If I go to the http://etickets.coopculture.it/ site, I can buy tickets but it does not seem that I can reserve a specific date/time. 3 tickets are 42 euro. am I missing something on the coopculture site where I can put exact day & time?
If I go to ticket bar at http://www.rome.info/colosseum/ - I can reserve tickets on specific day/time for $52
Is ticket bar a legit ticket broker?
I think I will feel better if we have specific date/time?
Cindy, general-entry tickets for the Colosseum/Forum/Palatine (1 ticket covers all three) are not time or date specific. You can use tickets you purchase today on any day the sites are open until the end of this year. The tickets you would purchase on the rome.info website won't be of any advantage as they don't allow you any quicker entry than those bought on the coopculture site: they're both general-entry tickets.
Both allow you to skip the ticket line
Neither allow you to skip the security line. As stated on the rome.info page:
"Skip the Line tickets allow you to skip long waiting lines at the ticket office, but does not exempt you from security controls. "
Same with coopculture.
42 euro = $45.82 in today's conversion so why pay more?
Adding: the rome.com site says "With the ‘Ticketbar Combi-Deal’ you also get access to the Palatino and Roman Forum! " That's no "deal." The same applies to tickets bought from coopculture or at the Colosseum/Forum/Palatine themselves so it's a fine piece of misleading advertising. A good reason right there, IMHO, not to use that site.
yes, false advertising indeed as it let's you select date & time...thank you for saving me some grief
You're welcome. :O)
In case you missed it? General-entry tickets are good for two consecutive days. You could visit, say, the Colosseum on one day and the Palatine/Forum the day after, or the other way around. What you can't do is go back and revisit any of the three or split visits to the Forum and Palatine as they're connected and are considered a single site. That said, it makes sense to do all three on the same day if at all possible as they're clustered in the same general area.
I followed Rick's advice for skipping the line and it was so easy and awesome. I didn't do anything that required me to spend extra money. We purchased our tickets from the Forum first (or was it Palatine Hill), and there wasn't anyone in line. But I was really surprise at how close the ticket offices were to one another--really close. We actually walked past the first ticket office on our way to the Colosseum. The line at the Colosseum was beyond rediculous but we just walk past everybody right up to security and we didn't have to wait at security.
People have caught on to the "buy your tickets from the forum/palatine hill entrance" and a lot of times you'll find super long lines there as well. Three weeks ago the line at the forum was longer than the one at the colosseum.
In order to truly skip the lines just buy online and print the tickets at home. You can only print full priced tickets at home. Everything else must be picked up at the colosseum special events desk.
Donna
