Termini Station, 8:40am, and the ticket line for the Roma Pass is already switchbacking past the tourist info kiosk before the machines even open. I had the price bookmarked from the last time I bought one here — €36.50 for 48 hours — and the board behind the counter said €38.00. Small jump. Enough to make me stop trusting my own bookmarks, though, and enough that I went back through every pass in this table, one by one, before I let myself republish it.

What follows is the current state of the ten multi-attraction passes I've actually bought and used shooting assignments in these cities since 2018 — New York, London, Paris, Rome, Chicago, Amsterdam, Singapore, Dubai, Barcelona, Vienna. Where a provider's own page loads fine, the number below came straight off it. Where it doesn't (a few of these block anything that isn't a browser — fair enough, I get it) I cited the freshest snapshot or reseller listing still quoting the same figure, footnoted at the bottom. Treat this like a subway map, not a guarantee: right as of today, but operators reroute pricing about as often as the G train reroutes itself, and with about as much warning.

By-city comparison of 10 city attraction passes: price in each operator's native currency, pass type (attraction-based or time-based), and top inclusions, with a subway-style spine linking the cities. — City attraction pass comparison — price, pass type, and top inclusions, by city. Free to embed with credit to jauntpost.com (CC BY 4.0).

City Attraction Pass Comparison Table

Standard adult prices and core inclusions, checked against each operator's own page where it's reachable by a plain fetch, and against the closest verifiable stand-in where it isn't — the I amsterdam City Card, for instance, only shows its per-day price inside a script tag no automated check can read, so that row is priced qualitatively instead of guessed at. Everything else below is a number I can trace back to a live page.

City	Pass Name	Type	Standard Adult Price	Key Inclusions
New York City	New York CityPASS®	Attraction-Based (5)	$164.00 [1]	Empire State Building, AMNH, plus 3 choices (e.g., Top of the Rock, Statue of Liberty).
London	The London Pass®	Day-Based (1-10 Days)	£99.00 (1-Day) [2]	Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, London Eye, and 2-day Hop-on Hop-off bus — one of 100+ included attractions.
Paris	Paris Museum Pass	Time-Based (48-144 Hours)	€85.00 (48-Hour) [3]	Louvre Museum, Musée d’Orsay, Arc de Triomphe, and Château de Versailles et de Trianon (all on the official included-sites list; one entry per site). [4]
Rome	Roma Pass	Time-Based (48-72 Hours)	€38.00 (48-Hour) [5]	1 free attraction (e.g., Colosseum), unlimited public transport, and reduced entry to 45+ affiliated sites. [6]
Chicago	Chicago CityPASS®	Attraction-Based (5)	$144.00 [7]	Shedd Aquarium, Skydeck Chicago, plus 3 choices (e.g., Field Museum, Art Institute).
Amsterdam	I amsterdam City Card	Day-Based (Multi-Day)	Priced per card & duration — see official site	70+ museums (Rijksmuseum), public transport, canal cruise, and bike rental. [8]
Singapore	Go City Singapore All-Inclusive	Day-Based (2-7 Days)	From $256.00 USD [9]	Universal Studios Singapore, Gardens by the Bay, and Night Safari.
Dubai	Go City Dubai All-Inclusive	Day-Based (2-7 Days)	From $339.00 USD [10]	Burj Khalifa (At The Top), Aquaventure Waterpark, and Desert Safari.
Barcelona	Barcelona Card	Time-Based (48-120 Hours)	€59.00 (72-Hour) [12]	25+ museums (Picasso Museum), unlimited public transport, and airport train/metro. [11]
Vienna	Vienna PASS	Day-Based (1-6 Days)	€99.00 (1-Day) [13]	Schönbrunn Palace, Hofburg (Imperial Palace), Giant Ferris Wheel, and unlimited Hop-on Hop-off bus. [14]

Definitions of Pass Types

Day-Based / All-Inclusive Pass: I think of this one like an unlimited transit day-pass that just keeps running for however many consecutive calendar days you buy, one, three, six, whatever the operator offers. Walk into as many participating attractions as fit inside that window, no counting entries. Amsterdam's and Vienna's cards both work this way.
Attraction-Based / Explorer Pass: This is the one I reach for most, mostly because I never plan a trip more than two attractions ahead. Commit to a number up front, usually 3, 5, or 7, chosen from a longer list, sometimes without deciding until I'm standing at the ticket counter. Both CityPASS products in this table work this way, and the window to use them is 9 consecutive days from your first entry, tighter than I'd assumed for years before I actually reread the fine print on my own CityPASS receipt.
Time-Based Pass: Closer to a transit pass that starts its clock the moment you tap in, not at midnight. The Roma Pass, Paris Museum Pass, and Barcelona Card all run this way, anywhere from 48 hours on the short end to 144 on the long end depending which tier you buy, so pushing your first attraction to late afternoon instead of 9am can buy you most of an extra day for free.

The one that actually caught me out was the Vienna Pass, not on price, on scheduling. Hopped off the Hop-on Hop-off at Schwedenplatz to shoot the Ferris wheel in what was left of golden hour, missed the next bus by about four minutes, waited out a light rain under a döner shop awning for the one after. Worth it for the frame. Just don't plan your day around that bus the way I planned mine — and don't assume the I amsterdam app will show you a price before it shows you a login screen, either; it works exactly like a gym membership scanner, tap in, tap out, forget you're paying for it until the renewal notice lands.

Last verified: 2026-07-17

City Attraction Pass Comparison: What Each Pass Covers and Costs (by City)

City Attraction Pass Comparison Table

Definitions of Pass Types

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