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Colosseum With Arena Tour
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Overview
Avoid large crowds at the general public entrance and dive right into the Ancient Rome atmosphere by entering the Colosseum through the special Gladiators’ Gate and starting your 3 hour tour directly into the Arena where the combats used to take place! After having met your licensed professional guide and your fellow tourers, your tour will start! Follow your guide inside the Colosseum, and enter this amazing sight from the Arena, restricted area, an official gladiator entrance. After the tour of the Colosseum, you will visit the Palatine Hill: the huge wonderful outside museum that hosted amazing legends and historical events. Then, you will continue your tour in the Roman Forum, place where the political, religious and commercial life used to meet together. This incredible 3 hours tour will bring you back in the past, making you live the life of an ancient Roman for a few hours.
What's Included
- entrance to the Roman Forum (if option selected)
- Tour guide and headphones
- entrance to the Colosseum arena (25 EUR if option selected)
- entrance to Palatine Hill (if option selected)
Additional Info
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- Normal sized backpacks are permitted
- Please Note: to access the Colosseum you need to add in your reservation the exact name and last name of all participants in your group and children need to be specified. In case of mistake in writing your name and last name in your reservation, if the Colosseum tickets controllers deny the access due to the wrong name and last name we decline any responsibility and NO REFUND will be provided.
- Please be aware that to enter the Colosseum it is necessary to pass a metal detector security check;
- Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
- Departure may vary. Please check the timing on the tour option you booked to know at what time you have to be at the meeting point.
- Each traveler must present a valid passport or ID document that matches the name provided at the time of booking for successful entry to the Colosseum and Roman Forum.
- Please note: by purchasing this tour you accept our Terms and Conditions and you are aware that not refund it will be given in case of not attending the tour or if you arrive late for the tour.
- The order of the visit of the itinerary might change
- Please Note: In some areas the stroller must be carried by yourself due to architectural restrictions
- Please show up at least 10 minutes before the tour to do the check in
- Please note that you will be asked a full refundable 10 euros deposit at the meeting point in order to ensure all the radios are given back to the guide or our staff. Once you return the radios you will be refunded your 10 euros. If you don't give back the radios you will be charged 30 euros for each of them.
- Not allowed: Pets, weapons or sharp objects, oversized luggage, smoking, alcohol or drugs, sprays or aerosols, glassware, unaccompanied minors, electric wheelchairs
- The entrance fee to the archaeological sites is 17 Euros for adults (23 Euros for the arena option), accompanied by a booking fee of 2 Euros. The additional amount covers services provided by experienced licensed guides, audio devices, booking fees and other tourist services. The aim is to promote transparency and ensure your understanding of the cost breakdown. In July and August, due to the heat, the duration of the tour is 2 hours. Please note that this tour is not wheelchair accessible. -Meeting time is subject to change; if this occurs, you will receive a call or message from the activity provider. please provide your correct phone number and country code. -ID mandatory. Guests who show up without ID cannot be guaranteed entrance. -The full names of all the participants in the booking is needed, incomplete information on the booking cannot be guaranteed entrance.
- In summer time we suggest bringing a bottle of water. In summer time due to the heat the tour might last about 2 hours.
- Small group tour will average 26 people (with a maximum of 28 people).
- Please note: in case of late arrival we inform you that you will lose your tour and no refund will be given for no show or for late arrival
Cancellation policy
All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.
Reviews for Colosseum With Arena Tour
1000% Need to do
Serena_A
The perfect four to learn about the history of Rome. 1000% should be done. We loved learning about the forum, and how Rome is literally a lasagna (lol). You won’t e disappointed with the knowledge of the guides and things you will learn.
excellent experience
CEDRIC_F
Our tour guide Max was excellent can't ask for more explain all the queries we have to best of his knowledge and I would highly recommend this tour to friends and family.( wish you could ask for your own tour guide)
Excellent Tour
Valorie_R
The tour guide was very informative and funny. Started on time and went at at great pace as not to be rushed through.
Beware - total disappointment
650iuliana
Booked a german tour of the Coloseum (5 days before).
The afternoon before the tour received a phoncall thatth etour is cancelled.
Viator was absolutely...
Maria_W
Viator was absolutely horrible.
The tour that was advertised AND the customer service. Particularly, the customer service was incredibly underwhelming. Having a bad experience with a mis-advertised tour is one thing, but then explaining your entire experience to several customer service reps and them telling you that your case is sufficient for a refund, but that the refund team will not hear any of your experience...is incredibly frustrating. I poured my heart out to the customer service rep that I was WhatsApp texting as the issues were occurring with the tour company in real time and they said that they wouldn't share any of the horrible details with the refund team because they would independently conduct an investigation and come to a "resolution" on their own.
How can a reputable company's customer service team not relay crucial information about a customer's horrible experience to the refund team? This company has no intention of refunding their customers, no matter what happens. They did not take my experience into account at all. I paid the money in full, even though the tour was mis-advertised on Viator's website, my family was treated poorly, we were charged extra upon arrival to the tour, half of my family was not even allowed on the tour, and the tour company would not refund us. This whole thing has turned me off from ever using Viator for anything ever again. The customer service SUCKS.
I even followed up separately on WhatsApp with a new customer service rep and explained my situation AND emailed the refund team that reached out to me to DECLINE my request for a refund (even a partial refund for the members of my family that were just unable to experience anything of the $800 I paid for this experience). Both reps told me that the refund team had conducted its own investigation and decided WITHOUT MY INPUT OF EXPERIENCE that I would not get a refund.
When I asked what the criteria of the investigation was, they stopped responding to my email chain. They could not tell me why they could not offer me a refund. This was a total scam.
