# Rome: the bed tax runs 3.00 to 10.00 a night > Rome charges 3.00 to 10.00 euros per person per night by category, capped at 10 nights in the same property, and four star hotels pay 7.50, not 7.00. URL: https://myitalia.it/towns/roma/where-to-stay Last updated: 2026-09-02 Rome charges a bed tax of €3.00 to €10.00 per person per night depending on the category of the property, for a maximum of 10 consecutive nights in the same place. ## The ladder, from 3.00 to 10.00 Rates were set by Giunta Capitolina decision 255 of July 17, 2023 and have applied since October 1, 2023: €4.00 per person per night in a one star hotel, €5.00 at two stars, €6.00 at three, €7.50 at four and €10.00 at five stars or above. Outside the hotel classification the scale flattens. B&Bs, holiday houses and apartments in category 1, farm stays, country houses, case per ferie, aparthotels and short lets all sit at €6.00, holiday apartments in category 2 at €5.00, guest houses and rooms for rent from €5.00 to €7.00 by category, hostels and mountain refuges at €3.50, temporary parking areas at €3.00. Read the category, not the price you paid. The tax is set by classification, so a cheap room in a four star hotel carries €7.50 a head while an expensive apartment carries €6.00, and two people in a hostel carry €3.50 each. ## 10 nights, and then it stops The tax applies for a maximum of 10 consecutive nights in the same property, and for 5 nights at temporary parking areas. That cap changes the arithmetic of a long stay. A twelve night booking in one hotel is charged for ten nights and the last two are free of it. Move to another property on night eight and the count restarts from zero, so the cap never arrives. If you are staying two weeks and considering a mid trip change of address, this is one of the small reasons not to. ## The 7.50 that guides print as 7.00 The official tariff table sets four star hotels at €7.50 per person per night. A number of online guides print €7.00 for the same category. We flag it because it is the kind of error that survives for years: one wrong copy gets quoted, then quoted again, and the number acquires a life of its own. The source here is the tariff PDF published by Roma Capitale, confirmed on two of the city's own pages. Exemptions are a different matter. Rome's rules do name exempt categories, but we could not verify them on a primary source, so this page lists none. Ask the property. ## Why a city can charge more than 5.00 The Italian bed tax comes from article 4 of legislative decree 23 of March 14, 2011, which sets an ordinary ceiling of €5.00 per night and allows provincial capitals, unions of comuni and tourist comuni to apply it graduated in proportion to the price. Rome charges €10.00 at the top, twice the ordinary ceiling, under the derogation for comuni whose tourist presences exceed twenty times the resident population, measured on ISTAT data for the previous three years. That derogation is the legal reason your Rome invoice looks different from one in a small town. The text of the national decree was read inside a municipal act rather than on the government's own database, which is a thin chain for a legal citation. See [the tourist tax across Italy](/themes/tourist-tax). ## Which district: what we can and cannot say There is no verified neighborhood dataset behind this site, so this page ranks no district and recommends none. Inventing one would be easy and would be worse than the gap. What we can price is the part that is written down. The bed tax runs €3.00 to €10.00 per person per night with a 10 night cap, and it is charged per head, so a family pays it four times over. Small hosts collect it in cash on arrival, so keep notes. The other thing worth checking before you book an address is whether a car can legally reach it, which in central Rome depends on limited traffic zones that do not share one timetable. See [getting to Rome](/towns/roma/getting-there) and [Rome](/towns/roma). ## FAQ ### How much is the tourist tax in Rome per night and is it included in my booking? It runs €3.00 to €10.00 per person per night by category and it is almost never included: small properties collect it in cash on arrival. Hotels pay €4.00 at one star up to €10.00 at five, and the cap is 10 consecutive nights in the same property. ### Is the Rome bed tax really 7.00 euros for a four star hotel? No, it is €7.50. The official tariff table published by Roma Capitale sets four star hotels at €7.50 per person per night, while several online guides still print €7.00. Three star hotels are €6.00 and five star hotels €10.00. ### Do apartments and short lets pay less than hotels in Rome? They pay €6.00 per person per night, the same as a B&B, a country house, a farm stay or a three star hotel. Hostels and mountain refuges pay €3.50 and temporary parking areas €3.00, with a shorter cap of 5 nights. ### How many nights do you pay the Rome bed tax for? 10 consecutive nights in the same property, after which it stops. Temporary parking areas have a 5 night cap instead. The rates come from Giunta Capitolina decision 255 of July 17, 2023 and have applied since October 1, 2023. ### Where should I stay in Rome: which neighborhood for a first visit? This site holds no verified neighborhood data for Rome, so it names no district. What we can price is the bed tax, €3.00 to €10.00 per person per night with a 10 night cap, and the traffic rules that decide whether a car can reach your door. ## Sources | Fact | Source | Confidence | Valid until | |---|---|---|---| | A Roma il contributo di soggiorno, in vigore con le tariffe deliberate dalla Giunta Capitolina il 17 luglio 2023 e applicate dal 1 ottobre 2023, va da 3,00 euro a persona per notte nei campeggi a 10,00 euro negli alberghi a 5 stelle, per un massimo di 10 pernottamenti consecutivi nella stessa struttura (2026). | [Roma Capitale](https://www.comune.roma.it/web-resources/cms/documents/Nuove_tariffe_contributo_di_soggiorno_dal_01.10.2023_logo.pdf); [doc 2](https://www.comune.roma.it/web/it/informazione-di-servizio.page?contentId=IDS1083852); [Roma Capitale - S.U.A.R.](https://www.comune.roma.it/web/it/scheda-servizi.page?contentId=INF1088067&stem=suar) | high | 2027-06-30 | | L'imposta di soggiorno italiana e' istituita dall'articolo 4 del d.lgs. 14 marzo 2011 n. 23, che consente ai comuni capoluogo di provincia, alle unioni di comuni e ai comuni turistici di applicarla in modo graduale e proporzionato al prezzo, fino a un tetto ordinario di 5 euro a pernottamento, tetto elevabile per i comuni con presenze turistiche molto superiori alla popolazione residente. | [Comune di Firenze - Deliberazione di Giunta DG/2024/00535](https://servizi.comune.fi.it/sites/www.comune.fi.it/files/deliberazione_di_giunta_completa-dg_2024_00599_00535-1.pdf); [Comune di Firenze](https://servizi.comune.fi.it/servizi/imposta-di-soggiorno-informati) | medium | 2027-12-31 | ## Image https://media.myitalia.it/media/city.roma.1600.jpg Author: Till Niermann. 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