Why choose this Rome tour ?
Avoid waiting in long lines with this 75/90 Minutes small-group official Colosseum guided tour. 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.
Recommended Colosseum Tours selected to avoid the heat and the line.
Get the ultimate Colosseum experience on our tour to enter the most famous landmark, where gladiators fought to the death before ecstatic crowds and exotic animals were butchered in the name of entertainment. At the end of the Colosseum tour, tickets valid for 24 hours are available for access to the Roman Forum and Palatine Hill.
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What makes Colosseum Express Guided Tour and Ancient Rome Admission Included a unique experience ?
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.
At the end of the Colosseum tour your guide will give you the ticket valid for 24 hours to access the Palatine and Roman Forum.
At the end of the Colosseum tour your guide will give you the ticket valid for 24 hours to access the Palatine and Roman Forum.
Tour Description & Additional Info:
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Customers have a mandatory meeting time stated 15 minutes prior to the scheduled departure time due to managing and organizational reasons.
- 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.
- Each traveler must present a valid passport or ID document that matches the name provided at the time of booking for successful entry to the Colosseum and Roman Forum.
- Please note that for safety reasons the Colosseum can accommodate up to 3.000 people at once.This could lead to delays in access to the site, even for pre-booked visitors.
- For security reasons all visitors and their luggage shall be screened.
- To facilitate the security checks please insert any object (including mobile phone) in the bag/backpack or in the tray to be included in the X-ray
- Forbidden objects inside the Colosseum: bottles and glasses containers, alcholic beverages and aerosols, backpacks, camping, bulky bags and luggage / trolley
- Can be introduced medium and small size backpacks to shoulder, which must be checked, as any other bag, with metal detectors, opened and visually inspected by the Urbe Security Institute, responsible for the entrance inspection
- Please notice that the Colosseum Administration, which depends on the Ministry of Cultural Assets and Activities has the faculty to close the Colosseum, or parts of it, with or without notice, for events, strikes, heavy rain, or any other reason. In which case, we will offer an alternative itinerary as it seems fit and offer a partial refund
- Activity not recommended for people with motor lag
- No change on a booking can be accepted after 24hrs to the starting time of the tour. In that instance, no refund will be issued.
- For the safety of all guests, the tour operator reserves the right to refuse service to passengers who are intoxicated or show signs of intoxication. If, as a result, your tour is canceled, you will not be entitled to a refund.
- PETS ARE NOT ALLOWED
- The duration of the tour may vary according to the time taken to access the monument. The tour duration is always at least 75 minutes and will always be at most 100 minutes.
- Every refund request MUST be done within and not later than 48 hours from the day of the tour
- The itinerary may vary depending on weather conditions (ice, rain, or high temperatures) or other events beyond the travel agency’s control.
- Not recommended for travelers in wheel chair
- We kindly inform you that any kind of disability (visual impairment, hearing impairment,… ) or anything that might prevent you to regularly join the tour, MUST BE communicate in advance to our staff.
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Colosseum Express Guided Tour and Ancient Rome Admission Included Inclusions:
Included with Your Ticket
- Colosseum entrance ticket (valued at €18 per person)
- Wi-Fi Headsets radio system to hear the guide clearly in the Colosseum
- Palatine and Roman Forum Tickets valid 24 Hours
- Colosseum reservation fee (valued at €2 per person)
- Group of max 24 people
- Colosseum Walking Guided Tour and Tickets
- Please note: Colosseum fees as above. The remaining cost of the experience covers other services.
Not Included
- Gratuities (recommended)
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Food and drinks, unless specified
- Palatine Hill and Roman Forum guided tour
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Special Instructions:
- This Tour is Provided by Tour In Rome by Tour in the City.
- Tour Timezone & Starts at Europe/Rome.
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted.
- All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.
- This Tour is Rated 4 Stars based on 1005 valid reviews on VIATOR.
- Minimum 1 Travelers is required to book.
- Maximum 15 Travelers is accepted for booking.
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You must provide a valid photo ID to enter the Colosseum (ID, Driver’s License, Passport) Security will prevent you from entering the site if the information provided is not accurate and/or doesn’t match the one on your ID.
The starting point, ticket redemption point, and meeting point are in the same place: Via delle Terme di Tito on the corner of Via Nicola Salvi. Our Staff wearing blue T-shirts branded “Tour in the city”
PLEASE NOTE: Discount for children under 18 years IS APPLIED ONLY WITH A VALID ID CARD!! Without a valid ID (A student Card is not considered a Valid ID), ticket control operators will deny entry at the Colosseum.
Mandatory meeting time at least 30 minutes before the scheduled departure time due to managing and organizational reasons.
Late arrivals will not be refunded.
BE AWARE the group may need to leave from the meeting point 15 minutes before the tour booked time.
Please note that the Colosseum’s capacity regulations and security may delay the tour departure even for pre-booked travelers.
Tickets are timed, dated, and not refundable.
Before the departure of the tour, you will be given radios and headsets to hear the guide perfectly. THE RADIOS ARE NOT DISPOSABLE! YOU MUST GIVE THEM BACK TO THE TOUR GUIDE AT THE END OF THE TOUR!
Please note that the Colosseum Administration has the faculty to close the Colosseum, or parts of it, with or without notice, for extraordinary events, strikes, rain, or any other reason. Access to archaeological areas may be subject to delays beyond our control.
For any communication, the Staff has no responsibility in case the phone number left at the moment of your booking is wrong or inactive.
The tour duration is always at least 1.5 hours.
The tour operates in every weather condition! People who chose to leave the tour early because of rain, will not be refunded! Please dress weather accordingly.
Every refund request must be made within and not later than 48 hours from the day of the tour.