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If it were me, I'd head back to Rome. There's so much more to do...even for just a day...in Rome. Check back on this thread for highly recommended hotels. We book in an area roughly bordered by the Pantheon and Piazza Navona for proximity to interesting sites and great restaurants.

Thanks, Bruce. We stayed in that general area about 25 years ago on Rue de la Paix and enjoyed the location very much. More recently we have been staying across the Seine in the 5th. I'll do some research and check with the hotel in a few months when they begin accepting bookings for late September / early October 2024.

Hey @CruiserBruce... How would you rate your Paris accommodations? If it's recommendable, I'd love to hear about it for our week in Paris in October 2024. Thanks...

H10 Madison is in the Gothic Quarter and very well rated and located. Sometimes they offer free cancelation...sometimes they don't. So you need to be careful when booking. We choose H10 Metropolitan because of its location and excellent ratings...and free cancelation.

Regardless of all the reasons why booking with this agency may not be advisable, they do offer one hour wait time which was not honored. My suggestion is to contact your credit card institution to request full credit for the amount you paid. This is a screen shot from the booking site...

There you go!! That's good news...

I believe you would have no trouble recalling if you had to do it. We did and it was brutal.

When you arrived in Civitavecchia did you have to walk down stairs, walk under the tracks, then walk up stairs to get to the terminal?

The free breakfast is another benefit that comes and goes. When it's available at H10 Metropolitan for Club H10 members, you'll see instructions to book the room without breakfast and it will be added at no charge later in the booking process. I booked ours with breakfast with the hope free breakfast will become available before October 2024.

I believe the 15% discount comes and goes. It was purely a chance encounter... I upgraded by booking a completely new reservation and cancelling the original one. Our first booking was for a Deluxe Terrace room...we're now in a Deluxe Room Terrace jacuzzi. We're going to be there for a week and I figured we would enjoy the extra room...especially with the additional 10% discount.

Ah-ha! I was clicking on REQUEST PRICING, but I see clicking on SUITES brings up pricing. Thanks for your response. Enjoy the Regent Suite!!

I'm seeing itineraries, but no pricing...only an online form to request pricing.

As I mentioned previously, we're staying at H10 Metropolitan between cruises in October 2024. Be sure to join Club H10 for discounts. Looks like an excellent hotel in a wonderful location. I upgraded our booking this morning after seeing a 15% discount offered. Just checked and the discount is back to 5%.

We stayed at Citadines Ramblas Barcelona a few years ago and have no problem recommending it. It is a well located, modern, clean, reasonably priced hotel.

Wow! The luck of the draw certainly worked in your favor for that stay. I didn't know that room existed.

In Italy, and Europe generally, floor numbering begins with ground floor, then first, second and so on. The first floor in Italy equates with the second floor in the US. The hotel's room numbering scheme further confuses their floor location.

I can understand you being satisfied with your room since it was you first and only stay at the hotel and you had no prior experience in a much nicer room for the same cost. As I mentioned, this was our third stay...the first was in the one balcony room facing the Pantheon. Below is a photo of the room interior found on Tripadvisor. For our second stay our room was comparable to the one pictured above, but without the balcony. The two photos below show a room like ours on our most recent stay...same cost as the one pictured above, but hardly the same value.

It was this room on the fifth floor...

We've stayed at Albergo del Senato three times over the years...in a Superior Double Room each time. The first two times we had excellent accommodations; however, last fall our room was the smallest room we have ever had in Europe...or anywhere. There was just enough room for our bed and open luggage had to be slid under the bed so we could walk by. There were a couple of other issues that prompted us to look elsewhere which is how we ended booking six nights at Hotel Smeraldo is a Family Suite Town House this fall. By the way, we never had issues with email correspondence using info@albergodelsenato.it

We're booked at H10 Metropolitan in October 2024 for a week between cruises. The hotel gets very good reviews on sites other than CC.

All the negativity here on the Viking Board can be disturbing until it is put into the proper prospective. First, in the universe of Cruise Critic forums the Viking Forum is quite small with very limited participation. Further, the number of Viking cruisers who are on Cruise Critic or are even aware of this site make up a very small percentage of those who have cruised Viking Ocean. Second, those with a gripe are more apt to post than those who have enjoyed a positive experience. According to a study by Rize Reviews, people are more likely to leave negative reviews without any prompt or request. Many positive reviews are solicited, but unhappy people are probably 10 times more likely to write a review than happy customers without any prompting. Another study by Online Reputation Management shows that customers who have a bad experience are twice to three times more likely to write an angry review than customers who had a great experience are to post a happy review.

Yes, Princess and Celebrity suffer the same disparity in service. I've found Regent offers much better onshore service than others we have dealt with.

We avoid LHR at all costs unless London is our final destination. Consider making your connection in the US rather than Europe.

If you've been ticketed, you'll see something like the following on your receipt... If you don't have a receipt, login to your United account and request one.

Happy your efforts were successful! Safe and easy travels...