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Nice Views and Stops, Pretty Poor Tour...

  • March 24, 2009
  • Rated 1 of 5 by morph! from Belfast, United Kingdom
Nice Views and Stops, Pretty Poor Tour...

We found this a pretty poor way to see the city! We'd planned to go on our bus tour pretty late on in the trip: having seen most of the sights by foot and alone we thought it'd be good to get guided round the rest. But Tourbus 110 Open was not the best way to go about this.

There appear to be a number of buses zooming round the city every day and we opted for the one the tourist office recommended. It costs around 20 euros for 24 hours on the bus - it's a hop-on-hop-off, which saves on sore feet!

But once we'd embarked we realised this wasn't really interactive. The people at the front who sold us our tickets didn't really do anything else, and instead we were presented with earphones to plug into sockets on the sides of the bus, giving us our tour via audioguide. Technically this should have worked well, with different channels for different languages, but having sat down in a good seat to enjoy the tour, we realised our headphone sockets didn't work! It took us moving to 4 different seats until we found one that did. Lucky the bus wasn't busy!

And then there was the problem of the traffic: the audioguide started talking about sights before and even way after the bus had got there, fighting through the beeping cars and bustle of Rome.

It would have been nice to have a guide we could talk to through the tour: the one time we asked a question (about an event in Rome) neither the driver or the ticket seller could answer us.

One good thing about the tour though! The 24 hour ticket allowed us to use the bus as much as we liked and having gone round the circuit once in the morning, we decided to see Rome by night. We hopped on again and were brought round the city, once the sky had turned black and the stars started to appear. From our vantage point we saw the Colosseum lit up and the Vatican glowing: gorgeous!

From journal Rome - THE Cultural Capital

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