The Hotel Imperiale is an impressive five-floor hotel with a nineteenth century style façade, located in downtown Rome on Via Vittorio Veneto; it is just 300 metres from both the Spanish Steps and the Trevi Fountain. All 96 air-conditioned rooms have wood floors, red and gold décor with wooden furniture, and are equipped with minibars, cable television and high-speed Internet access. Marble and mosaic bathrooms provide hair dryers, bathrobes, telephones, and hydromassage tubs or showers.

The hotel restaurant is a 19th century-styled dining room and guests also have the option of being seated in the air-conditioned glass house located directly on the Via Veneto. The hotel has two well-equipped meeting rooms capable of holding up to 70 delegates. Parking is available for those arriving by car; alternatively the hotel can arrange airport transportation. Multilingual staff at the 24-hour front desk are also on hand to provide tour assistance. Art lovers should take a short 500-metre walk to the Palazzo Barberini where they will find the works of classical painters Raphael and Caravaggio among others. Villa Borghese, just 300 metres away, is well worth a visit for a stroll in the tranquillity of its gardens. The hotel is approximately 35 kilometres or a forty-minute drive from Rome Fiumicino Airport. There is an express train service every 30 minutes to Rome's Termini train station (journey time 30 minutes). A single ticket costs around ¬10. Taxis are readily available at the airport, but take a licensed metered taxi only. An airport surcharge is payable. A taxi to the city centre will cost ¬50-60.