On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, glen black wrote:

Have you checked out Touring Club Italiano? gb

Despite the fact I'm a proud member of TCI and a keen user of their
excellent guides (in italian), I'm not so keen on their
hotel-and-restaurant lists (they publish an updated version every so
often). Actually I'm not keen on hotel guides in general (I look for
other kind of guides, arts, history, nature, transport etc.).

I've seen the TCI hotel-and-restaurant guide only once (when it was
included in the yearly membership pack). I've also regularly seen the
short lists included in the normal "green" guides. I believe the
information is accurate, but the selection of hotels is on a more
expensive range that I'm used to when travelling privately (or, if you
want, the available offer is larger ... I've often travelled with TCI
organized tours, almost invariably in excellent hotels, and in several
cases the hotels they chose were not listed in their guides).

Anyhow this is TCI's web site http://www.touringclub.it/ There is an
"english" tab on top right. I usually consult the italian section so I'm
not sure how complete the english one is. I know that some of their
guides are also published in English (although the bulk of their
publications is for italians). Since a while they have also sites for
flight and hotel bookings. The latter should be
http://hotels.touringclub.it

I've used it only once to search for a not-so-expensive hotel in Rome,
but I got a better rate phoning the hotel directly (in general I'm wary
about online booking in this country).

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