Keep one Rome room for all nights, including the Vatican day. Put major museum reservations on separate days. Keep the Appian Way flexible around heat, uneven paving and departure. Pantheon entry is €7 and Trevi’s lower basin €2; surrounding public walks are separate.
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Reserve the Colosseum time that suits your arrival, then allow for the Forum and Palatine. An early slot does not remove security checks. Finish with a meal in Monti if it fits the route to your room.
€140.00 for one whole private room, €45.00 for meals, €6.00 for local travel and €10.00 for extras. Add the paid visits, excursions, intercity tickets and airport journeys you choose. These are allowances; replace them with your bookings.
Estimated day spending: €201.00
Use the correct entrance for the Vatican visit you choose. Ordinary St Peter’s Basilica entry is free; the Museums and Sistine Chapel use a separate paid ticket on Viale Vaticano. If doing both, leave time for food, the public outside walk and separate security. Follow your own dome voucher if adding the climb. Return to the same Rome room tonight.
The overnight allowance uses your existing Rome base. Local travel to the Vatican is part of the local travel line. €140.00 for one whole private room, €45.00 for meals, €6.00 for local travel and €10.00 for extras. Add the paid visits, excursions, intercity tickets and airport journeys you choose. These are allowances; replace them with your bookings.
Estimated day spending: €201.00
Walk between the Pantheon, Piazza Navona and nearby churches, fitting interiors around visitor hours. Pantheon sightseeing entry is €7. Trevi’s square view and paid lower-basin area are different choices; decide whether closer access matters to you.
€140.00 for one whole private room, €45.00 for meals, €6.00 for local travel and €10.00 for extras. Add the paid visits, excursions, intercity tickets and airport journeys you choose. These are allowances; replace them with your bookings.
Estimated day spending: €201.00
Use the reserved Galleria Borghese slot as the main visit, then walk in the gardens. Book from the current calendar rather than relying on a fixed number of weeks ahead. Leave the evening less full after an art day.
€140.00 for one whole private room, €45.00 for meals, €6.00 for local travel and €10.00 for extras. Add the paid visits, excursions, intercity tickets and airport journeys you choose. These are allowances; replace them with your bookings.
Estimated day spending: €201.00
Choose a manageable Appian Way stretch or a shorter Testaccio morning before departure. Uneven paving, traffic on some sections and heat can make cycling harder. Paid catacomb visits need their own booking and do not fit every departure day.
No overnight stay; €45.00 for meals, €6.00 for local travel and €10.00 for extras. Add the paid visits, excursions, intercity tickets and airport journeys you choose. These are allowances; replace them with your bookings.
Estimated day spending: €61.00
Keep one Rome room for all nights, including the Vatican day. Put major museum reservations on separate days. Keep the Appian Way flexible around heat, uneven paving and departure. Pantheon entry is €7 and Trevi’s lower basin €2; surrounding public walks are separate.
Rome. These guides explain the current ticket choices, arrival points and useful areas for a room. Reserve the visits that matter after checking travel days, with arrival afternoons left flexible.
Choose two main paid visits and organise the rest around nearby streets and gardens.
The day figures add up to €865.00 for one traveller before the extra costs below. Day notes show accommodation, meals, local travel and small extras. The private-room line buys the whole room; divide only that part when sharing. These are chosen allowances, not measured averages or available room offers. A Vatican day uses the existing Rome base, and its local journey is within the local travel allowance. The final day has no extra overnight allowance in the Italian section.
Add paid visits, excursions, intercity tickets and airport travel. Replace the stay amount with the full booking cost, including taxes and cleaning. The city budget cards are an alternative way to plan the same days, so do not add them on top of this subtotal.
Use the separate Basilica and dome guide and Museums guide. Keep the existing Rome room and local travel allowance; paid visits are additional to these day figures. A dome booking can place Basilica access before or after the climb, so follow the actual voucher.
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Metro and walk · About 35 minutes
The €1.50 BIT covers a 100-minute urban journey with one metro trip. Ottaviano is followed by roughly 10–20 minutes on foot, depending on the entrance. The Museums entrance on Viale Vaticano is separate from St Peter’s Square. Add security time after arrival.
Compare this journeyMetro and walk · About 30–45 minutes to Termini
Walk to Ottaviano for Metro A towards central Rome. Plan from the Museums or basilica entrance you actually use. This is a local outing from the same Rome accommodation.
Choose two main paid visits and organise the rest around nearby streets and gardens.
Compare your room and daily spending choices in the cost calculator. Check each journey fare, including local transfers, and count tickets covered by a pass only once.
Change the days in each city, leave out stops, and update the estimate without changing the published itinerary.
