In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- Deluxe Studio 53 gets our vote, with its large marble bathroom and a balcony that’s ideal for scenic city breakfasts. The Penthouse Suite (51) occupies the hotel’s top two floors and boasts an L-shaped terrace overlooking the Trinità dei Monti, as well as a shower-sauna in the bathroom. Superior Studio 11 has a lovely view over via Bocca di Leone. As you’d expect from a hotel so deeply ensconced in the world of the fashionista, all mirrors are triple-panel hinge screens, all photographs feature Ferragamo’s shoe designs, and all soft furnishings create seamless colour contrasts (tan leather-covered desks, soft blue sofas, unexpected flashes of pink and green on the curtains).
- Packing tips
- An empty suitcase and a credit card with room to breathe – the myriad chichi boutiques of Via Condotti are easy on the eye and punishing on the purse.
- Also
- Portrait Suites is within walking distance of almost everything you’d want to see in Rome, but the hotel can organise a chauffeured car if you’re too lazy for legwork.
Current offers
- Smith card offer
- A bottle of wine for him; a large bottle of Lungarno bath product for her
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Portrait Suites
Rome, Italy[view map]
- Style
- Roman fashion house
- Setting
- Spanish Steps shopping streets
Boutique hotels in Rome don’t come better located than Portrait Suites, an elegant Italian townhouse off designer-store-strewn Via Condotti, a handbag’s throw from the Piazza di Spagna. An offshoot of the Ferragamo fashion empire, this one-time atelier is festooned with shoe-related artwork and photos of the shoemaker’s star-studded heyday.
Need to know
- Rooms
- 14, including three suites.
- Rates
- Low season €390–€1,650; high season, €500–€2,060; excludes 10 per cent VAT. Suites include Continental breakfast.
- Check-out
- 2pm; later check-out may be available.
- Facilities
- DVD library, free WiFi throughout. In rooms: kitchenette, flatscreen TV, DVD/CD player, iPod dock.
- Also
- Small pets are welcome; just make sure they accessorise with your shoes.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- There’s no restaurant at Portrait Suites but a breakfast platter of cereals, pastries, eggs and yogurt is served on the rooftop terrace.
- Dress code
- Palazzo pants and platforms.
- Top table
- Perch on the edge of the terrace with a glass of champagne and look out over the Eternal City’s skyline as the sun sets.
- Last orders
- The bar is stocked 24 hours a day, so just grab a drink when the mood takes.
- Room service
- Drinks and a small snack menu are available in rooms between 7am and 11pm.
- Hotel bar
- Cushioned wooden furniture, lanterns and shrub lanterns line the roof terrace, which also boats an open fire for warming wintry cockles. There’s an honesty bar with a wide selection of refrigerated drinks. €20 a day gets you unlimited access.
Also worth knowing
- Children
- Under-threes can stay free and extra beds can be provided for older children (check rates when booking). Babysitting should be organised 48 hours in advance, and costs €20 an hour.
Smith Members offer
A bottle of wine for him; a large bottle of Lungarno bath product for her
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Portrait Suites
23 Via Bocca di Leone
00187
