How we pick Colosseum tours

Viator lists at least 260 tours with the Colosseum in the title. We keep the ones travellers rate 4.5 or higher from at least 30 reviews: 107 on the day we read the catalogue. The golf cart and night tours of Rome that stop at the Colosseum pass the same bar, 148 tours in all.

The bar gets a tour into the pool; it does not rank it. Rating and review count get a tour into the pool, and a tour with over 25,000 reviews sits next to one with a few dozen.

A Colosseum listing often sells three routes under one title: the standard tiers, the arena floor and the underground, each on a different park ticket. The price the listing leads with is usually the cheapest option, which may not reach the floor. Each list names the option it compares, with its price, its length and the park ticket inside.

Three things: what the option includes, the group size, and the time it takes. Main choices come first and alternatives after. An alternative covers a different need: a lower price, a smaller group, a later departure or a pickup. We do not take payment for placement.

The park sells every zone itself: €18 for the tiers, €24 for the arena, the underground or the attic, with a park guide included underground. Every list says so and names the park ticket inside each tour's price, so the comparison is always against buying it yourself.

Prices are the lowest an operator lists for an adult on the compared option, in euro, on the day we read the listing. Your date or another option can cost more. The read date stands under every list. Park prices and rules are last read on the date shown.

If an option, a price or an inclusion differs from the listing on the day you look, write in. Send the tour, the option and what you saw. We check the listing and update the page.

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