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Excellent experience, I have been 13 times in Rome and had not been able to coordinate the visit to the Domus Aurea, allows you to appreciate the grandiosity of the time

Absolutely excellent tour guide with suberb knowledge. Could not have been better. We loved it. Well -paced to accomodate a family member with a bad knee. Yet so packed with great information!

By starting with Nero's Palace you can see the basis of why the Colosseum was built onto the structure itself.

Our tour guide Elisa for the first half of the tour was amazing, and the Domus Aurea was very interesting. I would highly recommend.

The tour of the ancient city and the Coliseum was excellent. We had one of the best tour guides. She was previously an archeologist so I felt like she had some real in-depth knowledge. She had a bright and charming personality. Her English was easy to understand. I had high hopes for Nero’s Palace tour. The virtual tour was very cool but short. Most of the palace is still being reconstructed so it was really hard to envision what it would have looked like. Not a lot of frescos to view. Mostly underground so take a jacket with you...it’s chilly. Might be great for a structural engineer with an imagination. The virtual portion was the only worthwhile part of the Nero tour.

This tour package is perfect for anybody wanting to see Ancient Rome highlights in one day. Yes it is a lot of walking and you will be wiped by the end of the day but the tour guides do a great job of allowing breaks and not overloading with too much information. Nero's Palace was very interesting!

The first part of the tour, of the Colosseum and Forum, was easily five stars. The second part, Nero's Palace, was three, and a bit disappointing. Splitting the difference and giving it four. Overall, still worth the price. The tour of the Colosseum and Forum was led by Vincenzio (from Mars) who was funny, full of stories, and attentive to any and all questions we might have. It's impossible to fit the whole of both sites into just a few hours, but Vincenzio came close. After that portion of the tour, I had hundreds of photographs and a much more thorough understanding of Roman imperial politics. I was very much looking forward to Nero's Palace, so I was disappointed at how very crowded the tour was. Most of the time, I couldn't see or hear the guide (the Nero's Palace portion of the tour does not use earphones). I constantly missed information, and the guide offered no opportunity for questions. The VR portion, while impressive, was minimal. The majority of the tour was simply walking and struggling to get a view of whatever the guide was pointing at. That said, there were some seriously impressive things to see inside the Palace. Just be prepared to look them up later. You do need to wear a hardhat inside Nero's Palace, but it's no more dangerous than any light construction site, and far safer than Roman traffic. Be sure to wear a sweater, though--it's cavelike and cold.

Our tour guide, Vincenza, set the stage for understanding the time period, the place, the people and the environment of the Colosseum and the Forum. Information was informative, the specific stops along the way were beautiful to look at as well as deepened our understanding. The tour felt thorough and not rushed despite growing crowds. Vincenza moved us from space to space while sharing knowledge and allowing time for questions. After the Forum, he walked us to the Domus Aurea, where he departed and we joined up with another tour guide. The virtual tour was remarkable. Overall today was a day when I think I finally began to understand the relationships between these three areas. This is a great tour!

You need to go ahead and book this tour! We had a few wonderful hours with our very informative guide, Bea, and we learned a great deal from her. We started with a tour of the Colosseum, and then proceeded through the ancient Roman Forum. Bea was very thorough, and pointed out all points of interest and stopped to take the time to show us artist renderings of what the ruins would have appeared like in ancient times with a few books she brought along. We finished the morning (sadly without Bea) in the Domus Aurea. Here, another capable (albeit less enthusiastic) guide told us all about Nero's Golden Palace. The virtual reality reconstruction of the Domus Aurea is absolutely amazing. All in all, I adored this tour, and I would highly recommend it.

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Each area was explained with the history, even if it meant correcting fallacies from the past. There IS a lot of walking, and stairs - so, plan this tour when you are rested. Having the Golden Palace virtual reality experience after the history of the rest of the tour was useful. (Virtual reality could have been the whole 5 hrs and I wouldn't have complained - it was awesome).