Ticket, guide, arena or underground
Colosseum tickets on this site start at $28 for a 24-hour entry ticket to the Colosseum, Roman Forum and Palatine Hill with an in-app audio guide, listed at 75 minutes and rated 4.4 on 14,573 reviews. The most reviewed listing on this whole site is the $55 guided tour of the same three sites: two and a half hours with a licensed guide, 4.8 on 92,604 reviews, with an arena-floor upgrade at booking. The arena floor starts at $39, the underground at $127, tours written for children at $245 and a private guide at $509. Each of the eleven is a ticket plus something; what that something is, by price, is below.
Quick answer
The short answer. Buy the $28 ticket if you want to walk the three sites at your own pace with the audio app. Buy the $55 guided tour if you want a licensed guide and the option of the arena floor; with 92,604 reviews it is the most reviewed listing on this site. Pay $127 or more only if the underground or the arena floor is the point of the visit.
What the money buys
Four forms, eleven listings, and the difference written into each one in its own words.
Rome Colosseum tickets on this page come in four forms, and the listing text tells them apart. The $28 listing is entry only: a 24-hour ticket to the Colosseum, Roman Forum and Palatine Hill, with the audio guide in an app and no guide in person. This is not a Colosseum tickets official box office; each listing is an operator’s product, and the monument’s own counter price is not quoted here because the listings do not state it.
Colosseum tour tickets with a guide start at $39. On that listing the full tour enters through the Gladiators Gate onto the Arena Floor and goes on to the Forum and Palatine, or you can take the basic Colosseum tour or an express visit, one to three hours in all. The $55 tour is a licensed guide through all three sites in two and a half hours, with an arena-floor upgrade and a small-group option chosen at booking.
Underground listings start at $127 for a tour that offers arena or underground together with the Forum, two to three hours. The $200 Colosseum underground tour walks the underground corridors, steps onto the arena floor and shows the trapdoors, lifts and pulleys, 5.0 on 90 reviews. At $892 the VIP tour gives arena floor and underground in two and a half hours. Call them Colosseum Italy tickets or tickets to Colosseum Rome: all eleven are for the amphitheatre in the centre of the city, booked by date on the live listing.
Every trip, current fare
All eleven listings with cost per hour where the listing gives a fixed length. A dash means the listing quotes a range.
| Tour | Length | Price | What you get | Cost per hour | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rome: Colosseum, Forum, Palatine Hill Entry & Audioguide App | 75 min | $28 | 24-hour ticket, in-app audio guide | $22.40 | 4.4 · 14,573 |
| Rome: Colosseum Arena Floor, Roman Forum & Palatine Tour | 1 - 3 h | $39 | Arena Floor through the Gladiators Gate | — | 4.7 · 2,677 |
| Colosseum, Roman Forum & Palatine Hill Guided Tour | 2.5 h | $55 | Colosseum, Forum and Palatine with guide | $22.00 | 4.8 · 92,604 |
| Rome: Exclusive Colosseum Arena or Underground & Forum Tour | 2 - 3 h | $127 | Arena or Underground with the Forum | — | 4.7 · 1,582 |
| Ultimate Rome: Colosseum, Vatican Museums & Walking Tour | 7 h | $166 | Vatican, Colosseum and a walk in a day | $23.71 | 4.7 · 664 |
| Rome: Colosseum Underground, Roman Forum & Palatine Tour | 2.5 - 3 h | $200 | Underground corridors and trapdoors | — | 5.0 · 90 |
| Colosseum and Ancient Rome Family Tour for Kids | 2.5 h | $245 | Games for children at the Colosseum | $98.00 | 4.8 · 348 |
| Rome: Colosseum, Roman Forum and Palatine Hill Tour for Kids | 3 h | $334 | Ancient Rome for the whole family | $111.33 | 4.9 · 69 |
| Rome: Colosseum, Roman Forum and Palatine Hill Private Tour | 3 h | $509 | Swift entry, private guide | $169.67 | 4.9 · 358 |
| Rome: Colosseum, Underground & Roman Forum Private Tour | 3 - 3.5 h | $530 | Underground chambers, private guide | — | 4.9 · 72 |
| Rome: Colosseum Dungeon, Forum & Palatine Hill VIP Tour | 2.5 h | $892 | Arena floor and underground, VIP | $356.80 | 4.5 · 94 |
Which one, honestly
Six situations, each matched to the listing whose own text fits it.
The $28 ticket: 24 hours of entry to the three sites with the audio app, 14,573 reviews at 4.4. It carries a likely-to-sell-out flag on the listing, so book it before you plan the rest of the day.
The $55 guided tour, 92,604 reviews at 4.8: a licensed guide through the Colosseum, the Forum and the Palatine. Add the arena floor as an upgrade at booking if standing on it matters to you.
The $200 tour: underground corridors, the arena floor, the trapdoors, lifts and pulleys, two and a half to three hours, 5.0 on 90 reviews. The $127 listing offers arena or underground with the Forum for less, but its description is written about the Forum, so check which option you are booking.
Two listings are written for children. The $245 family tour, two and a half hours, plays games and activities through the Colosseum and Roman Forum, 4.8 on 348 reviews. The $334 tour is three hours, designed for children, 4.9 on 69 reviews.
Tickets for Colosseum Rome visits with a private guide start at $509 for three hours with swift entry, 4.9 on 358 reviews. The $530 private tour adds the underground chambers, includes the entrance fees and offers transfers, three to three and a half hours, 72 reviews at 4.9.
The $166 combination: timed entry tickets to the Vatican Museums and the Colosseum, the Sistine Chapel, and a walk past the Pantheon and the Trevi Fountain, seven hours, in a group of 20 or 10, 4.7 on 664 reviews.
Book direct
Six of the eleven, live prices and ratings. The family and private listings are in the table above.
★ 4.4 · 14,573 reviews
★ 4.7 · 2,677 reviews
★ 4.8 · 92,604 reviews
★ 4.7 · 1,582 reviews
★ 5.0 · 90 reviews
★ 4.7 · 664 reviews
Is it worth it
The numbers from the listings. The entry ticket is $28; the guided tour is $55, so a licensed guide through the three sites costs $27 more and comes with 92,604 reviews at 4.8 against 14,573 at 4.4 for the ticket. That is the widest gap in rating and in reviews on this page, and it is where most people land.
The step from $55 to $127 buys the arena-or-underground option; the step to $200 buys the underground corridors, the arena floor and the machinery beneath it, rated 5.0 on 90 reviews. Ninety reviews is a small count next to 92,604, so treat the perfect score as a small sample.
Above $500 the purchase changes: a private guide who answers your questions, swift entry on the $509 listing, included entrance fees and optional transfers on the $530 one. The $892 VIP tour is the most expensive Colosseum listing here and, at 4.5 on 94 reviews, is rated below every other guided tour on this page; the data gives no reason to pay it over the $200 underground tour.
The Forum and the Palatine on their own page: the same listings read for what they say about the Forum.
Forum and Palatine entries→Buying
Roman Colosseum tickets here are booked from the cards and the table: each opens the live listing, where you pick a date, see the time slots the operator still has, and pay. Of the Colosseum tickets on this page, two carry a likely-to-sell-out flag at the time of reading, the $28 ticket and the $55 guided tour, so if your dates are fixed, book those first.
Colosseum skip the line tickets, in those words, are not written into any of the eleven descriptions: the $509 private tour says swift entry, the $166 combination says timed entry tickets, and the rest describe the guide and the sites. Read the listing for the entry wording before you count on it.
Colosseum entry tickets without a guide are the one listing at $28; the other ten pair entry with a guide, and the $530 private tour is the only one whose description says the entrance fees are included in so many words. Nine of the ten tours name the Roman Forum; seven of the eleven listings name the Palatine Hill.
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Every Rome tour, by price→Common questions
On this site, from $28 for the 24-hour entry ticket with the audio app to $892 for the VIP tour with arena floor and underground. The guided tour most people review is $55; the tours for children are $245 and $334; private guides start at $509. The monument’s own counter price is not quoted here because the listings do not state it.
The official release date and time are not in these listings, and this page does not guess them. What the listings do is open a calendar at booking and show the dates still available. The $28 ticket and the $55 guided tour are flagged likely to sell out, so they are the two to book first.
As soon as your date is fixed, for the two flagged listings. None of the eleven descriptions names a booking cut-off; the live listing shows which dates and time slots remain, and that is the only advance notice the data gives.
Every listing here is built on a ticket: the $28 listing is the ticket itself, and the ten tours include entry with a guide. Whether the monument admits anyone without one on your date is not something the listings answer.
The listings are booked online by date, and the calendar shows same-day slots only when the operator still has them. With the $28 ticket and the $55 tour flagged likely to sell out, a same-day booking is the one the data says not to count on.
Pick a listing whose text names the underground: the $127 tour (arena or underground with the Forum), the $200 tour (underground corridors, trapdoors, lifts and pulleys), the $530 private tour (underground chambers) or the $892 VIP tour (arena floor and underground).
From the cards above: each opens the live listing where you choose a date and pay. The $55 guided tour has 92,604 reviews, more than any other listing on this site; the $39 arena-floor tour has 2,677.
Yes. The $28 listing is a 24-hour ticket to the Colosseum, Roman Forum and Palatine Hill. Nine of the ten guided tours name the Forum as well; the exception is the $166 combination, which pairs the Colosseum with the Vatican and a walk instead.
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