Rates per vehicle for this excursion:
sedan (1/4 persons) 650 €;

minivan (4 persons) 670 €;

minivan (5/6 persons) 700 €.

minivan (7/8 persons) 740 €.

Driving times:
Civitavecchia/Rome: 1hr

Rome/Civitavecchia : 1hr'

We start from Civitavecchia around 8:00 or 8:30 am. I'll be waiting right on the pier where the ship docks. I park the car as close as possible to the footbridge and, so to be identified easily, I post the client's name on its windshield. The tour takes total 9 hours, from when we start at the port until we return to the ship. The drive to Rome takes about one hour and so does the trip back to the ship.

The tour of Rome we'll do, is a sort of loop. Depending on the day of the week and traffic conditions, we may start from St. Peter's Basilica and end with the Colosseum or vice versa. Saturdays and Sundays are the best days to sightsee in Rome, most of the locals leave for the week end and there's very little traffic and you cover more ground.

This is a list of Rome's major highlights, the sights you don't want to miss, and the time it takes to see them:

St. Peter's (1 hour or more), Piazza Navona (20'), Pantheon (20'), Trevi Fountain (20'), Capitol Hill (Roman Forum view) (30'), Colosseum (about 1 hour).

A rapid calculation will tell you that just these few places will take about three and a half hours to see, but also you have to consider the time needed to go from one to the other and the stops you'll want to make to look at the the sights on your way.

These are in fact several very interesting places you get to see as you drive through the city, some of these places aren't easy to find because kind of hidden or hard to notice. It would be very difficult for the average tourist, in Rome just for the day, to get to see them, but for us it's only a short stop on the way!

These places are:

Palazzaccio (Old Court House), St. Andrew's, St. Mary's Above Minerva, Piazza Venezia (Monument to Victor Emmanuel II), Piazza di Spagna (Spanish Steps), Theatre of Marcellus, Synagogue, Mouth of Truth and Keyhole (Roman Curiosity), Circus Maximus, Palatine Hill.

Several other attractions will be pointed out just while you'll be driving by them, such as:

Castle St. Angelo and its bridge, Italian Senate, The Marble Foot and Cat Street (Roman Curiosity), Trajan's Column, Imperial Fora, Trajan's Market, The Maps of the Empire, Arch of Constantine, Marcus Aurelius's Column, Parliament and Council of Ministers, St. Nicholas in Chains, temples of Apollo, Vesta and Janus, Quirinal Palace.

This is the usual itinerary, it takes you to the major highlights of the city of Rome and at the end of the day you can say you've see the Rome!

If we start the tour from St. Peter's, we'll stop to see the view of the Dome on the way there; if we start from the Colosseum we see St. Paul's Basilica and the Pyramid en route.

Obviously you can change the itinerary if there is a special place that you want to see and it's not included in my list.

On Saturdays and Sundays traffic is really light and we can move quicker, so more places can be included in the tour, for example St. Peter's in Chains, where they keep the statue of Moses by Michelangelo.