Colosseum Guided Skip-the-line Tour With Access To Ancient Rome

Codino is super. He’s a very good and pleasant guide. Very nice and correct experience. Worth to pay for and would book it again next time.

Group size was not too big and learned a lot. I appreciate the early morning option, it was nice to get to the Colosseum early and take photos before it got crowded.

It was disorganized, late and not very well explained when you got there. I would not take this again and the tour started later than expected. We were on a time table and were not able to participate.

Snake oil. I have very good reason to believe the reviews for this tour are fake. If you scroll down you’ll see that every one from June 2023 to May 2024 are 5 stars. I stupidly didn’t read all of them and took the 4.5 stars at face value. So I guess I got my just desserts. Echoing other reviews I cannot express how misleading, how disorganised and how much of a farce Pointours are. We spent £103 on two tickets for the ‘Skip-the line tour of colosseum with access to ancient Rome’, which in the end was none of these things. 1. Access to Ancient Rome If you book 8:30 your tour will not include access to the colosseum or Roman forum, therefore contradicting the ‘access to Ancient Rome (i.e the Roman forum) that your ticket stated it would include. You will be paying 18€ for this access as part of your colosseum entry ticket. An entirely misleading advert. 2. Skip the line As you meet at one of two meeting locations (why two?), your guide may turn up late as ours did, whilst also providing no notice of their tardiness nor apology. After looking out for a yellow flag, we eventually see a blue piece of paper being held up. We were then walked for 5-10 minutes down the road to the Roman Forum to purchase tickets from the office. The ‘Skipping the line’ therefore not included in part of the ticket. By the time we got to the colosseum it was 9:30am. 3. A Tour We were a small group of six. Not that we’d have needed headphones but the advert stated they would be available. We were not offered headphones, nor did the guides possess any. If in a larger group this would render it impossible to hear the guide. We were then greeted with another guide at the ticket office who was friendly, however, it would soon transpire had an extremely limited knowledge of the colosseum, and it seemed could only care about getting through it as soon as possible. You got the sense that he just rocked up on the day. The guide provided almost no information on historical events or dates. Almost every piece of information provided was in reference to a lasagne analogy of old and new concrete. The remaining information would also be inaccurate, and questions you might have would be answered inadequately or just ignored. About 70% of the time was spent with the guide walking off in front, where he’d then stop and say ‘take your pictures’ then press on until the next stop for pictures. Again, no detail, no knowledge. The walk through of the colosseum was cut short by 30 minutes, with the guide leaving at 10am. Not that it really mattered. I spoke on the phone with the original person who met us, who argued against almost all the points above. After explaining each of the points above four times, my request for information on a refund process were repeatedly ignored. After persisting for 25 minutes I was finally able to get a refund of 50%. In total the tour and tickets costed £86 with what should have been a great experience ruined entirely. 1 star.

Was great for last minute tickets. Little slow to get the tour started and difficult to find the meeting point. Very helpful and kind tour guide. We had a blast!