dhswor

We will arrive in Rome on a Friday morning, and leave late Sunday morning. We will be staying near the Colloseum and have a Friday afternoon Ancient Rome tour, a Saturday morning Vatican museum tour, and a Saturday afternoon Scavi tour. We then leave Sunday for Sorrento. Is it worth it for us to get a Roma Pass? Can we use the 2 free museum entrances at the Colloseum or the Vatican when we have tours already (we haven't paid the entrance fees yet with our tours.) Do you think we will be taking several buses and metro trains to make this a good investment? I have no clue! This is our first trip. Thanks!

Zerlina

You can use the Roma Pass for the Colosseum (admission is 9 Euro, I think), but not for the Vatican Museums, since the Vatican is an independent state within the city of Rome. Whether you will get sufficient use in two days out of the pass for buses and Metros is questionable - a one-way fare costs 1 Euro. To some extent, it depends where you are staying in Rome - it's mostly a walkable city if you're in the center.

dhswor

Thanks Zerlina, I guess I will look closer at it and see if it will work. I am thinking we will walk alot, but will probably take a bus to the Vatican, since we are by the Colloseum. About the "R" issue in the other post (I feel like I took over her post by mistake - the "R" wasn't for the regional train, but on the accomodation area, next to where it says: 1/2 for 1st and 2nd class; the wheelchair, the "T" for ??'s, etc. The R is in a little box. Oh well, I don't think they all have the R. It must be that some do and some don't.

Anyway, we will arrive in Rome on Fri. Sept. 14. We will want our first train on Sunday, the 16th, to Naples. Do you think that if we buy the tickets when we arrive on Friday, that will be enough time to get tickets with seats? That is my only worry, or that some of the trains will be sold out all together. What do you think? Thanks!

Zerlina

OK, I see the "Reservations must be made in Italy". Since you can buy tickets for the trains in question on line and tickets include seat reseervations, I think it's just garbled English for "reservations mandatory".

I'd be surprised if tickets (with seat reservations included) for a Sunday train Rome-Naples were sold out by Friday.

derek49

I wouldn't buy a Roma Pass based on your schedule and sites. The Coloseum is covered, but the Vatican is not. So unless you're going to another museum or site covered by the Pass, it isn't worth it.
Bus or Metro tickets are 1 euro one way. You will probably want take a bus from the Colosseum to the vatican. (the 40 or 64)or the metro from Coloseum station to the Vatican. It was too far to walk for us (especially in the June heat).