Don't just visit the eternal city, enjoy it with an exclusive guided tour! You'll walk through the Breeze past notoriously long Colosseum UNDERGROUND, ARENA, Roman Forum and Palatine Hill with our expert English speaking guide is more than happy to make your imagination go wild. Furthermore, enjoy skip-the-line access to all three monuments so you don't have to worry about any long waits!
your expert guide will introduce to you the best ancient Rome has to offer! From the birthplace of the Roman empire at about 753 bc to the building of the Colosseum at Rome's peak for world domination. Your guide will recreate Rome for your imagination from the ground up, indulging you with stories of Julius Ceaser to Nero and his crusade for world domination. At the end of your experience, you will have left with Rome memories and knowledge that will last a lifetime!
Posted By : SeminoleWC
Our guide Tania was fantastic. Vast knowledge combined with humor and great care for clients. My companion was ill and slowed us down, but she took great care to ensure she was OK. Despite insane crowds and climbing heat, she forged the way ahead and kept us on track - impressive! The tour start time was delayed and bumped up against our Domus Aurea tour, so she personally walked us there. Talk about above and beyond! I’m a big Roman history buff and she was still able to share interesting info that I didn’t know, so I really enjoyed her extensive historical information and her self-evident love of the city. My favorite was learning that Chiao means “I am your slave”!
We wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Tania to anyone seeking this tour. 5 stars!
Walter Cofer & Lolly Phillips (Tallahasse, Florida, USA)
Rating :
Posted On : 2024-05-12 16:42:58 
Posted By : Charles_H
The tour did not occur. We were told underground tours were cancelled for the day, yet we observed people taking the underground during the rest of the colosseum tour. Very disorganized at start of tour. Guide Sara was excellent
Rating :
Posted On : 2024-05-11 03:53:57 
Posted By : brandyp217
Do not book a tour with Empire Tours. They did not have the tickets they sold us for the tour. 24 hours before the tour, they called and said no underground tour available and the tour time of 10:00 was being changed to 8:15 which we could not do. It sounded like a call center, we actually thought it was a scam because they said it was Viator and we had booked through Trip Advisor.
Next day, we were there on time. They did not show. The other guides meeting tours did not know who Empire Tour was. We called them, they hung up on us 3 times before telling us the 4th time that they were not showing up but they would give us a refund.
We could not get tickets to go general admission as there were none available for a week which was after we left Rome. Not only did we not get to see the underground, we did not get the tour and by the time they called us we could not even get general admission tickets. We did not get to see the Colosseum, Roman Forum or Palatine Hills...VERY DISAPOINTING! We did get the refund, but we missed the chance to see something we traveled around the world to see...Literally!
Rating :
Posted On : 2024-05-05 23:41:15
Posted By : Jeffrey_W
The guide was terrific!!!!! This tour far exceeded my expectations and I highly recommend the underground tour. We had a different guide for the Forum and Palatine Hill, and that part was a bit rushed because there were 2 separate groups combined for that part and the other group had to rush to get to their coliseum tour. We were able to stay and finish at leisure since that was after our coliseum tour.
Rating :
Posted On : 2024-04-22 10:51:28
Posted By : bridgetmaryw2024
Great tour and great tour Guide very knowledgeable and interesting. Great day had by all would 100 present recommend Anyone visiting rome it’s a must to do
Rating :
Posted On : 2024-04-18 16:37:56
Posted By : MAnycnola
Alexandra was a wonderful host. She was a wealth of information and allowed us to take time where we wanted to but also stay on schedule. I felt like I could really pause and stare at something! Alexandra even helped me with a few Italian phrases I’m trying to learn for the trip. Grazie!
Rating :
Posted On : 2024-04-06 12:46:45
Posted By : fittfreak11
I wish I had picked any other tour company but this one for our visit to the Colosseum. Keep googling - there are plenty of better ones.
We booked weeks in advance and the evening before they changed our time slot from morning to afternoon.
At 1pm - no one was at the spot to meet us. At 1:15, Alexandra showed up and barely spoke to us. We ran behind her to follow her through the entrance. She left us inside and told us someone would be with us for 1:30 and LEFT. She described NOTHING to us.
Someone from the Colosseum gave us the tour of the Arena (we were mixed with two other tour groups). Then at 2:30 pm the others left with their guides, and we were left to tour ourselves!! I paid for a guided tour.
At 3pm we were told Sara would find us at the exit somehow found us. When we got to the Palatine, we waited in a long line with everyone else - no Skip-the-line as advertised.
We paid over $435 CAD for this tour. They are the most disorganized agency you’ll encounter in Italy. Do yourself a favour and go with anyone else - there were plenty of amazing guides here that we were jealous were not ours .
Rating :
Posted On : 2024-04-05 01:37:00
Posted By : SusanC363
We were told to meet at 9.45 but noone arrived until 10.15. We were worried it was a scam especially when phone nr was saying not operational! So we were anxious at start of tour. We walked to Forum gate and queued for 40 minutes to get through security... so much for skip the lines! Our guide was amazing - she tried to get us through security quicker but to no avail. She was extremely knowledgeable and did feed us interesting facts whilst we queued. By the time we got in the Forum there was no time to visit the palaces etc she had planned which devastated us as she was such a good guide. Instead we had to race to meet another guide for the underground tour of Colloseum. It was quite chaotic. Underground Colloseum tour was fabulous and we would highly recommend it. Just devastated we missed out on first part of tour. Paid full price for half the tour!
Rating :
Posted On : 2024-03-25 13:43:24
Posted By : MarinaM2503
It was a very confusing experience. First of all, from the itinerary, my understanding was that we would visit Colosseum first, then Roman forum, with the same guide. Our excursion was supposed to start at 10 am, last for 2.5 hours, and supposedly end around 1 pm. Wrong. First, we met with our curator and found out that we are going to have 2 different guides. The first guide is going to take us to Roman forum, then we are supposed to wait and hang out somewhere on our own till 1 pm and only then we would see Colosseum. I was already unhappy at this point. Our first guide was late. She was running, we could barely follow her. She was constantly in a hurry, looking at her watch and reminding us that our time is extremely limited in here. The whole tour was incredibly rushed, we barely had any time to stop to catch a breath or to snap a photo at least. Felt like a marathon. In the end, she just left us at the forum, took two other people that were on our tour (we were 4 in total) and went with them to the Colosseum. Why couldn’t we go at the same time with them and why were we supposed to hang out on our own for an hour and a half is still a mystery to me. We met with this same guide at 1 pm, and she took us to the Colosseum. Turned out, we were joining this whole other group of people and it was a whole different tour guide company. So the company we booked with, simply booked tickets with another company and left us there for the Colosseum tour. Nowhere was it mentioned on the itinerary. As of the Colosseum part of our tour, I have no complains. The tour was incredible, our guide was very knowledgeable, we could hear her loud and clear, she wasn’t rushing us and let us take our time. This is the only reason I give 2 stars. These two stars go to the second part of our tour. In conclusion, I don’t recommend this tour or this company.
Rating :
Posted On : 2024-03-06 08:08:00
Posted By : Ethan_B
We had our tour with Tanya did a fantastic job. I thoroughly enjoyed having her as a guide. Our entire group learned so much and had a amazing time would recommend.
Rating :
Posted On : 2024-02-27 08:42:31
