Why purchase a tourist pass?
But why should we consider buying a tourist pass?
When you go on vacation to an average large and well-known city, there are a lot of things you can do and see.
Museums, tourist attractions, excursions, organized tours, and experiences that are capable of enriching the whole vacation a great deal, as opposed to just simple exploration.
All of these "points of interest" (as they are called) are often expensive, and they significantly affect the vacation budget, as well as affecting the travel itinerary because you have to know how to devote the right amount of space and time to them.
And this is where tourist passes come to the rescue.
Passes, sometimes also called "Card", "Museum Card" or more generally "Card" thus open up many tourist possibilities, and save money.
Let's look at the advantages of evaluating and in case buying a tourist pass.
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Buying a tourist pass: advantages
As mentioned in the introduction, a pass mainly offers two reasons for advantage: the first is related to the fact that it increases the tourist opportunity and comfort of visiting attractions, and the second is purely economic, that is, it saves money compared to the purchase of individual tickets.
Let us analyze them in detail.
The pass to see more things
As we saw on the page where I explain what a tourist pass is, there are different formats of passes/cards. Some have a predefined carnet of attractions, while others are the so-called all-inclusive, meaning that they allow you to see a little bit of everything in the city.
In the latter case, a very interesting opportunity opens up, and to explain it I will give you a practical example.
The public transportation pass
Not in all cities, but quite often, included in the cards are also public transportation, another service that is very often used on vacation, and so its cost is amortized by the purchase of the purchased card.
Sometimes the Tourist Card does not directly include public transportation, but its possession allows for important discounts on public transportation tickets (metro, bus, train).
The pass to save money
Pass is not saving money 100% of the time, but very often you will find yourself in the situation that buying a pass will save you money compared to visiting through the purchase of individual tickets.
The more you see, the greater the savings. So medium to long stays are favored, where there is room for so many things to be seen and thus the savings increase, but it is also true that the companies that create the passes have arranged convenient formulas for short vacations as well.
When does the pass not pay off?
There are only a few cases, and by way of illustration I list them below:
- Extremely short vacation where you have very little time to explore.
- Choose to see special attractions, usually not included in passes
- Choose a non-exploratory vacation, preferring to be outdoors instead of visiting tourist attractions (it fits)
- it is not your first visit to that city, the main things you have seen before, and therefore the pass is not useful to you because it will be a vacation not oriented to museums and attractions
- When you do not have a well-defined itinerary before departure. In this case, going a bit haphazardly, you can't choose a pass with confidence that it will be useful to you because you don't know what you want to do.
In all other cases, it is quite certain that a pass allows you to enjoy benefits, economic and vacation comfort.
Buying a tourist pass: disadvantages
There are no major known disadvantages to buying a pass.
The worst situation is when you choose a pass without first understanding how it works and whether it really suits you.
In this situation it may happen that you do not find it useful, or even an unnecessary expense, but in this case the fault lies in the fact that you have purchased something that a priori you do not need.
And that's exactly why passturistici.com was born, to help you understand the usefulness of a pass in your case, and most importantly choose the right one for you!!!
