Which tours do you recommend as best for kids? Last year, my husband and I did one with City Wonders that included the underground, third ring and the forum and Palentine hill. I'm not terribly interested in spending three hours doing that again, but do you think the kids would get enough out of the colosseum without a guided tour? Should we try to do a self guided audio tour perhaps? My husband and I did RS's heart of Rome self guided walking tour last year just using the guide book and it was easy to follow and fantastic. We plan to do that again with the kids.
We will have two full and two half days in Rome and 1-1/2 days in Florence. I'm trying to decide what tours would be most interesting to the kids, ages 9, 14 and 16. For other activities, I've talked to a few cooking schools, a gladiator school, and a sketching tour for budding artists. I'm wondering if an evening tour that shows us the buildings lit up for night would be cool, or if we could easily do that on our own too.
I want to let the kids get plenty of info without being burned out. Would a 3-hour Vatican and Sistine chapel tour be too much? Is it worth paying extra for the early VIP entry? I'm going to do one expensive tour, around 500 euros for all of us, and a couple of 250-300 euro tours, and I am trying to figure out the best way to spend my hard-earned money. I've roughly budgeted 1000 euros for tours. We're also going to Venice, but that definitely seems doable on our own. Altho in each city, the food tours sound pretty cool. So maybe one of those somewhere.
There's a walking tour of Florence that lasts for four hours and hits the highways that sounds interesting for 250 euros for all of us. Must pay our own tickets into academia and iffui thomwhich gets expensive. Wondering if that is a good choice or if we should just tour Florence's in our own, we're staying in sight of the duomo.
Any thoughts?