Guides
What applies at every famous sight: how to plan a visit, which tickets actually skip the lines, whether a city pass pays off, the scams that follow tourists everywhere, and how to visit without the crowds. The sight pages hold what is local.
- How to plan a visit to a famous sightThe famous sights now run on timed, named tickets that sell out, and most of the ways a visit goes wrong happen weeks before you arrive. Here is how to book at the right moment, on the right site, and turn up with the right things.8 min read
- Skip-the-line tickets, explainedMost famous sights have three queues, and no ticket skips all of them. After reading this you will know which line your ticket saves you, when a skip-the-line label is worth paying for, and when it is the official ticket at a higher price.7 min read
- Official tickets vs resellers: how to tell them apartThe top search result for a famous sight is often not the sight's own ticket shop. This guide shows you how to find the real one in a minute, when paying a reseller makes sense, and what to do if you already paid the wrong site.8 min read
- Are city passes worth it?A city pass saves money only if you would have paid full price for enough of what it covers, in the days it is valid. This guide shows you how to do that sum in five minutes, and where the passes for Paris, Rome, London and Jordan stand in October 2026.8 min read
- Tourist scams at famous sights, and how to avoid themThe same dozen tricks turn up outside the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, the Pyramids and the Taj Mahal. Learn how each one works and its tell-tale sign, and you will walk past them without breaking stride.8 min read
- Pickpockets at tourist sights: where, how, and what helpsPickpockets go where tourists are distracted: in queues, on the metro to the sight and wherever people stop to take photos. This guide shows you the places and the tricks, what really helps, and what to do if it happens anyway.7 min read
- How to visit famous sights without the crowdsCrowds at famous sights follow a timetable: coach groups, cruise passengers, day trips and national holidays. Learn the timetable and you can plan around it, from the hour you arrive to the corner of the site you see first.8 min read
- Visiting respectfully: dress codes, etiquette and animal ridesMany of the world's great sights are still places of worship, and all of them are fragile. Here is what to wear, what not to do and how to visit in a way that leaves the place, and the people who live there, better off.7 min read