Rome
Faster Than Skip the Line Tour Vatican Sistine Chapel and St Peters Basilica

Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel in a Group Tour

Rome, Italy
  • 2 hours to 2 hours 30 minutes
  • Offered in: English

Overview

The Vatican Museums hold vast art collections in galleries roughly nine miles long (1.5 kilometers) with more than 1400 rooms—they’re impossible to see all of them in one day. This small-group skip-the-line tour makes it a little easier, saving you hours spent waiting in the Vatican’s notoriously long lines. Tour the Sistine Chapel and the Raphael Rooms with a trained historical guide, and explore St. Peter’s Basilica independently.
  • A small-group tour of the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel
  • Breeze past the museum entrance lines with skip-the-line access
  • Listen to historical and cultural context from your art historian guide
  • Explore St. Peter’s Basilica at your own pace

What's Included

  • Entry/Admission - Vatican Museums
  • Entry/Admission - Sistine Chapel
  • Quality types of headsets to hear the guide clearly (for big groups only)
  • Expert historian guide
  • Food and Drinks
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

  • Largo del Colonnato, 00193 Roma RM, Italy

    Please make sure that you arrived 10 min. prior your Tour time. Our Local Representative

Start time

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Opening hours

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End point

  • St. Peter's Basilica
    Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City

What To Expect

Vatican Museums

1 hour Admission Ticket Included

Sistine Chapel

1 hour Admission Ticket Included

Additional Info

  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Stroller accessible
  • Near public transportation
  • Infant seats available
  • Not recommended for travelers with back problems
  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
  • No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
  • Most travelers can participate
  • A dress code is required to enter places of worship and selected museums. No shorts or sleeveless tops allowed. Knees and shoulders MUST be covered for both men and women. You may risk refused entry if you fail to comply with these dress requirements
  • SKIP THE LINE policy: Please be aware that entering the Vatican Museums means leaving Rome and going to a different State. During high seasons the Vatican welcomes more than 30.000 visitors per day! "Skipping the lines" means that we pay an additional reservation fee on top of the ticket price and prebook a privileged entrance for our groups; we always enter before the non-reservation line. We do not have any control of how the Vatican is organised therefore it is out of our hands if there is an unexpected wait.
  • Please also understand that the radio headsets are property of the Vatican. We are obligated to exclusively rent from them so we don't have any quality control over them, therefore if your headset doesn't have quality sound please let us know and we will take care of providing a replacement.
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 40 travelers
  • It's Necessary to bring ID or Passport for validation on Gate
  • If you are Student Between 18 to 25 Years Old and you able to bring your School or University ID So Please Select "Youth" when you book our service
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 35 travelers

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

  • For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
  • If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
  • Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
  • Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
  • This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.

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Disorganised but friendly. Not great value for money.
David_D, Jul 2023
Staff and guide were very friendly but tour was quite disorganised. It took about an hour to get from the meeting point through the security in the museum (despite these being skip-the-line tickets). Tour guide was a French tour guide giving the English speaking tour. She was very friendly and knowledgeable but her English was too basic to get the details across. All of this was after being moved from my allotted morning tour to the late afternoon tour at a days notice (which impacted travel plans). On the positive side, I got to see everything I wanted to see but the tour did not represent good value for money.
Response from Host, Jul 2023
Sorry for the experience, I think we tried to contact you many times to schedule your tour with 15 Minutes without success . as we have best guide in rome and we want give you a private tour that day
Excellent tour of the Vatican
Francisco_S, Mar 2023
Our tour guide, jessica, was knowledgeable, and made the experience fun and educational. Her English was very good. We never had a problem communicating.
Terrible
Carlos_P, May 2022
Terrible. I don’t recommend this at all. There are no signs. Your instructions are not clear A compete disaster. We didn’t get to ho in and had to buy addl tickets
Semi Private with 25 Other People
Ralph_E, Apr 2022
When checking in, we were told that this semi private tour was with some 25 other people. But hey, in Vatican you never walk alone! 300 EUR for the four of us is quite a ticket but just before Easter Holidays, the only choice was take or leave Rome without having seen the Sixtinische Chappel. Our guide did her best, she was fun.
Nul car annulé la veille au soir
Yvon_L, Nov 2022
Annulation la veille au soir sans explications, autant dire impossible de trouver une autre visite dans ces délais. j’espère être remboursé rapidement, le lien qui m’a été envoyé par mail pour demander le remboursement ne fonctionne pas

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