Neil D. Adams
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Equestrian statue of Vittorio Emanuele II
Beautiful building and statue BUT:
The workers here are running a scam for tickets to the top terrace.
They come up with any reason for your ticket to be “invalid” and then make you wait in line to get a “refund” which is just them giving you a slip with an email that you can message to in their words “try to get a refund”.
The line for refund slips is equally as long as the line for tickets.
It’s clear the workers have a way of pocketing the money when you “refund” the ticket yet you don’t actually get your cash back.
Obviously there’s a lot of tourist scams in Rome, but it’s sad that the workers at an actual government-backed tourist site are running one.
Very unfortunate because it’s a beautiful, beautiful site! I still recommend visiting, just not going to the very top or being VERY careful when buying tickets to the very top. Probably a good idea to just buy the most expensive tickets so they can’t tell you you bought the wrong ones.
For us we got the 18-25 yr old tickets and they said we had to be from the EU to use these tickets even though it says that no where on the sign, and there is a guy standing right next to the ticket machine, not helping people to choose the right tickets, but just waiting for them to buy the tickets and then telling them they bought the wrong ones and where to go to start the refund process.
The workers here are running a scam for tickets to the top terrace.
They come up with any reason for your ticket to be “invalid” and then make you wait in line to get a “refund” which is just them giving you a slip with an email that you can message to in their words “try to get a refund”.
The line for refund slips is equally as long as the line for tickets.
It’s clear the workers have a way of pocketing the money when you “refund” the ticket yet you don’t actually get your cash back.
Obviously there’s a lot of tourist scams in Rome, but it’s sad that the workers at an actual government-backed tourist site are running one.
Very unfortunate because it’s a beautiful, beautiful site! I still recommend visiting, just not going to the very top or being VERY careful when buying tickets to the very top. Probably a good idea to just buy the most expensive tickets so they can’t tell you you bought the wrong ones.
For us we got the 18-25 yr old tickets and they said we had to be from the EU to use these tickets even though it says that no where on the sign, and there is a guy standing right next to the ticket machine, not helping people to choose the right tickets, but just waiting for them to buy the tickets and then telling them they bought the wrong ones and where to go to start the refund process.