Rome, Italy

Travel Tips

• Roma Pass save your time through attractions’ fast path.
• Poma Pass + Vatican Museum ticket combined may be better than Omnia Pass
• take tour guide short cut door from sistine chaple in Vatican Museum to Piazza San Pietro.
• reserve Pope General Audience ticket early from Vatican.
• two cruise shuttle pickup locations for embarkation but only one drop-off for disembarkation.
• Citavecchia port authority staffs may pitch you cheaper transportation option to Fiumicino Airport from cruise luggage area directly.

To transport between Fiumicino airport,  Civitavecchia cruise port, and Rome city center in public services, train is a good choice with frequent services. Leonardo Express train serves nonstop into Rome Termini which is a biggest hub in Rome for all other public transportation services and a good base for hotels with a big Coop supermarket inside Rome Termini. Region trains is a cheaper option and didn’t cost you much time more than express train. More about Rome transport here.

For cruise transfer in the port, one of two cruise shuttle pickup locations is inside port entrance near Michelangelo Fortress. It is a 10-minute walk from train station. After getting into port entrance, a port authority staff will show you where your cruise shuttle pickup place is. The other cruise shuttle pickup place is at Civitavecchia shuttle-bus terminal (Largo della Pace) . To get there from the station, you can take a town shuttle or taxi for connection. To transport out cruise port, however, port authority shuttle only drops you at shuttle-bus terminal which is a 15-minute walk to train station. Depending on your cruise pier, you are better off to walk straight to train station from the pier if closer.

Vatican

If you like to receive Pope’s blessing, you can attend Pope’s General Audience on Wednesday or attend Sunday mass. Every part of Vatican has great history to explore. Unfortunately Vatican Garden no longer opens to the public. Vatican Museum entrance is at Viale Vaticano. To end Vatican Museum tour earlier, you can take short cut into Piazza San Pietro from Sistine Chapel without walking all the way to the end. Pay attention to a door for tour guide.

Castel Sant’Angelo

Use Roma Pass to skip the line. There is elevator but not all the way to the top. It about 5-story high to the top

Roman Colosseum

Use Roma Pass for Colosseum to skip the line.

Spanish Steps

Area between Spanish Steps and Piazza del Popolo is a busy shopping district and full of people at night.

Trevi Fountain

Roman Forum

Roman Forum is a massive and sprawling Roman ruins between Palatine, Capitoline and Esquiline Hills. For a quick tour, you can walk from Colosseum to Piazza Venezia and turn back along Via del Fori Imperiali to tourist information center for north side ruins. Then save south Palatine Hill for another day if that interests you. At night ruins along Via del Fori Imperiali turns into cinema. Short films about Roman empire are projected onto ruin walls. Quite a nice experience.

Piazza Navona

Pantheon

Basilica Papale di Santa Maria Maggiore

The Basilica is very closed to Roma Termini. A nice-to-have POI if you are around.

St. John’s Lateran Basilica

This POI is included in Omnia Card.

Roman Bath of Caracalla (Terme di Caracalla)

The walk from Pyramid Station to Caracalla is about 20 minutes. Caracalla is a multi-story high complex made by brick and mortar and bath floor is full of mosaic. Even though this ruin isn’t in a good condition today, you can still picture the old-time glory of Roman Empire.

Basilica Parrocchiale S. Maria del Popolo

This is a Renaissance church at Piazza del Popolo and is famous for its art collections of two Caravaggio masterpieces.

Terrazza del Pincio

Top platform rewards you a great Rome city view.