January. It's the most central of the cheap Trastevere hotels, a couple of minutes from the main piazza.

Being in the middle of Trastevere means weekend noise; some rooms look onto the quiet internal cloister, so ask for one if you sleep lightly.

Centro Storico: the dearest area, one cheap way in. The historic centre around the Pantheon, Piazza Navona and Campo de' Fiori is where Rome's rooms cost most for their size, and few doubles dip under €125. Hotel Rinascimento, a 4-star in a Renaissance palazzo on Via del Pellegrino, between Campo de' Fiori and Piazza Navona, is the exception on 19 January: an Urban Annex room, 22 square metres in a separate building, was €123.80 room only, non-refundable, on the website rate against a €175 list price.

That rate is for the annex, not the main palazzo, and it's non-refundable. The hotel has a 24-hour reception and a buffet breakfast from 7 to 10:30am. There's no Metro in this part of town; the buses and the tram stop at Largo Argentina, about 10 minutes' walk. It takes small dogs.

The Vatican side: a guesthouse with a view of the dome. The Colours of Rome is a small guesthouse on Via Gregorio VII, south-west of St Peter's, where each room is named for a colour and has a balcony looking at the dome of St Peter's. The Red Room, a double with breakfast, was €100 non-refundable on 19 January, €112 on the cancellable rate. St Peter's Square is about 15 minutes' walk, and the guesthouse scores 4.5 on Google.

Via Gregorio VII is a main road rather than a quiet lane, and there's no Metro nearby, so it suits a trip built around the Vatican Museums and St Peter's more than one built around the Colosseum. For Prati, the calmer district north of the Vatican with line A, see our Prati guide.