Duration: 3 hours
Type of Service: Vatican Tour
Once-In-A-Lifetime Experience - Make sure your Vatican visit is a once-in-a-lifetime experience by booking your own, private guide. Traveling with an expert, English-speaking guide through the Vatican Museums and St. Peter’s Basilica, you’ll have the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the masterpieces held within the papal palaces. Ask all the questions you want and influence your tour route – with your own private guide the Vatican is your oyster. Our No Wait Access Private Vatican Tours typically follow a carefully crafted route through the museums, visiting all the highlights of the collection such as the Raphael Rooms, the Gallery of Tapestries and the Laocoon Group sculpture that inspired Michelangelo.
Be amazed as you enter the Sistine Chapel and experience for yourself two of the world’s most famous masterpieces – The Last Judgement and The Creation of Adam. With an explanation from your guide, you’ll see things that other visitors never spot – like Michelangelo’s bone-free self-portrait, his message to the world that he would rather be skinned alive than paint the Sistine Chapel again.
Our tour ends with a bang at St. Peter’s Basilica. We enter directly from the Sistine Chapel via a special entrance, skipping the long line outside. Your guide will provide you with a detailed description of the Basilica of the spectacular altar, Michelangelo's famous 'Pietà' and the side chapels that make this the world's largest historic church.
Things to Know:
- On Your Private Tour - your own dedicated English-speaking tour guide
- Expert guided tour of the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter's Basilica
- All tickets and reservations fees included in price - tickets must be purchased 10 days in advance
- Private Tour Times: 10:00am and 2:00pm (3-hour tour)
- Private Tour Days: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday
- Private Tour with Skip the line tickets are $412.00 for 2 people
- Meeting point: Near Museum Entrance - more details given upon booking
- No Tours on Holidays and Sundays
- On certain Wednesdays, there is a Papal Blessing/Papal Audience and tours may be restricted during the morning hours
- Entrance into the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, and St. Mark's Basilica requires a strict dress code. Knees and shoulders MUST be covered for both men and women.
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- Semi-Private Tour with 12 people or less
- Semi-private tours offered on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday – tour time is 8:10 am
- Cost for the semi-private tour is $124.00 per person.
- Skip the line admission tickets
- Small group tours are available for groups less than 20 people
- Small group tours are held Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Small group tour times are 8:00am, 8:45am, 9:00am, 10:00am and 2:30pm
- Small group tour cost is $88.00 per person
- Skip the line admission tickets
- Tickets for the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter's Basilica must be bought in advance - tours times based on the availability of tickets
- Entrance into the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, and St. Mark's Basilica requires a strict dress code. Knees and shoulders MUST be covered for both men and women.