Rome: Complete Early Morning Vatican Tour

Experience the Vatican like never before with our small group Vatican tour. Get early access to the Sistine Chapel and Vatican Museums, enjoy personal attention from expert guides, and explore St. Peter’s Basilica before the crowds arrive.

Duration: 3 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • What a Life Tours - The activity starts directly at our office located conveniently very close to the Museums’ entrance.
What's Included
  • Meet your guide at our comfortable offices near the Museums’ entrance
  • Skip-the-line access to St. Peter’s Basilica
  • Headsets to hear the guide
  • Small group
  • Expert English-speaking tour guide
  • Early entrance guaranteed
What's Not Included
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Gratuites
Additional Information

Meet at our comfortable offices less than a block from the museum entrance. Join our small group Vatican tour in the early morning with a top-notch tour guide and get early entrance to the Sistine Chapel, Vatican Museums & Raphael Rooms. In a small group, you will be able to discover with no rush the extraordinary abundance of history and art.
Your guide…

Location
What a Life Tours
Via Santamaura
The tour meets directly at our office, the exact address is Via Santamaura 14/B and you will be looking for What a Life Tours. Please remember that Rome’s streets can be confusing so we recommend allowing extra time in case you get lost. The meeting time is 15-20 minutes before the start time.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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999suzanneb
Dec 7, 2024
Amazing Vatican Tour! - What a wonderful tour! Elaine was so knowledgeable and entertaining—kept us informed and curious. Perfect size group with personal attention to everyone—loved the quick access to the Basilica too. Highly recommend this tour.
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K8200iojennyd
Dec 3, 2024
10/10 Tour! Highly recommend for your visit! - Elaine was wonderful! She was energetic, excited to be with us, and absolutely loved being a guide! The tour was paced well and was perfect for highlighting the must-see places and artwork. Elaine was great at tailoring the tour to our interests and her sense of humor, vast knowledge, and storytelling kept us engaged and entertained for the entirety of the tour. We wish we had her to show us the rest of Rome for the remainder of our visit!
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Axelgb5520ks
Dec 3, 2024
10 out of 10 points. - Best tour ever. Vatikan. Very early in the Morning, start 07:30h and about three hours. And we had Cinzia Cutrone, the perfekt tour guide. Does even photos from the group during the tour and she has an answer to all questions about the Vatikan, Rome, italien man and the purpose of life, if you like. Thanks a lot, dear Cinzia. You made our day 💃🕺.
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338augustad
Dec 3, 2024
Fun tour guide - Our tour guide, Elaine, was simply the best! She loves all the history and it showed! She was very knowledgeable but also tons of fun! Highly recommend!
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Dylanf754
Dec 2, 2024
What A Life Vatican Tour with Elaine - Fantastic tour! Elaine was one of the best tour guides we have ever had! Would definitely recommend to anyone visiting. Also, the tour is definitely worth it for skipping the lines, and knowing where and what to look at.
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Jean
Dec 2, 2024
Very well thought out excursion operation! - This was a very organized tour! The meeting location was easy to find, and I was amazed at the ingenious way you all provided headset and earbuds for everyone - to be able to hear the tour guide - it was a large group of us so with the audio headsets we could all hear
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Denise_p
Dec 1, 2024
Amazing - The whole day was amazing. Our tour guide Cinzia was amazing. At first we were given a photo map of the Sistine Chapel and the painting exampled to us. Cinzia then explained all of the paintings in the Chapel to us prior to entering. This made the experience in the Chapel so more rewarding. Cinzia was very knowledge and by having a small group I felt the tour was more interactive and personnel. Highly recommended this tour
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Christineliau
Nov 27, 2024
Fantastic - Our guide Marchello was fantastic and highly attentive. We thoroughly enjoyed the tour and appreciated being in a small group. The Vatican was bustling as always, even early in the morning.
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Nigellifsey
Nov 26, 2024
Highlights and secrets - Elaine was an awesome tour guide! Super funny and personable, and knowledgeable. I appreciated her ability to guide us through the “highlights” of the Vatican museum, while sharing some little known facts and “secrets” along the way.
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Gabe_a
Dec 1, 2024
Vatican, St. Peter’s Basilica, and Sistene Chapel - Our small group for this Vatican tour was about 15 people. My other tour I took at the Colosseum was also a small group, but only 4 people. You cannot be late for this tour or they will leave. Plan accordingly! The devices and headsets used for the tour are horrible. Not sure if my own headset would have helped, but it sounded muffled the entire time. I’ve done other tours where the headset sounded clear and I could understand everything. I tried to stay close to our tour guide, forgot her name, to hear better but wasn’t always possible. If you want to take your time and appreciate the art more, you may have to do a guided tour and buy a ticket on your own because there’s no going backwards. To be fair, there is a LOT of art to get through and it’s understandable they will not talk about everything. But if you have certain pieces in mind you’d like to admire longer, you’ll get left behind. You move quickly through this tour even though it’s for 3 hours. Time flies and the tour guide will focus on the artwork they deem important outside of the Sistine Chapel. I can see someone doing this tour multiple times with different takeaways each time. I feel paying a little more for a smaller group and personalized tour might be the best choice, even though this is already extremely expensive. We spent about 10 minutes at the Sistene Chapel and that seemed short for Michelangelo’s masterpiece.
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