The Roma Pass was something a work colleague mentioned to me, although she did not know the name just there was some card thing that gets you benefits.
So I looked up things to do in Rome and eventually came across the website for the Roma Pass through a link from another website. The Roma ... Read review
Advantages: Queue jumping, don't have to worry about entrance fees Disadvantages: Can not be cost effective
The Roma Pass was something a work colleague mentioned to me, although she did not know the name just there was some card thing that gets you benefits.
So I looked up things to do in Rome and eventually came across the website for the Roma Pass through a link from another website. The Roma Pass website is: http://www.romapass.it/?l=en
The website gave me a great insight as to what the card was, there are 2 types of ... ...
The standard (red) Roma Pass costs 23 Euros, and the Roma & Piu (blue) Pass costs 25 Euro's.
The website goes on to have tabs for museums, events, a virtual tour, information, download and buy. I opted not to buy ours online, and decided I would get them when there.
The website sells the cards with this strap line "The Cards that offers you Transport and 2 Museums free of charge as well as Reductions for ... more
The Roma Pass was something a work colleague mentioned to me, although she did not know the name just there was some card thing that gets you benefits.
So I looked up things to do in Rome and eventually came across the website for the Roma Pass through a link from another website. The Roma Pass website is: http://www.romapass.it/?l=en
The website gave me a great insight as to what the card was, there are 2 types of cards, so it explains what both offer and how much they cost.
The standard (red) Roma Pass costs 23 Euros, and the Roma & Piu (blue) Pass costs 25 Euro's.
The website goes on to have tabs for museums, events, a virtual tour, information, download and buy. I opted not to buy ours online, and decided I would get them when there.
The website sells the cards with this strap line "The Cards that offers you Transport and 2 Museums free of charge as well as Reductions for all other museums and major events."
I was sold, I should of perhaps checked the prices of the attractions. I'm not much of a museum go'er and would rather see architecture etc, although I do like museums, we did not opt to visit any whilst in Rome (except the Vatican Museum - but then that isn't in Rome is it.)
IMPORTANT NOTE: The Roma Pass can NOT be used in Vatican City.
When we arrived in Rome, we headed for Termini Station as we knew we could purchase a Roma Pass here as well as a bus ticket. We walked around Termini Station for a good half an hour looking for a desk or something, anything that indicated the Roma Pass was sold there. After an hour we headed back outside to the bus stop, we asked how much the tickets were, and knew you got a discount with the Roma Pass (5 euro's each - quite substantial) we mentioned the Roma Pass to the guy selling tickets and he pointed us across the road to a shack, I don't know if this is putting the right image in your minds but an outside vendor is what it was, selling papers, magazines, drinks etc. Oh and Roma Passes.
We bought 2, 23 euro's each, they come in little red packs, a bit smaller than a5 size. The front of the pack has Roma Pass written on it and has white scribbles that can be depicted as the outline of the Colosseum (well that's what I made it out to be.)
The Roma Pass pack is sealed with a white safety seal, that says on it, check safety seal before purchase.
As you open the pack you will find it opens up to 3 pages, on the left hand page you have your actually Roma Pass, a standard credit card size plastic card, white with red writing and outline. Below the Roma Pass is the transport pass, to use on any means of public transport within Rome to receive a discount price. This is paper but again the same size as a credit card. Also the transport pass is valid for only 3 days.
On the middle page you will find a paper map of Rome, this shows where all the tourist information centres (PIT's) are and other important places of interest.
On the right hand page, the last page, you will find a Roma Guide, and News booklets, I must be honest we flicked through these but didn't really bother studying them in depth, we knew what we wanted to do and see.
The Roma Pass does have its advantages and disadvantages, the main advantage being (if you haven't read my Colosseum review - we completely skipped the queue due to having one.) We also found at the Roman Forum we could skip the queue (much to my annoyance when we had been queuing for over 20 minutes then we were told), and on a plus note, we were going to use it for its discount after using it twice previously, but the Roman Forum is part of the Colosseums attraction (although they have different entrances) so we ended up not paying anything.
The main disadvantage is the entrance fees are not all that expensive, I think the Colosseum was the most expensive and we used our Roma Pass for that and St Angelo's Castle, which didn't come to 23 Euro's, although we saved money on the bus ticket (read TramBus 110 review).
I would say the only frustrating thing with the Roma Pass is, it isn't very clear about its use, outside none of the attractions there are no signs telling you it's excepted and in the Colosseums example, nothing telling you it is part of the Roman Forum's attraction and it is one entrance fee. That annoyed me as people may not, as we were not, that they are all part of the same thing.
Overall I would recommend the Roma Pass, my only advice would be make sure you use it for the more expensive attractions or you won't break even BUT buying it just to skip the queues can be a massive incentive and is definitely worth buying for that reason alone!!
Advantages: Great Site to Behold Disadvantages: Queues, Very Hot.
, then inaugurated by Titus in 80 A.D. then finally completed by Domitian.
The reason the name has changed from the Flavian Amphitheatre to the Colosseum was due to the 'colossal' statue situated outside but nearby.
The Colosseum was used for entertainment purposes, it was built to hold 50,000 spectators, with an estimate of 80 entrances. Now that's what I call crowd control! It was used for shows in which the whole of Rome attended. These shows were mainly barbaric, with gladiators fighting wild animals until the death.
The Colosseum covers 6 acres of land.
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If you have brought a RomaPass the Colosseum is free if this is one of your first attractions, I would recommend buying the RomaPass and using it for the Colosseum, especially in busy periods, as June was. Although we had brought the RomaPass we ...
Absy_Baby 15.07.2009 (16.07.2009)
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Advantages: Good value for money, beautiful scenery, off the beaten track Disadvantages: Attractions difficult to access, hotels relatively expensive
of bars with cutting edge decor and design. Outside of the capital nightlife is very limited with a town having maybe only one drinking place.
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Any other Moldovan town is small and very provincial in outlook and facilities. Balti is a fairly busy market town with a hotel and little else but tourists may find themselves passing through en route to Soroca. Soroca is reputedly the home of the Roma population in Moldova; all I can say is that the Roma must have ben away on holiday when we visited! Thankfully an exceedingly average pizza parlour and an old fortress ovelooking the river which forms the border with Ukraine kept us busy during our overnight stay. Soroca has only one hotel and that is pretty hard to find - the solution being to just take a taxi from the bus station. This is typical of the situation for tourists ...
