Rome Experience

To Roam aroun Rome by a Roma Pass!

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 throug ...

Absy_Baby 28.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Roma Pass

How to save on an otherwise expensive holiday!

Advantages: Excellent prices & system for trams, buses & tube; regular transport
Disadvantages: Overcrowded & hot; cobbled streets make for uncomfortable travel

Having spent a fair amount of money on flights and accommodation before even setting off to sunny Italy, it was something of a relief, when we arrived, to find the transport system was not only excellent but very fairly priced. Anyone who has been to Rom ...

helencooke01 15.12.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Getting around in Rome

Sightseeing tourbus -Trambus open

Advantages: Gets you around city with multi lingual commentry
Disadvantages: Long queues and finding where to buy tickets

You can buy tickets to ride the trambusopen in the main bus station near the Termini. Two-day tickets cost euros. You can hop on and off the bus at will and multi-lingual commentary is available via headphones provided when you board the bus. Queuing an ...

cherries53 28.12.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Getting around in Rome

See Rome And Die (On A Pedestrian Crossing)

Advantages: Much to see.
Disadvantages: Noisy, traffic-choked, expensive, petty crime

You don't so much come home from Rome, as survive to tell the tale, at least that's how I feel. That's not to say the spending five days there was unpleasant, but on balance I'm not making any immediate plans to go back. It soon becomes plain that this ...

BNibbles 25.02.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Rome in general

Not the city of my dreams

Advantages: Lots to do, easy and cheap to get to
Disadvantages: Disappointing for me

Rome was never a place I was dying to go to. However, when looking at holidays for this year, Rome was cheap for when my boyfriend and I wanted to go and was easy to get to from East Midlands Airport as I live in Nottingham. My boyfriend really wanted to ...

linzee_loulabelle 14.07.2012 · Read full review
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Review of Rome in general