season ticket transport metropasses in rome

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You can also buy a one month pass for around 30 Euros. This gives unlimited travel on all subway trains, buses and trams in Rome. Obviously this is terrific value if you are here for a month, and frankly, compared to London, still pretty good value even if you were only here for a week. These are only issued to run from the first of each month though, (assigned to the name of the calendar month in which they are issued, ie, 'July', 'August' etc) so if you buy one on, say, the fifteenth of the month, although you've payed the full 30 Euros for it, you'll only get two weeks use left on it, and you'd need to buy a new pass on the first day of the following calendar month.
If you're moving to Rome to live, there are also longer term passes, annual and so on.
You can also buy daily or weekly passes from the ticket machines in subway stations, though in practical terms the savings these offer are minimal. We don't think the daily ticket is really worth it, for reasons we'll expand on in the next paragraph, and the weekly ticket is perhaps only worth getting if you are planning a week of extensive, routine commuting with multiple bus and train-route changes. As a tourist you will probably find your movements around Rome more erratic than this, although the convenience of buying only one ticket is a factor worth considering. The ticket machines can usually be set to display instructions in English by pressing the British flag button near the top of the console.

The thing with Rome though, from a tourist's point of view, is that unlike London for example (which is a big, sprawling, filthy bore to walk through), Rome is smaller, more compact, and beautiful to roam around on foot - Just about every inch of it is worth seeing, so time spent on the bus or subway is lost time and opportunity to see beautiful things close-up. For this reason, we'd advise you to just buy a streetmap and only, say, four metrebus tickets to start off with on the day you arrive, and make a determined effort to see Rome mostly on foot. You'll most likely enjoy the city much more that way and discover that you only use one or two tickets a day like that.

problems with the metrebus ticket

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