We visited Rome for a long weekend for a wedding anniversary in early October, weather perfect, 20-24, cool evenings. Off the plane find the Leonardo Express, no stops, takes you straight to Termini and from there you can walk to Vittorio Emanuelle. Buy your train tickets from the manned ticket booth as the ticket will be ready to go (Validated). Location of this AirB&B is extremely convenient for exploring the Rome sites either by foot or via the Metro line merely 30 seconds away, thats why we chose it. Simple, clean room, very secure, very impressive security door that would take Hercules to get through once locked. Vittorio Emanuelle II is a very large collection of identical buildings surrounding an old park, was confusing for us initially as it all looks the same at first glance. The area is a little run down compared to other areas in Rome, bit of graffiti and a few tramps here and there however do not let that put you off, remember you will not be spending any time in the room anyway. At no time did either myself or my wife feel remotely unsafe or uncomfortable, no sign of the famous pickpockets either, they were possibly on vacation themselves. Riccardo is great, he will tell you all you need to know, rest assured. You can walk to Trevi fountain, Colosseum, Pantheon as we did easily from Vittorio Emanuelle and if you are feeling super strong Vatican City is manageable as our friends did it, took a little over an hour. We used the Metro, costs 3 Euros (1.50 each bargain) and covers the entire line to Vatican, dead easy. Rome is a huge place, maps do not provide a good scale, make sure your google maps is working and track your routes with it, mine never worked, made it much harder, bit old school. A word of advice, wear decent walking shoes, punishing on ankles, I wore some Dudes and they were not good enough.
Rome is full of street peddlers that will try to either sell you crap or con you into some sort of deal. A classic is Indian men taking a snap of you as you fumble with a selfie, seemingly out of kindness however as we found out they want paying. Just tell them NO or get lost, did the trick.
Another really useful tip if you visit Vatican Museums do the SKIP THE LINE deal, there will be people floating up and down the cue encouraging you to do it, we thought it was a con, it was not, defo do it, you will need all the time possible to explore Vatican, its huge, far bigger than I expected. It costs double the entry but saves hours of queuing. Should be able to do it online before you go the Rome I think, we just turned up and queued.
A final point which may help the travel virgins like us, when we tried to buy the train tickets at Termini for our return to the airport we found it really confusing, forget the official ticket booths, cues were huge. We stumbled into a third party excusion booth that sold Leonardo Express tickets, they were a few Euro more but no hassle, no queuing. And all you do is show a ticket print out to the guards and you are on the platform, so easy, will do that again.
We quickly got into the swing of Rome, great place, for the price the stay location was terrific, supermarket close by, some nice little restaurants as well. Enjoy Rome, we will be returning in the future.