Following RS advice in his Rome guide, I am trying to book tickets for the Borghese Gallery via his recommendation, www.tosc.it.
The site has a couple of guided tour options for the day I want, which is great. But when I try to purchase, it only allows me to purchase 1 ticket. So I tried other tour times, and still I can only purchase 1 ticket. We need 2 tickets. This seems odd.
Has anyone run into this? I'm not finding another ticketing option that seems trustworthy, other than tosc.it.
Tours would be capacity-controlled. It's possible you have been unlucky enough to choose tour times for which only one ticket remains available. Or it could be a website bug.
Give us the date you're interested in and one or more of us will take a look.
You might also try dates farther into the future. If you consistently run into the same problem it could mean a website issue.
I believe someone reported last week that there sometimes seem to be issues with the Borghese ticket website outside the hours the gallery is open, so something else you can try is checking first thing tomorrow morning.
Edited to add: The gallery is very much worthwhile even if you have to go it alone with the audio guide rather than a tour--and those tickets do sell out. I think there may also be commercial tour companies that offer tours to the Borghese. I know nothing about those, but perhaps others here can make a suggestion.
My understanding is that Rick's audio tour is pretty good. Some people on the forum said they found it sufficient and did not need the tour, fwiw. That is my plan. I opted to freely wander in relative quiet with 200 other people since the day before I will have done the Vatican Museums gauntlet. Thought solitude might be just the thing for me!
I just purchased tickets tonight for 5 on tosc.it Perhaps they do not have more than one availible for those time slots due to high demand. I felt lucky to get my slot with 5 tickets and I am still 36 days out. I did however have a slot reserved on get your guide for a decent price 31$/ticket, just in case I could not get it from the tosc. I had to scroll down a bit because and pick a couple links because some of the company’s said 31/ticket but then when I put in my date up charged to 100/ticket!!!! So be vigilant and try a few different links on get your guide if you go that route.
Thanks for the help, fellow travelers! The dates we can do Borghesi are June 12 and 14. Initially we (my husband and myself) wanted to go early in the day but at this point we will take what we can get on either of those dates! I don't mind paying a little extra for the guided tour but some extravagant prices are too crazy for me. Other than tosc.it, does anyone know a reliable ticketing site we can trust? Thank you.
Ah! Now I am able to buy 2 tickets for the last entry of the day (17:45 till closing at 19:00) on June 14 on tosc.it, but the kind of ticket is called Whole Special, and it's a few euro less than the usual basic admission. What does that mean? Maybe because we would only get 1:15 hours there?
And who is familiar with the Roma Pass? Is that something we should investigate? We will be in Rome 4 days.
Thanks for all your advice and insights.
Hello Giugno,
I tried to get tickets for two a while ago and encountered the same. Someone suggested Booking dot Com which I thought was odd, however it worked. Click excursions or attractions and a few options are there.
Enjoy and Cheers!
I believe the lower price is because of the shorter visit time. Whether 1:15 is enough time for you will obviously depend on your level of interest in the particular art and interior decor you'll see at the Borghese. I'd suggest going for a full-length visit if you can find a ticket at a reasonable price from a reliable source; I have no personal experience buying tickets to Rome sights from other than the official ticket source.
If you do end up with the short, last-session ticket, it would probably be smart to employ the technique sometimes mentioned here--and I think also in Rick's guidebook: Head upstairs first. That will probably mean you're not impeded by other visitors. Do watch your time, though; you'll probably want to spend more than half your available time downstairs.
I visited the Borghese Gallery a few weeks ago--loved it, one of the most fabulous and easily enjoyed museums ever due to their capacity controls--and I explored everything thoroughly, and this only took me a bit over an hour. I travel solo, and did not have a guide, but want to mention that if you ended up getting a shorter time slot it is still quite possible to see everything.
