From
From $400/night
Rooms
69
Setting
San Lorenzo
Best For
Design · Rooftop Pool · Club Culture
Reviewed
May 2025
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"If you haven't entered any dates, Soho House Rome is the most ambitious build in the brand's history — a ten-story tower from scratch in San Lorenzo, the most politically spirited neighborhood in Rome, with a red-tiled rooftop pool that overlooks the Eternal City to the Apennine Mountains."
Soho House Rome is the brand's first Italian outpost and its most ambitious single build. Rather than repurposing a historic palazzo — as they did in Paris with Jean Cocteau's former home — the in-house design team constructed a new ten-story tower from the ground up in San Lorenzo, the neighborhood east of Rome's historic center that was heavily bombed during World War II and has since evolved into the city's most politically spirited and creatively charged quartiere. Washed in pale terracotta, the building suits the neighborhood without trying to compete with the architecture that surrounds it. Inside: a property that marries the Soho House formula to the specific character of mid-century Rome.
THE PROPERTY
San Lorenzo is not where most visitors to Rome go. That is the point. The quartiere east of the Termini station and adjacent to La Sapienza university has a density of independent restaurants, wine bars, and street art that the Centro Storico cannot replicate. It is a working neighborhood with a genuine political history and a creative energy that predates the boutique hotel industry by several decades. The hotel's distance from the Spanish Steps and the Colosseum — roughly four kilometers to each — is frequently cited as a limitation. It is more accurately described as a feature for anyone staying here by choice.
LOBBY CULTURE
The interiors across the communal spaces run in shades of olive green, deep red, and yellow — a palette inspired, according to the design team, partly by an olive-green car Nick Jones saw parked outside the building during the development process. Terrazzo and travertine appear throughout, nodding to classic Italian material tradition without pastiche. Bespoke textiles featuring graphic patterns. A bold outdoor mural by Gio Pistone on the rooftop. A 42-seat screening room. A gallery space for local artists. The building functions as a genuine cultural institution for the neighborhood as much as it does a hotel.
DESIGN NOTES
The 49 bedrooms and 20 apartments carry the Soho House signature — Graniglia flooring, stucco-rendered walls, wave-shaped timber bedframes — alongside a local touch that distinguishes the Rome property from any other House. Crittall windows. Cozy rugs. Bitossi lamps, made in collaboration with the legendary Italian ceramics brand. Frette linens. Cowshed bath products. Marshall speakers. Roberts radios. The apartments have full kitchens and washing machines, and several have wraparound terraces. Most rooms have balconies, which is unusual in any price category in Rome.
BAR & SHARED SPACES
The ninth-floor restaurant serves House staples alongside locally inspired dishes and operates as the breakfast venue in the cooler months. The real destination is the tenth floor: Cecconi's on the rooftop, with its menu of vitello tonnato and linguine vongole, a bar beside the red-tiled pool, cushioned banquettes below the Pistone mural, and a 360-degree view that reaches from the Quirinal Hill to the Apennine Mountains. The Soho Health Club spans two floors with a Cowshed spa, cryotherapy, infrared therapy, a screening room, and a Technogym-equipped fitness room with yoga and dance classes on the balcony.
Soho House Rome is polarizing in the way all genuinely considered design decisions are polarizing. The San Lorenzo location is deliberately off-center. The building is a new construct in a city of ancient ones. And the interiors — terrazzo, travertine, olive green, Bitossi lamps, wave-shaped timber bedframes — manage to feel both Italian and unmistakably Soho House. The Cecconi's rooftop restaurant is exceptional. The spa is one of the most complete in Rome. And the pool, on the tenth floor with the city spread below, is the best non-hotel pool situation in Italy.
— The Lobby Edit · Founder's Note
ROOMS THAT MATTER
The strongest rooms in the building are the apartments — particularly the XXL apartment with its scarlet bedroom, DJ decks, full kitchen, and wraparound terrace. For a shorter stay, the Medium rooms with furnished balconies and the Rome views they frame are the right choice. The two-bedroom apartments, at 130 square meters with separate lounging and dining terraces, function more as short-term residences than hotel rooms. Soho Friends membership, available for annual fee, provides room discounts alongside benefits at all Houses, Cowshed spas, and Soho Home.
THE VERDICT
Soho House Rome works because San Lorenzo works. The building is ambitious, the design is specific, the rooftop pool is one of the most spectacular hotel amenities in Italy, and Cecconi's is good enough to justify a table reservation regardless of whether you're staying. The location is the considered choice, not the convenient one. Make it deliberately.
Editor's Note
Rome's most contemporary club-hotel. The rooftop pool and Cecconi's make the off-center location an argument, not a limitation.
The Lobby Edit Score
8.9
/ 10
The San Lorenzo location is the right decision for the right guest. The Cecconi's rooftop, the spa, and the apartment program are the strongest in the building.
Property
Soho House Rome
Brand
Soho House
Category
Members Club Hotel
Rooms
69
Opened
2023
Address
Via Cesare de Lollis 14, Rome, Italy
Rates From
$400
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San Lorenzo from the Tenth Floor
Category Scores
Design & Materials
9.1
Atmosphere & Scent
8.8
Lobby Culture
8.9
Service
8.7
Rooms & Suites
9.0
Food & Beverage
8.9
Value
9.0
Sense of Place
The rooftop pool fills, Rome stretches to the mountains, and San Lorenzo suddenly feels like the only place to be.
SIGNATURE SCENT
Cowshed throughout. Eucalyptus, white herb, clean mineral. Familiar globally, sharpened by the spa.
LOBBY ENERGY
Members, creative industry, design travelers. San Lorenzo chosen because it means something to come here.
MATERIAL CHARACTER
Terrazzo, travertine, Bitossi ceramics, wave-shaped timber. Italian material tradition, British design sensibility.
TIME OF DAY
Morning belongs to the ninth-floor restaurant. Evening belongs to Cecconi's and the rooftop pool.
Soho House Rome Lobby Culture Score: 8.9. The olive green communal spaces, the screening room, and a gallery program that treats San Lorenzo as a cultural context rather than a backdrop.
Suites
That Earn the Stay
Large
474 SQ FT · KING · WRAPAROUND BALCONY · FREESTANDING BATH
From $500/night
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Extra Large
1,227 SQ FT · KING · BAR · DJ DECKS · FREESTANDING BATH · CITY VIEWS
From $1,400/night
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Studio Apartment
355 SQ FT · KING · FULL KITCHEN · CITY VIEWS · FLOOR-TO-CEILING WINDOWS
From $600/night
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One-Bedroom Apartment
484 SQ FT · KING · FULL KITCHEN · SEPARATE LIVING AREA
From $750/night
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Two-Bedroom Apartment
797 SQ FT · 2 KINGS · FULL KITCHEN · TERRACE · SLEEPS 4
From $1,100/night
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The Common Ground
Dining, Bar & Shared Spaces
Where the hotel earns its rate beyond the room.
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Three restaurants worth the walk. One for every part of the day.
While You're Here
What to Do Nearby
01
San Lorenzo Neighborhood Walk
The neighborhood surrounding the hotel is the most authentic quartiere in central Rome. Wine bars, street art, independent restaurants, and a local crowd. Walk in any direction.
03
The Colosseum
15 minutes by cab. Book tickets well in advance and go at opening time. The walk back through the Monti neighborhood to San Lorenzo for lunch is the right way to organize the morning.
05
MAXXI Museum
20 minutes by cab. Zaha Hadid's National Museum of 21st Century Arts is the most architecturally significant building in contemporary Rome. Strong programming and a permanent collection worth the detour.
02
La Sapienza University
Adjacent to the hotel. The largest university campus in Europe, with architecture by Marcello Piacentini. Worth walking the main axis in the morning when it's quiet.
04
Soho Health Club
Already in the building. The cryotherapy and Cowshed spa are worth a morning. The yoga on the balcony at sunrise is worth the early alarm.
06
The Rooftop Pool
Already in the building. Book a pool lounger early on summer mornings — they fill before 9am. The view from the cardinal-red pool across Rome to the mountains is the best in the city.
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