Private Family Experiences: Colosseum Tour for Kids

LivTours Colosseum Tour for Kids is an interactive and fun tour of Rome’s Colosseum designed especially for families. Armed with LivTours’ great kid-centric activities booklet and guide, this is an ideal tour for families!
Each tour is a great opportunity to engage and learn with your kids and at LivTours we have an interactive Colosseum activities booklet that is fun for the whole family. Your private LivTours tour guide will lead the way on this exciting exploration of the amazing Colosseum and the ancient Roman Forum.
At the start of each tour, your child will receive a bag with an interactive booklet that will bring the day to life for them. In the company of your family-friendly LivTours guide, you will start your fun learning experience. This is a great opportunity to bring history to life for you and your family!
LivTours has added 360-degree virtual reality reconstructions glasses that enhance the visit for the entire family. You will get one pair of LivTours original VR cardboard glasses for every two people on your tour.
Using the cardboard VR glasses is completely optional. We advise them to be used at your own discretion due to safety concerns with uneven flooring within the archaeological sites. In order to use the glasses, you will need to plan a bit in advance and download the corresponding app, which is available via Apple or Android store, prior to the tour and bring the smartphone with the app on it on the day of the tour.
- Experience an interactive visit to the Colosseum & Forum on this private family tour
- Allow your children to become archaeologists with an interactive booklet
- Grow to understand all about the lives of gladiators and Colosseum battles
- Enjoy LivTours’ priority access to the Colosseum with no waiting in lines
- See the Roman Forum, including Caesar's Temple
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**All Colosseum tours require photo ID for all participants; plan to bring your passports on the day of your tour. Failure to show identification will result in the denial of entry to the site.**
LivTours Colosseum Tour for Kids begins at one of the most iconic landmarks of Rome, the Colosseum, the perfect backdrop for a family photo. Your private family-friendly guide will not waste a minute of your time on this exciting tour, so make sure your children are listening carefully and ready to play! Your guide will start off with questions for the little ones on tour right away, so kids should have their booklets in hand.
As you walk through this ancient building, your guide will share with you the stories of gladiator games and wild animal hunts that used to take place here. Climbing to the second tier of the Colosseum you can imagine the deafening applause during the bloody games or pretend to catch a glimpse of the Emperor.
On this kid-centric tour, your guide will continue to ask questions throughout the tour, building a rapport and comfortable setting for your children. You may even find out that your kids know a bit more about history than you had given them credit for!
The ancient Roman Forum is a paradise for the explorer in all of us, but especially for young explorers. With an activity guide in hand, you will learn the stories of what used to be the vibrant downtown hub of Rome. You will have a chance to climb over ancient ruins and even drink from genuine Roman fountains. Make sure you leave no stone unturned as you explore the Roman Forum up, down, and around solving the last mysteries in your activity book. Every child will get a prize at the end of this tour!
The final stop on this tour leads us to the remains of the temple of Julius Gaius Caesar. This interactive tour is not just for kids and it is sure to leave the entire family with a smile on their faces and new knowledge in their heads, making for a remarkable experience.
Add a visit to one of the well known Gladiator School and Museum which is managed by the Gruppo Storico Romano that is located on the Appian Way to your Colosseum Tour for Kids. If you choose this option, a driver will come to pick you up just after your tour finishes directly to the school – making this a stress free day for you! Enjoy a 2-hour experience followed by a visit to the Gladiator Museum and a true training session with all the necessary Gladiator attire and weapons, where both defense and attack ancient tactics will be explored. This truly interactive experience is a perfect addition to LivTours’ Colosseum Tour for Kids. Once your time at the Gladiator School is finished, your driver will take you back to your hotel in Rome. Keep in mind that this will add approximately 4 hours to your entire experience.
- LivTour's Exclusive activities book and prizes
- VR Goggles
- LivTours free App
- Skip-the-line access to all sites
- Colosseum & 1st tier
- Roman Forum
- Please note that all Colosseum tour starting times are subject to change based on ticket availability.
- All Colosseum tours require photo ID for all participants; plan to bring your passports on the day of your tour. Failure to show identification will result in the denial of entry to the site.
- Offered in: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. Please specify under “Additional notes” if you wish to book the tour in a language other than English.
- Please note that LivTours VR cardboard glasses do not replace your guide by any means, they are meant to give you a 360 degree view of what Roman would have looked like in its heyday, bringing the architectural ruins to life. They are in no way, shape or form a video game.
- This activity booklet is designed for children from ages 5 – 10 years old. The VR Goggles make it interesting also for kids older than 10. Perfect for mixed age families.
LivTours’ group size of max 6 participants is and always has been based on sustainable travel, and we are proud to be at the forefront of change and innovation in the industry. LivTours is committed to providing travelers with truly sustainable tours with the lowest possible environmental impact, all while supporting the local industries and people of each unique destination. To learn more about how you can actively support sustainable tourism and how LivTours is contributing, click here.
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"The tour was brilliant. We all enjoyed it enormously. Giulia was absolutely lovely. She was very warm, knowledgable and so good with our young children. Both my husband and I were so impressed. We will book again when we are next back in Italy. "
Katie - USA
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"Arianna and the tour was absolutely amazing! My son really enjoyed it. Arianna made it interesting and fun, and she was so kind and nice; she made my son feel engaged and welcome. Thank you for this unforgettable experience! We took two other tours with another company in Rome before and I would highly recommend Livtours and Arianna because it makes such a difference! Her attitude was so sweet and fun! Thank you!!"
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"I just wanted to say that we loved the tour we booked. Our son wouldn't stop talking about the tour for days. Our tour guide, Gigi as my son calls her, was very engaging and knowledgeable. Her background in art history made the tour even more enjoyable for my wife and I. We really appreciate the self pacing nature of the tour and how flexible our guide was when our son would occasionally needed a break. Content wise we were very pleased and surprised at how prepared our guide was with her tablet full of informative diagrams and pictures."
David
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