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How to buy Colosseum tickets and what to know before you pay

Colosseum tickets are sold for a fixed entry time and in the visitor’s name. Most of the problems people run into come from not knowing those two rules in advance.

Where the official tickets are sold

The Colosseum Archaeological Park states that online tickets are sold exclusively on its own box office site, ticketing.colosseo.it. The park actively fights secondary ticketing, meaning resale through unauthorised channels at a higher price, and has a form for reporting it.

The box office works in English, Italian, Spanish and Chinese.

How the booking works

You choose the ticket, the number of people and the date, then an entry time. Slots run every 15 minutes. Individual bookings are for 1 to 8 people; groups of 9 to 25 are a separate category and require the radio system for groups.

In our observation of the box office calendar, sales open about 30 days ahead, and within that window most days are sold out soon after they appear.

The name on the ticket

Each ticket is issued in the visitor’s name. The name can be changed only once, and only until midnight on the seventh day before the visit, in three cases: an obvious typing error, a mix-up of ticket types within the same order, or a serious documented reason that prevents the visit.

In practice this means a ticket bought in someone else’s name will not help you, and a typo is worth checking before you pay.

What does ColosseumGo do differently?

We book the same official ticket in your name through the park’s box office and send it to you. Our fee is shown as a separate line before payment. We work in ten languages and answer questions before and after the purchase.

Is it cheaper at the official box office?

Yes. The park sells the same ticket without our fee.

How far ahead should I book?

As soon as your date opens. Sales open about a month ahead and the popular slots go first.

Group and school bookings are a separate category at the box office; we only book individual tickets.

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