{"id":3877,"date":"2018-09-04T11:20:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T10:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/?p=3877"},"modified":"2026-01-19T09:24:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:24:37","slug":"skip-the-line-tickets-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/?p=3877","title":{"rendered":"Skip-the-line tickets: what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Online-Booking-China-Trains1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3879 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Online-Booking-China-Trains1-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Online-Booking-China-Trains1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Online-Booking-China-Trains1-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Online-Booking-China-Trains1-220x110.jpg 220w, https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Online-Booking-China-Trains1-640x320.jpg 640w, https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Online-Booking-China-Trains1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><em>[revised January 2026] <\/em>Everybody is well aware by now the most famous tourist attractions need pre-booking in order to avoid long lines.<\/p>\n<p>What you need to know is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>non only <strong>Colosseum<\/strong> and <strong>Vatican<\/strong> need pre-booking: <strong>Borghese Gallery<\/strong> is only accessible upon reservation and you need to buy those tickets \u00a0well in advance (and your guide too needs a reservation, so consider this and get in touch with us before reserving those tickets. Same now for the <strong>Pantheon, <\/strong>but easier to find the tickets. If you visit <strong>Castel Sant&#8217;Angelo<\/strong> over a weekend, prebookign the ticket could be a smart idea!)<\/li>\n<li>skip-the-line tickets do not exclude <strong>security check lines<\/strong>. It usually doesn&#8217;t take long (an average of 5 to 10 minutes, but every day is different and we cannot speed up this part)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How does it work with pre-booking in connection with our tours?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We borrow \u00a0the motto of the famous IKEA company : <strong>&#8220;Together we save money. You can do it yourself &#8220;<\/strong>. Dealing with tickets takes time, no doubt about this. And talking with many of you during these \u00a0years, we understood you would prefer us taking care of the tickets on your behalf. The reasons why we ask you to deal with tickets (following very detailed instructions we send you) are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>We want to grant you the <strong>best possible rate<\/strong> for your tours, and buying tickets yourselves helps saving money<\/li>\n<li>personal infos are requested (names, dates of birth&#8230;.) and we prefer not to deal with too many <strong>sensitive data\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>ticketing for main attractions has become a matter of <strong>speed! <\/strong>At the Colosseum is 30 days prior to your visit exactly at the time you wish to visit (CET, so check the time difference). Especially if you look for a morning tour, tickets have to be done <strong>as soon as sales open<\/strong> and we are usually busy in another tour with other guests at the same time. We have tours every day, if we have to take care of tickets we stop being tour guides. But for you, it&#8217;s just \u00a0a<strong> once-in-a-year nuisance!<\/strong> And with our instructions, you can handle it very well.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you really have troubles in dealing with the bookings, we will assist as much as we can, but we will apply a fee and we need the full amount in advance together with the confirmation deposit.<\/p>\n<p>N.B. You find the list of the official websites to take care of the tickets for independent visits <a href=\"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/?p=4780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[revised January 2026] Everybody is well aware by now the most famous tourist attractions need pre-booking in order to avoid long lines. What you need to know is: non only Colosseum and Vatican need pre-booking: Borghese Gallery is only accessible upon reservation and you need to buy those tickets \u00a0well in advance (and your guide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planning-your-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3877"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6173,"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions\/6173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}