We had an amazing experience touring the Colosseum and underground, Roman Forum, and Palatine Hill... read more
We had an amazing experience touring the Colosseum and underground, Roman Forum, and Palatine Hill... read more
The underground colosseum tour was outstanding. Highly recommend! Communication prior to our trip... read more
Excellent in every way. Our guide was incredibly informative and made our visit very special. Certainly worth the money. Highly recommended.
They call it the Eternal city for a reason. Real Rome tours made our visit so memorable. Heidi, our tour guide, was so well versed and educated in all the historical inquiries our children had. For me the greatest pleasure was to see my 12 year old son enjoy every moment. Our teenage daughters fell in love with the city and I believe it had to do with our walking tour and guide. I recommend Real Rome Tours for all age groups. It was really wonderful.
So glad we took the skip the line tour. Not only did we go right into the tour and skip the long lines), but our tour guide Andrea (spelling?) was very knowledgable and made our tour very enjoyable. It was awesome to be in the presence of such history and to learn the special back stories. I would do this again!
We were so excited (and not disappointed) to see the Colosseum, underground included, but were so impressed by the Roman Forum and Palatine Hill portions of this tour ... absolutely stunning! You know you are going to get a history lesson on a tour like this but it was more than a lesson ... it was a history experience.
We've taken a number of group and semi-private tours in the past which were humdrum, so we almost opted for a self-guided exploration. What a mistake that would have been! Ferdinando was tremendously helpful and well prepared - he had a messenger bag filled with supplemental reference material that he laid out at the beginning to help us know what to look for and why it was historically significant.
Concerning the structure of the tour - when it says "skip the line", it really means it. Once you book online and print your voucher - you're in. We skirted a line that was at least a block long just to get tickets. After that line, there was a second one to go through security. Not for us - the time it took us from our initial meeting till we were standing inside the Vatican was less than twenty minutes.
Afterwards, Ferdinando gave us a 15 minute overview of the Vatican, focusing on both its secular and its spiritual significance - then we were off on the tour. During the tour, Ferdinando would pause to highlight different artifacts or paintings but for the most part we were free to experience everything on our own. We only signed up for the 2.5 hour tour so we weren't able to cover everything but we definitely will sign up for this tour again next time we're in Rome!
Marley, our tour guide did an outstanding job with the tour. She was very knowledgeable and answered all our questions. I highly recommend this tour especially if you would like to see all the accessible areas of the Colosseum.