No waiting at the Vartikan, use of public transport, as described uncomplicated and free. However, beware of the 6-day pass. Here you get 2 x 72 hour passports and get in Rome not a good briefing, better early enough home order and description (even the small) durchlesen.So we had both passports activated and this was unfortunately not undone. (Double price !!) Entrance for children often in Rome free of charge, therefore possibly no pass needed. The pass can also be bought locally, but without visiting the Vartikan with the special time on the ticket (no waiting time !!)
We used it to explore Rome with the public transport and we found it very useful. In addition, we visited the Coliseum and the Vatican (with a supplement) thanks to the card. Finally, we tried the Hop on Hop off bus with it.
The card is very useful to travel within Roma and to visit the indispensable sites. However, it is a little expensive and for many attractions, we could not use it (catacombs, Vittoriano lift).
The Rome pass did save time, but I had to pick it up in country because I was only 2 weeks early, not the required 3 weeks. The information provided online wasn't enough for me to properly plan out what I needed. The guide book was not very clear, and it referenced a map that was not included, so it wasn't easy to follow. If you received the whole package in the mail, it may have been easier to plan. I feel I could have saved money by not using the pass. There are other ways to skip the lines, and when you bought this pass, you automatically chose against guided tours because most of them included the entry fee, which if you had this pass, you didn't want to buy. This pass locks you into non-guided choices, so we usually just bought the audio tour, or did without. Or if I had an guided option, it wasn't clear enough for me to know and use that option.
I did like having the subway pass provided, but in other towns I easily purchased the passes at the stations.
We enjoyed having the pass for the subway in Rome. We also used it for several places to visit but the hop on hope off bus was no longer in service but the did give us a small refund.
Liked the convenience of not having to wait in line. However, it was inconvenient to have to pick up our Rome pass in person. Had a lot of trouble finding the office in Rome for the pickup. Much better experience in Florence since we could print out our pass online and did not have to pick it up in person.
Roman Forum: Unfortunately not visited, as with City Pass about 1 hour wait in brooding sun! City Pass virtually worthless ... Vatican Museum and Colosseum, however, according to pass impeccable entrance. City Hopper cumbersome and not clearly signposted. Headphone reception did not work.
Rome is a really worth seeing city. Whether you need to the Rome City Card is questionable. Since the offis network in Rome is not exactly the best and you also get no plans for the trams and buses, it is much cheaper if you buy a one-way ticket there. In addition, most attractions are within walking distance. If you go to Rome for the first time, a hop-on hop-off tour is highly recommended to get an overview (to be found at every major attraction or at Termini station). At first visit, the Rome City Pass is in my opinion only useful if you want to see the Vatican. Otherwise, the most famous sights are mostly without entrance to explore.
It was very difficult to pick up the tickets. Had problems with the city bus tickets. However the pass worked good for the two days we used them.
Pentecost in Rome, that was not a good idea. On this reduced metro and also for buses congested city, we have taken more steps on all days than on our mountain hiking tours in the summer. We were able to pass the queue at the Vatican Museums, but inside it does not make it any better. You see, some dim sensations. Since it was a bit annoying that the young people did not get a Roma passport, so we had to beg at the Castel Sant'Angelo, that our two kiddies came so pure. I had expected for the proud price that there is nowhere in the neck of such problems.
As for the use of public transport and entry into the Vatican, past the long queue, the pass is really recommended. The city tour with the light blue hop-on hop-off was the most uninformative I've ever experienced. The red hop-on yard-off buses are clearly better. And you should not be tempted to enter the additional attraction (Engelsburg) in the three-day pass before or between the two free attractions. We were first in the Castel Sant'Angelo, then in a museum (*) and then had to pay in the Colosseum (reduced) admission. So we should not have visited the Castel Sant'Angelo until the third sight. I think that could be clearer and less complicated. If in the 3-day pass an attraction is additionally free, then please at any time!
The Turbo Pass includes 2 passes, namely the Rome Pass and additional services. This is really a good thing except a problem: You have to plan the order of your visits very well, because you spend your free entries otherwise in places that are less important. That's what happened to us: before visiting the Colosseum, we got tickets for an evening event in another museum. There we were told that we could visit the museum for free anyway and well, our entrance to the Coliseum was gone. The museum itself did not interest us. We only wanted to go to the evening event and it was expensive anyway ... This problem is described very small at Turbopass, we had to search a long time until we found the text afterwards. Additional services (city tour and Vatican): The Hop on hop off tour (city tour) is actually a joke that the bus can not drive through the city. And, since the public transport anyway contained in the Rome Pass and are very cheap, so unnecessary. However, the ticket to the Vatican Museums was very helpful and spared us long waiting times.
Since Rome also has high season at the end of April, you should book your ticket early. otherwise there is no time window for the Vatican, which is inclusive. Also, when picking up tickets (if you, like us, could not send them anymore), you should stick to the pickup address and not think that getting tickets at other counters offering similar combination packages is not. This saves long waiting times and nerves. Next time we would probably solve the ticket on the spot and book the Vatican extra with a guide, but then in January / February when in Rome apparently nothing is going on
Advantages: the vouchers / tickets included Cons: the descriptions partly wrong and sometimes very inaccurate
but extrapay at Vatican due to limited contingent for Rome City Pass and Castel Sant'Angelo. Bus ride was great !!!!
For the Vatican, the passport has not brought us free admission - since the available days and tickets were booked long in advance. But there have easy get a normal ticket because we did not have to wait with the passport. Therefore, there is Sternabzug, because we have counted.
Wir waren zu viert in Rom unterwegs und hatten alle auch den Pass.
Dieser galt lt. Aussage der Dame an der Kasse der Engelsburg für nur 3 Museen, da sie aber \"Mitleid\" mit uns hatte, brauchten wir nur noch 7,00€p.P. nachzahlen. Das stand so nicht in den Prospekten.
Bei der City Tour bekamen wir auch die Auskunft, daß der Pass nur für diesen Bus gültig ist. Ein/- und Aussteige, wie verspropchen, war nicht möglich.
Alles in Allem verzog man eigentlich immer das Gesicht, wenn man den Pass vorzeigte. Ich muß ganz ehrlich sagen, daß ich schon etwas enttäuscht war.
Super war, man konnte alle öffentlichen Verkehrsmittel nutzen.
Beim Vatikanbesuch gab es auch keine Probleme.
Very cluttered, which is now exactly included. If you can take some time in advance, you probably get cheaper with single tickets and a multi-day public transport ticket.
We could not exhaust the turbo pass. The roads in Rome are wide, the museums are extensive and need a lot of time. After all, we were able to repeat the bus city tour two days later due to a mistake of the controller otherwise the 100 € for the 3 days would not have been worth it. Through the pass we could but the huge lines of people in front of the Vatican. Museums, the Colosseum and the Roman Forum. That's also worth something. Turbopass supplies a usable city map and additionally an overview with the bus and metro stops. The metro is good but the bus stops are not on the map (except Termini station) and therefore no help in finding it. Until you have familiarized yourself with public transport, the 3-day pass has expired again. It would be very helpful if the stops were integrated in the city map.
The only point of picking up the Turbopass tickets is near the Vatican. If you wish to benefit from free transportation, you must first get to the Vatican to pick them up, so you are required to pay to get there.
This is just a Roma pass with hop on hop off and Vatican ticket. It is true that you can go straight to St. Peter's from the Vatican without standing up, but unfortunately that is not the case. Find the pass is too expensive!