Vatican Early Morning Semi Private Skip the Line Guided Tour

Experience the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter’s Basilica like never before with our Early Entry Tour. Beat the crowds, explore at your own pace, and discover the hidden gems with a certified guide.

Duration: 3 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Vatican Museums - Founded by Pope Julius II in the early 16th century and enlarged by successive pontiffs, the Vatican Museums boast one of the world’s greatest art collections. Exhibits, which are displayed along about 7km of halls and corridors, range from Egyptian mummies and Etruscan bronzes to ancient busts, old masters and modern paintings. Highlights include the spectacular collection of classical statuary in the Museo Pio-Clementino, a suite of rooms frescoed by Raphael, and the Michelangelo-painted Sistine Chapel.
What's Included
  • Guided Tour of the St. Peter’s Basilica
  • Skip the Line Access to the St. Peter’s Basilica
  • Skip the Line Access to the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel
  • All fees and/or taxes included
  • Guided Tour of the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel
Additional Information

A visit to the Vatican Museums, one of the most crowded museums globally, can be a daunting affair, with throngs of tourists all around, guides rushing their groups to the subsequent gallery, and the usually jam-packed Sistine Chapel where the intricate mosaic work at your feet may go unnoticed. That’s why we’ve set up this early entry tour, allowing you the earliest possible entry into the Vatican, complete with a certified tour guide who will be with you throughout the journey.

  • Knees and shoulders must be covered in order to enter the Vatican
Location
Via Sebastiano Veniero, 15
Via Sebastiano Veniero
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Emmi_h
May 6, 2024
Best tour of the Vatican City - Bernadette was a perfect guide. Skipping the line saved us hours and it was very easy to meet up with our group. It felt informative without feeling too much like a school field trip, which is usually how these tours can make me feel!
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Norris_h
Apr 27, 2024
Best tour guide! - Marcello was the BEST tour guide ever on tour 4/19! He educated us on how to read statues, the culture, and especially the time line of where everything fits in history! This was by far the BEST tour of all our tours, because of Marcello! Much better than Get Your Guide tours!
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Joanie
Apr 22, 2024
Take this tour with Bernadette!! - Our guide was top notch! Bernadette was fun, knowledgeable and incredible at pointing out interesting facts, stories, paintings and statues. She made the tour!
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Andrew_d
Apr 21, 2024
Wow - Excellent tour guide who was very knowledgeable. Her name is Bernadette and she made our trip interesting and enjoyable.
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Art_k
Apr 19, 2024
Early is the best time. - To tour all the places we did, it would have been a shame not to have had a guide. Ours was awesome! Highly recommend it. Thanks for the memories!
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Vacation240708
Mar 22, 2022
Thank you Elaine - My first time in Rome. Booked just 1 tour, rest of week i soloed my way around. This tour is a must do and if your lucky you will get Elaine as your guide. Very well organized, extremely personable, funny. But Elaine’s knowledge and true compassion for her work was remarkable. I highly recommend this tour
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Lilimariem2024
Jul 11, 2024
Early morning tour is the way to go - Anna was knowledgeable and was able to get us through the museum and Sistine chapel with ease before it got really crowded. I would have liked more of a guided tour inside the Basilica.
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Lou_d
May 5, 2024
Rushed! - Amazing to see the Sistine chapel and St Peter’s church but felt rushed by our guide throughout. There is so much we didn’t see and, even when we did pause to take in something, Marcello either hurried through his patter or really laboured the same point. We felt as though he was either bored, needed to be elsewhere or just wanted to finish work, or maybe a combination of all three?! Having said that, the tour was billed as being three hours and he did finish on time though bear in mind an hour of this was spent queueing. Tbh, I’m not sure you have much choice other than to do a guided tour as to queue independently must take forever.
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Margo_m
Jun 28, 2024
Rushed, rude, and not family friendly! - This was the worst tour we have done. The guide was late and immediately began with a long list of rules with us and was very rude to our kids. We are a family of 11 with 82 to 4 years in age range. We communicated this to the guide prior - they acted irritated that we had children with us. We purchased tickets for children but they did not allow the kids to have ear pieces and were very rude about it. The guide stopped at a sign and talked to us for 45 min straight, but then rushed us through the Sistine chapel. It’s so packed in there and people were talking the entire time, certainly lost a lot of the charm that it once had. This was advertised as a private tour for our group - it was not, we were together with several other groups. Also advertised as “early bird/beat the crowds” - this is completely false. Overall, we just had a horrible experience. I would not recommend this tour for anyone, especially someone with children.
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