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Father and Teen Daughter in Rome

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Ciao!

I am a father from California, coming to Rome with my 14 year old daughter in early April, leaving April 22nd.

We will be visiting other areas of Italy but will be in Rome at the start of our trip, for a few days, and then returning to Rome towards the end of our trip, before we depart on April 22.

Our interests are history, art, cooking/culinary, architecture (just observing, not experts!) Also, music and local culture is important.

I understand the Jubilee is occurring this year, at the exact time we will be visiting. Would anyone like to help us understand how to experience Rome during Jubilee?? Perhaps showing us around, prior to the beginning of the festival, directing us towards anything you feel we should see or be prepared for??

We have exactly no Italian language at this moment, however we are both taking some instruction.

Any help or advice or someone to possibly host us, or show us around when we arrive, would be greatly appreciated.

Currently we have no reservations made besides our flight. Experiences are more important to us than luxury!

-Brian

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I took all my kids to Rome too. It's the center of the world to me and I wanted to make sure they saw it. I have been during Holy year and never noticed a difference other that the door used at Saint Peter's was different. Book the Pantheon and Gallery Borghese prior to leaving the USA. I'm sure there is tons of other stuff to book too but for me those can't be missed. Don't bother booking a St. Peter's skip the line as you no longer skip a line. Just get up early and go get in line. J

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April of this year? A month from now? And you have no accommodations booked. No advance tickets for the Colosseum, Forum, or the Vatican? I would suggest that you get on that like yesterday. If you can't get advance tickets from the official websites, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if that is the case, then you will have no choice but to book through a 3rd party, which could include doing each of these as part of a tour. Of course that will be more expensive than doing it independently, but if you haven't done any research on what you want to see and do, then that may be the way to go. You can look at TripAdvisor for tour options. Viator and Get Your Guide are 2 of the larger 3rd party tour resellers. Oh, and by the way, the Catholic Jubilee lasts all year. It's just that Easter Holy week, being one of the most important of the year is quite likely to draw heavier than usual crowds. The advice to forget advance tickets and just show up is IMO very bad advice.

Where else are you going while in Italy,and how will you get from place to place?

I would suggest that you get a good guidebook this afternoon and start reading. In the meantime, you can start here: https://www.ricksteves.com/europe/italy/rome

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coming to Rome ...........in early April, leaving April 22nd

How many nights do you have?

Easter is the 20th.
The Jubilee is a year long celebration.
Holy Week, the week before Easter, will be even 'busier'.

You will want/need to be Rome the night before your flight home, so depending on just how much time you have will dictate what other locations might fit in your time frame.

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