Turbo Pass

I hadn't heard of the Turbo Pass, so I Googled it. Here's what I found.

You'd need to do the math to see whether it would save you money or cost you extra money. It can be very difficult to figure out how many sights can be covered in the time available in a specific city. It doesn't matter how much a pass covers if you aren't interested in a bunch of the things (a wax museum in Rome??) and don't have time for a lot of the others. The devil is in the details.

Be aware that skip-the-line privileges usually refer to ticket lines, which you would be able to skip in any case if you bought entry tickets in advance. The question is whether the pass confers any additional advantage, such as: Does it allow you to bypass the ticket line without having to reserve a specific entry time that you'd have to specify if you purchased individual tickets? That would be a useful feature.

I see that the pass covers the Vatican Museums. However, the nearly-universal recommendation these days is to pay extra for an early-access tour to avoid the mob scene during regular admission hours. I suspect the pass wouldn't help with the cost of the Vatican's early-admission ticket, and it certainly will not help at all with the cost of one of the commercial early-access tours.

The hang up in many areas is the security line and not the ticket purchasing line. You can avoid the ticket line simply by purchasing tickets on-line and sometimes the tickets come with a set admission time. That solves the ticket line problem. Cannot avoid the security line and it can be a pain. Unfortunately you may have to do the math to determine if this is a good deal or not. Personally I have found these "passes" tend to through in a lot of small, side museums. They may be interesting but just don't have the time for those museums.

The other problem with passes is the amount of digging you have to do to get to the truth about their convenience, let alone their value.

For instance, there have been recent changes in at the Uffizi and Accademia in Florence which require tourists with Firenzecard passes to make reservations for a designated day and time. In Rome, Roma Pass holders must now make advance, timed-entry reservations for the Colosseum. I would assume the requirement would be the same for the Turbo Pass.

The Turbo Pass website does not make the requirement for reservations clear. There's the barest hint on the Uffizi page for the Florence pass:

https://www.turbopass.com/florence/uffizi-florence.html

You have to go to the ticket counter for visitors with preferred entrance at least 15 minutes before your reservation time.

The card doesn't cover the Pitti Palace, Boboli Gardens, San Marco, the Bargello, Palazzo Vecchio, Santa Croce, any of the duomo complex at all, and the list of important, omitted landmarks/museums goes on. Transport? Central Florence is compact and easily walked so we didn't need to use the buses at all during our stay.

Rome Turbo pass: They don't mention the requirement for reservations at the Colosseum at all but under reviews these recent pass holders wrote....
https://www.turbopass.com/rome-city-pass/reviews.html

"Now you need a reservation for the Colosseum. We were informed in good time by Tourbopass. But you have to book online. There is no possibility to make a reservation on site."

"Only at the Coliseum are the employees of the ticket counters not yet familiar with the new appointment reservation. We were sent from one counter to the next."

The Rome Turbo Pass greatly exaggerates the value by listing separately parts of the Vatican Museum that are all included under a single €21 ticket if purchased from the Vatican's website: Museo Chiaramonti, Museo Missionario-Ethnologico, Museo Gregariano Profano, Museo Storico Vaticano, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Museo Pio Cristiano, Museo Pio Clementino, Museo Gregoriano Egizio, Vatican Pinacoteca, Cortile della Biblioteca, Cortile della Pigna, Sistine Chapel. Vatican Courtyards. And St. Peter's, Museo delle Mura, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Villa di Massenzio, Museo Pietro Canonica, Museo Napoleonico and Museo di Scultura Antica Giovanni Barracco are free to begin with.

Hoho buses are not a recommended way to see Rome as they have limited routes, have to drop passengers some distance away from certain of the attractions, can get struck in traffic, and generally haven't seen good reviews for years. Also, even at attractions which do allow you to skip ticket lines with a pass, no one skips security queues if those are in place.

In short, passes are often not what they're cracked up to be so be sure to read all the details? :O)