Great tour to do on day one - We arrived in Rome just a couple of hours before this tour started at 5.30. I got a Whatsapp message from the company with the meeting point and they also phoned to let me know the meeting point as I hadn't seen the message. Our guide was Ani and we were a group of about 10. She was very knowledgeable and friendly and the tour was really relaxed despite Rome being very busy. We set off late as there was a problem with the booking for a couple of party but she resolved it and was obviously in no rush to finish. I would highly recommend this tour to get your bearings and see some great sites. It's one thing looking and admiring something but another to understand the history of it and some of the hidden features that you would never know to look for. Great tour, thanks Ani.

You must tour the Coliseum with Giovanna - Giovanna was fantastic! She brought the Colliseum to life! She was a brilliant historian and a lot of fun! She knew so much and really explained it well.

Amazing experience - This tour was fantastic!! Appreciated skills of our guides on both tours. Angela led the forum tour.

Wish we could've had this guide the whole trip - No seriously, I tried to persuade Angela to come with us to Venice after her tour of the Roman Forum (public) and nighttime in Rome (private). She was that knowledgeable and personable. And no tour after hers lived up to what we got from hers. She was very perceptive about what types of information we wanted, and how much information we wanted. That's key, because some guides can drone on and on about their favorite thing, not leaving time for other stuff you might have wanted to know. She based her tour completely on our wants, even as a six-person group to start. That's when we immediately jumped at the chance to book her (very affordable) private tour of other parts of the city that evening. She took us to all sorts of nooks and crannies that you don't see on the typical tours that evening. Of course we saw the Pantheon and the Trevi Fountain, but she also instinctively knew we wanted off-beat stuff like great views, insider tips for where to eat, all kinds of sights we wouldn't have seen on our own, even with the help of Lonely Planet research. She also gave us fantastic advice for the next day, what was worth seeing and what to skip. So in a way we really did take her with us and she guided us the next day without being there. Some of the best money we spent on our Europe trip was this two-hour private tour with Angela.

Terry was the best - We took a walking tour with Terry who was very knowledgeable. He knew a lot of the history of the places he took us to. He was pleasant and took his time walking us around.