Colosseum, Roman Forum and Palatine Hill Fully Guided Tour

Rome, Italy

Great choice

20+ bookings last month.

2 hours 30 minutes (approx.)
Offered in: English

Overview

Immerse yourself in the history of Rome—and discover three top attractions, all in a single excursion—on this in-depth tour. With your guide in the lead, head on a journey through time to explore each site's captivating past: You'll see the world wonder that is the Colosseum, discover the Roman Forum, and visit Palatine Hill. As you go, your guide will bring the landmarks' stories alive for a transportive experience.

This tour is great for first-time or time-pressed visitors
Get up close and personal to multiple UNESCO World Heritage sites
Headsets are provided so you can hear your guide's every word
Entrance tickets are included in the tour cost for your ease

What's Included

Live professional tour guide
Headsets to hear the guide clearly
All Fees and Taxes
Colosseum entrance ticket (valued at €18 per person)
Colosseum reservation fee (valued at €2 per person)
Please note: Colosseum fees as above. The remaining cost of the experience covers other services.

Entrance to the Arena, Underground and III Level of the Colosseum
Food and Drinks

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting points

Select a meeting point

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Itinerary

Colosseum

1 hour • Admission Ticket Included

Palatine Hill

45 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Roman Forum

45 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Not wheelchair accessible
Near public transportation
Most travelers can participate

Please provide the full names of all travelers when booking. Failure to present a voucher with all travelers' full names at the ticket office prior to entry may result in denied entry to the Colosseum and Roman Forum.
Each traveler must present a valid passport or ID document that matches the name provided at the time of booking for successful entry to the Colosseum and Roman Forum.
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 24 travelers

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Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

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Reviews

4.2

based on 43 reviews

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Buyer Beware

Julia_N, Oct 2025

If I could give NO stars I would. My husband booked this tour as a surprise for my cousin and I who were taking a girls trip. After booking the tour and getting the confirmation, which included the tickets. I received a phone call at 4 AM telling me the tour was over sold and they DO NOT have capacity for me. My option was to book at 2 pm, which conflicted with another engagement or book a private tour for an additional $500. After speaking with multiple people, Vistor did not manage their vendor well. I was only given a partial refund when the company canceled on me. After calling again to complain about that, the representative lied stating I agreed to a partial refund. Where on what planet would that be acceptable????? The level of refund professionalism and customer service was lacking. Clearly you can’t depend on what you find on the site or the availability. I caution every customer when using this service. They are the worse.

Excellent and very interesting

Christine_T, Oct 2024

The information our tour guide provided - Gina from Barcelona was fantastic . She worked around the weather so we didn’t get wet and kept the whole 2.5 hours interesting

Don't miss this!

Kolette_N, Sep 2024

Very well organized tour. So much to see and take it.....tour guide very knowledgeable regarding all of the history.

We left the tour. Very disappointing

Charles_B, May 2024

I would preface this with the description that myself and my girlfriend are very relaxed when it comes to slow service and chaos, however this experience was quite disappointing to be honest. The organisation was sub-par: it said to meet people in purple t shirts (who were there) however the stress when realising that the company on the booking didn't match the company looking at tickets was quite alarming. Similarly, the tour group was WAY too big (about 40). We thought it would split up and be two groups, but we did not. The whole tour around the colloseum was rushed, and left a rather sour taste in our mouths. I would review the rest of the tour, but we left after about 45 minutes as we felt that we weren't even looking at the colosseum, we were just rushing around it. The guide however, was lovely, and she boosted the rating up a star, but for what you pay (about 60 quid) I was very disappointed. My advice: join the tour to get in quickly (though not much faster) and then leave promptly so you can look around in your own pace and then see the forum and palatine Hill. A real shame.

Ugh

Tiffany_C, May 2024

Very disorganized. Was called the night before and told to be there an hour earlier got there an hour early they didn’t have my reservations. Then had to call someone else. Finally, found it. The hen was told oh you have to check in later. Checked in later went to the ladies room and they left us. We had to catch up. Tour guide spoke English but it wasn’t clear.

Well wow

Kieran_H, Apr 2024

Wow, Alessandro truly knew his stuff and shared freely. Would absolutely recommend, felt my limited knowledge was expanded, by someone who gave freely and was truly enthused by his subject. Could not be more pleased and grateful x

The best best tour ever

Devin_M, Apr 2024

This tour was the best ever, started on time and very informative. Our tour guide Velejrio was amazing. Highly recommended, best tour in Rome.

Terrific tour!

Nam_H, Dec 2023

Our tour guide, Sandra, was spectacular! She was so knowledgeable and passionate of the Italian history. She was also very considerate and full of energy! Would definitely come back to one of her tours.

Incredible, amazing guide

Monique_E, Nov 2023

Best experience. We felt it was perhaps the best tour we have ever been on, mainly due to our guide, Vasco (I hope that's how you spell it!) who is an archeologist and was incredibly informative. Amazing. One of the top highlights of a month- long trip.

"A magical site in earth"

TheJnungaray, Oct 2023

"observing and seeing so much history in person and culture was over whelming and so real " of something we only see in a movie...Amazing!

Discover your own time in Ancient Rome.

Linda_R, Oct 2023

Our guide made analogies to Ancient Rome to modern life. Very helpful. His love of the history was infectious.

Great tour but terrible experience with the tour operator and the company they collaborated with,

Joanne_D, Oct 2023

The tour itself turned out to be fantastic. However, the experience trying to find the tour guide was awful. According to our instructions from our tour operator called “The Tour” (poorly chosen name), we were supposed to meet them wearing purple shirts. The only people who were wearing purple shirts at the very busy site outside the Colloseo were with a tour operator called “Crown Tours”. I approached a guy from this group. He saw that my tour operator’s name was “The Tour”. He immediately said they were not the group I was looking for. So we spent the next 20 minutes looking for “The Tour”. We could not find any such group. And no one else was wearing purple shirts. I called the phone number for “The Tour”. They never answered. We thought we had missed the tour because the meeting time had passed. Then I texted “The Tour” but didn’t receive a response immediately. Then I tried to talk to another guy from “Crown Tours”. He was more helpful than the first one and made some calls. Right then I received a text back from “The Tour” saying I should look for his colleagues with the purple shirts with a company called “Crown Tours”. At that point the Crown Tours guy said that “The Tour” was one of the groups they collaborated with and helped out. I asked them why their first guy had no idea about that. They didn’t have an answer. I said if you know you are collaborating with another tour group you should not be sending people who are looking for that tour group away. Again they had no good answer. We did ultimately get to join the Crown Tours group. The tour guide was good. But both the first Crown Tours guy who sent us away and “The Tour” company should be given a fail for their service. The first Crown Tours guy should have known about their deal with “The Tour”, and “The Tour” operator should have told us right off the bat that we should be looking for a group called “Crown Tours”. There was no reason why they left out that very important information.

Response from Host, Oct 2023

Thank you for your feedback, but we send a confirmation one day before the activity with more details about the meeting point. You have seen the email today 14/10 saying that is two days late! However we are hoping your next experience goes better. Thank you

Hot, crowded, and hard to hear

Tim_P, Sep 2023

Unfortunately, with the large crowds it was difficult to hear our guide. Also, the group of 24 seemed too large, because if we became separated by more than 15 feet, the audio would stop working. I think groups of 12 should be the maximum size.

Wonderful, knowledgeable...

Natasha_D, Sep 2023

Wonderful, knowledgeable and insightful tour guide Laora - group was a little big but didn’t affect the tour.

Expensive but worth it.

Wendy_L, Sep 2023

This tour left right on time with 25 people in our group. The guide was very knowledgeable and responsive. His directions in any crowded areas were very clear. The headsets worked well to allow us to hear all he said. We never had to wait in any long lines - just entered easily and quickly.

Great tour at the Colosseun

Las_P, Aug 2023

Great tour at the Colosseum. Our tour guide was very pleasant and had the group very engaged. Nice .

Amazing

Eve_H, Aug 2023

Brilliant tour and guide! Tour guide was very knowledgeable and we learned a lot about the history of the colosseum

Well worth it

Roxanne_K, Jul 2023

The guide was very easy to understand Ad generous in finding shade! The heritage was told in a way that interested the crowd.

Long line for "skip the line"

Suzanne_T, Jul 2023

To be fair, it was a very crowded time of year. However, we waited in a line for 45 minutes (for "skip the line"). Our tour guide was very knowledgeable but several people had to leave early because the tour was much longer due to the long wait to get in.

Amazing

Diana_S, Jun 2023

This tour was a great experience for myself and my family, our tour guide Alessie was great. Highly recommend it - note there is a lot of walking

Well worth the 3hrs!.

Catherine_R, Jun 2023

We had an amazing guide Mya who engaged with all participants and was full interesting information, well worth it!

Difficult in such a busy time of year with the crowds but our guide was excellent.

Lisa_M, Jun 2023

Excellent guide, very informative and organized. Through no fault of hers, it was challenging with the intensity of the summertime crowds.

one not to miss!

Neil_B, Jun 2023

an awesome history lesson which will be enjoyed by all! Just be warned that you will be surrounded by huge crowds in many areas of the tour

This team was very...

Jackie_A, Jun 2023

This team was very helpful and flexible for my group of 30 people visiting Italy for adidas Eurocamp! They made our time constraints work and showed us so much in a friendly and educational way. Can’t thank them enough for making our visit so special!

Excellent and knowledgeable tour guide

Saiful_K, Jun 2023

The best experiences anyone ever can expect with guided tour. Our 24 members tour guide was amazing explaining critical histories and evolving stories about Roman heritage and ancient stories including lot of questions from the guests. I hope he is compensated for his well structured and knowledge to share with tourists. Compare to this experience our June 15 Vatican tour was horrible and I reported to you Viator and you all should not be charging for the services that we did not get.

Very informative!

Susan_C, Jun 2023

Great tour - we skipped all the lines and our guide, Helena, was a wealth of knowledge. We could have gone on our own, but we would have walked away without knowing and understanding everything that happened during that time.

Great tour!

Michael_P, Jun 2023

You know the tour is great when it pours with rain in the middle and you don’t care. The guide brought Ancient Rome to life in an unvarnished fashion that balanced the glory and the horror.

Great tour guide

Michelle_R, Jun 2023

We had a great time with Alessandro! He was very enthusiastic and knowledgeable. Having him as a tour guide definitely made the experience fun and exciting! We got to learn so much more than if we had just seen the colosseum, forum and palantine hill on our own.

Worth the wait

Jason_C, Jun 2023

Knowledgeable guide, plenty of detail. Used visual aids to help explain the history behind everything. Crowded at colosseum, but that's just because it's super popular