Anyone have any clue where I can find some cheap ($50 - $60 a night) hotel/apt to stay in Rome. Me and the SO would like to stay there June 19,20,21, but everything seems booked. Anyone have any ideas or can nudge me in the correct direction it would be much appreciated. The problem isn’t finding a place, just find a place that has space.
Thanks
I can give you two hotels, can’t swear to prices but were cheap when we were there.
Hotel Primaverra - Piazza San Pantaleo
tel. 06-6880319 (double check this number)
The propietor speaks english, can’t remember his name but a lovely gentleman. Baths in suite.
The hotel is near the Piazza Navonna and Campo de Fiori. Also on a main street that leads across the river to the Vatican.
Albergo Abruzzi - Piazza della Rotunda
tel. 06-679-2021
When we stayed here our room was a corner room and we had two windows, one window looked out on the Pantheon, the other, out to the restuarants below. There may be rooms with attached bathroom but they would run a little more. We went with using the bathroom in the hall. Fun, really. Get up in the morning and gather your toiletries and share a shower with your spouse, rather romantic.
Piazza Navonna is only a few streets over. Taza de Oro a great bar (coffee bar) is right beside the Abruzzi.
The Abruzzi was the hotel we stayed in our first trip to Rome where we fell in love with Rome so it has special meaning to us. We were never able to get a room there again as we rarely ever made reservations and tended to show up in high tourist season.
If I think of more I’ll pop in.
Okay, I found the third hotel that was quite convenient for us…
Hotel Pomezia - Via dei Chiavari
tel. 066 86 1371
The price listed is higher than I remember at 125 euros.
The hotel is close to Campo De Fiori and Torre de Argentine ( a major bus and tram stop. Also near what is called the theater district.
We stayed here when my Mom, sister and two nieces came to visit us in Italy.
You are visiting in high season so prices will be higher.
Google - ‘hotels, rome’ and see what you come up with.
Travel the inexpensive way. Try Hostelling International. At their site, you’ll find the list of national hostelling associations, with an entry for Italy. The Italian association has entries for Latium, and Roma itself. Bed (in a dorm) and brekkie for 16 euros a night. Private rooms will be more expensive. Looks like you can book online. If you’ve never stayed in a hostel before, read the FAQ at Hostelling International above. They’re open to all, not just youth. (I stayed in one last weekend and I’m not exactly young… ) 
And if you don’t want to stay in a hostel, be a guest at someone’s house! Try Pasporta Servo. It’s a hospitality exchange. I stayed with a host in an apartment in Copenhagen using it… for free. But you’ll have to do some preparation for this one.
The subway system is rather easy to learn, you can et by with figuring out one line(there’s only two anyway I think). Staying out a ways on the line might be a choice. We stayed at Princess Hotel on the subway line and took the subway in every day, not bad. Only problem was our station had those stupid machines for dispensing tokens, and the machines weren’t the best at accepting coins.
We were with a group at the place, so we got a deal on the hotel I guess, the sheet on the door said it was 200 E for a couple, which I find hard to believe.
ps) try the lemon gelato, mmmmmmm. avoid the banana.
Good advice, thanks all. It took a few days to get back to this thread, but I currently have the office and the phoneline all to myself. 
Off to make some calls.
If you get desperate, hang out at the train station. There will be people from hostels and various dives handing out flyers. They won’t be nice accomodations, but they will be cheap and it will be an adventure. I’d personally rather stay in a dive in the heart of the city than a nice place an hour’s subway ride (and the Roman subway is pathetic) away. Anyway, if you go in the morning I gaurentee you will always find someplace to stay.
Yeah, if you get there in the morning you will find a place. If you don’t mind an element of uncertainty, there are a ton of small privatately run pensione all around the central station. Pick a direction, walk in it, pick some place that looks nice.