Private Shore Excursion from Civitavecchia: Experience Rome's Historical Wonders in a Day
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Rome
Experience the historical wonders of Rome in a day with a private shore excursion from Civitavecchia. Optimize your time and see the city's iconic sites with knowledgeable drivers. Book a guided tour of the Vatican Museums or skip-the-line tickets for the Colosseum.
Duration: 8 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Limousine Service in Italy - Our tours are customizable. If you have already visited Rome before, you can talk with your private guide and completely change your tour according to your needs and your requests.
What's Included
  • Private and customizable tour - exclusively for your group, no mixing.
  • Direct pickup and drop off at Civitavecchia port, right at your ship’s exit - skip the shuttle bus.
  • Transport with an English-speaking driver in a comfortable Mercedes van (V class, Vito, or Sprinter).
What's Not Included
  • Upon request, our office can purchase your Colosseum skip-the-line tickets
  • Upon request, our office can purchase your Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel skip-the-line tickets
  • Upon request, our office can purchase your Pantheon skip-the-line tickets
Additional Information

You’ve made it to the ‘City of Forever’, with only a few hours to spare to explore its rich history that spans over 2800 years. Travel swiftly and comfortably in our Mercedes vans to immerse yourself in as much of Rome’s historical and artistic marvels as time allows before making your way back to the port. Although our drivers aren’t tour guides, they’re knowledgeable about the city’s history and culture. They will provide insights about the landmarks from within the vehicle but, due to Italian law, they are not permitted to accompany you into churches or museums.
Our driver will greet you at the bottom of your ship at 7:30 AM. Around 9 AM, you’ll reach Rome and start your journey. By 4 PM, you’ll be back in Civitavecchia, where the driver will escort you back to the ship.
A private tour guide can be arranged upon request (Choose the option with 2 hours of personally-guided Vatican Museums tour).
Skip-the-line tickets can be bought for both the Colosseum and the Vatican (Eur 37,00 per person for each attraction). Note, TICKETS ARE NOT INCLUDED

  • Infant seats are available on request if advised at time of booking.
  • A dress code is required to enter places of worship and selected museums. No shorts or sleeveless tops allowed. Knees and shoulders MUST be covered for both men and women. You may risk refused entry if you fail to comply with these dress requirements.
  • The duration of transfers are approximate, the exact duration will depend on the time of day and traffic conditions
  • At time of booking, Cruise ship passengers must provide the following information at time of booking: ship name, docking time, disembarkation time and re-boarding time
Location
Colosseum
Piazza del Colosseo
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Ann_k
Jun 10, 2024
Rome in a day! - Stefano made our day absolutely fabulous. The car was luxury comfort and his driving through Rome traffic was impressive! He made suggestions and timed our day perfectly! We got to see everything despite our limited schedule while ashore from our cruise. Highly recommend. The included Vatican/Sistine tour was fabulous! The guide they reserved was great! Excellent value!
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Elizabeth_a
Oct 22, 2023
Marco made Rome come alive. - Marco was gracious and kind. His knowledge of Rome was unbelievable. He made Italy and Rome come alive for us. His humor and laughter kept our group laughing. How he drove with the busy Roman traffic was so appreciated. We absolutely loved the tour and Marco made it happen for us.
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541sofib
Jun 17, 2023
The best service in Rome, Italy - My family and I embarked in Norwegian Cruise in Rome on May 26th and purchased from Limousine Service in Italy our private transportation to and from Civitavecchia Port and also 10 hours of private tour in Rome with a tour guide. This was the best decision we have made. If you take a taxi or any other transportation to Civitavecchia Port, you will need to be dropped off in the entrance of the port, couple of miles away from where the cruises are located and take the shuttle bus or go walking with all our luggage as we saw many passengers doing that. But if you use Limousine Service they are allow to enter inside and take you all the way right in front of the port boarding area. Besides, the service of Limousine Service in Italy is excellent "7 stars". Since we booked their services the responses were very fast, the prices were fair. Before the pick up in Rome, the manager Nicola called us to advise the driver was arriving to our hotel. He did the same when we disembark from the cruise and advise the place where the driver was waiting for us. The driver Marco was amazing. He arrived on time in both pick ups. He made us spend a 10 hours very entertaining for his excellent good humor. He was hilarious. The private tour guide was also excellent and very profesional with a lot of knowledge of the history. I can honestly recommend the services of Limousine Service in Italy.
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Billreidy
Aug 29, 2019
Rome Excursion - Our private tour was outstanding Our driver Sergio was very knowledgeable and gave us great pointers during our trip that saved us a lot of time. He recommended places to eat that were not tourist traps and showed us things that the general public typically has never seen. I would highly recommend this tour and driver
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Jennifer
Apr 8, 2019
A lot to see, and with this toour, you can see almost all of it - First, let me say that trying to see the highlights of Rome in one day is not for the faint of heart. It's pretty much like getting 2,300 years stuffed into you through your eyeballs and ears while moving all day. That being said, if you only have one day, this is the way to do it. Nicola is knowledgable at everything, from how to organize the time to make the most of each stop, to facts about the marble at each site and the history of Rome and the Vatican, to fitting in everything in the brief time allotted. He even ordered lunch ahead and dropped us off so we could literally walk in and sit down to a delicious meal in the middle of the day, complete with amazing pasta and wine. It was one of the highlights of the whole trip, and we did not spend one second waiting in any of the lines we sped past (and there were a lot of them, even in the off season). Absolutely worth the money so that you can concentrate on just enjoying the sights, rather than figuring out transportation, parking, ticketing, or any other tedious logistics and wasting valuable time. You also don't have to deal with the moo, moo, moo all day aspect of a tour bus group tour. Money well spent. Highly recommend.
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Kristi
Mar 21, 2019
Great experience - We scheduled a private tour from Civitavecchia to Rome. The experience start to finish was very well done and I would highly recommend. Our driver was great, even gracious enough to stop and buy us coffee and a roll on our way into Rome because we skipped breakfast! Nicola was an amazing guide, not only extremely knowledgeable about all the sites and Rome in general, but knew all the short cuts to skip the crowds and get the most time possible at each stop. I would highly recommend this team and the tour. You'll be in great hands and it will be well worth it!
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454clarkn
Jun 12, 2018
Great Service - We used this company for two private car shore excursions in Rome and Naples on our recent cruise. They were terrific. Our drivers, Gabriele and Diego, were very pleasant. Our kids enjoyed the interaction. We saw all the key sights in Rome and then a private tour of Pompeii outside Naples. I would highly recommend this company.
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Abe
Dec 28, 2017
Nicola is AMAZING! - Our family of 5 had only 9 hours off our cruise ship(including 1.25 hours drive each way from the port of Civitavecchia in which to see as much as possible of Rome...the greatest city on earth. We hired a private van and driver/guide in order to maximize our time. Fortune smiled on us when we were paired with Nicola - the world's greatest guide (in our opinion) who is genuinely one of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet. He was immediately engaging and easy to carry on a conversation with throughout the day. He fully customized our trip to our preferences and scheduled our stops efficiently. Without Nicola's exceptional driving, scheduling, knowledge and organization; we believe we would have only been able to see roughly 20-30% of the historical sites we were able to visit in our limited time frame. To give an idea of how much we and our kids (ranging from 7-13) were able to see in a limited time, we visited: The Colosseum... The San Callisto catacombs... San Giovanni della Pigna Church... The Pantheon... short lunch break... Capitoline Hill... The Roman Forum... The Spanish Steps... Trevi Fountain... Vatican City & St. Peter's Square. Not to mention the other treasures we drove by and learned about on our way to our stops: Piazza Navona, The Pyramid of Cestius, The original City Walls & Castle Saint Angelo to name a few. For approximately the same price that we would have paid for the 5 of us to do a ship's excursion on a bus loaded with strangers which saw only The Colosseum and the Forum, we rode in a spacious private Mercedes van and were treated to as much of Rome's history as we could soak up in a day with Nicola, who is a true gem. He navigated the streets incredibly efficiently and was knowledgable about even the tiniest historical details imaginable. By the end of the day we felt as if he were a part of our family. Nicola afforded us one of the most amazing days our family could ever hope to have experienced. (We genuinely thank you Nicola, we will never forget our day with you!) If you have only a day to see Rome, do it comfortably and go see as much as possible. Nicola and Limousine Service in Italy succeeded in making this possible for our family. We give them our highest possible recommendation.
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