Roma Pass Offers Best Bang For Tourist Bucks
For both transportation and Rome sightseeing, the Roma Pass has gained tremendous momentum since its launch last year.
The Roma Pass has quickly gained popularity among tourists to Rome. Introduced in 2007 as a way to simplify transport options for tourists as well as to promote visits to many of Rome's museums and cultural sites, sales have skyrocketed this year and are expected to continue rising.
The pass is a three day ticket for transport and sightseeing in Rome. It is activated when first used, whether for transportation of to enter one of the monuments included. From that moment it is active until midnight of the third day for unlimited transport on Rome's bus, tram, and metro lines (not the Roma-Fiumicino airport express line).
The pass does allow free and preferred entry without lining up to two of the following monuments, while from the third monument on, discounts apply.
Colosseum & Palatine Hill
Capitoline Museums
Trajan’s Markets and Forum
Ruins at Ostia Antica
Museo Nazionale Romano
Borghese Gallery
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna
Museo Nazionale di Piazza Venezia
(extended list available at http://www.romapass.it/)
Roma Pass is now sold:
1) online
2) At all of the participating museums and sites
3) At the following City of Rome Tourist Information Sites (Punti Informativi Turistici, PIT) :
PIT Castel S. Angelo, Lungotevere Vaticano. 9.30 - 19.00
PIT Ciampino, Aeroporto G.B.Pastine – International Arrivals baggage claim area. Hours: 9:00 to 18:00
PIT Cinque Lune, Piazza delle Cinque Lune (Piazza Navona). Hours: 9.30 - 19.00
PIT Fiumicino, Aeroporto Leonardo Da Vinci – International Arrivals Terminal C. Hours: 9.00 alle 18.30
PIT Minghetti, Via Marco Minghetti (corner of Via del Corso). Hours: 9.30 - 19.00
PIT Nazionale, Via Nazionale (Palazzo delle Esposizioni). Hours: 9.30 - 19.00
PIT S. Maria Maggiore, Via dell'Olmata. 9.30 - 19.00.
PIT Termini Station - Via Giovanni Giolitti, 34. Hours: 8.00 - 20.00
PIT Trastevere, Piazza Sidney Sonnino. Hours: 9.30 - 19.00
4) Trambus Open Rome Sightseeing bus at Termini Station – Piazza del Cinquecento
The cost of the Roma Pass is 20 Euro, scheduled to increase from January 1, 2009 to 23 Euro. To give you an idea of the savings, the entrance fees to the Coliseum and Borghese Museums alone would amount to 20.50 Euro. When you add up all the public transport tickets for three days, plus the discounts granted for additional museums, the savings is significant. Our advice? Get yourself a Roma Pass. You'll have a carte blanche to explore even off the beaten path Rome and you can use the savings to splurge on a Rome sightseeing tour or a nice meal out.
The Roma Pass comes with an official city of Rome sightseeing map, a list and guide to the monuments covered by the pass, and a guide to additional events of interest to which a discount will apply when the Roma Pass is shown.
To date, the Roma pass is not valid and cannot be used for entrance to the Vatican Museums.
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It's very good to be sold over all these tourist officies in rome but actuly it's writen in italiano and wiht no location so for someome for the first time to visit italy it's difficult to choise which tourist office to pick up his pass.
