Once I was tasked with the very troublesome task of staying in and touring a few of the finest motels in Rome this summer season, the Six Senses Rome topped the checklist of properties I used to be most interested by.
Six Senses — which IHG Motels & Resorts bought in 2012 — is a luxurious model often present in resort places. It solely lately started increasing into main cities. Additional, IHG purchased Six Senses together with Regent Motels & Resorts so the conglomerate may receive manufacturers posher than InterContinental, which had been its most high-end model so far.
I popped in for lunch and a tour of Six Senses Rome. It is clear that is the place wellness aficionados will thrive within the Everlasting Metropolis, whether or not they’re die-hard IHG loyalists or simply merely vacationers on the prowl for a decadent, tasteful getaway.
Meet Six Senses Rome
Labeling a resort or a house a “sanctuary” may be a cliche, particularly after setting foot within the Six Senses Rome. That is now the textbook definition of sanctuary within the metropolis, and anything is an imposter (at the very least in my thoughts, anyway).
The ultra-luxurious model made its first foray into a giant metropolis this yr with the opening of this newest Six Senses iteration. The hushed resort resides in a former Fifteenth-century palazzo and is an engineering marvel contemplating its location on the bustling By way of del Corso thoroughfare, the place vacationers combine with Romans simply heading to work. It is simply up the road from the Altare della Patria (higher identified to some as “the marriage cake” or “the typewriter” constructing).
You may definitely depart feeling like the Aristocracy, whether or not you go to only for a delicious alfresco meal at Bivium Restaurant-Cafe-Bar or a multiday respite in a sprawling suite and a number of therapies on the Six Senses Spa.
The vibe
My lunch and tour occurred throughout my two-night keep on the Resort de la Ville, a roughly 15-minute stroll away. Six Senses Rome is down a couple of aspect streets from each the Pantheon and the Trevi Fountain; I used to be starting to marvel if this was a nasty growth name, given the noise and throngs of individuals everywhere in the streets. Nonetheless, it was a real case of yin and yang from what was occurring exterior and what was occurring throughout the partitions of Six Senses Rome.
The resort’s major entrance is ready again from By way of del Corso, and it is clear you should have a purpose to set foot within the resort. That does not imply you’ll be able to’t pop into Six Senses Rome for a wonderful dinner or cocktail, however this is not the sort of place to only loiter within the foyer all day whereas working from a laptop computer. This makes it a considerably extra enjoyable house than the lobbies-turned-de-facto-coworking locations present in so many motels all over the world lately.
Minimalist decor dominated by cool stonework, floor-to-ceiling home windows overlooking a courtyard eating space and loads of comfy seating areas make this house the proper launch pad for a weekend full of wellness therapies — or one meant to only luxuriate with loads of room service and wine.
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Along with offering an ultra-luxury environment, the Six Senses model is a frontrunner in sustainability. The resort makes use of reusable — and lovely — containers all through the property, so you will not be taking residence any branded plastic water bottles or mini shampoo bottles. However the massive stone containers holding shampoo, conditioner and cleaning soap certain are fairly to take a look at.
The charges
There’s clearly a resort trade push to see how excessive they’ll cost charges with out clients buckling — particularly in Rome through the peak summer season vacationer season. For perspective, I discovered the Six Senses Rome’s sister property, the InterContinental Rome Ambasciatori Palace, to be a little bit of a luxurious “cut price” by “solely” charging round 1,025 euros ($1,100) for a junior suite. You possibly can discover entry-level Basic rooms beginning at 626 euros ($682).
By comparability, the Six Senses Rome has rooms beginning at 1,224 euros ($1,314) per night time for a September weekend. The 2-bedroom Lata Suite I toured goes for 9,694 euros ($10,403). If there is a silver lining, it may be the IHG One Rewards availability for these seeking to ebook an in a single day keep. The downside? It value almost 300,000 factors per night time to order a keep — and this wasn’t for a collection, both.
The rooms
There’s gorgeous, after which there’s jaw-droppingly gorgeous. Six Senses Rome falls into the latter with its visitor room and suite layouts.
The marble, travertine stone aesthetic coupled with earth tones continues into these areas, making the property the proper retreat from the sweltering Roman warmth. The temperatures surpassed 100 levels Fahrenheit throughout my time in Italy, and I used to be grateful for even a day tour within the cool house.
I toured the two-bedroom Lata Suite, a spacious 1,356-square-foot house that includes a 1,033-square-foot outside terrace.
Whereas entry-level visitor rooms are nonetheless very spacious and refined, the Lata Suite may be the aspirational place to put one’s head within the Everlasting Metropolis.
The views of Altare della Patria and San Carcello al Corso Church are breathtaking. Two king-size bedrooms and two bogs (one with a walk-in bathe and the opposite with a soaking tub and walk-in bathe) are luxuriously appointed with a pillow menu and Naturalmat natural mattresses. There’s additionally a half-bathroom off the kitchen.
The suite’s residing space was a dreamy, trendy house for entertaining or enjoyable on the runway-length sectional couch whereas studying a ebook (or just basking in your personal fabulosity). The kitchen featured high-end home equipment like a Smeg espresso machine and a high-top desk to feast on regardless of the Six Senses cooks whip up. (You possibly can ebook the cooks for a non-public cooking demonstration in your suite.)
Fashionable motels in historic cities can typically go overboard with being the brand new child on the block, however the Six Senses design group — underneath the management of designer Patricia Uriquiola — did a unbelievable job becoming the decor into its environment. That is on show with the stone basin within the half lavatory and the Roman paintings all through.
Downstairs, you will discover a preserved baptismal font (courting to the fourth century) beneath a glass window simply exterior the resort’s Earth Lab — an area the place the Six Senses group showcases its native sustainability efforts.
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Eating
My tour included a complimentary lunch at Bivium Restaurant-Cafe-Bar. The resort’s intensive and multifunctional major eating space has numerous stations (wood-fired pizzas at one part, grilled meats and greens at one other, cannolis and different candy treats nearer to the espresso bar) to go to primarily based in your abdomen’s needs.
Regardless of the warmth, I went with a desk exterior within the courtyard, because it was a beautiful intersection of business, greenery and Roman stylish. There was a particular operating throughout my go to: a contemporary salad with herbs, hummus and grilled octopus for 35 euros (about $37). The meal additionally got here with a glass of wine, a cannoli, a fruit tart and an espresso. Service was pleasant and useful however eliminated simply to the proper diploma, permitting me to soak within the house.
Inside, Bivium has a enjoyable wine dispenser the place you should utilize your keycard to get a pour of a classic of your selecting.
Whereas it wasn’t open throughout my tour, the resort additionally options Notos Rooftop that serves small bites like artichokes in olive oil or panna cotta, in addition to a mixture of signature cocktails. The roof, which I did tour, has a beautiful mixture of seating areas that felt all of the extra intimate due to a lot greenery and vegetation (a few of that are the herbs you will be consuming at Notos or Bivium).
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The Six Senses Spa
The showstopper of the property is clearly the Six Senses Spa. The power options 5 therapy rooms, a steam room, a sauna, a solarium, a nail bar, a yoga studio, a meditation room and a biohacking room for choices akin to compression remedy and Roman baths.
How’s a Roman bathtub any totally different from a scorching tub or pool again residence? Six Senses says: “Roman baths had been a part of day-to-day life in historical Rome, a spot to see and be seen, community and make enterprise connections. Everybody simply occurred to be bare (a convention we is not going to be taking ahead)!”
Do as Caesar would have executed (simply do not forget your bathing go well with) and ebook time with a Roman bathtub day spa; it consists of an hour to soak adopted by a 60-minute therapeutic massage or exfoliation. The Six Senses Spa group can also be readily available for well being consultations, so you may get essentially the most out of the spa’s extremely intensive menu of therapies.
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Why ebook a keep at Six Senses Rome
There are lots of new, luxurious resort contenders to select from if you begin interested by your subsequent journey to Italy’s capital. The Six Senses Rome sibling InterContinental Rome Ambasciatori Palace, the close by Rome Version and the Resort de la Ville are different formidable gamers in Rome’s luxurious resort scene.
Six Senses Rome is ideal for the visitor who’s seen all of the sights and needs to say “veni, vidi, vici” to their well being and wellness in a decadent setting.
However do not confuse well being and wellness for strict, both. There’s loads of enjoyable (and excessive thread rely) at Six Senses Rome whilst you deal with that neck stress on the therapeutic massage desk.
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