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The Roma Pass is a combined museum and public transport pass that can make it easier and cheaper to visit Rome.

What does the Roma Pass include?

For 3 days, starting from the moment it is used:
- free access to the first two museums or monuments visited (the Vatican Museums are not included; the Colosseum, the Palatine Hill and the Roman Forum together count as one visit only)
- a reduction on the museums and other Rome tourist attractions visited afterwards
- reductions on visits to special exhibitions and happenings
- (rarely) visits to parts of museums that are otherwise closed
- free public transport (subway, bus and tram).

When is the Roma Pass useful?

Note that the Roma Pass can be less useful than it would seem to be. Most of Rome’s principal tourist sites are churches and squares and as such have no entrance fee anyway and the Vatican Museums are not included. Distances between tourist attractions are often so short that it makes more sense to walk than to wait for a bus or to look for the underground.

Jumping the Queue at the Colosseum

One big advantage the Roma Pass has is that it allows you to skip the ticket lines at the first two attractions visited, which can save a lot of time especially at the Colosseum. (If you want to get into the Colosseum without queueing and you do not have the Roma Pass it is best to get your ticket, which is a combined pass for the Colosseum, the Roman Forum and the Palatine) at the Palatine Hill.

This Rome information blog is written for the guests of the Chaplin Bed and Breakfast Roma and the Hostel Little Italy B&B.

Where can the Roma Pass be bought?

The Roma Pass is for sale at all the museums and tourist sites that are included. It can (in theory, at least) also be bought at the Information Points that can be found close to the main attractions and at Rome Termini Station and the airport of Fiumicino. Travel agencies, tobacco shops, newspaper stands and Atac ticket offices are also supposed to sell them, but in reality they hardly ever do.

How to use the Roma Pass

Before visiting the first tourist attraction, write your full name and the activation date on the back of the pass. From this point you have free access to the first two museums or monuments selected. From the third visit onwards you have to show the Roma Pass at the entrance in order to get the reduction. (It is mandatory to also have a means of identification with you.)
Also for the public transport pass you will have to write first name, family name and date of birth on the back of the pass and then validate it the first time you use it. (Note that you are supposed to activate the public transport and the museum pass on the same day)

Roma Pass Kit

The so-called Roma Pass Kit, with information (in English and Italian) about the pass consists of:

- Roma Pass Transport, a pass allowing 3 days of free public transport in Rome (ATAC buses and trams, lmetro lines A and B, Met.Ro trains: Rome - Lido, Roma - Viterbo). The transport pass has to be validated the first time you use it and expires at midnight of the third day.
- Roma MAP, a map of Rome, indicating all the tourist information points, subway stops and museums and monuments included. The adresses, opeing hours, phone numbers and nearest bus and metro stops to the attractions are also indicated.
- Roma Pass Guide, a complete list of the museums and monuments the Roma Pass is valid for.
- Roma News, a news magazine listing special happenings and exhibitions.