What the Rome passes cost

How the Rome pass prices are built

The six passes price themselves in four different ways, so a single starting figure says little. The Rome City Pass and the Rome Essentials Pass count consecutive days: the first day carries most of the price and every further day adds a smaller step, so the price per day falls with a longer run. The City Pass has no 6-day rate, which means a 6-day stay buys the seven-day pass. The Roma Pass and the OMNIA Card have two steps each, 48 and 72 hours for the one, 24 and 72 hours for the other. The Explorer Pass counts picks, with the price per attraction falling as you add more. The Rome Tourist Card is one fixed package.

Which duration pays off

The entry-level City Pass covers a single day, and on that day both reserved time slots have to be kept. It costs more than the two-day Essentials Pass, which carries the same two core tickets, so the City Pass earns its price from the second day onwards, through the bus, the boat and Castel Sant'Angelo. The Essentials Pass in turn is worth its price mainly for the reserved slots and the Pantheon: two single tickets for the Colosseum and the Vatican Museums at the official rates come to less.

For the Roma Pass the sum is a transport sum. One free museum over 48 hours, two over 72, and everything else only reduced. If you plan to ride the metro and buses daily and pick expensive houses for the free entries, it works. If you walk, it does not.

Reduced rates and who pays nothing

Visitors under 18 enter the state museums and the Colosseum free, and EU citizens aged 18 to 25 pay a reduced gate rate, so a pass rarely pays off for young visitors. On the Roma Pass this is decisive: it is sold to adults only, and children travel free on public transport up to the age of ten. The OMNIA Card sells a child rate, but its Roma Pass part with the free museums and the transport goes to adults only, which makes the 72-hour tier an expensive route for families.

Where the binding price is

The tables above show the price at the date of the check. The binding amount is the one in the booking step of each pass page, in your currency and for the duration you choose. The comparison puts the same passes next to each other by what they include.