Tickitaly reviews: After-dark tours of The Colosseum

EM, Ireland
17th May 2015

Very enjoyable

PT, United Kingdom (Great Britain)
14th May 2015

Fantastic tour! the only thing that would be better would be if you could go into the forum, but apart from that the tour was amazing! The guide was great and it was really good to be in the colosseum pretty much on your own. Definitely recommend to anyone

DG, United States
6th May 2015

Good tour

DJ, United States
18th Apr 2015

Tour was excellent, although perhaps a little long. I would recommend not walking thru museum towards end.

AS, United Kingdom (Great Britain)
28th Oct 2014

Husband and children loved this tour. No crowds and atmospheric. Entry system at gate and booking office was chaotic but worked.

KP, Canada
21st Sep 2014

Recommend the night tour over day tour, less people and confusion. I recommend Rome at night, less traffic, people, its peacful.

LC, United States
10th Jul 2014

The night tour was THE best way to see the Colosseum. I would have given the tour 5 stars if only the guided tour included headphones to better hear the guide.

FC, United States
6th Feb 2014

Guide was knowledgeable and the tour was very interesting. I highly recommend it for those who have been to the Colosseum in the day time.

MM, Australia
7th Jun 2018

Colosseum was great and night time is the way to do it, however the first hour was not in the colosseum, but at other sites which wasn't advertised.

RA, United States
5th May 2017

The guides were wonderful, however the tour was different than we expected. (Maybe I didn't read the description well enough beforehand?) I thought we would spend more time in the Colosseum and was expecting to see the 3rd level, which I found out later was not included because of it being night-time. I wish I had been able to pay less to see more during the daytime but all other tours were sold out.

GW, United Kingdom (Great Britain)
6th Sep 2016

Tour was good not exactly easy to find the meeting point. The guide was ok but once inside the Colluseum the guide was great, I would recommend this tour

GS, United States
28th Jun 2016

We found the female tour guide very difficult to understand and spent far too much time walking from the meeting point to the actual Colosseum. That time would have been better spend inside the Colosseum exploring. Although we saw a few things under the main floor sadly it was not the experience we had hoped for.

AK, Australia
24th May 2016

The tour guide Rosanna was nice and very knowledgeable, but it was hard to hear her - the headsets were pretty bad

KL, United States
21st May 2016

The Colossus at night was magnificent! It was great without all of the crowds. We had difficulty finding the guide, as did others on our tour. Perhaps if you added a note about the meeting place's distance from the Colosseum it would help.

PH, United Kingdom (Great Britain)
1st Aug 2015

Rather too long did not finish until 22.50 problems for people to use metro/trains to get to back to some areas of city. Content of tour good but could easily have shortened by not repeating same information, about 30 mins too long.

AR, United States
25th Sep 2014

Tour guide herself (name escapes me) was wonderful and gave a good insight to the Colosseum itself and the surrounding area. Disappointing thing about this was the "hype" behind doing a night tour and what you got to see. Yes, the amphitheater was closed off to the general public and gave a very intimate setting, but it was nothing more on the tour at night than the same tour offered by the Colosseum during the day (minus the fact during the day you get to see the 3rd tier which is a totally different perspective). Being in the Colosseum at night did have it's advantages and getting to be on the ground floor of the arena as well as the subfloor was very inspiring. Just wish they'd open more of the dungeon up and let you see more of the hidden gems. Hopefully in a couple of years that will become a reality.
[Tickitaly responds: of course everyone has their own preferences concerning day or night visits at Colosseum! We just remind that during the dungeons' tours you visit all the area opened to the public... the Colosseum was built almost 2,000 years ago and obviously restoration and maintenance operations are still ongoing!]

KB, United States
31st May 2017

The tour began very far away from the Colosseum, there was a lot of walking prior to even getting to the main attraction. We really just wanted that tour of the Colosseum at night. When we finally got to the Colosseum, the tour guide was pretty dull. We ended up leaving early.

AE, Australia
29th Jun 2019

Wonderful experience. Alfredo was great, he knew all the history. The lass who took over from him at the coloseum was as good and knew her history. All round great people to deal with and a highly recommended experience without the huge crowds.

MF, New Zealand
30th May 2017

Tickitaly guide was very knowledgeable and timed the walk perfectly. The colosseum at night avoided the crowds and heat, very enjoyable. She gave advice on how to get home safely.

LH, United States
12th Apr 2017

I highly recommend the night tour. We had two well-informed guides…one for the walk to the Colosseum, stopping at its exterior; the other for the interior tour. There’s something eerie and beautiful about being inside at night. I heard another tour group cheering and could imagine what it would have been like watching the gladiators in the arena.