You can pick up the pass at any of the sites that honor the pass. If you are staying in the colosseum area you can easily go to the palatine hill entrance to buy the pass there. These are other sites you can pick the pass up at:

* PIT Castel S. Angelo, Lungotevere Vaticano (Piazza Pia). 9.30am - 7.00pm
* PIT Ciampino, Aeroporto G.B.Pastine - Arrivi Internazionali, area ritiro bagagli. 9.30am - 6.30pm
* PIT Cinque Lune, Piazza delle Cinque Lune (Piazza Navona). 9.30am - 7.00pm
* PIT Fiumicino, Aeroporto Leonardo Da Vinci - International Arrival area (Terminal 3). 9.00am - 6.30pm
* PIT Minghetti, Via Marco Minghetti (angolo Via del Corso). 9.30am - 7.00pm
* PIT Nazionale, Via Nazionale (Palazzo delle Esposizioni). 9.30am - 7.00pm
* PIT S. Maria Maggiore, Via dell'Olmata. 9.30am - 7.00pm
* PIT Termini, Stazione Termini - Via Giovanni Giolitti, 34. 8.00am - 8.00pm
* PIT Trastevere, Piazza Sidney Sonnino. 9.30am - 7.00pm
* PIT Ostia, Lungomare Paolo Toscanelli, corner with Piazza Anco Marzio. 9.30am - 7.00pm

Complesso del Vittoriano - Via di San Pietro in Carcere

I Fori di Roma. La storia, le storie. Centro espositivo/informativo - Via dei Fori Imperiali

Scuderie del Quirinale, Via XXIV Maggio, 16

Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Via Nazionale 194

How much time it will take you to pick up the pass at the termini depends on the length of the line. With no line, about 15 minutes to get in and out.

Donna

Your hotel may be able to suggest a more convienent location to buy the pass. They can be bought at various street stands if you know where they are.

Thanks for the information -- I will ask at the hotel.

Ask your hotel if they sell the pass! Mine did, and it was a little 3-star establishment. The only thing condition - cash only, couldn't use a credit card.

Thanks Chanti purchasing the pass from our hotel would be the most convenient.