I'm traveling to Italy (Rome, Florence, Venice) mid-May to early June. Should I purchase Roma Pass, Firenze Card, Venice Museum Passes on line before I go or are they easily purchased in each city? Advice please...Thank you!

There's no point in buying the Roma Pass online, as you have to pick it up at a tourist office or kiosk when you get there. Why pay for it in advance? You should be sure though that it's a worthwhile purchase, because many people who buy it realize that they didn't get their money's worth out of it. The cost has gone up in each of the past two years, and I question whether it's good value any more.

The same is true of the Firenze card, which costs even more, so I think it's doubly important to decide first what you want to see, and what that would cost, and then decide whether the Firenze Card makes sense. Ditto for the Venezia card or whatever it's called.

Note, though, that public transport passes in Rome and Venice are almost indispensable.

Pointless for most people staying in central Florence hotels, though. And staying outside the centre is almost pointless.

Note also that one of the many reasons the museum cards don't really make sense is that there are just too many attractions under the general heading of "culture" in all three cities that aren't included in the best-known passes. To assess whether you may be one of the few people who could make them worthwhile, work out what you're going to see, then add up the cost vs the passes those sights let you into.

You've started multiple threads about this. My response on how to get value on Roma Pass is on your other thread. There is a new Roma Pass (48 hours) plus the old Roma Pass (3 day). The expiration is different depending which pass you buy.

http://www.fodors.com/community/euro...useum-pass.cfm

Good value on the Roma Pass particularly in the summer. We purchased the 2 day pass for 28 Euro which gets you into one site for free with reduced admission prices for others. Great for skipping the lines particularly at the Collosseum and Palatine Hill. But we also received reduced admissions to Castel St. Angelo and Ostia Antica as well. What we really liked was the access to the public transit system - Metro and buses which we used A LOT especially during those sweltering July days. Funny that our hotel had a lukewarm response towards the pass when we brought it up. They either seemed that it didn't represent a good value, felt that you could walk to most of the sites or maybe they prefer routing tourists towards tours - who knows? You may not get the value out of it if you don't use the transit system and prefer walking but why waste energy and time when you can hop on a bus? Certainly better value than the Firenze card which is comparatively much more expensive.