YOUR SURVIVAL GUIDE TO ROME

Getting Around - Hotels & Apartments - The Language Barrier - Scam Artists - Eating Out - Money

These pages are designed to help you with your plans for visiting Rome.
As well as offering advice on how to cross the road or negotiate with a street vendor,
we also offer recommendations on services that we do not provide,
based on feedback from our former customers.

This section is divided into 6 pages:
Getting Around - A guide to using public transport, renting cars and surviving as a pedestrian!

Eating Out - Explains the difference between bars, cafès, trattorie and restaurants.
We also mention a few restaurants where you can enjoy true Italian food.

The Language Barrier - This page is designed to give you a few easy-to-learn words and phrases,
to make your life a little easier during your stay in la città eterna!

Where to Stay - This page was built to offer suggestions on hotels in various zones in the city.
Recommendations are based on feedback brought to us from former clients. 

Scams & Gimmicks - As the name implies, this page warns you about the cons and chancers that Rome,
as with any major tourist city, is infected with.

Money Matters - Where to change it, advice on how much to carry around with you etc.
Rome Survival Guide

HAVE YOUR SAY

We welcome suggestions for material to add to these pages.
If you have had a good or bad experience that you would like to tell others who are planning a trip to Rome about, please write to us at this address, and we will add your comments to this site if possible.

Even if your experience does not fit into any of these categories,
don't let that put you off! If there is another section that would be relevant to our clients,
we will add it to the website.
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What Our Clients Say
  • “Our tour guide was outstanding. His knowledge of Rome and history was impressive.
    He had a natural ability to communicate this wealth of knowledge in a way
    that was easy to grasp and enjoyable. I look forward to visiting Rome again
    in the future and highly recommend your company to everyone.
    Thank you for a wonderful day in Rome full of amazing memories!”
    – Shauna, USA
  • “We had a great tour and we were very impressed and overwhelmed with the guide’s
    abundance of knowledge! He was great and made it wonderful because we learned so much!
    The group size was small which was very nice.
    I will definitely recommend your company to others traveling to Rome!
    Thank you.” - Kim, U.S.
  • “Tour with Richie was wonderful. Everything we expected and more.
    It was singlely the best decision we made when planning our trip!
    Richie was very knowledgable and we enjoyed spending the day with him.”
    – Kristy, USA
  • “All three of our guides' level of historical, archeological and artistic expertise
    is to be highly commended. I cannot say enough positive words about all three tours.”
    - Wendy, Connecticut.
  • “Your 3 tours made our time in Rome really worthwhile.
    The sunset one with Richie was great; he was so helpful and informative.
    The Vatican tour with Alexandra was equally good
    and we could not get over how much of a difference it made to the holiday.
    Thanks too for the easy to understand directions and meeting places,
    we had absolutely no problems at all.
    You are all wonderful……..” – Jenny, Slough
  • “We had a wonderful tour and Richie was a great guide!
    He was wonderful with the children (ages 7 and 4) as well as us adults.
    We highly recommend him to others!
    Thank you for helping us have a truly wonderful experience in Rome!
    Also, a special hello and thank you to Richie!!
    We still talk about him!”
    - Susan, USA.