Colosseum Express Tour

We arrived for our tour early and checked in, we were told our names were not on the list but there were 4 empty places, all good at this stage. We then proceeded to the departure point only to be told we were now leaving at 3:40 instead of 3:00 and our tour was over booked. After much backwards and forwards we were then booked on a tour the following morning. Very disappointed to say the least. Once we finally did our tour it was great.

We booked this tour after our original tour operator cancelled. We liked that it was only meant to be an hour, with free time after to explore. It was great because we bypassed the long lines as promised. The tour guide was ok, but got off topic often and didn't give a lot of useful information on the actual colosseum or history. When we arrived, they offered to include us in the following tour to the other ruins nearby for only 5 euro each - good deal overall, even though we didn't follow the guide once inside. The problem was that our coloseum tour guide wasted so much time, that our hour tour actually went for 1.5 hours, which meant we lost our free time to explore on our own between tours, which was really disappointing.

Although summer mornings at the Colosseum are insane, this company handled things very professionally and even started the tour while we waited for minors to be checked in and while in line. Our tour guide (I feel terrible I cannot remember her name but she was of Japanese decent I believe) was phenomenal! I have been on 4 colosseum tours in the last 10 years and this was by far the best. Her English was perfect, she was funny and sweet and very concerned that we stay in the shade as it was over 100 F that day. Even my 18 year old cousin was engaged by the tour for the full hour. Absolutely delightful tour and I would recommend it to others.

The attraction was great, the tour was not. Our guide was difficult to understand and all over the place in terms of his presentation.

This tour was well worth it; we only had a short time that day before we were leaving Rome so we did an Express Tour, and I only wish I could have done one of the longer ones. The guide was very good. My only critique is that it was very difficult to locate the guide in the place we were supposed to meet and there was a lot of shuffling around and waiting before the tour started.

We arrived at the meeting spot 10minutes early but the meeting spot was not in the place as indicated in the tour information guide. We did not see a guide with a sign which would have helped since there were mass of people in the meeting spot with other tours. Our guide didn't show up until 9:15am when the tour was supposed to meet at 8:30am. We also had to wait an extra 15minutes for them to buy our entrance tickets. The only positive thing about the tour was bypassing the extremely long lines. Andre' our first guide to the colosseum was okay, didn't really share anything new that I haven't read in Italy guide books. Matt our 2nd tour guide for Palatine hill had our tickets ready and showed up on time. His passion for history was intectious.

Bring a hat, bottled water and a Camera Amazing, get your Tour Tickets early, and you will see the Long lines you will by pass.