Colosseum Tour Cancelled In 2024? Here's Why And What You Can Do!
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- Colosseum tickets and tours are harder to come by than ever in 2024!
And sometimes, even when you secure them, the tour company might send you that dreaded e-mail that YOUR tour has been canceled.
Why is this happening? And what can you do? You have options!
00:00 - Intro
00:40 - How to get Colosseum tickets
03:13 - Why can't you find availability on CoopCulture?
04:08 - Book through a reseller
05:23 - How do you book tours
06:06 - Viator and Get Your Guide - umbrella sites
07:30 - Are your tickets going to get canceled?
10:41 - What can you do?
12:50 - Roman Forum super pass ticket
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This news article just came out and gives us hope that something may improve: www.reuters.com/world/europe/italys-antitrust-investigates-inflated-prices-colosseum-tickets-2023-07-18/
This just happened to us. We booked the underground Colosseum tour six months in advance, but the tour company contacted us a couple months before the tour to say it might be changed or cancelled. A week before the trip, it got cancelled and they asked us for alternate dates and times. At the very last minute they confirmed we would get the Gladiator's entrance tour for the same day/time. This was done thru a tour company, BTW.
Ugh - sorry about this. It's what I mean, they will try to offer you the best thing they can get for you. Tour companies are the ones trying to get tickets, and they are the ones who sometimes can't. That's what I meant when I said Viator, Get Your Guide, and Tiqets have nothing to do with it, as they are just a booking site listing various offerings from tour companies. So in the end, it's the tour companies who sometimes are unable to fulfil their commitment to their clients, because they just can't get the tickets from CoopCulture. I'm glad you will get to see the Colosseum at least! Hope it's a great visit.
You are so helpful, thank you!
You're so welcome! Thanks for watching and for your kind comments!
thank you so much for the video is awesome.
So nice of you!
Love your channel. Solid information and I'll just say the information you put out works for me. So many video blogs of couples showing me how much fun they have when I just really want the information on the place or area. I'm Subscribed. Visiting in September. We booked through City Walks and I emailed them a few days ago about all these complaints I'm seeing. They say most are going off without a hitch but sometimes it's out of their control. My guess is it's like rental car reviews. So many negative reviews but most of them do a great job. Thanks for all your input.
Thank you so much for your very kind comments. I'm really glad you enjoy my content. I love to make videos that help people, while also showing how beautiful Rome is.
You are right, really most tours are going just fine, but for those who get their tour cancelled, it can be a really awful experience, especially if this is a once in a lifetime vacation to Rome.
In recent days, a news story broke that the Italian government is looking into the problem and I hope they will do something about it. You can read it here:
www.reuters.com/world/europe/italys-antitrust-investigates-inflated-prices-colosseum-tickets-2023-07-18/
Thank you again for watching, subscribing, and commenting!
Thank you so much for this and all of your incredibly helpful Rome videos. We've watched all of them in preparation for our upcoming visit at the end of September and have found them to be most informative. This video, in particular, solved a week's long issue we've been having with booking a visit to the Coliseum. We had booked a full experience tour, but at an exorbitant price and it didn't even include the 24-hour access to the Roman Forum and Palatine Hill we were hoping for. After watching this video and seeing the likelihood of it being canceled, we did the canceling ourselves and rebooked for the general Coliseum/Roman Forum/Palatine Hill and Mammertine Prison self-guided tour through your link to Tiqets and were grateful not only for the tip, but also for the 5% discount we received. Now we can put the finishing touches calmly and with more confidence. Many, many thanks!
Thank you so much! This made my day! This is exactly the reason I love to make these videos - I am so happy to hear that it helped make planning your trip easier. I hope you have a wonderful time in Rome and at the Colosseum. I think you will love the Mamertine Prison. It's a small site but it definitely packs a punch. Thank you again!
Thank you so much for this video that explains what happened! I was so confused as to how I could book the underground tour 5 months ago and it was cancelled a week before the tour. Thankfully they switched us to another tour (2 hours later) that includes the arena & Forum. The tour is tomorrow so hopefully they don't cancel again!
Thanks so much for letting me know you found my video helpful! I'm sorry this happened to you but glad you were able to get a tour of the Colosseum and Forum. I hope it's a great tour! Enjoy!
Thanks for this it was really helpful as it just happened to me, don’t know how I didn’t see this earlier 😅
So sorry to hear your tour was cancelled. I hope you were able to bebook even a different kind of tour.
Hi!:) I'm very glad I found your channel and found a lot of useful information in the last few days!😍Unfortunately we started looking for tickets late and have not found anything for our trip next week. It's not clear to me if you can get a separate "ticket" in the morning with the Roma pass or not. You mentioned in your previous video that now only online possibe? Thanks a lot! 🤗
Thanks for watching! Yes, when I made my previous video, you could only buy tickets online. But as I mentioned in this updated video, as of this May, you can go stand in line to get tickets.
If you have a Roma Pass, you are entitled to a "free" ticket but you still have to book. Here is the link to book with the Roma Pass with CoopCulture online:
ecm.coopculture.it/index.php?option=com_snapp&view=products&catalogid=E0085161-9454-E5EE-44D2-017448FAA618&snappTemplate=template3&lang=en&cartSessionId=
If you cannot find availability for your dates, you can go to the ticket booths and wait there to get your free ticket. But you cannot just walk into the Colosseum with the Roma Pass. You must get your timed ticket. Good luck!
@@Romewise Thanks your quick and helpful answer! :) You're the best :))))
Coming to Rome next April on a royal Caribbean transatlantic. The vacation I’ve booked has been so affordable so I don’t doubt that Rome is packed.
So glad I stumbled on your video. I had booked Colosseum underground tickets through a tour agency in early June for a Sept 28 tour. As soon as the tickets were released by Coopculture, I got the dreaded email that my tour was canceled. They gave me the alternative of a later tour, but with no Arena floor or underground. Bummed, but I accepted it. After seeing your video, I went straight to Tiqets and was able to book the full experience with the arena floor and underground tour. Got instant confirmation along with etickets with QR code. Since it's less than 30 days out, hopefully this means they actually have the tickets in hand and we won't get canceled at the last minute. Holding onto the other tickets for the time being just in case. I have 24 hours before the tour to cancel.
Yes you are basically experiencing what is "normal" right now as regards Colosseum tickets/tours.
I think what you did is a great strategy and I hope you will get your underground tour! Good luck!
Your videos are very helpful… wish you’d cover other cities in Italy (e.g. Milan, Cinque Terre, Venice.,,)
Thank you so much! There are a few videos on the channel that cover other cities in Italy, including Florence, Turin, Naples, Padova, and more. There is a playlist called Beyond Rome.
And here I thought I got myself secured 😂 thank you for the heads up, I can’t wait to visit Rome next month!
Sending you best wishes in hopes all goes smoothly with your visit!
@@Romewise thank you so much! I’m definitely more equipped with knowledge thanks to your content! So thank you! ❤️
Thanks for always breaking down the chaos that is getting tickets for the Colosseum. We will be visiting next month and my son and I were simultaneously refreshing the coop site from different laptops 😂. We would see underground tickets for 4 of us but the times would be too far apart.
We finally got ones that are only 1 hour apart for our final day in Rome! Yay!
Please can you tell me where you stood to make this video, it has a nice view of the Colosseum from the outside. Also if you can make a video of how to access all the vantage positions for the best views, that would be good.
Thanks so much for watching my video. Yes, I hear this all the time about people refreshing their browser until the tickets show up. That's great that you were able to snag the underground tickets for your family!
When I made this video, I stood on the Caelian Hill, right here:
goo.gl/maps/D4cTaHxsDmKYQWHP7
I have a page on my website all about where to get the best views of the Colosseum:
www.romewise.com/best-view-of-the-colosseum.html
But that's a great idea for a video, too! Thanks for the suggestion! Hope you have a wonderful visit to Rome.
@@Romewisethank you for the exact location. The blog post is also very detailed. 👍
@@FloChinyere My pleasure!
We just came back from Rome last week. It was an impromptu decision to go to Colloseum that day. We arrived around noon, we queued for about 20 minutes to buy tickets. We paid a total of EUR 34.00 for 3 persons. I think, my son who is 17 didn't have to pay anything. I asked if a student gets a discount? The cashier at the booth asked for a student ID or a passport to prove his age.
It was a timed ticket. We were told that we can enter the Colloseum at 3:15 PM and the Palatine after 6 PM. So we went out for a lunch and came back.
That's great! I'm glad you were able to easily buy tickets on site. That can be a good option if you don't mind queuing and it sounds like it was not too bad. Thanks for sharing your experience!
Happened to us a couple of weeks ago. We booked a small group through city wonders and literally canceled on us about 2 hrs prior to tour. We ended up having to stand in line for over an hour to get a designated time to enter. At least we saw it and got photos.
Ugh, sorry, I know it's disappointing and inconvenient. I'm glad you got to see it in the end!
Underground canceled last week- sadly. The Early morning Vatican was worth it. I booked that one after you suggested it.
Sorry to hear that! I hope you were able to take a different tour. Glad you enjoyed the Early morning Vatican tour!
It was like this when I was last there in 2021... Thankfully I've seen it may times and at different hours (night time is the best) but I feel sad for people who don't get to go.
Yes, you are lucky. Rome has gotten even busier since 2021. In fact, 2021 was a very quiet year for tourism in Rome, because we still had a lot of restrictions between masks and Green Passes, so when you were here, it was surely pretty uncrowded.
So much amazing information. Thank you. I’m wondering how far ahead to book with the third party sites such as tiqets, viator, or GYG? I realize it may be canceled but seems like a risk we just have to take. Again thank you for the very helpful information
Thanks for watching! Well, you can book almost as far in advance as you like when you use a third party (please note you get a 5% discount when you book with Tiqets when you use the link and discount code I've provided in the description!)
Booking in advance neither helps nor hurts your chances of your tour being cancelled. No one tour company or agency is better about this than another. It's simply something like a lottery. The chances are that you WILL get your tour, but there is just no guarantee when demand is higher than the supply.
Thank you so much for this video! I’ve been watching the official tickets and have only seen availability once. I can’t believe how yours have access to these tickets over direct purchase from consumers, but I suppose it creates jobs so I doubt much will be done. One thing I did want to ask: if you do manage to book through the official site, are those tickets “skip the line” OR is that only for resellers/tours?
Thanks for watching and I'm glad you find the video helpful.
All tickets are "skip the line", because you do not buy tickets inside the Colosseum now. The lines you see are for security and everyone has to go through that.
So yes, online tickets allow you to "skip the line" for purchasing tickets, like the one I showed in this video, but you should give yourself about 15-20 minutes to get through security.
You’re the best!! Thank so much for that info!
The day before visiting the colosseum on the 24 hour pass (in early June) we received an email from viator saying: Because of the busy period of holidays in Italy we received too many reservations. We ask you to please show up [early] tomorrow… in order to make the ticket redeeming and the access to the colosseum as smooth as possible. We showed up a little early and fortunately, we got in.
We also booked the underground tour at night directly with co-op culture. Because the English tours were not available, we booked the Italian tour. Non c’era problema. I noticed that some people in the tour were using a Google dictation app which allowed them to understand what the guide was saying.
Way to go with the flow! And yes, sometimes the tours in Italian are available when the English tours are not. Great thinking on your part!
Happened to us today. The Roman Guy (i.e. The Tour Guy) canceled our underground nighttime tour scheduled for next month. Such a bummer since we're within the 30 day window and the official Colosseum site is sold out. :/. Thanks for this info though... misery loves company I guess. lol.
Sorry to hear that. As I said, it's no one tour company that is at fault. The Roman Guy / Tour Guy is doing their best as are all the tour companies. I hope you will be able to book another tour!
We were in Rome last month. We were on the way to the meeting point for our underground tour and received a text saying the tour was starting early. Who does that? So we didn’t make the start time. Fortunately we got in with another group about 30 minutes later. Wonderful tour! Downside was we had to do the Forum the next day. But no problem as we were stood up by our Vatican tour that day!
Oh wow, that's almost worse! Sorry this happened to you, but glad you were able to get in some good visits and had an enjoyable tour in the end!
Hi! Thanks for the information 😊I'm going in August to Rome with my family, we're gonna try to buy tickets online, I know it's gonna be extremely difficult because I was trying today and days ago and they run out almost at the time they were available. But just in case where is the tickets office located? Do you have the coordinates on Google Maps and where is the entrance for it? If this doesn't work I think mom and I will need to go at 5am to be first in line 😂
Thanks for watching. Yes, it's very difficult to find tickets online. You can go to the ticket booth which opens at 9AM. 5AM may be a bit early but if you show up at 8 AM you are sure to get a ticket.
The ticket office is really easy to find. It's just next to the Colosseum underneath the Temple of Venus and Roma in the Roman Forum.
goo.gl/maps/rNw98dfwbAud4GQK7
@@Romewise Hi, thank you for your reply ❤️ You're the best! I subscribed and currently using your tips and videos for planning our stay in Rome, thanks 🤗
Thanks for all the tips! 🥰 I tried to book through the website you mentioned. There the tickets only come online 4 weeks in advance and the date is immediately sold out. Tomorrow the date of the tickets I want to purchase should be online, do you have any tips? It's about Monday September 11 the arena and the underground. Or is this something common, because then we will look for a different tour. Thankyou so much ❤
Thanks a lot for watching. As I mentioned, the underground is extremely difficult to get because it's so popular but demand is very high and there are just not enough spots available to meet all the demand. Add to that that September and October are the two busiest months of the year in Rome, and demand is even higher.
But if you are vigilant and consistent and keep checking the site and refreshing, you may be able to find tickets available and snag them when they show up. Good luck!
Hi Ellysa,
My husband and I love your videos! We are watching them all in order to plan our visit in late October 2024. When ever my husband and I go on COOP Culture to book tickets for the night time Colosseum tickets, the price shows up but you cannot book the tickets. The dates we looked at did not seem to matter. The description shows the year 2023 instead of 2024. Could their be a glitch in the COOP Culture website?
Thanks so much for watching! The Colosseum is not yet offering night tours. They should begin sometime in May. Keep checking back!
You may find these videos helpful:
ua-cam.com/video/m-HFdbk8oq0/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/liYhh_6dRiQ/v-deo.html
Thanks so much for all the helpful content! Any idea why the Underground tickets have not come online for February? I am so determined as this is my son's #1 priority in Italy. The regular tickets are up, but the Underground has not posted anything past January 31. Coop Culture is not responding to my emails.
A new ticketing agency is due to take over from CoopCulture this year. Word was that it will happen in February. We don't know any more details yet but as soon as we do know, I will be updating everyone across all my channels - UA-cam, the www.romewise.com website, Facebook, etc. Please stay tuned!
It is wild that you just posted this. My husband and I just booked a small group tour this morning as we realize that booking through the official site did not look promising. Would you happen to know what time the ticket booth opens, and the exact address for it? Thank you so much for all of the videos! I can’t tell you enough how much has helped our trip planning.
Thanks so much for watching - I'm glad you find the video helpful. The ticket booth opens at 9 AM. It's right in front of the Colosseum on Piazza del Colosseo. You really can't miss it....just look for the really long line!
I'd keep the tour you booked and hope it goes through. In all likelihood, it will. I just want to prepare people in CASE their tour is cancelled.
Have a great visit!
thank you. very good advice. Our tour guide never even showed up. We had a couple scammers asking for cash, and we bought Skip the line tour tickets our tour guide never even showed up. We had a couple scammers asking for cash, and we bought Skip the line tour tickets. I got into the Colosseum and Palatine Hill. Avoid any of the lines they are not for you if you have skipped the line tickets. It is not easy to find the entrances when asking. Do research before hand.
Thanks for letting me know you found my video helpful. I'm really sorry to hear you got scammed! I'm glad you were able to eventually get tickets and enjoy the Colosseum and Palatine Hill.
@@Romewise for everything, we paid with a credit card so we were refunded. There was a lot of pressure to pay again with Euro cash. Avoid that temptation.
Oh, I'm glad to hear that! Good for you for keeping your cool and making sure you got that refund. @@Linus007
Hi Alyssa! What does a didactic visit mean? And can you only buy 1 ticket? I’m very confused with it saying per singoli. Thanks for your help!
Didactic means you will have a guide. A single ticket means you can buy a ticket and you don't have to buy a package for a whole group. It just means you can buy a ticket and join an existing tour.
Thank you for your informative videos, Elyssa! Do audioguides have to be purchased in advance (there is an option with the regular tickets on CoopCulture) or can you get them at Colosseum? I would like to get the Full Experience but use an audioguide too.
Thanks so much! No, you don't have to purchase audioguides in advance. You can buy them onsite. Have a great visit!
@@Romewise Thank you for your reply, looking forward to it!
Hi Elyssa! If I book an Italian or Spanish full experience tour (which I believe includes the underground), can I ditch the tour and explore on my own pace? Or at least do the tour and reenter the underground on my own? These tours seem much more available than the English tour and the self-guided tickets! Also, would the CoopCulture call center have better inventory? Thank you! I'm loving your channel and have subscribed!
Thanks for watching my videos and for subscribing! Yes, it's true, the underground tours have more availability in languages other than English, since English is the one with the most demand. However, no, you cannot ditch the tour. But the way it works is that you will be escorted to the underground and given the tour, which you must stay on. Nobody can wander around the underground on their own.
But after the underground, they take you to the arena floor and then from there you are free to explore the normal parts of the colosseum on your own.
The call centre has the same availability as the online system so there is no benefit to calling vs. using the online system.
@@Romewise Thank you so much for the reply, Alyssa! This is extremely helpful. You said "nobody can wander around the underground on their own" and I found this interesting. I didn't know this but you're definitely right! Coopculture described it as an "accompanied visit to the Underground". Is this underground visit timed? I assume the company would be a staff member who simply follows you around, not a tour guide who talks?
I was lucky enough to have purchased the Italian tour for the perfect date/time and plan to keep it. My plan is to purchase an official audio guide on site, stay in the back for the underground tour so I could listen to the audio guide, and ditch the tour as we get to the arena floor. Would that work? Also, Can I re-enter the arena without a tour guide?
Thanks again, Alyssa!
@@JupiterZebra Yes that's correct. The visit is timed. There is a huge demand and not enough time slots to meet the demand so they keep the visits moving. You will have maybe a half hour in the underground. It's mostly accompanied but you are also given enough freedom to linger back a little bit and take photos. But you cannot just stay down there as long as you like, as the next group will be coming along. You also cannot re-enter the underground or arena once you leave them. But you can stay inside the regular areas of the Colosseum as long as you like until closing time.
I came in 2017, booked tickets through Coop Culture, straightforward, no problem. I came in April this year and even though I got tickets through a third party and had a great visit, I felt that the booking process was a complete mess. Almost zero availability on Coop Culture, which according to all links online is the ‘official site’ Too many cooks spoil the broth! One organisation should deal with ticketing in my opinion. Great info as usual though, love your videos and Rome is still my favourite city.
The agents snap them up as soon as they become available, ticket touts is what they are
Yes, tour agencies and resellers do snap them up. It's like this in many tourism-centric places around the world. The problem is there is not enough availability for everyone who wants them, whether direct customers or tour agencies.
Thanks for watching my video, and I'm glad you found it helpful. Yes, it's definitely a messy situation and I hope it they will find a way to improve things!
Co Op Culture seems to be almost broken tried many times to book on it, just does not work, trust pilot give it 92% 1 star reviews. Alternative is to pay 3x the official price through ticket touts who get them at the official price.
Im having my tour tomorrow! I had booked the arena tour but they cancelled it today but thank god they told me they can give the normal tour and pay me back the money difference between both tours, I think I was lucky looking at the comments
Yes, as I said, they will always try to accommodate you some other way. I'm sorry your tour was cancelled but glad they were able to give you a tour of the Colosseum anyway. Hope you will enjoy it!
Ciao Elyssa!
How do you get the tickets for the Super Sights?
Hi Tania,
Here's the video about it:
ua-cam.com/video/zfHjFPua7W0/v-deo.html
Also, in the current video, I showed how you can get the Roman Forum SUPER pass, and that is the pass that lets you visit the Super Sites. It's on CoopCulture. The link is in the description.
Thanks for all the info. What is your exact location while filming this video?
It's on the Caelian Hill just next to the Colosseum. Here is the exact spot:
goo.gl/maps/D4cTaHxsDmKYQWHP7
Hi Elyssa, my husband and I are going to Rome in October, and I've been keeping an eye on the Coopculture website in order to get tickets to the Colosseum; however, it seems the availability is low or none at all, but I found out that with the Roma pass there is plenty of spots, why is this? Do you recommend to get the Roma pass? Thank you!
Yes it's difficult to get Colosseum tickets, especially in September and October which is the busiest time of year in Rome.
With the Roma Pass, they do allot some tickets for pass holders, so you might have an easier time getting them that way. The Roma Pass offers convenience, but is not necessarily a money saver.
I went through The Tour Guy for 3 separate sights, and it was all seamless! It's worth the bit of extra money.
That's great. As I said, all the tour agencies are doing their best. Nobody wants to disappoint their customers. And yet, most tour companies have had to cancel an underground or night tour at one point or another if they can't get the tickets they sold in advance. I'm glad it went well for you!
I'm relieved to see this comment! I'll be in Rome in Sept & have booked this & the Vatican with the Tour Guy. Fingers crossed nothing gets cancelled.
@@Emma-JeanCostine Please remember, the Tour Guy is just as legit a company as any other, and they are all more or less in the same boat, doing their best to sell tours and keep their clients happy. I hope all goes smoothly with your trip - have a wonderful time!
Really hoping this doesn't happen to me next month. I purchased my 6 Colosseum Night Tour tickets from Get Your Guide a little more than a month ago. The CoopCulture site never had any availability. Fingers crossed.
I hear you. Yeah, it's very difficult to get the night tickets through CoopCulture. Fingers crossed and hope you have a wonderful visit to Rome!
hi! thank you for such a important info!!! your vídeos are great! i'm trying do book tickets for 2 full entry and 2 kids under 12 and i can't find here to book the free tickets! can you help me please?!
Thanks so much for watching! I'm glad you find my videos helpful. When you purchase your tickets, you just buy them for the adults. Then when you go to the Colosseum, there is a ticket booth outside. There you can bring your tickets and show them you have to kids, and they will give you the kids' free tickets on the spot.
@@Romewise thankyou! I was so confused!
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Question. Going to Rome the first time in July. Taking a couple of tour guides do you need to tip the guides and how much?
Tipping is not necessary but always appreciated. How much you tip, if you do tip, is up to you, but you could base it on how much you liked the tour and how big the group is.
If you're on a group tour and want to tip, 5-10 Euros per person is probably a good amount.
If you're on a private tour, it may depend on how you booked the guide. If you booked with them directly and are already paying them well, you may not need to tip beyond what you paid for the tour. If you booked through an agency, they are not getting the full amount of what you paid, so you could tip 20-25 Euros per person if you are going to tip, i.e. if they did a great job.
Thank you. 😀. Love your vids.
Thanks for the information! Any idea why Coop Culture website isn't allowing any "Colosseum at Night" bookings in 2024? All the info is still dated 2023 and doesn't even show any red boxes for fully booked dates. Are they not doing any night tours in 2024? Tour agencies show "Currently Unavailable" also.
So far they are not offering the night tour. I believe the night visits will start sometime in May but nothing is confirmed yet. I advise you to just keep checking back.
Thanks for the video. How many days before the visit do they tell you your booking has been cancelled? I think if they let you know few days before that, it is pretty unfair, isn't it?
Yes, it's definitely a difficult situation. I have heard of people finding out the day before, which is something I mentioned in this video. But even with barely any notice, there are things you can do!
@@Romewise Thank you always for the advice. 🙂
@@cassieNzach My pleasure!
We are in Rome now. Arrived today and tmrw is our trip to colosseum and it got cancelled today!!!
What is your suggestion for tour guide in Rome thks
If you are asking about tour agencies, the ones I know best are Through Eternity and Walks of Italy.
If you are interested in a private tour, we can organize this for you. Please write to us at alessandro@romewise.com.
Thank you so much, and I will send email next week
Hey! I found available ticket for August, I entered at 11am to Coopculture (Perú hour) and at that hour they opened the tickets for the afternoon of the regular and full experiences (for example 11am of August 3 the tickets that were open were the ones for August 2) 😊 If somebody wants to know! Good luck 🤗
Great! Yes, sometimes if you are patient, you will get lucky and see some availability that matches what you want. It's definitely a challenge!
We’re hoping our December visit is less crowded . Guess we’ll find out!
Do January after 6th.Queues are very small you won`t get much rain and it is not that cold.
If you are here in December before the holidays, and not near December 8 (another holiday), you may find it less crowded than it is now.
One of my favorite times of year in Rome!
I’ve found it pleasant in December in the past. We have 6 days there and leave for Bavaria the 21st so before the Christmas week.
My favorite times there are November and April. Weather is decent and crowds have been smaller.
Thanks for the video. I notice the coop website does not allow people to get free tickets for children. In the past, I believe you have to select date and time slot for free ticket. Is the policy changed? Is it simply just get the ticket without booking required? Thanks
Yes, they changed the rules again recently. Now, the procedure is that you book your tickets, and then on the day of your visit, you go to the ticket booth next to the Colosseum (it's very easy to find), and you get the free tickets for your kids.
@Romewise Thanks. If I purchase adult tickets through website other than coop, can I get the kids ticket there?
@@alvinchan5258 Yes, no matter where you buy your tickets, eventually, you will have tickets through CoopCulture. So if you buy through say, Tiqets, they will send you a voucher that is a CoopCulture ticket with bar code. So you just do as I said above, take that to the ticket booth outside the Colosseum before your visit, and pick up your kids' free tickets.
I wanted to buy the full experience ticket with access to both arena and underground of the Colosseum and the plan was to go first to the Colosseum, have lunch and then go to the Roman Forum and Palatine Hill. There are only tickets for the afternoon left, but since the full experience ticket is valid for 48h, I wanted to confirm if I could just change the order and go to the Roman Forum and Palatine Hill in the morning and then go to the Colosseum at the time booked in the afternoon (or is the ticket only valid AFTER the time of my Colosseum booked visit?). I really wanna do it all in the same day
Thank you for watching my video. Yes, with the Full Experience ticket, you have two days to visit the two sites - one for the Colosseum at the time you booked, and the other to visit the Roman Forum/Palatine Hill. They can be in either order so you can certainly visit the Roman Forum / Palatine Hill the day prior to your Colosseum visit. Please note there is no re-entry so once you go inside the Roman Forum / Palatine Hill, you won't be able to leave and come back. So make sure you have a food plan and know how long you want to stay. There is a lot to see so I would go as early in the day as possible!
So is Coop Culture currently not selling tickets to the colosseum? Or is it just selling out too fast. I will be there in October but every time I check the site all the days from 30 days onward are always red. Even 3rd party sites are not selling tickets to the colosseum unless it has a tour guide added to it but these cost over $100 per person
Yes, CoopCulture is selling tickets to the Colosseum. But as I mentioned, there is a huge demand and limited supply. Also they only sell tickets for the next 30 days.
If you are looking for regular entry tickets, you will find more availability more easily. Arena tickets are a bit harder to get but also possible if you keep checking and are patient. Underground and night tour tickets are extremely hard to get because they have the least supply and the most demand.
And, if you are coming in September/October, these are peak season months so demand is higher than in other months.
Third party sites are no longer allowed to sell just the tickets so they have to bundle them with something which is why you are seeing those higher prices.
@@Romewise Thank you for the quick response. Your videos have been a tremendous help!
Yup! I booked a July Underground Tour several months ago with the help of your amazing videos. Got the email last week that the underground is cancelled and we would now be getting the Gladiators Gate Entrance tour. So FRUSTRATING! Here's what we got from our tour company where they blame Coopculture: Parco Archeologico :
"This decision is a result of much careful thought. It was one of our first tours ever offered and one of the first “special access” tours we introduced in 2014. The tour has won awards and mentions and has given us great satisfaction.
The choice is dictated by a series of insurmountable difficulties imposed by surprising, astonishing and illogical daily new regulations dictated by Coopculture and the Parco Archeologico. These erratic regulation changes began in mid-2022 and made it increasingly difficult for tour operators, their clients and guides to access the monument and underground in a fair and equitable manner.
Over the last 12 months, with every new and nonsensical regulation imposed, we rolled up our sleeves and worked with what we had. We worked hard to adapt to the growing challenges, often wasting hours and days making endless modifications to our clients and guides schedule in an effort to adapt to changes that seemed to favor large corporations utilizing bots while restricting access of guides and clients even with valid tickets in hand. What’s more, these unfair and often contradictory regulations are imposed without transparency, and come at the cost of our clients' satisfaction, tranquility, not to mention our guide's patience."
I am so sorry. It is truly frustrating, I know. And this is what I mean by the tour companies trying to best manage a difficult situation. Nobody wants to disappoint their customers. I hope you will enjoy the Colosseum anyway. Thanks for sharing your experience.
No you booked nothing, the tickets don't come up for sale until a month before, you were sold a ticket on the promise an agent could get them when they did
Hello, I was able to get the full experience ticket which says its possible to enter once within the 2 days. How does the time of entry work when I have a ticket for the 19th of August 9:25am but I want to enter on the 20th of August at 9am?
With the Full experience, you can enter the Colosseum once, which will be at the time of your appointed visit, and you can enter the Roman Forum / Palatine Hill once, within a 2-day period around your Colosseum entrance time. So you just go to the Colosseum on 19th August at 9:25 am, and then on the 20th of August, you go into the Palatine Hill / Roman Forum at 9 am, as you are in plenty of time. You may wish to double check with the staff when you go on the 19th, but you will be fine going in the next morning.
So through Coop Culture they have the Full price Full Experience + didactic tour € 32.00 plus booking fee, I am a bit confused as to what this is. Is it the full experience entry ticket (including entry to the Arena and Underground) with a guide ? It's only 8 euro more than the Full Experience ticket so seems too good to be true if it includes a guide ?
Yes, you are correct, the didactic experience is indeed a guided tour. And yes, it's only 8€ more than the ticket price.
The reason it costs so little is a) you will be guided by a staff person of the Colosseum, not an outside tour guide, and b) it only covers the Colosseum and not the Roman Forum / Palatine Hill.
But it is indeed worth it so if you can snag that ticket, I suggest you do so! Enjoy!
We bought entrances through booking. Then canceled. But we found last minute ticket through Tiqets and 4 euros cheaper 😊
That's exactly what to do! Just look for tickets and usually you can find something! Glad it worked out for you!
Hello I'm coming to Rome in at the end of the Month. I want to do the rome night tour but it's only available in Italian. Would it be a bad idea to book it even though I only speak English? I was thinking to just download a English audio guide
Thanks for watching my video! Many people are doing this and I've heard from some of my readers that at times, everyone on the tour is an English speaker and sometimes the guide will try to accommodate them. But if you do book this and the tour is in Italian, I would just read up on the Colosseum before you go so you know what to expect. Then, yes, you could use an English audio guide, too.
www.romewise.com/colosseum-by-night.html
Will I get the SUPER ticket privileges along with that type of ticket?
The night time ticket...
The night ticket is considered a special visit, and not a FULL Experience ticket. The night ticket of the Colosseum does NOT include ANY entry to the Roman Forum / Palatine Hill.
If you book a Full Experience ticket to the Colosseum, which includes either the Arena or the Underground+Arena, then you would get access to the SUPER sites.
Alternatively, you can book the night visit, and then separately purchase for 17€ the Roman Forum SUPER ticket with ONLY includes the Roman Forum/Palatine Hill and ALL the SUPER sites but NOT the Colosseum. @@marquisebrooks8314
I booked through trip advisor for July hopefully this doesn’t happen to us
I hope it doesn't happen to you! As I said, most people are getting inside the Colosseum, but it's good to be prepared and know what to do in case of a last-minute cancellation. Have a great visit!
Why is this so unnecessarily confusing lol, my trip is a bit over a month out and the tickets aren't available on co-op culture for the dates I'm there. Seems like they're never available. I booked at the end of May through Tiquets, so I'm hoping the tour companies were able to secure a ticket. It does come across like a total scam. If you can't promise a spot, don't sell it? Do you know from experience if any of these tour companies or Tiquets are transparent if you reach out to try and confirm your spot?
Yes I know it's terrible confusing and stressful. FYI this article JUST came out yesterday so maybe there is hope for a change:
www.reuters.com/world/europe/italys-antitrust-investigates-inflated-prices-colosseum-tickets-2023-07-18/
As for the resellers, I think they are all just trying to do their best given the situation of extremely high demand. If you try to reach out, they may be able to confirm your spot, depending on what you have booked, or they may tell you that there is always a chance your tour will be cancelled. It depends on the season and what ticket you book. As I said, the underground and night tours are the ones in highest demand and with the least supply.
I accidentally purchase School tickets which cost the same price €19 each on coopculture. It seems I can’t change or cancel them. I don’t know if I can still get into the colosseum with those tickets? Do you know At the entrance will they verify school ID?
Yes they do ask for ID. You can try calling CoopCulture to ask what to do, but likely they will tell you what is stated on their website - for all discounted tickets, ID is required and if you don't have the proper ID that allows you to get those tickets, you will have to purchase new tickets. They do not offer refunds.
Thank you for your information. I actually paid more than regular 24 hours entrance ticket😢, no discount at all but more availability tickets. And There’s no other available tickets on the website now. I will still bring my passport try to go to the entrance on that day.
Is thus just happening at museums or everything Viator?
Thank you for watching my video. I think you may have missed the section where I describe exactly why Viator is not the culprit.
Hello I am trying to book train tickets in Italy for the month or Christmas. The prices for the month of December is very costly even when compared to some ticket next week. Is this normal behaviour or there is something wrong I am doing?
Right now it may be too early to book for Christmas. But Christmas is a very busy travel time in Italy as Italian families as well as tourists will be travelling. So you may simply be coming across popular dates. You might try to change your dates to see if you can find lower fares.
@@Romewise it’s not about Christmas’ I guess suddenly the cost for the entire month of December is very very high. I suppose I should wait
Hmmm it seems odd that prices should be so high for the whole month of December. Yes, I would probably check back maybe in a couple of weeks. @@utkarsharora7176
@@Romewise thanks
Hey, The prices do drop a bit but on the day prior to christmas trip from florence to rome is costing 50 Euro so extremely costly. 1 more thing I am seeing is that after 10 Dec 2023 there are no trains to and from Lake Como. Something expected here?
@@Romewise
This hspened to us also. Booked via Viator and it got cancelled at last minute. Now we dont even know if we will get refund or not. Viator is horrible we spend 78 euros and just one day in advance they cancelled. And refund also seems doggy.
Oh no, I'm really sorry. I am sure you will get a full refund. Hope you can try to book another tour with a different company!
Where are you standing? Seems like a great photo spot. Also not too crowded.
It's on the Caelian Hill - here is a pin showing exactly where I stood.
goo.gl/maps/D4cTaHxsDmKYQWHP7
@@Romewise fantastic! Thanks for replying! I'll be there in a month. Not a big fan of crowds. I now it would be hard to find quiet spots 😉
@@avarela4748 My pleasure! Have a great visit!
How likely are they to cancel tickets in late November?
Well, as I said, the further out you are booking, the most likely the company may not be able to get tickets. That said, while early November is still pretty busy in Rome, late November starts to quiet a bit (or use to anyway), so it's possible there will not be the same situation of supply and demand.
Also, this article just came out - maybe there is some hope things will change!
www.reuters.com/world/europe/italys-antitrust-investigates-inflated-prices-colosseum-tickets-2023-07-18/
Elyssa THANKS for your youtube channel! LIKE LIKE LIKE. do you have any info or know of a similar youtuber that provides great information on Venice, Doges Palace and St Marks Square and the church there? etc.?
Thank you! So nice of you! Sorry I don't know of another UA-cam channel with this kind of info about Venice. I am hoping to do a Venice video this year so please stay tuned!
You might want to check my pal Gillian's Substack - she lives in Venice and has lots of great info and photos: gillianlongworthmcguire.substack.com/
It happened to us, luckily we found somewhere else, we booked in advance 2 or 3 weeks before those tickets, had the visit planned for the 3rd day of our stay, and the previous day before the visit at nighttime they let us know!!! 😲 I was like, no way! Thanks to my wife, she is an O.G right, so she handled the situation like a Pro and found us a couple of tickets. And like you said Rome was packed to the max, not really a enjoyable delightful experience overall, everything felt like if it was rushed (Vatican Museum) like sardins in a can and the queues were ridiculous 😯😵💫😵.
Everything in Rome is beautiful, the history behind it, the good people, the architecture and the art. But unless it goes a little "out of fashion" and less over crowded for sure I won't be going back anytime soon 😢.
Italy treated us well, thanks ❤️🙏🏻
Oh dear! Sorry to hear that. Thanks for sharing your experience. It's true Rome has been super crowded lately. I hope you enjoyed it anyway!
stop re sellers who get most of the tickets, but sell them before they get them.
Yes, this is definitely part of the problem.
That's bad
It's unfortunate, yes.
@@Romewise yes
Too much information! My head is spinning. I'll have to watch this several times.
Yes there's a lot of information - but with the chapters in the description, you can also skip ahead if you like.
It’s easier to get Taylor Swift tickets!!!!
Oh my gosh, you made me crack up!! But you are not wrong!!! 😂
@@Romewise same thing for Eiffel tower tickets. They sold out on 20 seconds! 20 seconds!!!! Seriously. These your companies with robots need to stop buying up the tickets.
@@EverydaySeniorNews Wow that's just crazy! Same is happening at other sites like in Milan for the Last Supper. The world is definitely travelling!