Roma Pass: Does It Help to Save Money and Skip the Queues?

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The Roma Pass is the special tourist card which gives an opportunity to discover Rome by spending less money. Thereby, it includes the access to favorite sites as the Colosseum, Capitoline Museums, Roman Forum & the Palatine Hill, the Borghese Gallery, Castle Sant’Angelo, the ruins at via Appia Antica and Ostia Antica, and many more attractions, contemporary art galleries, and museums. The price is 28 or 38 euro.

There are two types of the Roma Passes:

Contents

1 The 48-hour Roma Pass
2 The 72-hours Rome Pass
3 Where to buy
4 Tourist Information Points (Punti Informativi Turistici, PIT)

The 48-hour Roma Pass

The 48-hour Roma Pass costs 28 euro and gives:

• Free entry to the first one museum or archaeological site

• Free access to the ATAC urban public transportation

• Concessionary tickets to other museums and archaeological sites

• Pass without queuing to Colosseum, Capitoline Museums and Castel Sant’Angelo + free booking for Borghese Gallery and Palazzo Valentini

• Over 80 discounted tickets for different exhibitions, events, etc.

• Rome MAP – city map, a multilingual audio/video guide

The 72-hours Rome Pass

The 72 hours Roma Pass costs 38 euro and gives:

• Free entry to the first two museums and/or archaeological sites

• Unlimited free access to the ATAC urban public transportation

• Concessionary tickets to museums and/or archaeological sites visited thereafter

• Pass without queuing to Colosseum, Capitoline Museums and Castel Sant’Angelo + free booking for Villa Borghese and Palazzo Valentini

• Over 80 discounted tickets to different events, exhibitions, etc.

• Roma MAP – city map, a multilingual audio/video guide

The list of museums with privileges for the Roma Pass holders: www.romapass.it

The Roma pass to save money and skip the queues

The Roma Pass saves your time in many ways. For instance, you can’t always buy tickets for individual journeys on the bus, while the Rome Pass Card relieves you from this stress. Also, it gives a benefit from speedy access in specific locations.

There are two types of Rome city cards the Roma Pass and the Omnia Pass. They have only several differences: the Omnia Pass has a limit of attractions that can be visited for free, but offers a real city guide, while the Rome Pass provides more attractions for free, but with an app and city map included in it.

Where to buy

• Online (www.romapass.it)

• By calling to the call centre (+39) 060608 (payment by credit card)

• All participating Museums and sites

Tourist Information Points (Punti Informativi Turistici, PIT)

PIT Castel S. Angelo, Piazza Pia (next to the gardens of Castel Sant’Angelo), Working hours: 9.30 am – 7 pm.
PIT Ciampino, Aeroporto G.B.Pastine – External area International Arrivals. Working hours: 8.30 am – 6 pm.
PIT Cinque Lune, Piazza delle Cinque Lune (Piazza Navona). Working hours: 9.30 am – 7 pm.
PIT Fiumicino, Aeroporto Leonardo Da Vinci – International Arrivals – Terminal T3. Working hours: 8 am – 8.45 pm.
PIT Fori Imperiali, Visitor Center Via dei Fori Imperiali. 01 January-30 June and 01 September-31 December, Working hours: 9.30 am – 7 pm – 01 July-31 August: 9.30 am – 8 pm.
PIT Minghetti, Via Marco Minghetti (corner to Via del Corso). Working hours: 9.30 am – 7 pm
PIT Nazionale, Via Nazionale (Palazzo delle Esposizioni). Working hours: 9.30 am – 7 pm.
PIT Sonnino, Piazza Sidney Sonnino (Trastevere). Working hours: 10.30 am – 8 pm.
PIT Termini, Stazione Termini – Via Giovanni Giolitti, 34, platform 24. Working hours: 8 am – 6.45 pm
ATAC – Subway ticket office (Opening time: mon/sat from 7 am to 8 pm – sundays and public holydays from 8 am to 8 pm)
Metro A: Anagnina, Battistini, Lepanto, Ottaviano, Spagna
Metro B: Laurentina, Eur Fermi, Ponte Mammolo, Termini
Metro B1: Conca d’Oro
Ferrovia Roma-Viterbo: Piazzale Flaminio
Roma – Lido: Porta San Paolo
Trenitalia Ticket Offices in Bari C.le, Bologna C.le, Firenze S.M.N., Lecce, Milano C.le, Napoli C.le, Roma Termini, Roma Tiburtina, Salerno, Torino P.N., Venezia S.L., Verona P.N., Brescia and in FRECCIAClub in Bari C.le, Bologna C.le, Firenze S.M.N Milano C.le, Napoli C.le, Roma Termini, Roma Tiburtina, Salerno, Torino P.N., Verona.

Of course, there are some circumstances under which you don’t need a Roma Pass. For instance, if you are traveling with children, you should know that children under 18 y.o. have free entry to all national and city museums, while children under 12 y.o. have free access to public transportation. Moreover, all national museums (not city museums) have free admission on the first Sunday of the month, so consider if your ticket doesn’t coincide with this day. Moreover, many museums on national holidays, especially Christmas, New Year’s Day, and May 1st may be closed, and most museums are closed on Mondays.

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