Private tours in Rome

Private tours in Rome

Private tours in Rome. At Tour Travel and More we offer private tours and transfers in Rome and its surroundings, offering our clients the possibility to visit the main monuments and points of interest in Rome such as the Colosseum, Vatican City and many others. Rome is one of the main cities in Italy and a private city tour will allow you to discover everything you need to know about this wonderful and historical city. Book now one of our private tours in Rome, one of the most interesting cities in the world, do not miss this unforgettable experience.

Tours from Rome to Florence

At Tour Travel & More we offer a variety of tours to and from Rome. We will give you a brief description of the tours we offer so you can decide which one is best for your trip. Don't miss one of our favorite tours from Rome to Florence, it will be an unforgettable experience.

Rome Walking Tour

We have multiple tours that can be customized to your needs. Our private tour of rome allows you to explore the city of Rome with a professional tour guide that will take you through the most emblematic places of the city.

Rome private tours

Rome is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. Tourists from all over the world visit Rome for its rich history, culture and art. Private tours are a great way to explore Rome with a personal guide who can show you hidden gems you wouldn't find on your own.

Rome Private Sightseeing Tours

If you are visiting Rome, the best way to explore the city is to take a private tour. A private tour will give you the opportunity to see the hidden gems of Rome that only locals know about. You can also customize your tour with the help of your guide and enjoy a more personal experience.

Rome Attractions

Rome is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. It has a lot to offer tourists, and is a must-see destination for any lover of history, art, culture and food.

Some of the best attractions in Rome are:

  • The Colosseum: This was once the largest amphitheater ever built in Rome and remains one of the most iconic monuments in all of Italy. Originally, it was used for gladiator fights and animal hunting, but today it houses an impressive museum that displays many of its secrets.
  • The Vatican Museum: this museum houses some of the world's most famous works of art, including Michelangelo's Pietà sculpture and Raphael's frescoes from the Vatican library.
  • St. Peter's Basilica: if you are looking for something more spiritual, this basilica is worth a visit. It has been standing since 1626 and features a huge dome that dominates the skyline in Rome. St. Peter's Basilica houses the remains of St. Peter, who was crucified here, and is the site of many religious ceremonies throughout the year.

Private tour guides in Rome

Rome is a beautiful city with many tourist attractions. It is one of the most visited cities in the world, so it can be difficult to know where to go and what to see. We have prepared a list of private tours that will help you explore Rome like a local.
Private Tour of Rome

Private Tour of Rome

From 109€

Take this opportunity to know the capital of the Italian Country and all its secrets. Don’t miss monuments and sights like Spagna Square, Colosseum, Trevi Fountain, Vatican City and so much more!... Learn more

  • Free cancellation
  • Luxury vehicle
  • 4 hours
  • Guided tour
Walking Tour of Rome - Private 3 hours Tour

Walking Tour of Rome - Private 3 hours Tour

From 99€

Get to know the wonderful Piazza Spagna and it's very famous stairs, the Fontana di Trevi, the Pantheon and many more historic spots of the roman city with this private walking tour of Rome.... Learn more

  • Free cancellation
  • 3 hours
  • Guided tour
Vatican and Colosseum Tour - Private Full Day Tour with skip the line tickets

Vatican and Colosseum Tour - Private Full Day Tour with skip the line tickets

From 219€

Come with us on this private tour of Rome and enjoy their most important monuments and sights. Take this opportunity to visit the Roman Colosseum, Vatican City and Highlights of Rome along with your private driver and official tour guide. Entrance tickets include on the price of the tour.... Learn more

  • Free cancellation
  • Luxury vehicle
  • 8 hours
  • Guided tour
  • Tickets
Private Tour of Vatican City with skip the line tickets

Private Tour of Vatican City with skip the line tickets

From 125€

Private tour of the Vatican City and enjoy it's most important monuments and sights. Take this opportunity to visit the Vatican Museums, Sixtine Chapel, Basilica San Pedro and much more along with our official tour guide and private driver. Contact us and you get to personalize your own experience.  ... Learn more

  • Free cancellation
  • Luxury vehicle
  • 4 hours
  • Guided tour
  • Tickets
Private Tour of Colosseum and Rome Highlights

Private Tour of Colosseum and Rome Highlights

From 119€

Join us on this private tour of Rome and Colosseum. Take this opportunity to get to know the Colosseum and Roman Forum with your own private official tour guide and private vehicle with chauffeur. Also you will have the possibility of visiting  Minerva Square, Pietra Square, Trevi Fountain and so much more.... Learn more

  • Free cancellation
  • Luxury vehicle
  • 4 hours
  • Guided tour
  • Tickets
Private Vatican Tour and Rome Highlights

Private Vatican Tour and Rome Highlights

From 149€

Visit and admire the entire Vatican City, then enjoy some time to see Highlights of Rome such us: Panteon, Trevi Fountain, Spagna Square and much more!. Your private driver and guide will be at your total disposition for the whole tour.... Learn more

  • Free cancellation
  • Luxury vehicle
  • 5 hours
  • Guided tour
  • Tickets
Private Tour from Civitavecchia to Rome

Private Tour from Civitavecchia to Rome

From 149€

Enjoy Rome's important monuments and sights from the cruise port of Civitavecchia. Take this opportunity to get to know one of Italy’s most popular city in this experience with your own private official tour guide and private vehicle with chauffeur.... Learn more

  • Free cancellation
  • Luxury vehicle
  • 8 horas
  • Guided tour
Day Trip from Rome to Pompeii and Amalfi Coast - Private Full Day Tour

Day Trip from Rome to Pompeii and Amalfi Coast - Private Full Day Tour

From 149€

Take a day off from Rome and visit the incredible city of Pompeii and the Amalfi Coast. You will have the possibility of visiting the archaeological site of Pompeii and the wonderful Amalfi Coast with your private driver and official tour guide. You also can perform this tour by fast... Learn more

  • Free cancellation
  • Luxury vehicle
  • 12 hours
  • Guided tour
  • Tickets
Private Full Day Trip from Rome to Florence

Private Full Day Trip from Rome to Florence

From 199€

Take the chance to visit the capital of the Tuscany Region: Florence. Take this opportunity to visit a city full of art, history and unique architecture with your own private official tour guide and private luxury vehicle with chauffeur. Get to personalize your own experience.... Learn more

  • Free cancellation
  • Luxury vehicle
  • 12 hours
  • Guided tour
Assisi and Orvieto Day Trip from Rome - Private Full Day Tour

Assisi and Orvieto Day Trip from Rome - Private Full Day Tour

From 199€

Visit a perched town, Orvieto, with one of the most beautiful cathedrals of Italy and the wonderful city of Assisi, surrounded by vineyards in this experience with your own private official tour guide and private vehicle with chauffeur.... Learn more

  • Free cancellation
  • Luxury vehicle
  • 10 hours
  • Guided tour
  • Tickets
Tour of Ostia Antica from Rome - Private Half Day Tour

Tour of Ostia Antica from Rome - Private Half Day Tour

From 115€

Enjoy this completely personalized private tour of Ancient Ostia and enjoy it's most important monuments and sights. Take this opportunity to visit one of the most important archeological sites of Rome along with your private driver and official tour guide. Entrance ticket included in the price.... Learn more

  • Free cancellation
  • Luxury vehicle
  • 4 hours
  • Guided tour
  • Tickets
Private Tour of San Callisto Catacombs

Private Tour of San Callisto Catacombs

From 120€

Get to know the hidden side of one of Italy’s most popular city in this experience with your own private official tour guide and in your own private luxury vehicle. Contact us and you get to personalize your own experience.... Learn more

  • Free cancellation
  • Luxury vehicle
  • 4 hours
  • Guided tour
  • Tickets
Borghese Gallery Tour - Private 3-hour Walking Tour

Borghese Gallery Tour - Private 3-hour Walking Tour

From 119€

Come with us and get to know one of Rome's most popular museum in this experience with your own private official tour guide. The Gallery hosts works from the best renaissance artists (Bernini, Tiziano, Rapahel, Caravaggio and more!).... Learn more

  • Free cancellation
  • 3 hours
  • Guided tour
  • Tickets
Private Tour of Castel Gandolfo from Rome

Private Tour of Castel Gandolfo from Rome

From 119€

Drive out of the buzz of the city to get into the beautiful area of Castel Gandolfo. Take this opportunity to get to know the summer Papa's residence, walk though it Barberini Gardens and admire the Abano Lake. Contact us and you get to personalize your own experience.... Learn more

  • Free cancellation
  • Luxury vehicle
  • 5 hours
  • Guided tour
  • Tickets
Rome Private Transfer - to/from any location

Rome Private Transfer - to/from any location

From 79€

Take this opportunity to enjoy this comfortable way to get to your final destination in Rome. You will have your own private luxury vehicle with chauffeur to get you quickly and comfortably to your chosen location. Pick up could be from hotel, airport, train station or place of choice.  ... Learn more

  • Free cancellation
  • Luxury vehicle
  • Transfer

Why visit Rome with a private tour guide?

Rome shows you everything and explains nothing. Nobody tells you that the pockmarks all over the Colosseum are where medieval scavengers dug out the iron clamps holding the blocks together. Or that the 2,500 cast-iron nasoni around the city give you free, ice-cold drinking water — block the spout with a finger and a jet shoots upwards so you can drink without touching anything. You’ll walk past both on your first morning. A licensed official tour guide is the difference between a queue and a photo, and a city you actually understand.

With us you’re always private: your group and your guide, nobody else. You go at your pace, you skip what bores you, and if the heat or the cobbles are too much we put you in a luxury vehicle with a chauffeur. There’s a travel coordinator on call at any hour too. Not sure where to start? The Private Tour of Rome starts at 109€.

Private tours in Rome: what you can do

The Colosseum, Rome

The Colosseum, Forum and Palatine — in the right order

Done wrong, that whole area is three hours of hot rubble. Done well it’s one story: the arena floor and the hypogeum underneath it, the Forum as a working city centre, the Palatine as the emperors’ address. The Private Tour of Colosseum and Rome Highlights starts at 119€ and includes the walk down into the Forum that most people skip because they’re already exhausted.

Colosseum · Roman Forum · Palatine Hill · Arch of Constantine

St Peter's Basilica, Vatican City

The Vatican: the ticket time decides your whole day

The Vatican Museums are seven kilometres of galleries that funnel into one room, and your timed slot is the whole game. The Private Tour of Vatican City with skip-the-line tickets starts at 125€ with entry included. Want the Vatican and the Colosseum on the same day without improvising? The full-day combination is 219€.

Vatican Museums · Sistine Chapel · St Peter’s Basilica

Trevi Fountain, Rome

The old centre on foot, at the hour that makes the difference

Trevi, the Pantheon, Piazza Navona and Campo de’ Fiori are all within twenty minutes of each other. The difference between a nice walk and a great one is knowing when to go: the Trevi at eight in the morning is a completely different fountain. The 3-hour private walking tour costs 99€ and puts you where the crowds aren’t.

Trevi Fountain · Pantheon · Piazza Navona · Campo de’ Fiori

Ruins of the Roman Forum

The Rome hardly anyone gets to

Half an hour out there’s a second Rome that stays quiet even in August. The San Callisto Catacombs on the Appian Way (120€). Ostia Antica (115€), better preserved than much of Pompeii and almost empty. The Borghese Gallery and its Berninis (119€). And the papal summer palace at Castel Gandolfo (119€).

Appian Way · Ostia Antica · Galleria Borghese · Castel Gandolfo

Positano on the Amalfi Coast

Day trips: Pompeii, Florence or Umbria, door to door

With a private vehicle Rome stops being a destination and becomes a base. Pompeii and the Amalfi Coast in a full day from 149€, Florence from 199€ or Assisi and Orvieto from 199€ — picked up at your hotel, no train times, no connections to miss.

Pompeii · Amalfi Coast · Florence · Assisi · Orvieto

Arriving by cruise ship at Civitavecchia

Your ship doesn’t dock in Rome. It docks at Civitavecchia, about 80 km up the coast — an hour and a quarter each way. That’s the thing that decides everything, so we build the day backwards from your all-aboard time rather than forwards from the gangway. Our Private Tour from Civitavecchia to Rome starts at 149€: your guide and chauffeur meet you at the terminal and our coordinator watches the clock all day so you don’t have to.

On one call it’s usually the Colosseum area and the Vatican, plus whatever walking your group is comfortable with in between. And if you only need to get between the port, an airport or your hotel, a private transfer starts at 79€.

What’s Rome like for a visitor?

History & monuments

Twenty-eight centuries piled on top of each other, most of it still standing in the middle of a working city. Nothing in Europe comes close.

Food & markets

Cacio e pepe, carbonara and supplì done properly. But the places with photo menus next to the big sights are a genuine trap — you eat in Testaccio and Trastevere.

Walkable centre

The centre is walkable and full of surprises. Just bring decent shoes: the sampietrini cobbles are hard work and the distances are longer than the map suggests.

Base for getting out

Tivoli, Ostia, Orvieto, Assisi and even Florence all fit in a day. The only drag is the traffic getting out of the city in the morning.

Beach & climate

Ostia and Fregene exist, but nobody comes to Rome for the sea. July and August really do punish you between noon and five.

Nightlife & buzz

Trastevere, Monti and Campo de’ Fiori fill up any night of the week. Lively and late, without ever turning into a club capital.

If what got you here was the sheer density — a masterpiece every fifty metres, history you can put your hand on — Florence is the obvious next chapter, and you can cross it on foot. Naples gives you the same ancient world with the volume turned up and Pompeii on its doorstep, and Venice is just as improbable while being Rome’s exact opposite in rhythm.

And when you’ve had enough marble for a while, that’s what the other half of Italy is for: Lake Como for water and villas, Sorrento as a balcony over the Bay of Naples, and Taormina for a Greek theatre with Etna behind the stage.

Private tour, marketplace or free tour: what you actually get

Tour Travel & More Marketplaces (Viator, GetYourGuide…) Free tours
Guide Licensed official guide, language confirmed at booking Varies by listing, often unverified Unlicensed in most cases
Group Always 100% private “Private” varies by seller Up to 30 people
Vehicle Luxury vehicle with chauffeur available Rarely included Not included
Itinerary Fully flexible, adapted to you Fixed per listing Fixed route
Tickets Colosseum and Vatican skip-the-line booked for you Sold separately in most listings Not included
Support Travel coordinator 24/7 Platform ticket system None

To sum up: a private tour in Rome with Tour Travel & More is always a licensed official tour guide, a 100% private group, a luxury vehicle with chauffeur if you want one, an itinerary that adapts to you, skip-the-line tickets for the Colosseum and the Vatican booked in advance, and a travel coordinator you can reach 24/7. Marketplaces like Viator or GetYourGuide resell third-party listings whose conditions change from seller to seller, and free tours run with groups of up to 30 people and guides who generally are not licensed.

Frequently asked questions about private tours in Rome

How much does a private tour in Rome cost?
It depends how much you want to fit in. The 3-hour walking tour starts at 99€ and the half-day Private Tour of Rome at 109€. The Vatican with skip-the-line tickets is 125€, the Colosseum and Rome highlights 119€, and the full day covering both 219€. Day trips to Florence or Assisi and Orvieto start at 199€, and private transfers at 79€.
Are the Colosseum and Vatican tickets included?
On the tours that visit them, yes — we book the timed skip-the-line entry in advance, which in Rome matters more than anything else. The sites release those slots themselves and they sell out, so the earlier you confirm your dates the more choice you have over the time of day.
What language will the tour be in?
Whichever you pick from English, Spanish, French and Italian. We confirm it in writing when you book, not on the morning of the tour.
We arrive by cruise ship at Civitavecchia. Is there time to see Rome?
Yes, and it’s one of the things we’re asked most. It’s about an hour and a quarter each way, so we build the day backwards from your all-aboard time. The tour from Civitavecchia starts at 149€ and normally covers the Colosseum area and the Vatican.
When’s the best time to come?
April to early June and late September to October are the most comfortable. August is hot and a lot of family-run restaurants close for Ferragosto around the 15th — if that’s when you’re travelling we start early and put the middle of the day indoors. Winter is underrated: cold, clear, and the Vatican noticeably calmer.
Can we change the plan as we go?
That’s the whole point of private. More time in the Vatican and none in the Forum, an early start to beat the heat, a slower pace with grandparents or small children. Tell us when you ask for a quote and we’ll build the day around you.

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