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Vatican Museums Tour: Skip the Line Access
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577 Ratings
Roma
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.
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
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Vatican Museums - Bypass the lengthy queues at the Vatican Museums’ entrance and explore with your knowledgeable guide the renowned Raphael’s Rooms, Pine Courtyard, and Pio Clementine Museum. Step into the Gallery of the Maps, the Gallery of the Tapestries, and the Gallery of the Candelabra.
- Stanze di Raffaello - Admire the celebrated Raphael’s Rooms adorned with frescoes painted by Raphael.
- Vatican Museums - Bypass the lengthy queues at the Vatican Museums’ entrance and explore with your knowledgeable guide the renowned Raphael’s Rooms, Pine Courtyard, and Pio Clementine Museum. Step into the Gallery of the Maps, the Gallery of the Tapestries, and the Gallery of the Candelabra.
- Stanze di Raffaello - Admire the celebrated Raphael’s Rooms adorned with frescoes painted by Raphael.
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
- 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
- Hotel pick-up and drop-off
Additional Information
This skip-the-line Vatican Museums tour covers all the essential highlights, including Raphael’s Rooms, the Gallery of Maps, the Gallery of Tapestries, and the renowned Sistine Chapel featuring Michelangelo’s ‘Last Judgement’ and ‘The Creation of Adam.’
Explore the Sistine Chapel. - Appreciate the masterpieces by the brilliant Michelangelo. - Learn the…
This skip-the-line Vatican Museums tour covers all the essential highlights, including Raphael’s Rooms, the Gallery of Maps, the Gallery of Tapestries, and the renowned Sistine Chapel featuring Michelangelo’s ‘Last Judgement’ and ‘The Creation of Adam.’
Explore the Sistine Chapel. - Appreciate the masterpieces by the brilliant Michelangelo. - Learn the intricate details and secrets behind the Vatican City’s most significant artworks.
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.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Elizabeth_d
Oct 8, 2025
Fabulous tour of Vatican Museum and Sistine chapel - Lovely smart tour guide Martha and Silvia. They are super informed with great stories of the sistine chapel , the artists, and museum collections.
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Maria_r
Oct 2, 2025
A memorable experience. - The tour guide was very knowledgeable and wonderful and explained everything in detail. It was a great experience that we will never forget.
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Robt323
Sep 30, 2025
The guide and shortcuts make all the difference! - Our guide Sylvia was amazing. Definitely take the morning tour as the crowds only build as the day goes on. Without a guide you'll have no idea what you are looking at. Wear comfortable shoes and bring your camera!
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Domenico_m
Sep 26, 2025
The beauty of the renaissance - Too good to be true, the beauty and talent is unbelievable. The feeling you get when you view it for the first time is breathtaking.
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William_b
Oct 18, 2025
Must see when in Rome - Make sure to get a guide that speaks your language clearly! Our guide spoke broken English, very fast pace, and soft spoken. It was very hard to understand anything she was saying, except for follow me. We had to listen to other English speaking tours around us to get the details we needed.
Also, the hearing aid and microphone combo was poor, lots of static due to guide rubbing her microphone against her shirt or lanyard.
The guide was very nice, energetic, and knowledgeable. However, had a hard time relaying her knowledge due to communication breakdown.
The sites were remarkable, and the ambiance was great.
Go early in the morning to avoid bigger crowds and cooler temps.
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Stan_g
Oct 12, 2025
Plan in advance for crowded conditions. - Very crowded venue. The pace can be hectic when considering the competition with other visitors to see what you want to see. Get the earliest tour possible, make sure you have everything you need. Check in advance regarding holidays or other reasons that parts of the tour may be shortened due to closures. We couldn't get into St. Peter's Basilica. It was also not clear how to enter St. Peter's square and we missed that.
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William_m
Oct 6, 2025
Not a guided tour of St. Peters - Although you may think this is a guided tour of St. Peter's, it's not even a skip the line entry to the basilica. We understood this tour would allow us to go directly from the Sistine Chapel to St. Peter's with a guided tour. When we finished the Sistine Chapel, the guide basically said we are on our own. We had to get back in the long line to enter St. Peter's. Our tour was in English. The guide was hard to understand at times. While touring the Sistine Chapel our guide continously snaked through the packed crowd. We spent most of the time trying to follow her flag so that we didn't get separated.
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Erin_e
Oct 12, 2025
Our guide was hard to... - Our guide was hard to hear. She focused on one area way to long. Half way into our guide half of our group didn't have ear pieces in. Because she focused on areas to long we didn't have time to see other things. When she was explaining the Sistine Chaple board only one person was up there. Disappointing.
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Geraldine_d
Sep 26, 2025
Poor experience on vatican tour - Firstly our tour originally for 8.45 was cancelled by the operator and rescheduled for 14.00. The guide didnt show till 14.30. Then we entered the vatucan museum, where we were taken about but the guide was prone to rambling quite a bit and sometimes hard go understand. Half way through the tour one of our group was missing, she it turned out was recently diagnosed with dementia and had wandered off, the tour continued without her, we were left in the stiffling heat of the sistine chapel without the guide for 30 minutes while the guide went to organise a search for the woman thankfully we heard at the end of the tour that she had been found safe.
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Cheryl_h
Oct 2, 2025
Vatican tour - Well the day we went was awful. Never met up with guide and I called the guide several times and no one answered. So unfortunately never went on the tour. I will be contacting the company for a refund
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