Joseph Hale

My wife and I enjoyed the power plant tour (PPT) ($15 per person). Well worth the low cost for a 30-minute tour. The PPT is not time-based - you simply purchase a ticket (which I did online) and then you enter a queue for the tour. Approximately 118 people are taken by a guide every ~10 minutes, so we went through the short queue quickly. The tour was fascinating. The best factoid: the amount of concrete used to construct the dam is enough to lay a 4-foot wide sidewalk across the entire 24,901-mile length of the equator of Earth! That is a lot of concrete!! Definitely worth the visit! While there is free parking available, we paid the $10 to park across from the visitor center.

I do not recommend purchasing tickets for the Imperial Fora. Instead, I recommend visiting Trajan's Market museum for a viewing of the Imperial Fora from atop, then walking the boardwalk along Via dei Fori Imperiali to get the best perspective of the Imperial Fora. Again, I recommend you NOT purchase the Super Pass for the purpose of walking the grounds of the Imperial Fora only because, when on the ground level, you can't visualize which of the forums (see photos) you are actually in. Visualization is best accomplished from atop Trajan's Market museum and the aforementioned boardwalk. The boardwalk has placards that show which of the forums is in front of you (again, see pictures) - I didn't notice any such placards on the Imperial Fora ground level. Just my recommendation...food for thought.

My wife and I enjoyed visiting the museum. I recommend visiting this location, then walking the boardwalk along Via dei Fori Imperiali to get the best perspective of the Imperial Fora. I also recommend you NOT purchase the Super Pass for the purpose of walking the grounds of the Imperial Fora only because, when on the ground level, you can't visualize which of the forums (see photos) you are actually in. Visualization is best accomplished from atop Trajan's Market museum and the aforementioned boardwalk. The boardwalk has placards that show which of the forums is in front of you (again, see pictures) - I didn't notice any such placards on the Imperial Fora ground level. Just my recommendation...food for thought.