We will be arriving Tuesday and this is our plan: Should I have advanced reservations for any of these museums? THANKS! Day 1 Half day tour: Borghese Gallery and the National Museum of Rome National Museum of Rome Tour Day 2 Wednesday May 15 (Rome 2/3) Colosseum to the Forum, then over Capitoline Hill to the Pantheon. After a siesta, join the locals strolling from Piazza del Popolo to the Spanish steps. Day 3 Thursday May 16 (Rome 3/3)
Vatican City (St. Peters, climb the dome, tour the Vatican Museum). Have dinner on the atmospheric Campo de' Fiori, and then walk to the Trevi Fountain and Spanish Steps (following my Heart of Rome Walk)
Posted by
Seattle
49 posts
You need reservations for the Galleria Borghese, or you simply won't get in. I strongly recommend reserving tickets for the Musei Vaticani; the wait in line can easily exceed two hours during mornings in the spring and summer months.
Posted by
New York, NY, 10025
392 posts
What Kat said. reserve, reserve, reserve for all big Italian museums. Even my husband, who hates being that scheduled, admitted it was the right thing to do in Florence and at the Vatican, and I hear the Borghese is the same.
Posted by
OP
Cambridge, Massachuse
53 posts
Yes we will be traveling to venice, florence, rome and paris in may and I'm trying to figure out which museums I need to reserve soon since it's only a month away. I'll be visiting all the big sites ofcourse. I just reserved in Florence's Accademia and Uffizi Gallery.
Posted by
lexington, il
4105 posts
and...be at the Borghese at least a 1/2 hour before or they may give your reservation away
Posted by
Spokane, WA, USA
191 posts
The ticket line at the Colosseum is horrendous. We bought an inexpensive tour near the gate, that included a tour of the Colosseum and a bonus tour of Palatine Hill, well worth it to bypass a two hour line. The leader of the Palatine part did it for free, but offered us a for-pay tour that evening. He was an American ex-pat history teacher who really knew his stuff, so we signed up, and it was incredible saw churches, Pantheon, the actual place where Julius Caesar was killed, Wedding Cake, Trevi Fountain and ended at Piazza Navona, where my husband and I, with our friends walked a block or two and had a delightful dinner at a sidewalk cafe. Jan B
Posted by
Chicago, USA
81 posts
The Rome pass let us skip the colosseum and Roman forum lines but had to make a Reservation for Borghese Gallery.