Ending Family Tour in Rome - what to do for a few days after end of tour?

More information would help?

You mean that you already would have spent 4 days in Rome before the start of your tour?
And what locations in Italy does your tour include?
How many in your family and their ages?
What are your interests?
Are you flying out of Rome?

So you are taking the 14 day RS Family Tour from Amsterdam to Rome.

Final Tour Day
Tour ends. Extend Rome - 1 night

Extra Day 1
Travel by train via Pompeii to Sorrento - 2 nights
(My understanding is that free luggage storage is offered within the Pompeii site)

Extra Day 2
Day trip to Capri

Extra Day 3
Morning to Positano by bus, then return to Sorrento for luggage, before travelling to Rome Airport - 1 night

Extra Day 4
Fly out of Rome

Thanks for the suggestion!
We have 2 days in Rome as part of the Amsterdam to Rome Family tour. The kids are teenagers will be 17 and 15 by then. I like the suggestions of Capri and Sorrento. And we'll fly out of Rome. This forum is wonderful in receiving help! Our first time to Europe! Can't wait!

You will be adding 4 days before your tour plus the 14 days of the tour and that's equals a lot of moving around with 2 teenagers. We also added time before our RS 14 day tour and by the end we were tired but would of enjoyed a couple more days in Rome. I would either use Rome as a home base and take day trips or go to one more area only maybe a beach resort and take day trips from there.

Thanks Judy - I thought of that as well that we may be tired by the end and want to just stay to explore more of Rome. Appreciate the feedback!

We only added one day in Rome to the end of our Best of Italy tour, mostly because we had heard it is busy and overwhelming and we thought we might be too tired for chaos after such a long trip, but we both wished we had stayed for more time there. It was one of our favorite stops of the trip, and there is so much more we could have done. Even though it is busy, the city is spread out, so outside of the most popular sites, we didn't find it too crowded. Of course we were there in October instead of the busiest time, so that might change things.

Indeed, changing locations every other day can be tiring by the end of two weeks. There's also a possible let-down feeling at the end of a good tour that can add to that, so I'd opt for something not quite as "busy" as David's suggestion.

If the kids are interested in Pompeii and Capri, you could take the train from Rome to Naples and stay there (much less hassle). See Pompeii (and maybe Herculaneum or Mt. Vesuvius) on a day trip. Visit Capri as a day trip (or leave your luggage in the Naples train station and take a couple small overnight bags, to spend one night there.

Whether you stay in Rome or Naples on your last night depends on what time your flight leaves in the morning. It's pretty easy to take the train from Naples to Rome (Termini), then the Leonardo Express to the airport. Or maybe you could even fly home from Naples instead of Rome.

But don't underestimate how much there is to see and enjoy in Rome itself.

We have 2 days in Rome as part of the Amsterdam to Rome Family tour.
The kids are teenagers will be 17 and 15 by then.

OK, that helps! I didn't connect that "Family Tour" was an escorted RS tour and not just a generic term for a family vacation.

Looking at the schedule for that one, I'd vote for just staying in Rome. The tour segment allows only one full day and a short part of another, and there's a lot to be seen in that one. You will have been moving around a lot and kept pretty busy for 13 days so a long-ish breather with no packing up and moving until you go home might be welcome.

I didn't notice what month you're taking the tour but guessing June, July or August? The heat will likely be a factor in Rome so having time to sightsee at less-than-breakneck speed will be less wearing. Be sure to get an accommodation with air conditioning! And yes, you could certainly take a daytrip if so inclined.

I agree with Kathy. You can go to Acqueduct Park or Ostia Antica while you are in Roma, and take a daytrip to Orvieto if your tour doesn't go there. Your teens might enjoy any or all of those.

I agree that it is not necessary to go to Pompeii on your first trip to Europe. An advantage of considering Ostia Antica, Villa d'Este (Tivoli), and/or Orvieto is that no reservations are necessary. If you are exhausted, you can settle for the many things to do in Rome that don't happen to be on Rick's tour. Just two examples (depending on whether the kids like museums) are the Palazzo Barberini or the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj. They are both full of landmarks of art. It looks like Rick doesn't go to the more famous Galleria Borghese, either

When you post about a trip, it's good to give the month of the year, for future reference. And please add your country and city to your profile so we know whom we are talking to.

Ditto to the good suggestions to skip Pompeii in favor of Ostia Antica, Orvieto or others suggested. Pompeii is great done from Naples or Sorrento but it's a long day from Rome, and a hot one as well during the summer. Ostia is a shorter, less exhausting trip that won't eat up an entire day.

I also suggest touring Ostia Antica from Roma. If you go early enough you could complete your tour of ruins, return to the train stop and head a little further south to Ostia Lido for a partial beach day.

Definitely Rome. You want to be in the city of departure the last few days of a trip rather than wasting time and being hassled rushing back. As others have noted Ostia Antica is a great day trip and on local public transport. Take a picnic and a map as the place while fascinating is like Pompeii poorly signed. Another great day trip is Tivoli with Villa Adriana ruins (really great place to spend an afternoon exploring -- the pool there was used as 'heaven' in the TV production of Angels Over America) and Villa d'Este Gardens. Another trip we took with our family was to Tarquinia and Cervetari to see the two very different Etruscan tomb villages -- really interesting. We rented a car for the day for that.

Orvieto is an easy day trip by train - you can explore underground manmade cave in the tuffa under the city and there is a wonderful Cathedral. A museum you might not have seen in Rome on the tour is Villa Julia which has a great collection of Etruscan relics.

The Scavi tour under St. Peters is wonderful. My young adult kids thought that was the highlight of our trip to Rome many years ago. When I did this it wasn't as well known and I didn't have trouble getting tickets. Now it is hard to do. Start asap with the Vatican requesting tickets (kids have to be 12 I believe) and see if you can do it. It is memorable.

You might also take the subway out of Aqueduct Park where you can get up closet to those huge aqueduct ruins you see coming into Rome by train.

Stay in Rome and do day trips if desired. The Rick Steves Rome book is loaded with info on how to do just that.

Thank you, everyone, for the great advice! It's invaluable! I believe after reading everything, we'll stay in Rome and just do day trips to some of the places suggested. I also had seen elsewhere advice on a VRBO so may look into that or airbnb if it's close to the hotel we're ending at. Thanks again! Looking forward to our great trip (end of July!).
Stacey