Travel from Airport:
We would recommend the Leonardo express train to Roma Termini, leaving every 15 minutes
Taxis are always white and have a fixed fare to anywhere in the city of €50
There are also 5 bus companies running services to Rome
Hotel:
Crowne Plaza St Peter’s
A gorgeous but out-of-centre location, the hotel has a shuttle bus direct
to Vatican/centre, or you can catch public buses 98/881 which stop outside the hotel, or there's a 10 minute walk to
Metro station Cornelia
It has a decent restaurant and bar, and very good breakfast
selection
They also have a €14 airport shuttle deal (Fiumicino only)
Tourist Card:
You have a choice of several reliable passes, all with different access and prices
Rome City Pass (1 to 7 days)
1 day = €100, or €108 including city transport
7 days = €155, or €181 including city transport
Access to 50 attractions, including the Vatican, the Colosseum (though you have to book a date when you buy the pass), the Pantheon, access to the sightseeing bus, skip the lines, and lots more
Roma Pass (48 or 72 hours) - currently €32 and €52
This is a bargain option with lots of rules, so here's a bit more detailed info:
You cannot receive it on your phone or by post, you need to collect it from a Tourist Infopoint (https://www.turismoroma.it/en/node/18692) - but not Termini Station.
You cannot skip the line.
You cannot use it to travel to/from the airport.
You get free entry to the first (48h) or first two (72h) visited museums, but only concessionary tickets to all other museums.
Even though it includes the Colosseum, you must have a separate reservation for this: https://colosseo.it/en/tickets/24h-colosseum-roman-forum-and-palatine/ - read the Roma Pass FAQ very carefully.
You do get free use of the city’s public
transport network: trams, buses, metro lines A and B, and railway lines Roma-Lido, Roma Flaminio Piazza del Popolo-Viterbo (up to Sacrofano), and Roma-Giardinetti, within the territory of the Municipality of Rome.
Activated at the time of the first entry to the
museums, or at the first journey on public transport, for 48 or 72 hours.
Museums included: https://www.romapass.it/en/museums/
Attractions included: https://www.romapass.it/en/attractions/
CIS Travel Ticket
€24 for a 7 days, up to the end of the 7th day
Valid on buses, trams, trolleybuses, the metro lines A
and B, and on regional trains
Tourist Offices:
Food:
Forno Castel
Sant'Angelo
Via del Banco di
Santo Spirito, 44
bakery and delicatessen just across the pedestrian
river bridge from the Castel Sant’Angelo
Cul de Sac
A long thin wine-bar with traditional food (including
lots of pate flavours) and a wine list the size of a telephone directory
Ristorante Tema
Via Panisperna 96
Family-run restaurant with good range of Italian
dishes
Della Palma
Via della Maddalena 19
150 flavours of gelato, also lots of gifts and sweet
treats
Piazza Dell'Unità indoor
market
Via Cola di Rienzo 52/54
Wide range of fruit & vegetable, meat and fish
stalls, with some gifts and cafés
Franchi & Castroni
Via Cola di Rienzo 196, also Via Frattina 79 and Viale Marconi 100
quality food and drink souvenirs from this chain of delicatessens
Sightseeing:
MAXXI21, modern art gallery
and museum
Via Guido Reni 4
very modern art (21st Century), with nice
café and museum shop
take Tram 2 from Flaminio Metro to the Palazzetto
dello Sport
Palazzo delle Esposizioni and
Scuderie del Quirinale
via Nazionale 194 and via
XXIV Maggio 16
reduced price joint ticket for this pair of excellent
galleries
Museo di Roma
Piazza Navona 2
Castel Sant’Angelo
Lungotevere Castello 50
cylindrical castle with Hadrian’s tomb, an outdoor
café at the top, ruins and spiral ramps, lots to see and worth half a day
Musei Vaticani
Viale Vaticano, level with
Via Tunisi
Metro Cipro
imperative that you buy on the Internet and print out
your tickets in advance, going for the earliest entry that you can manage
Forum/Palatine/Colosseum
joint ticket
Via di S. Gregorio 30
advance booking at: https://ticketing.colosseo.it/
On the day, best bought at Palatine as queues are much shorter
than at Colosseum, and ticket is valid for 2 days
get Metro to Circo Massimo and walk up to Palatine
entrance
shops at Forum and Colosseum with guidebooks and
souvenirs
EUR
EUR is a residential and business district located
south of the city centre. It was chosen as the site for the 1942 world's fair,
the letters EUR standing for Esposizione Universale Roma, but was cancelled
because of WW2. It has a wide variety of modernist architecture and is well
worth an afternoon’s stroll. Catch the Metro to EUR Palasport or Fermi, to
start a tour at the lakeside park.
Olympic Stadium
From 1960 Olympics, and also the 1990 men's football World Cup, a tour of the stadium and viewing some of its most historic souvenirs.
€15, every day from 10am to 6pm.
You can also visit the Olympic Village, on the other side of the river, near MAXXI.
Comments