My Best Tour

Private golf cart and Vespa tours in Rome

My Best Tour runs private tours in Rome by electric golf cart, vintage Vespa and Vespa with sidecar, alongside private guided visits to the Vatican and the Colosseum. Its homepage calls it "The original golf cart tour!" and says "We've been doing this since 2010!" The company lists offices in Rome at Via Sardegna, 67, 00187 and Via Santamaura 9, 00192, the second near the Vatican Museums entrance, plus an operating office and garage in the park of Villa Borghese. The footer names the business as Tour One, a travel agency with license ADV 18878.

It operates its own vehicles and guides: the site publishes the layout of its carts, sets out its own pick-up range, and describes its guides as "official guides, fully authorized, highly specialized and multilingual." The menu reaches beyond the city center with excursions from Rome to the countryside, tours for cruise passengers who disembark at Civitavecchia, and "Transfers from anywhere to anywhere in Italy." Prices on the site are shown in euros.

The range

The homepage groups tours as Golf Cart Tours, Vatican Tours, Colosseum Tours, Combined Tours, Packages, Food and Wine Tours, Tours for Cruisers, Walking Tours, Tours for Disabled, Vespa Tours, Bike Tours, Shopping Tours, Tours by Car and Private Transfers.

The Vespa page offers a private City tour by Vespa, with a professional guide and suggested routes past the Colosseum (outside), Trevi Fountain, Pantheon, Piazza Navona and the Spanish Steps, or custom Ancient Rome and Street Art versions. The Food Tour by Vespa adds tastings such as "pizza, vino, Italian cheeses, mozzarella, salami, charcuterie, croissant, delicious pastries, gelato"; the site says these tours "start at 9.30am and 2.30 pm and lasts 3 hours." The Countryside Tour by Vespa goes to Castelgandolfo and Nemi with their lakes, or to Ostia Antica, starting at 9.30am or 10.00am and lasting 6 hours. Guests ride as passengers with the company's own drivers.

The Vespa with sidecar tour is a 3 hour private guided tour. The site lists it at € 145.00 for 1 person with one Vespa and sidecar, and € 195.00 per person for 2 people. Start times are 10:00 AM, 2:00 PM and 6:00 PM (7:00 PM in summer). It is "Not accessible to children under the age of five and wheelchair users," and the site says guests are not allowed to drive.

The All Rome in one day package runs 7 hours: a 4-hour private golf cart tour that includes a 1 hour guided walk inside the Colosseum, then a 3-hour private walking tour of the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica, with "skip-the-line" tickets included. The site pitches it this way: "If one day is all you have in Rome and you want to see everything, this is the tour for you." Longer packages, All Rome in two days and a day-and-a-half version, promise a saving of 10%, and the two-day version adds the Old Appian Way and Catacombs by golf cart.

On the day

Golf cart and Vespa guides meet guests "at your place if this within our operating range or at our office near the Vatican." Colosseum tours in the shorter package meet in front of the Hotel Forum, Via Tor de' Conti. The Vehicles page sets out cart sizes: a small cart takes 4 passengers including the driver, a medium cart 6 and a large cart 8, all with cargo space. Wheelchair versions of the medium and large carts fold 2 seats down, leaving room for 4 and 6 passengers including the driver. Children "don't go free" and must sit on the special seats the company provides. In bad weather, carts carry plastic covers, ponchos and blankets. Minivans (Mercedes E-Class, V-Class, Vito, Ford Tourneo and Mercedes Sprinter) are priced by inquiry.

The Vatican page is frank about the walk. It says the tour "requires walking about 2 miles indoors and you cannot take shortcuts," that reaching the Sistine Chapel takes 45 minutes, and that there are few places to sit, so it recommends a wheelchair for guests with mobility issues. The company also sells an accessible Vatican tour for seniors and disabled visitors using walking aids. It lists a Vatican by night visit on Fridays from Apr. 26th to Oct. 25th. It warns that St. Peter's Basilica may not always be included in the Holy Year because of crowds, and that on certain dates, including Good Friday, April 25th and June 2nd, the Colosseum area is closed to golf carts. Pets can ride in the carts and minivans but not enter churches, museums or excavation sites.

Booking and terms

Each tour page carries Inquire, Chat and Book buttons, and every page links to a Cancellation Policy and Terms and Conditions. The company says it replies "almost instantly" and asks guests to check spam if nothing arrives within 48 hours. For short-notice bookings it asks for a phone call rather than an email, listing +39 337 783 255 on one page and +39 393 907 0080 on others. Office hours are given as 9:30 am to 6:30 pm Monday to Saturday on the homepage and 9:00am to 7:30 in the footer; tours run every day, Sundays included.

A disability discount is available only with a scanned disability certificate. Pantheon entry is complimentary "subject to availability," and names and dates of birth are needed. A Travel Professionals' area offers special rates to the trade.

What the site leaves open, and who it suits

The site shows few prices beyond the sidecar tour; the packages say "Prices per person - Adults, 18 y. o. +" without a visible figure. The site does not state payment methods, the cancellation terms sit behind a link rather than on the tour pages, and the site gives different office hours and emergency numbers on different pages without saying which is current.

The strengths are clear: private tours only, a fleet sized for families and wheelchair users, and unusually candid advice about how long and tiring the Vatican is. That suits first-time visitors short on time, families with children old enough for the Vespa limits, and travelers with limited mobility who want the golf cart's door-to-door approach. Anyone looking for a shared group tour with strangers is not the audience here.