How to buy Colosseum tickets

1. Before you start, copy each visitor's full name from their passport or ID, and note their date of birth.
2. Open the Individuals section and choose your ticket.
3. Set the number of people, up to 8 per order, then pick a date and an entry time.
4. Enter each person's details, pay, and keep the ticket on your phone. You don't need to print it.

No release hour is published, so look as soon as your date comes into range. Each ticket type has its own calendar, which marks every date as available or sold out.

• A guided tour Tour operators buy through their own channel, so a tour can have room when the public calendar doesn't.
• Another ticket or date Each ticket has its own calendar, so a 24h entry can remain when a Full Experience date is gone. A new day comes on sale as it reaches 30 days out.
• The ticket office About 18% of tickets are sold at the office, so going on the day is a real option, though never a promise.
• The Forum and Palatine first Forum Pass SUPER needs no entry time and skips the Colosseum, so you can still walk the Forum while you look for a slot.
• Avoid unofficial sellers The park bans unauthorised resale, and the gate can turn away a ticket bought through a non-accredited agency.

• Names and ID Each visitor shows an original ID document with their ticket. If the name doesn't match, entry is refused and nothing is refunded.
• Changing a name Allowed once, by midnight on the seventh day before your visit, and only for a clear typing error, a ticket assigned to the wrong person in the same order, or serious documented reasons.
• Entry time For the 24h and Full Experience Arena tickets, arrive 15 minutes before your time. You have up to 15 minutes after it. Only Arena and Attic allow no lateness, and Underground needs you there 30 minutes early, with none either.
• If you're late The ticket no longer opens the Colosseum. It still gets you into the Forum and Palatine once, if unused, with no refund. You can't enter at a different time.
• Refunds and changes No refunds or date changes, except if the site is forced to close. A lost ticket isn't replaced.
• Time inside 75 minutes on 24h tickets, 90 on Full Experience.
• Bags Hand luggage up to 30 × 40 × 15 cm. There's no cloakroom or left-luggage.
• Security Everyone passes a scanner and metal detector. Glass bottles, trekking poles, selfie sticks, sprays, drones, knives and umbrellas over a metre wide stay out.
• Shoes and children Closed shoes suited to rough ground are required. Under-12s must be with an adult who holds a ticket.
• Who may sell The park's only online seller is its own site, and it bans resale by anyone it hasn't authorised. Licensed guides work inside the park, and a named tour that asks for each person's details is a different thing from a reseller passing on a ticket.

• Where Piazza del Colosseo, by the Temple of Venus and Rome. The offices at Largo della Salara Vecchia and Foro Romano 1 sell Forum Pass SUPER only.
• Who needs to be there Everyone in your party, up to 8 tickets per sale. Bring each person's original ID.
• What it sells The 24h ticket and Forum Pass SUPER. The Full Experience Arena may also be on sale there, but treat that as luck, not a plan.
• Closing time The office shuts 75 minutes before the park closes. Last entry is 60 minutes before closing.
• Help on the day For a same-day ticket problem, call the park on +39 06 21115843.

• Under-18s Free, but they still need a named ticket booked online. Bring their ID.
• EU citizens, 18 to 24 €2 until the day of the 25th birthday, with ID.
• Visitors with disabilities Free with certification, for the visitor and a companion. Book online.
• Free days The first Sunday of the month, 25 April, 2 June and 4 November. Tickets come from the Piazza del Colosseo office in order of arrival, not online, and don't include the arena, underground or upper levels.
• Roma Pass A reduced €11.50 ticket with a booked entry time. Bring the pass to the gate.
• PArCo Membership A one-year card from €25 with weekly free Colosseum entry, booked online. It excludes the attic and underground.
• Teachers, students and others Some categories qualify under national rules. Check the list and bring the proof it asks for.