still queued long at the Vatican. There you should go to the checkout, at Colosseum as long queues because hundreds of other visitors had also pass. There, the pass has brought no waiting advantages.
Dear Romreisende, first, it was very nice, not least because of the warm weather in late October / early November, after all, even to the 25-30 ° C. Recommended is an apartment, for example, as we on the Via Nazionale. As good as everything is within walking distance, only to the Vatican we took the Metro. The metro network is small, 2 lines. Buses run frequently, inside the bus, unfortunately, no info as in the metro where you just located, so it is difficult to see where you could get the best and where you currently are. That is when the first review: No bus schedule with stops marking thereby the Rompass. The map is labeled very small and not well considered color to dark colors. Positive am Pass is that you come in past quickly in the Vatican on the ground and also the Colosseum. Why not Roman in the basilica and forum? What's not to understand that in order to take the Sigthseeingbus may again have to visit the Vatican, to get a "ticket". We see our entry at Termini would have been much more comfortable now. We have yet purchased the Rome City Pass. Why a ticket for a ticket get? The pass is quite expensive and should cover the above-mentioned services with. Another positive aspect is that several admission fees for exhibitions, we visited the Picasso exhibition or the old masters of 15./16.Jahrhunderts contained in the passport for example. Throughout the former workers' district of Rome, Trastevere is recommended as worth seeing. Do not go out, it is not worthwhile, there are nicer places e. g. Piazza Lorenzo.
I bought the 3 days Turbopass Rome for 2 adults and 1 11 year old. The price is already steep. The documentation, how it all works, could be better. The Vaticanvisit worked great, at the Colosseum we were with about 30 minutes of waiting pure (instead of 2 hours or more). The bus ride is no need. I am also still not clear how many tickets are free. We have de facto Colosseum / Roman Forum / Vatican Museums and Castel Sant'Angelo consumed, and a 1.5-hour drive to Rome. And of course the subway. Good would be two examples of what you should visit on 2 or 3 days and then paid / or is included.
In principle, the Rome city pass is not wrong, but sometimes cumbersome for example. the Colosseum to get as an adult with the ball purely as normal but for a child you have a 0 ticket at checkout pick so that it comes in. Perhaps it would also be useful to write in the brochure that its not allowed to bring drinks with you. We had the 72 hour pass. But he was not 72 hours valid that was less enjoyable. In addition, the staff of City Pass in Rome did not really know where you can enter in the city tour that has a lot of time cost. Positive is definitely: - to the queue over - flexible with bus and metro go
Basically the Rome Pass is a good thing. The big advantage is the snakes over and the free rides in public transport. The pity is that it is not clearly described in the order where the transport moves. It would be good to describe clear that the Leonardo Express to the airport is not present! The fact that for the first city tour has to visit one of the two offices, we find inconvenient. It would be better if one could enter at one of the stops.
For me he was definitely not worth it, although it sounds good at the snakes at the entrance quickly over, but that was only good at the Vatican City and Colloseum, but it would not have needed, since waiting time would have been only 30 minutes, must say I was in September. St. Peter's Cathedral is free anyway, and many things listed in the list too. Castel Sant'Angelo was not there and the Hopp on hopp off bus only one day.
Being of the older generation only took printed copy of the city passes but some places wouldn't even try to scan them some did and they worked fine, but other would only scan mobile phone pdf which we hadn't got.
By and large, I find the Turbo Pass okay ... but we arrived at the airport, because we did not take a bus in the direction of Termini, so we had to rechachieren by mobile phone first which bus number goes to the metro ... there passed something Time ... Hop and Hop Buse the same ... asked at least 10 red tits ... no one wanted to take us ... they were sent from there to there ... so time passed ... at the Vatican we were intercepted and persuaded something else to book ... for 2 people 72 euros ... the madness --- so I paid for three days Rome City Pass over 300 euros ... I was very ettäuscht
I found the Turbopass for Rome difficult to use because many of the sites were far from each other or required me to go to a museum . Given the poor weather on my trip, I did not use most of this pass.
This pass also did not include many of the sites that were closer to where I was staying and would like to have seen.
We felt like we could have gotten more for our money by buying tickets there and doing tours with a guide. The pass did not get us better or easier access to the places we wanted to go.
The idea behind it is a great one. Be aware of what is possible to see in a day. We are not experienced travellers so we thought we it would be a great way to get familiar with Rome. By the time we figured out how to use the passes etc well enough to make them useful they had expired
I bought the London Pass when I visited London, and it was great value for the cost. For my visit to Rome, I decided to purchase the Rome City Pass, but the value was not quite satisfactory. The skip-the-line opportunities in Rome are very helpful, but on par with what you get with the London Pass. Doing the math, the Rome City Pass basically pushes you to do the free city tour bus because you won't get your money back otherwise. The value of the city tour bus is high, so skipping it is a large sunk cost. I took the first city bus tour on a weekend morning to avoid the crowd and traffic. If you don't do that, the ride won't be pleasant. Adding all the free visits, the discounted visits, and the free public transportation used, I barely justified the cost. In contrast, the London Pass offered many more free visits instead of just discounted visits. That's the main difference.
You can save the money !!! And you should urgently read the small print, in many museums you come in only with a previously made reservation and in many not at all. You have to queue anyway anyway because of the security checks. Only in the Colosseum it was worth it for us. The saved money but you can invest in the best food in the world rather than the Rome Pass!
This is waste of money..first the outlet where to pick up the pass was not easy to find. Very disappointed. They have few hop on/ hop off bus. Things could be better. Not happy with turbo pass
The bus was really not like the hop on hop off in other cities. Stops were inconvenient.. Not a great value..
The 6-day pass is well worth it only if you live far outside and must always go by bus, subway or tram. At the Roman Forum you can not visit things that are inside the forum. Most really interesting museums are not included. We were lucky; no long queues at the Coliseum and St. Peter's Basilica. Since we would have come through quickly without a pass. Beginning of September seems to be a good travel time for Rome. Settlement of the pass delivery went very well and fast.
The documents were incomplete. We had plenty of time to ask for the rest. The local Roma pass would be enough if you dare to organize everything yourself. For 6 days it is much too expensive, if you really want to see a lot, you pay. I would not want to buy this anymore, only if I want everything organized, does it make sense. The explanations in the enclosed booklet are not easy to understand. There should be worked on a more understandable brochure.
the bus was not air conditioned and the headphones did not work for two out of three of us. the one that did work was sparse on information about the sites.
My major complaint was that my friend and I were excited for our first trip to Rome but the recording did not sync up to the attraction in front of us! Very annoying! And we waited 45 minutes for a bus to pick us up. They were supposed to be about every 10 minutes. Every time we got on a bus it was the same woman scanning our card. It was like there was only 1 bus. When we complained about our long was wait to her she claimed there were many more buses but they were behind schedule. I would suggest taking a different bus tour company next time. We saw the other buses all over the place and had trouble locating Turbopass. The tickets to the Vatican and metro were the best things about the pass
The city tour is pretty bad. Day tickets for local transport would also be enough. Rather, something for the convenience, certainly not for saving.