Travel tips for Rome?

Make sure you cover your shoulders when going in churches. You can bring a shawl and wrap it around. If you need a place to stay you should look at www.venere.com which has a lot of Italian hotels that are not usually listed on orbitz or expedia. One of the hotels I stayed at was called Hotel Pineta Palace, in the outskirts of Rome. It was a great deal, really nice, we had a balcony view of St. Peter's dome. The breakfast was amazing as well. It is 10 minutes from Vatican so if you don't mind taking shuttles/buses then I'd recommend it. Plus, it is in a non-tourist part of town so you definitely feel what the real Rome is like without so much tourism.