Golf cart tour Rome: eight carts, shared and private, compared

The gelato cart, $44. The listing promises to cover more ground in less time than on foot, with a stop included to taste artisanal gelato. Two to two and a half hours, small group, private option available. At 2,857 reviews it has more than the other seven carts put together, and it is the closest thing to a golf cart food tour Rome offers on this site.

The highlights cart, $66. A guided golf cart tour of Rome past the Trevi Fountain, Piazza Navona, the Colosseum and Piazza del Popolo. Two to three hours, 4.8 on 1,224 reviews, small group, private option available.

The electric cart, $83. Colosseum, Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps and Piazza Navona by electric golf cart, with a gelato included. Two and a half hours, 4.9 on 440 reviews, and the only shared daytime cart that lists wheelchair access.

The night cart, $74. An evening on a golf cart past the Colosseum and the Trevi Fountain with a local host. Two and a half hours, 4.9 on 399 reviews, wheelchair access and a private option listed.

Two listings run after sunset. The shared one is the Rome golf cart tour at night for $74: two and a half hours past the illuminated Colosseum and the Trevi Fountain, with the history told by a local host, rated 4.9 on 399 reviews.

The private one is a Rome by night golf cart tour of the lit landmarks for $200: two hours through the narrow streets and squares to the illuminated Colosseum, the Pantheon and the Trevi Fountain, with pickup listed. It is rated 5.0 on 159 reviews, the highest rating of the eight carts.

Between them the Rome night golf cart tour choice comes down to the group: the shared cart costs a third of the private one and lists a private option if you want the cart to yourselves on that route. The same two evenings are set beside the moonlight walk and the night Vespa on the after-dark page.

A private golf cart tour Rome listing comes in four lengths. The three-hour cart at $201 is written around the sights you choose, with a local guide, pickup and wheelchair access listed; it is rated 4.9 on 323 reviews and is the most reviewed private cart. The two-hour night cart at $200 is described above.

The full-day cart at $324 is six hours with a local guide and a lunch break: the Colosseum, Trastevere and a crossing of the river for the views from Janiculum Hill. It is rated 4.9 on 58 reviews.

The fourth private cart costs $770 for three hours, customised to your interests, with pickup and wheelchair access listed. Its rating is 4.7 on 25 reviews, a small sample, and it is almost four times the price of the three-hour private cart above with the same length and a higher rating. Read both listings before choosing it. All four stand beside the private cars and walks on the private tours page.

On the numbers, yes. The gelato cart is rated 4.8 on 2,857 reviews at $44; the hop-on hop-off bus, the most reviewed city sightseeing tour on this site, is rated 4.1 on 13,162 reviews at $22. The bus has far more reviews and costs half as much; the cart is rated higher by the people who took it and comes with a guide and a gelato stop rather than an optional audio guide. No cart on this page is rated below 4.7.

By rating and review count together, the best golf cart tour Rome offers on this site is the gelato cart; by rating alone it is the private night cart, 5.0 on 159 reviews. If you are after the best golf cart tour in Rome for a daytime group that wants the Spanish Steps as well, the electric cart at $83 names them and is rated 4.9 on 440.

Where it is not the right purchase: if you want to get off and go inside the monuments, a cart drives past them. The Colosseum entries start at $28 and are a separate booking. And a passenger ride on a Vespa at $27 is cheaper than any cart, rated 5.0 on 1,280 reviews, for one to one and a half hours.