Big Bus: Rome Hop-on Hop-off Bus Tour

Two thumbs up to Big Red Bus Rome! Before arriving we mapped out routes from our hotel to bus terminal and the stops to many of our anticipated visit sites. Hop-on-Hop-off bus would get us closer than the metro. Our Rome tour group started and ended at the colosseum on day 1. We departed the group and took a 5 minute walk to the nearest Hop-on bus stop, expecting to use our online tickets for our 1st Hop-on ride. All great! However due to a simcard issue we were unable to access our tickets. In a panic moment we saw a red-vested gentleman with the Big Red Bus who had an electronic gismo, used our info, and then provided us a printout of our bus tickets. Talk about saving the day!! We used Hop-on Hop-off Bus for 2 days. The tour information as we drove through Rome was informative (ear buds were provided), each stop was manned with red-clad staff, easy to spot and helpful with lines and info. Best of all our at last hop-on at 5pm of day 2, the staff gentleman checking our tickets chatted with us and found we had not used our free gelato coupons. He pointed out a shop honoring the coupons, only a few minute walk. He was a wonderful, friendly, chatty man and insisted we shouldn't pass up the gelato. We were exhausted from walking all day, but that gelato was fantastic! Refreshed, we enjoyed our stroll back to the bus stop and in mniutes hopped on for our last ride. All the staff we encountered were friendly, most spoke english very well, bus stops were easy to locate, buses came so frequently that we never had to wait more than a few minutes, even if one bus was full, the next was there in 10 minutes. The pictures are some extra sites we saw when walking from hotel to bus terminal!