Stayed here one night only with husband and grown-up children. It took us ages to find Casale Doria Pamphilj. It is about 25 km (at a guess) from Rome and is a converted grain barn. The self-contained apartment we stayed in could sleep six – two on the sofa-bed in the sitting room, two in a double and two in a twin room. It had two shower rooms and a mini kitchen – something like the cupboard kitchens you get in city centre apartments. You can easily do light meals there but couldn’t cook a full dinner which means that if you were to stay there any length of time you would have to drive quite a bit to eat out. There is nothing in walking distance.

The day we stayed staff had almost no English. This wasn’t a problem except that there is NO sign off the main road pointing to the agrotourismo so we did spend a long time driving past it. Phoning them was no use – even when we called from a crossroad about 3 km away and read out the signs! Strangely, even the nearby agrotourism... more