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We're cruising there this summer. Is it worth the time to go inside the Coliseum? Will we be missing something really awesome if we just look from the outside? Tour guide is recommending folks don't go in due to lines- might have to take a different stop off tour or rush the remainder of tour if the lines are too long- but the rest of our party really wants to go in. We wouldn't get there until 9:30 am if we go straight from the ship. Ideas? Suggestions? Opinions?
go inside it is one of the most amazing places ever.Every sports stadium you have ever been to has it's origins from the Colleseum, totally awesome, been a few years since I was there but went around lunch-time and there were no lines.
The Colosseum is certainly on most tourists' top 10 lists but I don't know as it would impress as much unless you had a handle on the history and how it operated. I'd do some reading before you go and if you're really not all that into Roman ruins, you could just look at the outside.
There will most certainly be lines during the summer, and they will be long. The way around it is to pre-purchase entry tickets that allow you to skip the longest of those (everyone has to go through a security check). You may do that here (the full entrance ticket at the top):
The Coliseum is Rome at least that is how I feel. It's amazing and I am going to see it again when I go back hopefully this Oct. There are some things you just have to see and feel , the history , what actually happened there and a book cannot do it for me at least. Nothing else like it , we're blessed it's still standing !
Kathy gives good advice. Another option is to book a private tour that gets you past the line. If your tour guide plans for you to see a lot of the city is a short time than it may not be worth going inside if you only have one day. Going inside the Colosseum compared to seeing Piazza Navona, Trevi Fountain, Pantheon and Spanish steps in the same amount of time, I'd have to go with the latter.
It depends upon how much time you have to wait. I was in Rome in late October 2016 and it was still a very busy time, think this might have been because of the proximity of All Saints Day with lots of tourists from within Italy. I have been to Rome four times and the last three have been inside the Coliseum. Yeah, it's pretty great. But I think in summer it would be a nightmare of crowds. Think Disneyland squared. The forum was really crazy on my recent trip too. (Which is sort of weird because when it was free and not ticketed, it was pretty empty and you could explore at your leisure--at least in shoulder season when I have visted). Palatine Hill, much less crowded. I would not sink my entire time in Rome into getting into the Coliseum, but it's definitely worth seeing. For me, if I am only in the city for a brief time I would not want to spend much of that at all standing in line. Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, Centro Storico, lots of great stuff to see in Rome. Don't fixate on the Coliseum, as much as it is a great sight to see. As Rick says, assume you will return.
I would recommend you go inside at least once. Many people's favorite experience is standing in the stands looking out over the arena. Other prefer taking the tour of the spaces beneath the arena floor. I myself, found climbing the stairs and walking in the galleries beneath the stands to be an interesting experience. The very crowds of tourists that other complain about help to give an impression of what it must have been like when 50,000 spectators funneled in and out of the facility.
If the lines are long and they probably will be, I would rather spend my time walking thru the Roman Forum. If you do the Roman Forum and not the Coliseum, you will have more time to do something else. I highly recommend going to the top of the Victor Emmanuel Monument. From there, you have a great view of Rome.
Only you can decide if it would be worth it. If you're in a time crunch and think you might not enjoy it, then take a pass on it. Google Maps got their 360 degree Streetview cameras inside, so you can take a peek for yourself:
I went to Rome on a cruise ship tour in Sept. of 2015. We pre-purchased our Coliseum tickets so our wait to get in was minimal (5 min or so). For me, the Coliseum was a highlight of our tour. We did the Pantheon, Coliseum, Palatine hill, Spanish steps, Vatican and had a stop for lunch. Personally, I would have forgone the Spanish steps and spent some time in the Roman Forum but we didn't have time for that. I guess what it boils down to is what are you giving up in order to go inside?
When I was in Italy, I think I was most blown away by the fact that I walked out a Metro exit and saw the Colosseum standing in front of me. That was crazy. I loved the Colosseum, but found the Forum pretty underwhelming. My two cents worth: if you can get a timed entry ticket into the Colosseum, it is well worth entering. If not and the lines are long, don't miss other things in Rome because you are standing in line to get into the Colosseum.
However, while those games were great, they really don't describe the true spirit of the Old Girl and the reason I keep coming to A's games over and over again no matter what the team does on the field...for that reason, I am going to choose a totally obscure, mid-season game of no-consequence that occurred at some point during the Dark Ages (Bob Geren's tenure)...
I don't really remember the date or even the opposing team...my friends and I carpooled-in and were fashionably 1 or 2 innings late...we tailgated in the parking lot with a handle of Captain Morgan's rum, and realized that in order to really enjoy yourselves for 7+ innings of borrrrrrrring Geren-ball, we would need to keep the party going as fervently inside the stadium as it was outside of it...
After trying to stuff the bottle in a girl's purse and down our pants, inside an umbrella and blankets, sweatshirts, etcetera, my brilliant friend (a civil engineer) hit upon the solution: balance the bottle non-nonchalantly on his head under a gigantic, foam, novelty hat that perfectly fit the 1.5 liters of spiced goodness:
From deep in parking Lot D to the main "Commitment to Excellence" entrance, my buddy (about as sober as a Gold Rush-era clipper ship captain on leave along the Barbary Coast) skillfully balanced the booze without attracting any attention...the security screeners at the entrance took his ticket, laughed at his silly hat and let him through...!
He stayed covert all the way up to Section 312 and once seated, swung the hat and bottle off his head in one fell swoop and stuffed them both under the seat in front of him...we all cheered randomly right in the middle of an inning (to our neighbors' surprise and annoyance) and once the rest of the party came back with a few super-sized Pepsi's, we proceeded to have a gay old time, not caring that the A's probably lost 2-1 in excruciatingly boring fashion...
Best part about it: security guards eventually found out about us when one of our neighbors tattle-taled on us...however, once we agreed to pour them a bit of the sauce, they joined our revelry and the guards just quietly said, "OK, just keep the bottle down and watch your language. Go A's!"
So, why is this my all-time favorite memory at the Old Coli? Mainly because us fans have no control over the players on the field or how they perform once they dawn the Green and Gold...but even when the product is borderline un-watchable, everyone at the Coli, even the security guards, get it on the fun and make the atmosphere unique...
It truly is a special place and pretty much the last bastion of the type of gritty, working-class enclave that personified baseball for much of it's history...I'm definitely going to miss it whenever it gets torn down (but my liver will sure appreciate the break!)
This is certainly a very great welcome as we arrive here on our last western swing of the campaign, and I can only tell you, as I see this packed coliseum here in the heart of the inland empire, that this can mean only that we are on the way to a great victory in the State of Washington.
I mean not only victory for our team at the national level, our candidates for President and Vice President, but also for the reelection of your Congressman Walt Horan in this district, of Catherine May in the next district and for the new Governor of the State of Washington, a great governor, Lloyd Andrews.
For those in our television audience and for those in this hall who wondered why we had two introductions, I want you to know that was my fault. We were a little late arriving at the airport due to some technical difficulties getting off at our last stop, Casper, Wyo. As a result, we arrived at different times in the hall here. But I want to say this: I don't know when I enjoyed being introduced twice, more than I did today right here in this great city.
As we enter the last days of this campaign, of course, the issues that will decide it are becoming clearer and clearer. It seems that in this campaign it has taken more time than usual for those issues to get home to the American people. But you know that our people, while they sometimes will come rather late to a realization of what they are deciding in a political campaign, generally reach conclusions and make very, very good conclusions in the end, before the campaign reaches the voting stage.
Today, as I bring this campaign to the great Northwest, I welcome the opportunity before this tremendous audience and before this audience on television and radio, to delineate, to sell out the issues - the choice that you will have on November 8, a choice which I think is one that must be made not on the basis of whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, not on the basis of how your father or your grandfather voted, or how somebody else tells you to vote, but on one test only. I say, my friends, that the need for leadership in America and the world is such, today, that America and the American people must make the decision on the basis of which of the two candidates for the Presidency and which of the two candidates for the Vice Presidency can best provide the leadership which will serve America and the cause of peace without surrender in the world.
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