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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP - any favorite private tours in Rome?[/quote]

Our family's favorite tour was at the Catacombs -- but the tour is included in your ticket price, and is mandatory so you don't wander off and get lost there.  Our tour guide was great!   If you are bike riders, there was an organized tour that rides along the Appian Way to get to the catacombs -- that looked really cool, but we couldn't make the timing work.

We did skip the line tour at the Vatican and it was fine.  I think this is basically how all the Italian art history majors are paying the bills, so they are likely all competent and decent tour guides who would greatly prefer to be doing something else.
  
We did not do any tours within the city, although I did use the Rick Steve's audio tours as sort of a spot tour for things like the Pantheon.  In crowded cities like that, I sort of hate the tour groups -- they block the sidewalks and are generally disruptive.  We took a walking history tour in York once and that was really wonderful, but that wasn't a crowd of people like Rome's central historic district.  I think I would avoid an organized tour in that area and instead just meander.  I found wikipedia really helpful actually -- if I saw a church or interesting monument, I woudl just google the name and wikipedia would give me all the history and mention the most famous artworks there.   Then I would give my family the Cliff Notes version with the best parts.   One thing that I might have liked a tour guide for was Palatine Hill -- there is a lot there and it's a little hard to know what you're looking at, especially if you have kids that don't want to spend a ton of time looking at every single building.  [/quote]

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