Is the Roma Pass worth it? The sums for 48 and 72 hours, and for the Omnia Card

💡 The Short Version: The Roma Pass is €38 for 48 hours (one free entry) and €62.90 for 72 hours (two free entries), with reduced entry to the other sites and public transport for the same hours. It does not include the Vatican Museums or the Pantheon, and the Colosseum and the Borghese Gallery still need a booked slot. On the sums below it breaks even at about four paid sights in three days and loses money on a weekend of two: for most first visits, buy the tickets one by one and tap a bank card on the metro. The Omnia Card, at €149, is the pass with the Vatican Museums, and it costs more than its parts. Or book a tour: the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel tourad (from £54.85, GetYourGuide, 30 September 2026) covers the sight the Roma Pass leaves out.

What each pass includes

Prices are from the operators’ own pages, read on 30 September 2026.

• The Roma Pass is a digital pass in an app. Its validity starts at the first scan in a museum or the first use on ATAC transport (romapass.it and its help pages, 30 September 2026).
• Transport covers ATAC’s buses, trams and metro lines A, B, B1 and C, and the Roma-Lido railway to Ostia Antica. It does not cover the Leonardo Express or any connection to Fiumicino; the ATAC 720 and 520 buses to Ciampino are covered.
• Reduced entry uses the rate in the pass’s own price list (updated February 2026), and you can use it before the free entries.
• The Omnia Card is sold by Go City at romeandvaticanpass.com, and by GetYourGuidead at the same price, £127.71 (4,874 reviews, 3.7 stars).

The Line B platform at Colosseo metro station. Photo: Mint0ri, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.

The sums

Full prices are the operators’ own; Roma Pass rates are from the pass’s price list. Transport without a pass is counted at three 100-minute tickets a day, €4.50 a day at €1.50 each, which is what tapping a bank card costs (atac.roma.it, 30 September 2026). See Rome’s public transport guide.

The pass wins only when the free entries go on the two dearest sights and two or three more paid sights follow at reduced rates. Young EU adults pay €2 at state sites such as the Colosseum and Ostia Antica, so the pass saves them little.

The sights it covers

Full price against the Roma Pass rate, from the pass’s price list

A sculpture hall in the National Roman Museum at Palazzo Massimo. Photo: Mahtab97, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

• The Colosseum: the pass needs an online reservation on the Colosseum ticketing site, at most a month ahead, and you must enter with the pass or you are refused, whatever the slot says.
• The Borghese Gallery: book at romapass.ticketone.it; the pass covers the gallery’s pre-sale fee and Ticketone charges €2 a ticket.
• Castel Sant’Angelo: Roma Pass holders have a dedicated line and do not book.

Visitors outside the Colosseum. Photo: Deb Nystrom, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

The Omnia Card

The Omnia Card is a Roma Pass with more in it: the 72-hour Roma Pass, the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel with a reserved entry slot, and 72 hours on the hop-on, hop-off bus (romeandvaticanpass.com, 30 September 2026). At the operator’s own “normal prices”, those come to €62.90 plus €25 for the Vatican Museums plus up to €46 for the bus, €133.90, against €149. It is worth it only if you will ride the bus and use the extra sites the card lists; the Vatican Museums can be booked for €25 on their own at tickets.museivaticani.va, as the Vatican Museums tickets guide explains.

When it is worth it

• Buy the 72-hour pass if you will visit four or more paid sights in three days, including the Colosseum and Ostia Antica or the Borghese, and use ATAC transport most of each day.
• Skip the pass for a weekend, for a plan built on the Vatican, or if a large part of your list is free: the churches, the Trevi Fountain from the square and the Pantheon on the first Sunday of the month (its ticket is €7 on other days).
• Buy from the official portal: GetYourGuide sells the Roma Pass from £38.48, above the €38 (about £33 at the ECB rate of 29 September 2026, €1 = £0.857) that the 48-hour pass costs at romapass.it.

For what else to book and when each sight is closed, see what to book before you go. The Pantheon tickets guide covers the sight the pass leaves out, and the 3-day Rome itinerary shows a plan round the bookings.