If you are in Rome, Italy and you want to see the city unlike any other tour you will find, this is…read morethe way to go. Before our trip, my wife found the Rome 500 experience online while searching for things to do in Rome. She knows I love cars and that I love to drive and saw that this tour allows you to personally drive a vintage Fiat around as you follow your guide in his fiat. Traditionally, multiple groups are scheduled and a trail of 5 or 6 Bright colored Fiats follow the guide all through the city. On the morning we booked, my wife and I were the only group scheduled so we had a private tour and it was a really cool experience. Our guide Giorgio was Awesome! His English was good, and he was very knowledgeable on the history of Rome. During the tour, we went all around the city and saw many places that you traditionally would not see if on foot or by taking a bus tour. The vintage Fiats are a lot smaller than a traditional car, and we were amazed at the small alley ways we went through. You are given a handset radio (walkie-talkie) so you can communicate with your guide and hear about the history of each landmark/area you drive past. The guide will make many stops during your approximately 3 hour tour and allow you to get out, take pictures and share about the history of where you are at. As you make your way through the city, do not be surprised if you become a tourist attraction yourself. Being in the Vintage Fiats, many people took pictures and did a double take as we drove past. The experience was priceless and well worth the money spent. One thing to keep in mind is being able to drive a manual transmission. They are not automatic, and you will need a driver in your group that can drive "stick". It was an experience of a lifetime and I will definitely recommend this tour to friends and family traveling to Beautiful Rome.

The most incredible tour I have ever had!!! Definitely have…read moreto recommend this for anybody that goes to Rome. The private tour in a Fiat 500 was off the chart! Our tour guide Alessio was incredible! His knowledge of Rome from 200 BC to today was phenomenal. My respect and appreciation for Rome architecture grew incredibly after spending three hours with this young man! He opened out eyes to so many things that We had no idea and made our trip so much more special! When we return to Rome we will spend another three hours with him or a tour! Even if we took the same tour again it would be special!

I had such a great tour and guide with this operator. My guide was Ms Susanna and I couldn't have…read moreasked for anyone better - she was outstanding. Filled with knowledge and details and was able to answer every single question. I felt like I received a BA in ancient Roman Jewish history by the time my few hours was over. Loved every minute of it and can't wait to return to learn more about other aspects of the gorgeous city which is rich with Jewish history that dates back to 161 BCE, well before the start of Christianity.

Our family recently spent a whirlwind week in Italy - Rome, Florence & Venice. While we enjoyed…read moremany remarkable experiences, the highlight of our trip were the tours we booked with Marco Misano. We took his tours of the Jewish Ghetto, Ancient Rome, and Vatican. Marco's knowledge of these areas is unbelievable. There was no language barrier. He spoke in clear English (with a charming Italian accent). The tours were anything but dry history lectures. Marco brought ancient history alive and kept us, and our 3 sons (a toddler, a tween, and a young adult) fully engaged. Marco was a wonderful resource and offered much appreciated assistance beyond our scheduled tours. He seemed genuinely happy to make our trip run smoothly. Marco helped us save time and money by assisting with advanced ticket purchases to the Vatican, Forum, and Colosseum; He advised us on restaurants (even making recommendations on what to order!); He suggested museums and sites that we should visit; He put us in touch with a driver for airport transfers and even recommended a wonderful guide for a private tour in Florence. Having Marco show us Rome was like touring the city with an old (and extremely knowledgeable!) friend. Our only regret was not booking more tours with this fantastic guide, I cannot recommend Marco highly enough! You will not be disappointed!

The entrance on these days is free that's why and technically u just tip, good it took ages to…read morestepped inside.

Spring break of 2017 I took a trip to Rome, Italy for 11 days. With the colosseum being a main…read moreattraction in Rome, we had to take a tour. We happened to go on a Sunday where they actually allow free entry into the colosseum, therefore the line was much longer than normal to enter. Although you can enter for free they still conduct tours throughout the shortened open time for the day. If you enter for free you do not have a tour guide, you simply have access to walk around yourself without guidance. The tour guides and different companies walk around the outside trying to persuade each tourist into taking a walking tour through the colosseum. I would highly recommend taking the tour it is most definitely worth the 20 euros a person they charge. When buying a tour through the company you get to skip the "free entry" line and enter almost with no wait. They split you into small groups with about 10-12 people in each group (separating the groups by desired language), leading you first through security to keep the building secure then into a waiting room where you wait for the rest of you tour group to come through. Your tour guide then leads the group to several stops through the colosseum, while informing you of the rich history and very interesting knowledge not easily accessible to the public. Throughout the tour we stopped periodically so that you could walk around the area presented and take it all in before learning about what you see. You proceed to the second level where there is a gift shop and covering to escape any unwanted weather. After making a few more stops through the colosseum you stop on the top level where many people take advantage of the view and snap some pictures. The tour ends on this level and you are able to explore for any amount of time you desire on the way back down. This gives the tourist a chance to spend more time in certain places that the tour may have not spent much time on. There is not alternative way of transportation through the colosseum because of its state and age, only on foot. This, although inconvenient to some, is simply to keep the structure in the incredible condition it has been kept in for all these years. Our tour guide, Jean moorman, was very informative and was very cultured, able to speak four languages. This tour was by far one of the most interesting and intriguing tours I have ever been on. Our tour guide never failed to share facts that even after research were new information to us. Not only was he very informative but he had a good sense of humor and always had the group laughing. These tours seem to be a very important not only to the rich history of the city but to the people. Many local historians are employed here, seeing that it is such a famous, world-wide attraction to visit. These tours have a great impact on the tourist opening their minds to the beautiful history this city holds. If you ever get the chance to take this tour I would highly recommend it as would anyone else I know that have taken it.

Do not book this tour! The tour guide was Andrea and she was rude, they separated our group and she…read morewas not willing to answer. She told me to stop talking as I was talking about the rest of our group. They told us tour was at 9:45 and it didn't start until 10:45 am. The tour guide also wasn't explaining much and wasn't tech savvy. Took forever to even get our tickets on her phone. She got mad I was trying o take a photo and told me I could come back later but she stopped to answer a personal phone call. Book through someone else!

Only tour in my life where we had to look up Wikipedia DURING the tour…read more My Italian friend recommended this agency because we are Catholic, coming for the Jubilee and wanted a religion-centered tour - Jubilee/Early Christianity. The other people on our tour were also devout Catholic. I believe the tour was done by Maria Lazara. We do not know her name because she did not bother to introduce herself, nor did she ask our names (aside from checking our family name off). We met at the statue and then without any introduction to our tour, nor introduction to the St John of Laterna Church, she marched off in front of us to the Church's portico. It was a bad start. That's the main complaint: she gave no introduction to the tour or any site, she gave no church or historic context on how things came to be or how they evolved. She gave no Catholic perspective. A tour guide needs to be a storyteller! And I expected a guide well-versed in church history, both religious and urban! Instead, it was a bunch of random historic facts. She primarily spent her time pointing out symbolism in the paintings and mosaics. Clearly, she majored in art history, and the history of Christianity was a boring sideline to her. She liked pointing out that Laterna was populated early, while most of Rome was countryside - but why? How did that change? Where did Catholics live and why did they move? Why were these churches chosen for their Holy Doors? Why only 4 doors? She told us the Laterna Holy Door was an original bronze and a couple more facts and then we marched through as it were nothing. Nothing about why it is special that they are open, how Catholics view this moment, etc. IT IS SPECIAL. In speaking about the Jubilee, the only thing she said was that the Pope first started it once every 100 years, and since the Roman townspeople made money on tourism from the incoming pilgrims, they moved it to every 33 years or when they wanted. That's it - Jubilees were about making tourism dollars. End of her story. None of our group of 3 heard that the Sacred Steps were brought from Jerusalem and why, and where they were placed originally. All she did was say "it is not a hard job to move stairs." THEY ARE SPECIAL. She just said: you can up if you want, I'll wait here on my phone. Again, her specialty seemed to be art history not Catholic traditions or history, and 75% of the time, she spoke about symbolism. The blue and yellow of Mary, the keys of St. Peter. That's fine but there was no narrative, no church history. The tour ended exactly at 12 p.m. Clearly, she was glad to be out of there. Another note - yes, her English vocabulary was good, but she spoke sing-song Italian style and it was hard to follow her. She does not have the cadence of an English speaker. Very disappointed in Eternity Tours' guide. Aside: I really enjoyed Eternity Tours newsletter mailings.

Great service, friendly staff. Last minute reservation and took only 10 minutes to arrive…read more We had a private driver in a luxurious car for the standard airport taxi fare. Highly recommended!

I would highly recommend Taxi (NCC) a Roma service. Also, make sure to request for Ariel Lorenzo…read more You can also reach him by whats app as well. I am so happy that someone arranged in advance for Ariel to pick us up from the airport. It was the best way to start off our trip in Roma. Ariel Lorenzo had picked us up on time from the airport and dropped us back off at the airport on time. This gentleman was polite and beyond professional. I believe from the beginning of him picking us up, to the end of him dropping us off at the airport that the service was beyond excellent. My opinion of the taxi service in Amsterdam and Belgium has not been the best. So when we actually came across a taxi cab that was honest, professional and polite I wanted to say thumbs up man, finally, I get a taxi cab that is on point.

Francesco was our guide for the semi private Colosseum Arena Floor, Forum and Palatine Hill. He…read morewas very knowledgeable and interactive so it made the tour so enjoyable! Well worth the extra money from a larger group.

We had Riccardo for our Express Colosseum tour June 2026 for our family of 4 (2 adults, 2 teens). I…read moreunderstand there can be language differences, but as someone who speaks both Italian and English, even I couldn't understand the hybrid way the guide spoke - he left the whole group not understanding a single word. The explanations were monotone, the emphasis was on the wrong syllables and oddly, every word that should start with a vowel started with an H. Helephant. Hantelope. Height-Height. Also far too much time was spent on his binder of web photos. I'm not sure what company this guide was contracted through (as I'm fairly certain The Roman Guy uses third parties now, which is different from the first time I used them a few years ago), but TRG needs to review the fluency of their guides. This was my third tour of the Colosseum over the past few years and it was a complete waste of money. It was supposed to be only an hour and after 90 minutes of not comprehending a word we finally left. Since the official Colosseum site makes it not easy to secure tickets directly, I'm just viewing the whole experience as an overpriced entry ticket. Many people in our group just took their earpieces off after a certain point. Regarding the actual tour booking and the days leading up to it, I received a message a few weeks prior stating that the tour could not happen at the scheduled time due to operational issues, and would I be open to coming later in the day? They asked me to choose an option (which there was no second option presented but I presumed it was a refund) so I told them I would just take the refund as we had a flight to catch during the revised time. They wrote me back immediately and said that "they were just checking on if I could take the new time but the scheduled time is still fine". Very confusing, is it cancelled for operational reasons or not? The whole thing was just odd and I won't be booking again.

My wife and I have been talking about Simone and for the last nine years so there was no way we…read moreweren't going to Rome and not book another tour with him. Simone has incredible insight in all things Rome. Want to hear about Mussolini and WW II, the Caesers, Jewish Ghetto or perhaps the Appian Way? This is the bike tour you need to go on. The price is fair and he's generous with his time.

Simone customized our bike tour of Rome to see the things we wanted. We wanted to see (1) catacombs…read more(2) via appia antica (3) the aqueduct. We saw this - but more and better. Turns out there's more catacombs in Rome and the one we went to was fantastic. There's also more ancient roads than just one. While we did ride on "the one" we also saw two others that were better preserved! I had no idea there were multiple aqueducts. We saw two! Plus got to see inside one. We had done a larger commercial tour before. We will go with Simone if we go back to Rome. He also was very good with our 10 year old girls. He spent time to find a bike that fit them just right (they're super tall and skinny so it wasn't easy). When they needed a break, we went to a cafe to have a local Roman lunch. It was fantastic. While I don't like riding on roads with cars, it's impossible to avoid in Rome. He always made sure we were safe in riding and crossing roads. We did have one problem with one of the bikes. He had a tool kit with him and was able to easily adjust the bike. This is by far my favorite Rome activity of the trip.