Vatican Museums Tour: Skip the Line, Sistine Chapel, St Peter's

Experience the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel on a small group tour with no-wait access. Explore iconic artworks and visit St. Peter’s Basilica for a comprehensive Vatican experience.

Duration: 3 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Vatican Museums - Skip the long lines at the entrance of the Vatican Museums and visit with your expert guide the famous Raphael’s Rooms, Pine Courtyard and Pio Clementine Museum. Enter to the Gallery of the Maps, the Gallery of the Tapestries and the Gallery of the Candelabra.
  • Stanze di Raffaello - See the famous Raphael’s Rooms decorated…
What's Included
  • Children 5 and younger are complimentary
  • All Entrance fees
  • Headsets when needed
  • Group of 18 people or fewer
  • Professional and Informative Guide
  • Skip the Line access to Vatican Museums
What's Not Included
  • Hotel pick-up and drop-off
  • Wednesday mornings St. Peter’s Basilica may be closed due to weekly Papal Audience.
  • Basilica might be closed on religious holidays. In this case you will get extended tour of museums.
Additional Information

This no-delay entry to the Vatican Museums encompasses all the must-visit sites such as the Raphael’s Chambers, the Map Gallery, the Tapestry Gallery, and the renowned Sistine Chapel featuring Michelangelo’s ‘Final Judgement’ and ‘The Genesis of Adam’. At the conclusion of the tour, the guide will escort you to the world’s biggest Christian church - St…

Location
Viale Giulio Cesare, 243
Viale Giulio Cesare
Meeting point is on the corner of Viale Giulio Cesare and Via Leone IV next to the flower stand (viale Giulio Cesare 243). Please arrive 15 minutes before the tour starts. Please look for a tour leader with "Rome Your Way" sign.
Cancellation Policy

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

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Tracey_c
Oct 6, 2024
Guide was amazing!!! - Anna was an excellent guide!!!! We loved our tour!!! She provided a ton of great information about the Vatican, the art and the restoration!
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Cynthia_a
Sep 29, 2024
Efficient group - Our tour guide was very knowledgeable and moved at the groups pace. She was able to speed up or slow down where there was interest. After the tour she gave us instructions on what we can do in the area after.
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Kimberly_a
Sep 28, 2024
Wonderful & informative. - We had a wonderful time. Very informative. So many wonderful sights. Our guide was knowledgeable. It was our second time visiting the Vatican.
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Robin_g
Sep 27, 2024
Overwhelming and disgusted. - The museum was filled old artifacts. The Tapestries hand loomed by the Belgians back in the 1400’s are outstanding!! But the wealth of the Catholic Church is sickening in the theft of what’s on display. This is a one and done for me. Currently there is not enough money for the Nuns who have dedicated their lives of service to the church for retirement. So when you see the wealth in this museum, it’s a bit despicable:(
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Cheryl_h
Oct 6, 2024
Amazing! - Once our greeter and our tour guide connected the tour was worth the wait. Great tour guide. Fiorella was amazing!!!
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Rhoda_p
Oct 3, 2024
Loves the Vatican - Definitely glad we booked with a tour guide to by pass some of the lines and to know where to go. It was good to have the earpiece so we could hear the guide but the quality wasn’t as good as some of the other tours we had.
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Rose_h
Oct 16, 2024
tour guides need better instructions on speaking loudly so that visitors who are in the back of the crowd can hear. - cannot begin to explain the frustration of overcrowded conditions with all tour groups bumping into each other, and some people are so rude when pushing through narrow doorways. I personally did not appreciate the fact that our tour was changed from morning when there are less crowds than later in the day when crowds were horrendous
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Diana_f
Oct 5, 2024
But stressful. - Our tour guide was absolutely lovely and knowledgeable and the tour overall was worth it. My reason for the 3 stars is that my tour was supposed to start at 8:45am and the day before they changed it to start at 8am. Apparently they sent out a text message but I was on a plane and didn’t get it and they never bothered confirming that I received it. It made for a very stressful morning. One of the guides kept messaging me very aggressively telling me to hurry up and asking every few minutes where I was. They at least sent someone to catch me up, but like I said, it was very stressful.
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Paola_v
Oct 16, 2024
Dissapointing tour of Vatican Museum. - 1. The tour was not 3 hrs it was like 1 hr, we just walk without stopping through few galleries. We did not see any of the famous Da Vinci, MiguelAngelo pictures not the Egypt collection. 2. I have been on the Vatican museum 2 times before by myself, this tour did not add anything it is not worthy for the price 3. I appreciate to skip the line in the museum and also in st Peter's. The guide did not went with us to St Peter' s so no explainning there. 4. I advised you to confirm time and address with the tour provider directly as it was not the same showed in Viator
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Lorena_m
Oct 7, 2024
Not a fan of Viator. - This booking was a disaster. We had booked and paid for the tour well in advance of the day. We planned it so we could be on this tour in the mid afternoon and a tour earlier While on our tour at the Colosseum, I got a phone call from Viator telling us our 145 tour to the Vatican had been changed to 1230 No reason given just that time we had to be there We had to cut our Colosseum short because the Vatican was actually our priority and not only that we had to take a cab from the Colosseum to the Vatican at an expense We were not expecting because of their issue. There was nothing Done to compensate us for this. It was just an expectation that we would show up at 12:30. I believe they didn’t have enough people at the 145 tour so moved us forward to make it work for. Completely unacceptable. I’m still waiting to hear from Viator as to whether they are compensating us somehow for this problem.
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From $75
up to 15 guests
1 Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).