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kingnathski88 |
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kingnathski88 Trackday Trickster
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Posted: 12:52 - 15 Nov 2017 Post subject: Sightseeing in Rome? |
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Hi All
I am off to Rome for a few days / nights next week and wondered if anyone had any recommendations on booking a fast track in advance for certain attractions?
Namely the colosseum and the leaning tower of Pisa.
I've read the queues can be pretty bad at the colosseum so would like to look at booking some form of fast track pass.
Has anyone here ever been and booked the same? If so, can you recommend a company? There are lots of various ones on Trip Advisor or Expedia but would like to go with one with some personal recommendations.
I will be in Rome next week from Wednesday morning through to late Saturday. We are spending the majority of Thursday in Pisa (already have the train tickets booked).
Any help or recommendations would be greatly received.
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Posted: 13:43 - 15 Nov 2017 Post subject: |
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I have no suggestions for short-circuiting lines for the greatest hits, but for contextualizing your visit, I found this article interesting and informative:
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Posted: 17:01 - 15 Nov 2017 Post subject: Re: Sightseeing in Rome? |
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kingnathski88 wrote: |
I've read the queues can be pretty bad at the colosseum so would like to look at booking some form of fast track pass.
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One option for the colosseum is to take an evening tour. I went in summer so had a bit more light in the evening, but if you get there about 90mins before closing it's pretty quiet and you have time to take it all in regardless. Fast track is great, in principle, but I found that every other cunt in the city had bought a pass as well so you gain little.
Depends what you want to do really, but I enjoyed the sites much more just pootling around at my own pace. We did a few guided tours including the Vatican, but you just end up rushing around after some bloke with a silly flag catching every third word.
Buy a guide book and DIY it I reckon.
Also worth nipping to the other side of the river for food if you can. Much quieter, more 'authentic' and much cheaper. Again, I'm terrible with names so can't remeber what the district was called. They have a statue of some WW2 poet who was famous for (as far as I can tell) passively-aggressively bitching about Mussolini.
If you like beer then Open Baladin
Via degli Specchi, 6, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
is worth a visit as well, really good stuff. They do a guided beer and food tour starting there in the evening which is entirely worth the money. Can't remember the company though. ____________________ CBT Acquired: 09/07/2015
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hellkat wrote: | Do Italians even know the meaning of the word "fast-track"? |
Er, Rossi?
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Posted: 14:14 - 16 Nov 2017 Post subject: |
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I found Rome completely underwhelming. The Old Town was nice, sure, but it was another overcrowded city full of tourists and cheap Chinese-made gift shops. Plus the restaurants were crap.
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Kris wrote: | I found Rome completely underwhelming. The Old Town was nice, sure, but it was another overcrowded city full of tourists and cheap Chinese-made gift shops. Plus the restaurants were crap.
I've gone through parts of Italy by bike before, and loved it. |
I'd like to do Rome to capture some of the historic architecture on camera. I don't go into gift shops anyway, and tend to eat cheaply, maybe sit outside a cafe or two and watch the world go by for a bit.
Italy, such as I've seen of it so far, made the best impression on me out of the European countries I've visited thus far. There's still much of the country I'd like to see. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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I'd like to do a major motorcycle tour of Italy too, but only if it's on an Italian 125 supermoto that's covered in after market go faster and hopefully more noisy parts.
I only want to ride round city centres, industrial estates, and by the beach or shops. I also want to park my bike next to all the other kids bikes, and Wear stupidly expensive sun glasses the moment I get off the bike, and film myself alot on my phone like the rest of them do.
I should have been a teenage biker in Milan or similar. Its not too late is it? |
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For me, cities are a break from mountains and riding the good roads, and not really the main reason I tour. So any city visits tend to be whistle-stop for me. Nevertheless, I do enjoy a wander around sometimes, and the bustle just adds to the atmosphere for me. An empty city would seem very odd. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Posted: 10:20 - 17 Nov 2017 Post subject: |
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chickenstrip wrote: | hellkat wrote: | Do Italians even know the meaning of the word "fast-track"? |
Er, Rossi?
I would so love to see Rome as part of a major Italian motorcycle tour. Oh well, maybe in the next life. |
Who? ( joke ) I don't watch roundy-roundies so I wouldn't know him if he bit me on the leg but yeah, alright. I'll give you that one
Motorcycle tours thru Italy would be nice: when I brought that GSX750 back from Milan I caned it up to Mont Blanc, kind of wished I'd taken my time now.
I kinda like Rome to mooch about in, as a city, but I've only really been to St Peters (not even the Sistine Chapel, although the staircase up to it is pretty amazing), I guess I should have by now but I'm not a fan of tourist queues.
Am just brushing up me Italian as we speak, I'm off to Pescara this arvo, bit of R&R for the weekend, sea, mountains, food, and not very much work, woot. ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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You can't say Eyeties though cos I don't like it!
Its a soft half assed very derogatory word for us Italians. Call us Wops, greaseballs, fuckers, anything but please not fucking Eyeties. Raging. |
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My ex husband is full blood Eye-tie and that's what he calls them/himself .
Its what I'm used to hearing/saying for 30+ years now.
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Hmmm! Best not get those two terms mixed up in haste me thinks! I'd hate even more to be called WOGS which I assume means Wives Of Ginger Scots?
How very insulting for anyone of a a decent human race! |
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