how to explore Rome - holiday campsite ?

[ilovedplaydays]

Can anyone recommend family park I Pini in Lazio? It looks small and quiet which will suit our teens who are coming along reluctantly on the promise that we do an angels and demons tour when in Rome.

Can anyone recommend another way of exploring Rome that won't break the bank? Thank you!

I have found another one camping fabulous if anyone knows of this one also.....

hi, i have stayed at both. i prefered cmping fabulous as it was v, close to rome ,we got the bus , then short underground journey. very easy to navigate. fantastic pool. only complaint was the food onsite was crap.

has a big shopping centre just up the road if you have a bad weather day and just need to hang out somewhere different. we had amazing steak on the top floor in a very non descript cafe.

the other site, ipini is a nice site but quite a distance from rome. pool not that big. i cant remember what the food was like. it was a few yrs ago we went to this site.
hth

hi i stayed at camping fabulous in aug 2009.lovely site.
great pool. but agree about the food in the restuarant ans service there was poor. we had take out pizzas from the resturant most nights they were nice. not sure if you are camping or in a mobile home. camping toilets and showers were clean. our mobile home (through Eurocamp) was new and well appointed. we travelled into Rome by Bus and underground and it was easy.

Thanks. Sounds like you both like camping fabulous anyway - despite the food! The shorter journey sounds so much preferable. I remember we stayed on a campsite near Paris one year, but after a visit to eurodisney we were too bushed to go into paris to explore on the 3 days we had left at the campsite (can't believe we didn't now!!) So really do not want that to be the case with Rome. We will stay in mobile home. Any suggestions excitedly received!!!

I can't help with camping suggestions myself, as we stayed in a hotel next to Piazza Campo Di Fiori, where there is a market every morning. It was a great central location for walking to all the sights, but not cheap.
I suggest you look at the Trip Advisor Rome forum. I got a lot of help and advice there when planning our trip, and money and time saving tips.
Rome Experts on that forum can probably help with more accommodation / camping suggestions as well.

when are you going ILPD ?

flexible about when we can go. Last week of June to early August.

ooohh that will be very hot. make sure you have air conditioning in the caravan if you go to the camping sites.

We went to Rome in June, and it was indeed very hot, especially when going round the Forum with no shade. I took a telescopic brolly to use as a sunshade.
July and August will be hotter - go in June if you can.

I bought some guide books,like the AA Essential Guide and planned what we would see each day. ( we went Monday to Friday ).I pre booked morning tickets for the Vatican Museum online, as there are very long queues for this. ( tip from Trip Advisor Rome forum ) After the museum we went to the top of St Peter's Basilica - lots of steps, but well worth the climb.

Trevi Fountain, ( beautiful ) Spanish Steps, ( they only have flowers on the Steps in May ) Castel Sant'Angelo, ( more climbing ), Pantheon ( amazing building ), Elephant with obelisk outside Santa Maria Sopraminerva church, Piazza Navona and other Piazzas, Colosseum and the Roman Forum ( buy a dual ticket from the Forum to save a queue at the Colosseum - another tip from the TA forum ), Sistine Capel and Vatican City Museums, St Peter's Basilica, The Mouth of Truth, and so much more.
It is lovely just wandering around the city at night, and taking everything in, or enjoying a meal on a Piazza, where musicians play for money.
I definitely want to go again one day.

ILPD,
we went on a coach trip at night from camping fabulous. it was lovely, not expensive and it meant we could see rome in a diff light, as our kids where quite young it made the trip so easy.
i dont know if they still do the trip though

night tour sounds lovely. I am reading Eat Pray Love at the moment - just got to her description of her fave places in Rome. Might googlemap and see if we can follow the trail?! I am easily overwhelmed by having to organise sight seeing too so thanks figgygirl for the tips. Any more suggestions greatly appreciated. I take onboard about weather - I hadn't considered that at all