To ask how much money for four days in Rome?

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I’m going to Rome next month.

i have excursions booked and paid for (including a day trip to Pompeii and a dinner class). I don’t know how much to budget for taking. My thinking was €500, but is that enough? I don’t really plan on buying any tickets or anything while out there.

Well, what are you planning to do?

Yes, if everything you're doing is already paid for and it's just food, the odd little thing and a few drinks that should be plenty.

I think the UK is more expensive than almost anywhere now!

Yeah sounds about right to me. I’ve been 11 times. Too tip for cheap lunch places to eat set menu type fare - follow the office workers….

We spent about £800 between the two of us. Food tends to be cheaper (and better) further away from the main tourist places. We spent a lot of drinks and we went to the Vatican museum (we had already paid for the colloseum etc).

These questions are always completely pointless, because one person's idea of an expensive restaurant is another person's idea of cheap!
The variety of options for expenditure in Rome is like any city - limitless - not to mention the fact that we don't know your interests and preferences.

One thing you don't need to worry about is public transport, as the city is very walkable (but obviously factor travel to/from airport and hotel).
Credit cards are acceptable everywhere, and cash can be withdrawn from an ATM, so don't try to set a limit. But do enjoy yourself- it's the best city in the world.

Sorry, just lots of sightseeing planned. Mainly on the tours I’ve booked, I’d like to go to Villa Borghese too.

"taking" as in taking cash? I wouldn't take any cash, I'd use my credit card and I wouldn't spend what I can't afford.

Depends entirely on what you want to do and what your tastes are.

We were in Rome for 5 days and spent around €3000. We ate at La Pergola 2 of those nights, which wasn’t cheap.

You can do Rome on pretty much any budget though 🤷🏻‍♀️

London prices for food and drink. So what do you spend at home on a nice day out and dinner? That. X4.

Sounds like about right to me

Rome has changed a lot since before Covid. I used to go a lot 20 years ago. Now all the places you are likely to want to visit need to be pre-booked online, or you will struggle to get a ticket and will have to pay inflated prices to middlemen. You can’t just get up early, pay on the door and walk straight in at the front of the queue. Also, the independent family run hotels and restaurants have all but vanished. It’s still an amazing city, but it’s lost a bit of its soul.

I'm not even sure it's that expensive. Four of us had pizza/pasta and a couple of bottles of wine in a little side street restaurant for not much more than 100 euro so less than a lot of UK cities. I was also surprised that my ice cream from the kiosk with no prices next to the Trevi fountain so ripe for rip off territory was only about 3 or 4 euro.

But I agree with others about how can we possibly answer when the OP hasn't said how many people, how many times she will be eating out or what her tastes are. 500 euro sounds plenty for a middle of the road experience, ie it's not going to pay for nightly 3 course fine dining or falling for every tourist trap going, but you're going to be able to spend fairly freely.

I take my debit card, but I’m setting aside money for the trip.

Yes, which is why I’ve booked. As I’ve said

You'll be using your debit card so your budget is presumably a little bit more flexible than if you were taking only cash, which I'd thought you were from the way you worded it.

Aim to spend less than €500 if that's what you've budgeted (and is perfectly possible) but no need to worry if something you don't want to miss presents itself that would take you a bit over budget. That's the way I think about spending on trips anyway.