Aurelio, a neighbourhood in Rome, is home to Vatican City Relais. The area's natural beauty can be seen at Villa Borghese and Circus Maximus, while Vatican Museums and Castel Sant'Angelo are cultural highlights. Looking to enjoy an event or a game? See what's going on at Foro Italico or Stadio Olimpico. Visit our Rome travel guide
How much does it cost to stay at Vatican City Relais?
As of 24 Oct 2026, prices found for a 1-night stay for 2 adults at Vatican City Relais on 5 Nov 2026 start from £67, including taxes and fees. This price is based on the lowest nightly price found in the last 24 hours for stays in the next 30 days. Prices are subject to change. Choose your dates for more accurate prices.
What time is check-in at Vatican City Relais?
Check-in start time: 2:30 PM; check-in end time: 8:30 PM. After-hours check-in is not available.
What time is check-out at Vatican City Relais?
Checkout is at 10:00 AM.
Does Vatican City Relais provide a shuttle to the airport?
Yes, there's an airport shuttle that runs on request. A fee of EUR 15 per person applies.
Where is Vatican City Relais located?
Located in Aurelio, this bed & breakfast is within 2 miles (3 km) of San Carlo di Nancy Hospital, Vatican Museums and St. Peter's Basilica. Piazza Navona and Campo de' Fiori are also within 3 miles (5 km). Baldo degli Ubaldi Station is 10 minutes by foot and Cornelia Station is 17 minutes.
Can I cancel my reservation for free and receive a full refund?
Yes, this property offers free cancellation on selected room rates because flexibility matters! Please refer to the property cancellation policy on our site for more details about any exclusions or requirements.
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Vatican City Relais Reviews
7.8
Good
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For starters, this is NOT a hotel or a hostal, this is an apartment that has 4 doors/rooms and they all share a kitchen. To enter the building, this is an apartments building and there is no way to access unless you whatssap the staff, they are not fast at responding. If you travel with children make sure they don't change you city tax for the kids. There is absolutely no one to talk to there, it is quite literally a shared apartment with doors that lock. The beds only have sheets no covers, no blanket, no throws. We whassap the person and never heard back to get some blankets. We ended up covering ourselves with towels. Get ready for the AWFUL noise from the street that lasted until 4am. That is motorcycles speeding ambulances right at ear level. We actually contemplated leaving the apartment at 2am and head to the airport then. It was THAT bad. The room itself was nice besides not having blankets. But the logistics of accessing are absolutely stressful and atrocious. I can tell people grow frustration when they get there because there are signs everywhere to not ring tenant doorbells, and that the only way to communicate is whassap.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2026
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6/10 Okay
Andreia
13 Feb 2024
The place isn’t an hotel, is just an apartment with a few bedrooms and the kitchen is shared by everyone. If you need to warm up your food or some milk for you or your children is no way because the place doesn’t have a microwave available just a kettle for hot water. But the place is okay for the price. The clean the floors and changed the bins bags every day and they changed our bed sheets after 3 days. The are is okay as well, is a few places where you can eat and supermarket. Is easily accessible to Vatican as well and you have a bus stop in front of the building. We like it and the staff was okay.
Nice reasonably priced small property. Would stay here again.
Stayed 1 night in May 2024
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2/10 Terrible
Obaid
27 Mar 2026
Disliked: Staff & service, amenities
Please do not book with under 10 kids, constant ambulance and road noise.
Our bathroom door got locked twice , thankfully on both the occasion it happened during the check in time of the accommodation but it could be worse.
Not very friendly staff
Never going to book this accommodation again and I can’t even recommend to our enemy.
It took an hour to get our bags checked (slow long line at Air Canada), so that added stress. Oncc we got through that, it went very smooth through Security and Customs. We grabbed a delicious snack and headed to our gate to board - no issues.
Stayed 1 night in May 2025
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6/10 Okay
Dylan
29 Apr 2025
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities
Very walkable to Vatican City itself a lot of noise however in mornings air con not working and not staff on the recepition
Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2025
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6/10 Okay
Doreen
14 Apr 2023
Disliked: Staff & service, room comfort
The hotel waa ok but the personel was not helpful.
Very clean, large bedrooms, well and nicely furnished. The location is not far from downtown: Piazza Venezia, Coliseum, Vatican, etc. (10-15 min. by bus). Free coffee, orange juice, etc. are available all day. Good internet. Above all, the personal is extremely nice and helpful & multi-multi lingual. Will give you good tips and can provide you with bus ticket, etc ...
We had an easy check in and the host was so helpful as it was raining. The rooms were clean comfortable and surprisingly larger than expected. There was a comfortable well stocked communal kitchen. No stairs to carry bags up. The only issue was access to host. Sent several messages and tried knocking on the door to advise early check out. We couldn’t ring with our overseas phone .
It was ok, the staff that greeted us was terrible!! They advertise their kitchen as having snacks, they don’t, the faucets in the bathroom had rust on them. The zone is good since it has a taxi stop right by it, and a coffee shop called Ill Papagallo which was fantastic!!
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4/10 Poor
Denisse
19 Dec 2025
Disliked: Amenities
Contacting the host was a nightmare. We got there late afternoon and I attempted three numbers before I got a hold of the host.
Host did not speak well english which is totally understandable but upon communication, she seemed agitated and frustrated. AC did not work. No microwave or stove top. Sheets and towels were not replaced. Limited supplies to soap and shampoo ,etc.
I would say the location is conveniently located to Vatican and bus stops and other supermarkets. But, this comes with a down side of lots of noise.
I had to wait outside for an hour.
No one let us in!
It was a resident going in that finally let us into the property.
The host was not so friendly.
Finally it SHOULD NOT BE ADVERTISED AS A HOTEL, it is MISLEADING!
Not our favorite stay. The bathroom stunk like sewage and would make the whole room stink if you didn’t keep the door shut. The bed was hard as rocks, I’m not sure if it was even a mattress because it was so flat and firm. The towel I went to use for a shower had long hairs on it when it should have been clean. There were questionable stains on the throw pillow for the bed as well. Not the worst place in the world, but we won’t go back.