Roma Pass and Rome city passes

Roma Pass prices: 48 or 72 hours

The 48-hour Roma Pass costs €44.90 and includes one entry and 48 hours of transport. The 72-hour card, at €69.90, includes two entries and 72 hours.

With the Colosseum alone, the €25 ticket costs less than the card. Each museum you add where even the reduced ticket is dear, and each day on the metro, tips the sums towards the card. The list below has every place where you can use an included entry, with what its ticket costs on its own.

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How the Roma Pass works

Since the alternative is the reduced ticket, an included entry saves most where even the reduced ticket is dear, as at the Colosseum. It’s worth little at the state sites where the card’s price list gives a reduced ticket of just €2, such as the Baths of Caracalla, the Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia and Ostia Antica.

Check your dates against two things: many museums close on Mondays, and on the first Sunday of the month the state and city museums are free for everyone, so an included entry is wasted there.

Booking the Colosseum and the Borghese Gallery with the Roma Pass

For the Colosseum, you reserve a time as a Roma Pass ticket on the Colosseum’s ticket site, ticketing.colosseo.it, up to a month ahead, and at the gate you show the active card with the booking. You can book before you buy the card, with just the names of the people going, so it’s easy to check your day has a slot first. Open the card’s QR code before you get there, on a good connection: mobile signal is weak around the Colosseum.

The visit you book this way is the standard one, without the arena floor or the tunnels beneath it, which no city card includes. The ticket with the arena is on the Colosseum page.

The Borghese Gallery has a booking of its own, card or no card. Roma Pass holders reserve a time online for a €2 fee, or for free by email with a reply within two working days, and the booking can’t be changed or refunded. The Roma Pass recommends booking at least 10 days ahead and checking there’s a slot before you count on the card.

Roma Pass transport: metro, buses and trams

While the transport is switched on in the app, the Roma Pass covers Rome’s three metro lines, the buses and the trams. It also takes you on the Metromare, the old Roma-Lido train, out to Ostia Antica, so the trip to the ruins costs nothing extra.

Vatican and Pantheon tickets: not on the Roma Pass

The Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel aren’t on the Roma Pass, because they belong to the Vatican, a separate state with its own tickets. St Peter’s Basilica is free to enter for everyone, with or without a card. The Pantheon isn’t on the Roma Pass either. Both tickets are easy to add:

The card doesn’t cover Nero’s Golden House, the Domus Aurea, or the €2 that visitors now pay to go down to the basin of the Trevi Fountain. If the Vatican is high on your list, all the passes below can include it.

Rome Tourist Card: the Vatican and the Colosseum together

The Rome Tourist Card is a bundle of tickets sold by Tiqets. You choose one from each of three groups as you buy: the Vatican Museums or Castel Sant’Angelo, then the Colosseum with the Forum and the Palatine, then St Peter’s Basilica or the Pantheon. It starts at €89.

St Peter’s Basilica is free to enter, so what the card buys you there is an entry with an audio guide, a guided visit or the climb to the dome. One of the Colosseum options also covers the Mamertine Prison, and then you collect your Colosseum ticket at the prison, at least an hour before your Colosseum slot.

You choose your visit dates as you buy and the tickets arrive by email. The card has no transport and can’t be cancelled once bought. Below is what each ticket costs on its own, and what the card is worth against them; the Rome Tourist Card page goes through every choice.

Omnia Card: the Vatican with a bus tour, or with a Roma Pass

The Omnia Card is built around the Vatican and run by the Rome diocese’s pilgrimage office, the Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi. The 24-hour Omnia, at €70, gives you the Vatican Museums at a booked time and a day on the hop-on hop-off bus. The Mamertine Prison and St John Lateran come with it, each with an audio guide, and four more audio guides cover walks around the city.

The 24-hour card doesn’t include the Colosseum or the metro, and for now the bus doesn’t stop at the Colosseum. For those there’s the 72-hour Omnia Card, which adds a Roma Pass for adults, with its two included entries and 72 hours of transport. You still book the Colosseum yourself, as with any Roma Pass, and the card’s terms say it must be used by 31 December 2026. The Omnia Card page sets the Omnia cards against the Roma Pass.

Vatican City Pass: the Vatican Museums and St Peter’s

For the Vatican on its own there’s the Vatican City Pass, from €64. Like the Rome Tourist Card, it’s a bundle of tickets you choose as you buy: the Vatican Museums, St Peter’s Basilica with an audio guide, a short guided visit or the dome, and then Castel Sant’Angelo, the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore or a city audio guide app. There’s no Colosseum and no transport, and it can’t be cancelled once bought. The Vatican City Pass page has each choice in detail.

Go City Explorer Pass: 2 to 7 attractions of your choice

With the Go City Explorer Pass you choose between 2 and 7 attractions from the list below. The Colosseum and the Vatican Museums are on it, each counting as one choice, and the others include guided tours, tickets with audio guides and food experiences such as pasta classes.

The pass lasts 30 days once activated and doesn’t include public transport. The Colosseum and the Vatican need a time booked in advance, and a no-show or a late cancellation uses up one of your choices. Booking ahead also counts as activating the pass, and once it’s activated it can’t be refunded.

Turbopass Rome: the Colosseum and the Vatican booked for you

If you’d rather not handle the bookings, the Turbopass makes them for you: you give your preferred days when you buy, it books your Colosseum and Vatican visits, and if your dates are full you can take it without one of them. It runs from one to seven days and also takes in St Peter’s, the Pantheon, Castel Sant’Angelo and a hop-on hop-off bus. Public transport is an extra you can add.

You can cancel up to 24 hours before your first day, with a fee, but once your Colosseum and Vatican times are booked they generally can’t be changed or refunded. How the bookings work is on the Turbopass Rome page.