Rome

Skip the Line Tour: Colosseum Official Guided Tour - Entrance Fee Included

Roma, Italy

From USD 53.19

Select Date and Travellers

Free cancellation
Up to 24 hours in advance.
  • 1 hour 15 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Offered in: English

Overview

Take a guided tour of the Colosseum, including skip-the-line admission, to get the most out of your visit. By exploring the amphitheater with an official Colosseum guide, learn all about the history of this iconic Rome landmark. Hear stories about gladiator battles and Roman emperors, and marvel at the engineering of the ancient structure. Suitable for children.
  • Learn about the Colosseum's history and engineering from a guide
  • Listen to tales of gladiator battles that once took place here
  • Skip-the-line admission to the Colosseum with a guided tour
  • Tour limited to 25 people with all entrance fees included

Why Travellers Choose This Tour

Get skip-the-line access to the Colosseum and see the first and second tiers.

What's Included

  • Colosseum walking guided tour
  • Professional tour guide
  • Headsets to hear the guide clearly
  • group of max 24 pax
  • All Fees and Taxes
  • Gratuities (recommended)
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Food and drinks, unless specified
  • Roman Forum and Palatine guided tour

Meeting And Pickup

Meeting point

  • Via delle Terme di Tito, 72
    Via delle Terme di Tito, 72, 00184 Roma RM, Italy

    The meeting point is at Via delle Terme di Tito on the corner with Via Nicola Salvi. Our staff will wait beside the park entrance with a "Tour in the city" sign.

End point

  • Colosseo
    00184 Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Italy

What To Expect

Colosseum

1 hour Admission Ticket Included

Additional Info

  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Stroller accessible
  • Near public transportation
  • Not recommended for travellers with back problems
  • No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
  • Most travellers can participate
  • Customers have a mandatory meeting time stated 15 minutes prior to the scheduled departure time due to managing and organizational reasons.
  • The Colosseum management does not distribute individeual tickets. We will have one group tickets for the entire group. For this reason, we cannot give individual tickets to late arrivals.
  • The activity can suffer 20/30 min variation due to organizational reasons
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult. Discount for children under 18 years is applied only with a valid ID card! Without valid ID ticket control operators will deny entry at the Colosseum.
  • You must have a valid photo ID to enter the Colosseum (student's ID, Driver License, Passport or State ID all work.) You will be asked to also provide your name, last name and date of birth (at the beginning of the tour, if not provided beforehand.) Security may prevent you from entering the site if the information provided is not accurate and/or don't match the one on your ID.
  • Discount for children under 18 years is applied only with a valid ID card!
  • Please note that for safety reasons the Colosseum can accommodate up to 3.000 people at once.This could lead to delays in access to the site, even for pre-booked visitors.
  • For security reasons all visitors and their luggage shall be screened.
  • To facilitate the security checks please insert any object (including mobile phone) in the bag/backpack or in the tray to be included in the X-ray
  • Forbidden objects inside the Colosseum: bottles and glasses containers, alcholic beverages and aerosols, backpacks, camping, bulky bags and luggage / trolley
  • Can be introduced medium and small size backpacks to shoulder, which must be checked, as any other bag, with metal detectors, opened and visually inspected by the Urbe Security Institute, responsible for the entrance inspection
  • Please notice that the Colosseum Administration, which depends on the Ministry of Cultural Assets and Activities has the faculty to close the Colosseum, or parts of it, with or without notice, for events, strikes, heavy rain, or any other reason. In which case, we will offer an alternative itinerary as it seems fit and offer a partial refund
  • Activity not recommended for people with motor lag
  • No change on a booking can be accepted after 24hrs to the starting time of the tour. In that instance, no refund will be issued.
  • For the safety of all guests, the tour operator reserves the right to refuse service to passengers who are intoxicated or show signs of intoxication. If, as a result, your tour is canceled, you will not be entitled to a refund.
  • PETS ARE NOT ALLOWED
  • The duration of the tour may vary according to the time taken to access the monument. The tour duration is always at least 75 minutes and will always be at most 100 minutes.
  • Not recommended for travelers with walking problems
  • We kindly inform you that any kind of disability (visual impairment, hearing impairment,... ) or anything that might prevent you to regularly join the tour, MUST BE communicate in advance to our staff.
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 24 travellers

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

  • For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
  • If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
  • Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
  • Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
  • This experience requires a minimum number of travellers. If it’s cancelled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.

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Traveller Tips


Make sure you do this early in the day, if it is going to be hot, and take a photo id.
Expect to wait a long time in the queues to get to each room.
I would recommend doing your research beforehand because it will improve the experience a lot.

Reviews

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Because of the crowds and...
Mary_C, Sept 2023
Because of the crowds and because I am short it was hard to follow the guide. He lost several of us for a while.
Response from Host, Sept 2023
Dear Client, We are sorry the tour did not meet your expectations. We have reviewed the feedback from your group's participants and couldn't find any similar complaints. About the crowd, we cannot be responsible because the Colosseum is not managed by us but by the Italian State so you should send a complaint to the government authorities. Nonetheless, we have forwarded your review to the Guide Management department so that it can be looked at and followed up with the guide in case it is needed. Our local guides, selected for experience and professionalism, try their best to share their passion for their country and local History; we apologize that the guided tour was disappointing for you, and we will do our best to avoid it again. Should you wish to contact us directly at info@tourinthecity.com with your comments, please do not hesitate to do so and provide your booking reference number so we can follow up with the relevant people for you. Thank you for leaving us your review once again. We hope to hear from you soon. Kind Regards, Stefano Tour in the City
Nice tour, bad audio equipment.
Gerald_P, Sept 2023
Nice tour, knowledgeable guide. Unfortunately his equipment was not working correctly and we could not hear most of his commentary. Nearly a waste of money and time.
Response from Host, Sept 2023
Dear Client, We are sorry the tour did not meet your expectations. We have reviewed the feedback from your group's participants and couldn't find any similar complaints. These are some titles of the reviews posted by our clients in the last few days: "Very Informative and Wonderful Experience" "Entertaining and informative." "Worth the money." "INTRIGUING WONDERFUL TOUR" "Don’t miss this tour." "You see and hear amazing stories about ancient life." "Well worth the money." "EXCEPTIONAL" The radios used for our tours are of top quality and malfunctioning, if happens has to be immediately told to the tour guide, who can fix the problem. The radios are all tested before each tour to ensure their proper functioning. We invite you to check the reservation and indicate your booking number so we can check who was your tour guide. The itineraries of the tours offered by us are planned to allow our customers to get the best out of the visits and to optimize the time available. It would be helpful for you to contact us to check through your booking code which tour you have participated in and make the right decisions. Nevertheless, we have also forwarded this to our Guide Management department so that it can be looked at and followed up with the guide in case it is needed. Our local guides, selected for experience and professionalism, try their best to share their passion for their country and local History; we apologize that the guided tour was disappointing for you, and we will do our best to avoid it again. Should you wish to contact us directly at info@tourinthecity.com with your comments, please do not hesitate to do so and provide your booking reference number so we can follow up with the relevant people for you. Thank you for leaving us your review once again. We hope to hear from you soon. Kind Regards, Stefano Tour in the City
We’ll done tour
Aaron_S, Sept 2023
Tour was extremely informative. Tour guide was knowledgeable, and kept track of all members in a very crowded Colosseum. Would recommend for first time tourists.
Biggest mistake ever!!
Kara_K, Sept 2023
The tour was overbooked so we could not attend. We got there to the meeting point and they said that Viator oversold the tour so we NEVER got to go. Awful and sad experience!!
Response from Host, Sept 2023
Dear Client, We are sorry the tour did not meet your expectations. We have investigated your case, and we haven't had any overbooking, so please check your reservation and indicate your booking number so we can check if you booked the tour with us. Thank you for leaving us your review once again. We hope to hear from you soon. Kind Regards, Stefano Tour in the City
Not so great.
Julianne_G, Sept 2023
Guide wasn’t good. Spent too much time explaining the origin of names instead of more historical facts about the Colosseum. Also he kept hesitating with uhhh…ummmm…..uhhhh….Was driving people crazy.
Response from Host, Sept 2023
Dear Client, We are sorry the tour did not meet your expectations. We have reviewed the feedback from your group's participants and couldn't find any similar complaints. We invite you to check the reservation and indicate your booking number so we can check who was your tour guide and see if you booked the tour with us. The itineraries of the tours offered by us are planned to allow our customers to get the best out of the visits and to optimize the time available. It would be helpful for you to contact us to check through your booking code which tour you have participated in and make the right decisions. Nevertheless, we have also forwarded this to our Guide Management department so that it can be looked at and followed up with the guide in case it is needed. Our local guides, selected for experience and professionalism, try their best to share their passion for their country and local History; we apologize that the guided tour was disappointing for you, and we will do our best to avoid it again. Should you wish to contact us directly at info@tourinthecity.com with your comments, please do not hesitate to do so and provide your booking reference number so we can follow up with the relevant people for you. Thank you for leaving us your review once again. We hope to hear from you soon. Kind Regards, Stefano Tour in the City
The colosseum and the...
Nathan_M, Sept 2023
The colosseum and the Roman forum was so special and the guides knowledge was outstanding. AAA++++++++++++
EXCEPTIONAL
niya_c, Sept 2023
My tour guide Georges was EXCEPTIONAL!! His knowledge of the site could not be matched. He went strictly off memory, no paper and provided detailed accounts of the Colosseum non stop during out tour. I THOROUGHLY enjoyed my experience with him. THANK YOU
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Rosemarie_G, Sept 2023
No communication while waiting. Devices to hear the tour guide were poor quality resulting in difficulty understanding. Tour Guide seemed to have an agenda beyond sharing information about the Colliseum.
Response from Host, Sept 2023
Dear Client, We are sorry the tour did not meet your expectations. We have reviewed the feedback from your group's participants and couldn't find any similar complaints. We wonder if you took one of our tours and we invite you to check the reservation and to indicate us your booking number so we can check who was your tour guide and see if you booked the tour with us. The itineraries of the tours offered by us are planned to allow our customers to get the best out of the visits and to optimize the time available. It would be helpful for you to contact us to check through your booking code which tour you have participated in and make the right decisions. Nevertheless, we have also forwarded this to our Guide Management department so that it can be looked at and followed up with the guide in case it is needed. Our local guides, selected for experience and professionalism, try their best to share their passion for their country and local History; we apologize that the guided tour was disappointing for you, and we will do our best to avoid it again. Should you wish to contact us directly at info@tourinthecity.com with your comments, please do not hesitate to do so and provide your booking reference number so we can follow up with the relevant people for you. Thank you for leaving us your review once again. We hope to hear from you soon. Kind Regards, Stefano Tour in the City
Colosseum amazing but gift shop issues!
Jeff_R, Sept 2023
Our tour guide was very good and personable. Very knowledgeable. We enjoyed seeing the Colosseum and the additional information she gave us. However, she did not tell us that once we left the Colosseum, we would not be able to go to the gift shop! This was a huge disappointment to us, and we felt she should have let us know.
Guide was funny,...
Jay_B, Sept 2023
Guide was funny, knowledgeable and track of his tour group. A few good laughs along the way and lots of opportunities for good photos
Bad experience
Dawn_D, Sept 2023
One of the worst tours we have ever done. 98 euros a person and that was a waste for the 3 of us! Do not recommend this tour at all. We could not understand the guide and he seemed to want to rewrite history. Too bad we couldn't get our money back! So not worth it!!
Response from Host, Sept 2023
Dear Client, We are sorry the tour did not meet your expectations. We have reviewed the feedback from your group's participants and couldn't find any similar complaints. We wonder if you took one of our tours and we invite you to check the reservation and to indicate us your booking number so we can check who was your tour guide and see if you booked the tour with us. The itineraries of the tours offered by us are planned to allow our customers to get the best out of the visits and to optimize the time available. It would be helpful for you to contact us to check through your booking code which tour you have participated in and make the right decisions. Nevertheless, we have also forwarded this to our Guide Management department so that it can be looked at and followed up with the guide in case it is needed. Our local guides, selected for experience and professionalism, try their best to share their passion for their country and local History; we apologize that the guided tour was disappointing for you, and we will do our best to avoid it again. Should you wish to contact us directly at info@tourinthecity.com with your comments, please do not hesitate to do so and provide your booking reference number so we can follow up with the relevant people for you. Thank you for leaving us your review once again. We hope to hear from you soon. Kind Regards, Stefano Tour in the City
We loved this tour, we...
Natalie_M, Sept 2023
We loved this tour, we learned so much and the guides were great. We got lost and we’re a little late and they waited for us and called us to help us didn’t the meet up location. Highly recommend
Fun lively and engaging
Karen_D, Sept 2023
The tour was well run and Francis Cecilia gave a good deal of interesting background information with illustrations to help us. His narrative was lively and good humoured. He took time to engage with everyone in the group and gave us time for water and stops on a very hot day.
Worth visiting
Darryll_S, Sept 2023
Well worth visiting couldn’t here the guide some of the time. Don’t forget to take a bottle of water with you
One person in the line...
Rosangela_C, Sept 2023
One person in the line didn't have proper ID and caused the whole tour to go back to the end of the line. The situation was not well managed. Groups are too large and proper due diligence not performed. Hard to hear tour guide during the tour. a
Response from Host, Sept 2023
Dear Client, We are sorry the tour did not meet your expectations. We do everything possible to inform our clients to have an ID and before the tour starts we ask everyone if they have the document. We are sorry but about the issue at the entrance we are not responsible and anyway only 2/3 minutes we’re lost and not other participants complained about it. The itineraries of the tours offered by us are planned to allow our customers to get the best out of the visits and to optimize the time available. Thanks to the skip-the-line tickets we offer, we can avoid standing in line of 1 or 2 hrs. to buy them. It would be helpful for you to contact us to check through your booking code which tour you have participated in and make the right decisions. Nevertheless, we have also forwarded this to our Guide Management department so that it can be looked at and followed up with the guide in case it is needed. Our local guides, selected for experience and professionalism, try their best to share their passion for their country and local History; we apologize that the guided tour was disappointing for you, and we will do our best to avoid it again. Should you wish to contact us directly at info@tourinthecity.com with your comments, please do not hesitate to do so and provide your booking reference number so we can follow up with the relevant people for you. Thank you for leaving us your review once again. We hope to hear from you soon. Kind Regards, Stefano Tour in the City
A day at the colosseum
Joe_M, Sept 2023
It was fine. Nothing exciting to report. For me the guide was going a bit fast(walking) but its just me. I have knee problems. It was good that I could do my own thing.
Not satisfied by this tour unfortunately
Kiki_Y, Sept 2023
Although Miguele, our guide, was so kind and polite, his strong Italian accent didn't help us understand much of the great history of Colosseum. Also, we started late by 20-30minutes, the group was quite big and the weather was extremely hot, so our guide seemed some times to disappear from the group, maybe trying to reach a shadow (which is human understandable of course but unfortunately it didn't serve us right) and we were running behind to find him through the crowds. It seemed as if he just wanted to just get the job done no matter who understood him or not. Comparing to other tours we had at the same period, this was not such a memorable memory...
Response from Host, Sept 2023
Dear Client, We are sorry the tour did not meet your expectations. We apologize if the tour guide did not satisfy you. Regarding departure time delayed by 15 minutes, it is indicated on the information that the start of the tour, due to organizational issues not dependent on our agency, can vary by 30 minutes. The itineraries of the tours offered by us are planned to allow our customers to get the best out of the visits and to optimize the time available. Thanks to the skip-the-line tickets we offer, we can avoid standing in line for 1 or 2 hours to buy them. It would be helpful for you to contact us to check through your booking code which tour you have participated in and make the right decisions. Nevertheless, we have also forwarded this to our Guide Management department so that it can be looked at and followed up with the guide in case it is needed. Our local guides, selected for experience and professionalism, try their best to share their passion for their country and local History; we apologize that the guided tour was disappointing for you, and we will do our best to avoid it again. Should you wish to contact us directly at info@tourinthecity.com with your comments, please do not hesitate to do so and provide your booking reference number so we can follow up with the relevant people for you. Thank you for leaving us your review once again. We hope to hear from you soon. Kind Regards, Stefano Tour in the City
Worst Experience Ever
Stephanie_O, Sept 2023
Worst experience we have ever had traveling. Full stop. Before our tour started, they sent a note saying “we are starting earlier now”. As we couldn’t make it, they refuse to refund us.
Response from Host, Sept 2023
Dear Client, We are sorry the tour did not meet your expectations. 3 days before the tour we have noticed by WhatsApp, by SMS and Viator chat that the tour was starting 15 minutes earlier. In the information about the tour is indicated that starting time can vary of 30 minutes and this communicated at least 3 days before. The itineraries of the tours offered by us are planned to allow our customers to get the best out of the visits and to optimize the time available. Thanks to the skip-the-line tickets we offer, we can avoid standing in line of 1 or 2 hrs. to buy them. It would be helpful for you to contact us to check through your booking code which tour you have participated in and make the right decisions. Nevertheless, we have also forwarded this to our Guide Management department so that it can be looked at and followed up with the guide in case it is needed. Our local guides, selected for experience and professionalism, try their best to share their passion for their country and local History; we apologize that the guided tour was disappointing for you, and we will do our best to avoid it again. Should you wish to contact us directly at info@tourinthecity.com with your comments, please do not hesitate to do so and provide your booking reference number so we can follow up with the relevant people for you. Thank you for leaving us your review once again. We hope to hear from you soon. Kind Regards, Stefano Tour in the City
Great Guide
Wayne_D, Aug 2023
Our Guide Francesco was fantastic, funny & knowledgeable. The tour of the colosseum was very quick but Francesco also took us to the Forum, I highly recommend doing this. Known as the foundation of Rome, it's huge and very interesting!
Great!
Jane_D, Aug 2023
Frances our tour guide was polite, funny and very knowledgeable. The price was perfect. It could have been maybe 30 minutes longer with possible more exploration of a few other points of interest in the coliseum
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