ROMA PASS Euro 25 (ROMA PASS)
ROMA PASS. You can purchase a box kit. Inside there is a set of tickets and maps. It's very useful.
"Roma Pass" is a reasonable discount ticket for tourists in Rome. Since it has been launched just since 2006, it's not widely known. However, it's very convenient and affordable. Another discount ticket "Roma & Piu' Pass" was abolished in 2010.
This Roma Pass costs 25 euros (prices revised in 2010). Please see this list of discounted service. You can understand that this pass has a big advantage!
Let's see how many deals this pass has. For example, you start your sightseeing from the Roma Termini station. Take a metro line B (1 euro) to the Coliseum, and visit the Coliseum Palatine Hill (11 euros). Then take a metro line B and A (1 euro) and go to the Flaminio Station to visit already booked Borghese Gallery (8.5 euros).
This route takes about a half day, and costs totally 21.5 euros. With the Roma Pass, you can do the same thing at free (booking fee of the Borghese Gallery is not covered).
There is also another useful aspect. You don't need to make a long line in order to purchase each ticket. Coliseum has always the longest queue in Rome to purchase the entrance ticket, but here there is a private entrance for Roma Pass holders. It's necessary to wait for the first line (security check) but here you can pass easily. Then, you'll see a long long line of those who have to buy the ticket. However, there is an entrance with a large sign of "Roma Pass" before the entrance for groups. In brief, you can save at least 30 minutes.
It's possible to buy at tourist information, museums where the Roma Pass is available. One of the famous ticket offices is at the side of platform 24 inside the Roma Termini railway station platform number 24. Here you can also pay by credit card.
It's also possible to get the pass at the tourist office at the arrival gate C of the Fiumicino Airport.
From 2009 you can purchase it also on the official website, but in this case you need to go to pick up at one of the ticket offices.
When you buy a Roma Pass, you can get a leaflet (kit) as follows:
Roma Pass is like a cardboard ticket and a barcode is printed on the back.
It's need to specify a start date of using and your name in the indicated space. Then, when you use the metro and bus for the first time, check the magnetic part under the marking machine. At that moment the IC chip records the start date of using. At museums a staff will check your card by the barcode on the back. At the Coliseum gate, there is an automatic machine like metro.
Additional information from a tourist: if you visit the Borghese Gallery in Rome as the first or second museum for free entrance, its booking fee is not needed.
ROMA PASS is absolutely recommended for tourists who stay two days or more in Rome. You can just pay off with only one museum's entrance and subway transports. You can use subway as many times as you want without buying tickets each time. It's very convenient. Please enjoy sightseeing and fun with this ROME PASS by all means! (April 2008)
This Roma Pass is not valid for Leonardo Express, a shuttle train between the Fiumicino Airport (Leonardo da Vinci Airport) and the Termini railway station. Please be careful.
Roma Pass - Official Site - www.romapass.it
Staff of AMOITALY from ROME