Rome private tour: golf carts, a Vespa, walks and full days with a driver, priced

Four of the eleven are golf carts. The $200 cart is two hours at night past the illuminated Colosseum, Pantheon and Trevi Fountain, 5.0 across 159 reviews. The $201 cart is three daytime hours with a local guide and the sights you want to see, 4.9 across 323 reviews. The $324 cart is six hours with a lunch break: the Colosseum, Trastevere and the Janiculum Hill views across the river, 4.9 across 58 reviews. The fourth, at $770, is also three hours and also customised to your interests; it has 25 reviews at 4.7, against 323 at 4.9 for the $201 one of the same length.

The private Vespa by night is $201 for three hours with a driver and a private guide, St. Peter’s Square and the Colosseum without the daytime crowds, 4.9 across 90 reviews. The private walk at $568 is three hours on foot: the Pantheon, a gelato, and the underground ruins beneath the Trevi Fountain, 4.9 across 63 reviews.

Two private listings cover one monument each. The private Vatican tour at $290 is three hours with entrance tickets included: the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel, the Maps Gallery and St. Peter’s Basilica, 4.9 across 175 reviews. The private Colosseum, Roman Forum and Palatine Hill tour at $509 is three hours with swift entry and an expert guide, 4.9 across 358 reviews, the most reviewed private listing on the site. The Colosseum page and the Vatican page set each beside its shared and skip-the-line versions.

Two more cover the whole city. The luxury-car day at $1,008 runs seven and a half to ten hours: the Trevi Fountain, the Pantheon, the Spanish Steps and Piazza Navona by car, with entry tickets to the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel, and lunch; 5.0 across 36 reviews. The two-day plan at $1,450 is a private-driven tour of the historic centre, the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel, the Colosseum, the Roman Forum and the Catacombs, with transfers; 4.8 across 21 reviews.

One leaves the city: a private day to Assisi, the city of St. Francis, and on to the sanctuary of Santa Rita in Cascia, twelve hours at $661, 5.0 across 35 reviews.

Four of the eleven private listings are rated 4.9 or 5.0 on more than 150 reviews: the three-hour cart (323), the Colosseum tour (358), the Vatican tour (175) and the night cart (159). Six have fewer than 70 reviews each, so their ratings rest on a small base: the full-day cart, the private walk, the Assisi day, the luxury-car day, the two-day plan and the $770 cart.

What private costs over shared, listing against listing: the shared Vatican skip-the-line tour is $84 (4.6 across 11,642 reviews); the private one is $290 (4.9 across 175 reviews). The shared Colosseum, Roman Forum and Palatine Hill guided tour is $55 (4.8 across 92,604 reviews); the private one is $509. The shared city highlights golf cart is $66 for two to three hours; the private three-hour cart is $201.

On cancellation: the four golf carts, the Vespa and the Assisi day list Free cancellation. The private walk, the Vatican and Colosseum private tours, the luxury-car day and the two-day plan do not list it, so read the cancellation line on those before you pay.