I will be planning to visit the Colosseum on June 29th and like many other was hoping to get underground tickets. I ended up staying up all night to be online right when they went on sale (I'm in Boston so EST). Well, the tickets never even showed anything available for 2 hours and I have up. Next best choice for my family would have been the Full Experience with Arena access. But given those tickets only go on sale 7 days in advance I was stuck because I was worried our time wouldn't be available and I didn't want to be stressing while I was already enjoying my time in Italy (I will be in Venice at that time). I see now I probably could have waited so those tickets at the time I was interested in are still available for the 7 days in advance now. In any event I got the 24H Arena ticket for 9:40am. I know my husband wouldn't want to miss getting on the Arena floor. I've been contemplating now also getting the 24H standard colosseum ticket for a 10:30am entry so we can see the rest of the colosseum. Is the Arena floor only sufficient (20 minutes in and out) or would it be worthwhile to double up and get both tickets given this is our first time there?
Sorry for the lengthy post...I'm very tired and need some advise making this decision for our family.