I need help again please! We decided we will buy tickets on line for the colloseum Where I'm buying them shows that it is free for children. How true is this? can anybody help? I donot want to get tickets and then have my son be turned away. He is 10 yrs old. I was in Rome once but nothing useful for our trip can I remember. And we did not travel with a child then. Thanks
Suzy

Hi. Its funny that your son is 10. My kids are 11 and 9. So I am not sure about the 10 year old. We were there last March for easter and my daughter was free. We had the Roma Pass and my 9 year old was free. I hope this helps.

Thanks, at least I know that there really is free.
Suzy

Sometimes they are only free if you live in the EU.
http://www.pierreci.it/do/show/content/0000010052

This link gives details of which countries.
http://www.pierreci.it/do/show/page/00086

We went 2 years ago and in Italy a lot of tourist/cultural sites are free to children under 18 if they posess an EU passport.

We did not pre buy any tickets in June and had no trouble getting in and no wait. I had found a tip on this website to go to Palatine Hill first and buy the tickets there - one ticket gets you entrance to both the Coliseum and Palatine Hill.

I am unable to find the admission fees to these sites right now, but I have seen an Odyssey Tour which says that children under 10 are free on their tour but that there is an admission charge to the Coliseum for kids. Perhaps that is what you are looking at.

Just in case...I am not an EU national. I am an american from California. We visited the Coloseum last March (2008)...about a month or so ago. We skipped the lines and went directly to the last ticket window to get the free ticket for my 9 year old daughter...so she can go through the turnsile. My son (11 years old), my wife and I just used our ROMA Pass for the turnstile.

Just the information I was looking for. So you do need a ticket for (free) children to go through the turnsile but you can get the ticket at the last booth marked what exactly? How did you know to go there ?
Thanks
Ileana