Colosseum Express Guided Tour & Ancient Rome Entry Pass included
- 2–3 hours
- Free cancellation up to 168h before
- 6 languages
- Mobile ticket
Highlights
Skip the line to buy the tickets and explore the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, and Palatine Hill with a private guided tour, or book a self-audio guided tour to see the entire area at your own pace. Visit the Colosseum, the Palatine Hill, and the Roman Forum with one of our tours. We can offer different options to visit one of the most important archaeological areas in the world, the Colosseum, a symbol of the Roman Empire. Choose a Private Guided Tour accompanied by an official tour guide, or choose to visit at your leisure, without having to follow a group, by booking the option of visiting the Colosseum, Palatine Hill, and Roman Forum with a self-guided tour (audioguide App in English, Chinese, German, French, Italian, and Spanish with 44 points of interest), which you can conveniently download onto your smartphone. Learn the story of the Romans and its most important monuments on a 3-hour tour. Enjoy a fast-track entrance to the Colosseum, Palatine Hill, and Roman Forum
Inclusions
What's included
- For audio guide option: App in English, Chinese, German, French, Italian, and Spanish
- Colosseum entrance ticket (valued at €18 per person)
- For the guided tour option: Guide for groups of up to 24 people
- Colosseum reservation fee (valued at €2 per person)
- Palatine and Roman Forum entry tickets valid for 24 hours for both options
- Note: Colosseum fees are as above. The remaining cost of the experience covers other services
What's not
- Tour Guide included ONLY for guided tour option
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Smartphones to download the app must be latest generation (No older than 2020)
- Food and drinks
- Headsets (for the audio guided tour option)
Itinerary
Visit Rome's symbolic monument with a tour that makes it easy and fun for all ages. Learn about the amphitheater's history from a guide with an art and archaeology background. Learn about the spectacular games and bloody battles that were held inside. Hear about the techniques of construction invented by the Romans, the incredible ability of the gladiators, the violent fighting between exotic animals, and the high level of technology achieved by Roman engineers to build the Colosseum. Walk around the first tiers and reach the arena to learn about the trapdoors and all the mechanisms used to animate the games. Your guide will keep you entertained with stories of sea-battles, the cages where lions were kept before the games started, the rooms in which gladiators were waiting before they reached the arena, the executions, and the excitement of the spectators attending the most spectacular, fantastic, and expensive games in human history.
ourney into the heart of Ancient Rome at the Roman Forum. Discover the center of Roman society at the Forum, where laws were decreed, politics discussed, and goods bartered. This is the beating heart of Ancient Rome: an unmatched social, economic, religious, and political powerhouse.
Palatine Hill, four-sided plateau rising 131 feet (40 metres) south of the Forum in Rome and 168 feet (51 metres) above sea level. It has a circumference of 5,700 feet (1,740 metres). The city of Rome was founded on the Palatine, where archaeological discoveries range from prehistoric remains to the ruins of imperial palaces.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 168 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Know before you go
- Meeting point
- The meeting point is at our office in Via Labicana 96. Meeting Time is 30 minutes before the booked time, and the documents (Identity Card or Passport) are mandatory.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 24 travellers
- Operated by
- Tour In Rome by Tour in the City
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- The Colosseum security checks the names and ID cards of each visitor, so the wait can be longer than expected. You can enter only with a valid ID card!
- Please provide the full names of all travelers when booking. Failure to present a voucher with all travelers' full names at the ticket office prior to entry may result in denied entry to the Colosseum and Roman Forum.
- The activity can suffer 20/30 min variation due to organizational reasons
- Children must be accompanied by an adult. Discount for children under 18 years is applied only with a valid ID card! Without valid ID ticket control operators will deny entry at the Colosseum.
- For the Sel Guided Tour Option Smartphones to download the app for the audioguide must be of the latest generation (No older than the year 2020)
How it compares in Rome
- Its from-price is 69% below the median of the 8352 experiences we list in Rome.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- By number of reviews it ranks 130 of 8352.
About Rome
Rome layers nearly three thousand years of history into one walkable city, from the Colosseum and Forum to Baroque piazzas and Vatican art.
Ancient Rome is still in plain sight. The Colosseum, the Roman Forum and the Palatine Hill sit together at the city's heart, the Pantheon still stands with its open oculus, and fragments of temples and aqueducts turn up between apartment blocks. Across the Tiber, Vatican City holds St Peter's Basilica, the Vatican Museums and Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling.
Top-ranked sights in Rome: Colosseum, Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel.
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