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About this activity

Enjoy the privileged V.I.P. entrance and see the wonders of the Vatican before the crowds reach it! The entrance of the Vatican museums normally involves waiting in a very long line, this means that it can often take more than one hour of queuing – but not with us! We can offer a reserved entrance, thus guaranteeing that you won’t have to wait. Our 8:00am entrance (7:30 meeting) will ensure you are inside the museums before the general public, as the official entrance time for regular tours is 9:00am.
• 7:30am - Meet at Vatican Office
• 8:00am - Enter Vatican Museums with your expert fully-licensed guide
• Our Vatican office is very close to the entrance of the Vatican. Other companies are known to meet their clients in the street or at a bar.
• Our guides are all highly qualified and speak fluent English – our mother tongue guides include native American, Irish and British guides among others.
• The Semi-Private guided tour covers the Vatican museums, the Sistine chapel and St. Peter's basilica. The group is limited to 12 people
• The Group guided tour covers the Vatican museums, the Sistine chapel and then you have access to St. Peter's without the guide. The average size of the group is 25 people.
• Book a tour of the Vatican with us and we will give you an official receipt, ensuring you are protected and the Italian law is respected.Tour is highly not recommended for people with limited mobility or require use of a wheelchair.

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Included

Blue Badge guide
Headsets to hear the guide clearly
Professional guide
Guided tour of the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel
Guided tour of St. Peter's Basilica (if option selected)
Guaranteed to skip the long lines
Entry/Admission - Sistine Chapel
Entry/Admission - Vatican Museums
Entry/Admission - St. Peter's Basilica
Guaranteed to skip the lines

Not included

Hotel pickup
Hotel drop-off

Additional

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Not wheelchair accessible
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
During the Jubilee Year of Mercy 2016 St. Peter's basilica is an active religious centre and is subject to sudden closures for Jubilee ceremonies. The closures might occur without previous notice, we are therefore not responsible for this inconvenience. This does not affect the tour of the Vatican museums
To apply Youth fares you need to provide a student ID card

Features

Tourism

85%

Cultural

80%

Original

50%

Adrenaline

15%

Reviews

4.2

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Susan H

4 | 2018-06-14

Our tour guide was very good. However, the headsets were not great, and there were still many many people there at the Vatican, and there was still a little bit of waiting. However, overall, it was a great experience!

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nancy h

5 | 2017-09-10

Early entrance is key if you want to experience the Sistine without feeling like a sardine. Also our Guide, ERIK, was wonderful...this is his thing and it was so wonderful to hear him share from his bottomless well of knowledge. Thank you Eric for the great lessons and memories. Loved our guided tour of the vatican and Sistine Chapel...Wish we would also have signed up for a guided tour of St. Peters.

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Renee C

4 | 2017-07-20

The guide, Lorenzo, was a serious art expert and extremely knowledgeable. We met at 7:30 at their office which is a block and 1/2 or so away from the entrance to the gallery. We waited outside the Vatican Museum entrance with other groups until the doors opened at 8. I had assumed that our early admission would enable us to gain access before most of the crowds, but it took quite a lot of time for us to even get into the galleries. We were in the Vatican Museum, but outside the building itself, looking at some of the views, and finally looking still outside at La Laocoön at 9:45 am which left us far less time on the tour to finally get inside for the extensive and major works. Finally I asked about getting into the Sistine Chapel before the hordes of other tourists and was told that it everyone thinks it's better to go there first, and it is better not to, as that's when it's really jammed. Well, by the time we got there, the Sistine Chapel was completely jammed with people, there was constant calls from the guards to the large crowd to be quiet. If you think you will have an advantage to gaining early and less crowded access into the museum and specifically into the Sistine Chapel, this is not the way to do it. I do wonder if the guides have arrangements with the Vatican so as to control how many people actually go to the Chapel first. I don't know if there is another way to avoid this problem, possibly the very expensive 400-500 Euro evening tour?. Lorenzo was by far the most educated art historian we had on our tour of Italy, and I highly recommend him. With the plethora of companies offering skip the line tours, some very expensive ones, be sure you know what you are getting. Joining a tour at whatever time of day to gain you access without standing on long lines is a good idea, but the early entrance here didn't help us avoid large crowds. There are lots of skip the line tours offered for many sites around Italy, and for the most part I think you can avoid paying very high fees and plan your entrances or reserve on the official museum sites without paying exorbitant fees.

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Jennifer S

5 | 2017-06-20

We choose this tour after finding information about it online. I have to say, it was absolutely wonderful!! Tonia was our guide and she was simply fantastic. Very knowledgeable, funny, and engaging, she showed us a great side of the Vatican. One we would never have seen on our own. I HIGHLY recommend this tour if you want to get into the Vatican early and be able to spend some quality time seeing the amazing Sistine Chapel and all of the outstanding pieces in the Vatican museum. It was more than worth the money we spent. Thanks for making this a fabulous visit, Tonia and Italy With Us!

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Alison B

4 | 2017-06-11

Our guide, Erik, was fabulous. So knowledgeable and so good at explaining different aspects of the art and the buildings. Loved the early entrance as it was awesome to see the Sistine Chapel with only a handful of other people milling about. Would have loved a bit more time in the museums. I have to admit I felt like a gibbering idiot as all I could say was wow at everything we saw

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mharrell99

2 | 2016-11-07

The skip the line feature is fantastic and so is the Sistine chapel. But to my knowledge, we didn't see any secret rooms and our tour guide was in a hurry to get to his next booking. I don't feel like I saw anything at all in the Vatican museum except for a rushed walk through of the map room and the Sistine chapel.

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