Planning to visit Ostia Antica next year. Can anyone please recommend a good, reasonably priced, small tour guide. We will travel from Rome. We are looking at a tour package that includes transportation or we will take public transportation and meet the guide there. Thanks
Posted by
Atlanta
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It is easy to get there on public transit and I'm not sure a guide is really needed. We did it on our own without any problems and were free to come, go, and linger at our own pace. The Rick Steves big guide book to Rome used to have a great deal of information so one could do it without a guide. I think he also has a free downloadable audio guide you might want to use. Not saying you shouldn't use a guide, just offering an alternative.
Posted by
Centennial, Colorado, USA
24 posts
I used City Wonders tours. A year ago the cost was about €50 per head. We met at the Pyramid train station. All had head sets to hear the guide. To and from transportation was provided. You could return with the group or on your own. Guide was a history professor, very good. Group 20 plus. I took a cab to the train station from the Aberdeen Hotel, the RS tour hotel. Cab queue is right in front of the station. Fun, highly interesting day. We had lunch/snack break at Ostia. Regardless of who you use, I highly recommend this day trip.
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11671 posts
I agree with first poster. Very easy to do it all on your own.
Posted by
Edmonds, WA 🌨 ☂
12034 posts
We did it without a professional guide.
The RS audio guide is very well done.
Taking the commuter trains is easy.
It is easy enough to do on your own. Do not recall seeing a tour group the day we went.