Sistine Chapel express and Vatican Museums ticket

Early access to the Sistine Chapel is perfect for those who want to see this masterpiece without the crowds. By gaining access before other tour groups and the general public, you will be sure to experience it as it was meant to be. After your quiet Sistine Chapel visit you can choose to enter the Vatican Museums, wandering the Papal Palace on your own, seeing all there is to see on your own time and at your own pace. If time is short, you can fly on to the next sight on your list, content in the knowledge that you have seen Rome’s finest masterpiece.

Our Early Access Sistine Chapel group meets before the Vatican Museums open, skipping the long lines already outside and entering before anyone else. Visitors will be accompanied to the Sistine Chapel where they’ll be the first to enter, finding this incredible hall empty. Later in the day there will barely be room to move, but in the minutes before opening time, all is quiet.

After the Sistine Chapel, visitors can wander the Vatican Museums for the rest of the day free of charge – and with such an early meeting time, the day ahead is long. Your escort will leave you with a map and an introduction to the most important areas of the museums so you can get the most from your time with the Vatican’s nine-mile art collection.

City Wonders is currently the only tour operator to offer this special access, getting visitors into the Vatican Museums at 07.45am, 15 minutes ahead of other tour operators and 1 hour and 15 minutes before the general public. With no more than 20 people per group and a maximum of two City Wonders groups running per day, your Sistine experience will be as intimate as it should be.