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Rome Private Tour: Customizable City Experience
5.0
74 Ratings
Vatican City
Embark on an exclusive VIP tour of Rome from Civitavecchia, exploring iconic attractions like the Colosseum and Vatican in just 10 hours. With a private driver and licensed tour guide, you’ll receive in-depth insights at each stop. Customize your tour and enjoy skip-the-line access (tickets not included).
Embark on an exclusive VIP tour of Rome from Civitavecchia, exploring iconic attractions like the Colosseum and Vatican in just 10 hours. With a private driver and licensed tour guide, you’ll receive in-depth insights at each stop. Customize your tour and enjoy skip-the-line access (tickets not included).
Duration:
10 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Vatican Museums - One of the richest and most representative museums in the world. It would take weeks or maybe months to visit it completely and exhaustively. Rich in statues, paintings, sarcophagi, mosaics collected by the Popes since the Renaissance. It was the famous Pope Julius II who began, with his private collection, what would become an…
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Vatican Museums - One of the richest and most representative museums in the world. It would take weeks or maybe months to visit it completely and exhaustively. Rich in statues, paintings, sarcophagi, mosaics collected by the Popes since the Renaissance. It was the famous Pope Julius II who began, with his private collection, what would become an enormous concentration of artworks. The Sistine chapel is the real reason why thousands of people flock to museums every year to admire Michelangelo Buonarroti’s masterpieces: The Last Judgment and The Genesis. You will see Michelangelo’s marble masterpiece: La Pietà . The Basilica will surprise you with its majesty and rich decorations.
The Guide will be at your complete disposal in order to fulfill your desire for more information. At the end of the tour you will meet your driver again and continue the tour as scheduled or return to the hotel.
What's Included
- Guided tour of Rome with a private licensed (Blue Badge) tour guide
- Port of Civitavecchia (10hrs) or Rome hotel (8hrs) pick up & drop off
- Private and Customizable tour (We do not combine tours)
- Private chauffeur with Golf Cart, luxury Mercedes E class, V Class, Vito, Sprinter
- Meet your driver with sign at the exit of your ship or your hotel, Airbnb or Train station
- Guided tour of Rome with a private licensed (Blue Badge) tour guide
- Port of Civitavecchia (10hrs) or Rome hotel (8hrs) pick up & drop off
- Private and Customizable tour (We do not combine tours)
- Private chauffeur with Golf Cart, luxury Mercedes E class, V Class, Vito, Sprinter
- Meet your driver with sign at the exit of your ship or your hotel, Airbnb or Train station
What's Not Included
- Entrance fees
- Entrance fees
Additional Information
Enjoy an exclusive, private, and customizable tour of Rome, starting from either the port of Civitavecchia or your hotel in Rome, complete with a driver and tour guide. The guide will accompany you at each stop, providing in-depth insights into each attraction.
Opt for the ten-hour tour from Civitavecchia port, which includes two hours for transfers to…
Enjoy an exclusive, private, and customizable tour of Rome, starting from either the port of Civitavecchia or your hotel in Rome, complete with a driver and tour guide. The guide will accompany you at each stop, providing in-depth insights into each attraction.
Opt for the ten-hour tour from Civitavecchia port, which includes two hours for transfers to and from Rome. Your driver will meet you at the ship’s exit at 7:30 AM, and you’ll return to the port around 5:30 PM.
If you’re staying in Rome, choose the eight-hour tour, meeting your guide at your hotel, Airbnb, or train station. A one-hour lunch break is planned for 1 PM.
Please note, tickets are not included. However, you can request our office to purchase skip-the-line tickets for you:
- Colosseum (€40 per person)
- Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel (€55 per person)
- St. Peter’s Basilica (€7 per person)
- Pantheon (€7 per person)
- A dress code is required to enter places of worship and selected museums. No shorts or sleeveless tops allowed. Knees and shoulders MUST be covered for both men and women. You may risk refused entry if you fail to comply with these dress requirements
- Earphones are mandatory for groups (more than 4 Guests) inside the Vatican Museums and St. Peter’s Basilica.
- Vatican Museums closed: Sunday, Easter, 01May, 29Jun, 14Aug, 15Aug, 01Nov, 8Dec, 25Dec, 26Dec
- A single van is used for up to seven people. For groups over seven people two Mercedes vans are used. A single guide is used for each individual group regardless of the number of people.
- Our office will purchase your Colosseum and Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica skip-the-line tickets. Your tour guide will have your tickets. Tickets to be paid only cash directly to your guide.
- Due to the high demand for tickets, availability to visit the Colosseum and Vatican Museums will only be confirmed once the tour has been booked. In case of lack of tickets it will still be possible to take the tour but with other destinations.
Location
Vatican Museums
Viale Vaticano
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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Abbe_f
Jul 14, 2025
Great customized tour of Rome - Great experience. Our tour guides Nicola and Tanya were very knowledgeable and personable. Our driver Max was a very good driver and quite prompt picking us up at our stops. We packed a great deal into our 10 hours, including the Pantheon, Colosseum, Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel, and were able to customize the tour to our interests. It was a terrific overview of Rome and left us wanting more.
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Christina_m
Jul 10, 2025
Great Excursion.. Truly see Rome in a Day! - This was the first time we ever booked an excursion not provided by a cruise line and I didnt know what I was missing. This was by far the best excursion my family has ever taken. Our guide Patrizia had so much knowledge of Rome it was astounding. She also helped us through the city with ease .. it felt like we.were VIPs. Our driver Stefano made sure that we didnt even realize that the city was dealing with traffic issues until we heard complaints from other cruise passengers back on board the ship. Having a car waiting right outside each location, air conditioning blasting was like.heavan. We were really spoiled!
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Daydream25182969869
Jul 8, 2025
Great personalized tour of Rome! - An outstanding way to see some of the main highlights of Rome. It was expensive but worth every penny. Laura was a fantastic guide and our driver Stefano was great as well.
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Robert_r
Jun 27, 2025
Great experience! - Great experience. Very accommodating to our pace. We have an elderly mom, who has trouble walking and Stefan, our driver, was sweet to her and got us close to the attractions we were visiting. Our guide, Azurra, was extremely knowledgeable and also very sweet to our elderly mother. We had a wonderful lunch at a place Azurra recommended. Skipping the line was amazing at the Vatican, the Colosseum, and the Pantheon. It was very hot the day we went, but this service made it manageable. The day we went they closed St. Peter’s Basilica for the Jubilee of the Priests and the operator of the service called the day before to let us know. I appreciated the operator letting us know ahead of time. Stefan and Azurra did their best to get us in, but it was impossible. This was out of their hands. I completely understand that things like this happen. The reason I even put this in the review is because they were honest about it and they did their best to make the situation as good as possible. We still went to St. Peter’s square, which was great and Azurra told us so much information about the square. We loved it and would recommend it to anyone and will do it again when we return.
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Alex_s
Jun 13, 2025
See all the important sites in Rome in ONE day!! - Our driver for the day, Stephano, was an absolute joy to be with. He was on time to pick us up at the port exit with a sign with our name. He provided great commentary on sites we were driving by to get to Rome from the port, both historical and newer sites. He was also waiting for us in a convenient location after every place we visited with a cooled vehicle to shuttle us to our next stop.
Stephano also took us to a great local restaurant where they treated us like family and Stephano was like our host; making sure the restaurant attended to our every need, including a gluten free members of our family.
Our guides, Sylvia and Valentina, were also very knowledgeable of the sites we visited and were able to answer any questions we had, although the initial information they provided about the sites we visited were so informative, we did not have too many questions!
Would definitely recommend this tour, and DEFINITELY ask for Stephano to be your driver for the day!!
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Dale_b
Jun 12, 2025
Miki was a great tour guide. - Mini our guide was amazing. He was so knowledgeable about the places we toured. He was so efficient in assuring we did not stand in line excepted when absolutely necessary, but not for long. We completely recommend Miki as our guide.
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Doug
Jun 8, 2025
The perfect taste of Rome - We took this excursion while at port for a cruise. We got out of the port before the traffic and returned before our cruise left. It was so much better than the one offered through the cruise line. Not only are the guides knowledgeable and friendly, they also know the guards/people working at each point of interest. We were able to skip lines and go directly in. Our time was limited but we did not feel rushed. The Pantheon, Colosseum and Vatican Museums were amazing and worth buying a ticket for. Plus we had a good sit down meal in a short amount of time. The guides were funny and sweet and ready to take our pictures at perfect locales. We had four teens with us who loved the trip as well. I highly recommend this excursion.
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Brian_f
May 28, 2025
Max our driver was the star!!! - Amazing trip was done at high speed yet still very informative. I could not recommend this group enough. We had the best driver as well. Max got us in and out and through the city with ease to allow our guys to take us to the front of the line we paid for the Skip the line behind the scene stuff and it was well worth it. Max was the rockstar though.
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Jennieso8427kt
May 27, 2025
Private Tour of Rome - Our tour guides were very knowledgeable about the sites, giving us so much history and explanation. The driver took such good care of us-even when my daughter had a nosebleed. Our tour guide even chose a restaurant and ordered for us. It was the best meal we ate in Rome. He also gave us suggestions for how to spend our free day. I am so glad we chose this tour.
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Debra_b
May 23, 2025
Best Roman Tour Ever! - It was our best excursion so far of our entire cruise! I highly recommend it! It was first class the entire excursion. First, our driver, Stefano, was already waiting for us when we disembarked from our ship with a big sign with my full name on it. He looked very handsome in his suit and had a black Mercedes new van for us 4. He took us directly to Rome where we met our guide, Patricia Ghirardelli, who brought us to a cafe to get a little back and use the restroom before we started. We then went to see the Pantheon, the Coliseum, Trevi Fountain, the Vatican, Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter’s Cathedral. Stefano drove right up to all of these sights, the closest to the actual sights I’ve ever seen (I’ve been here twice before), and Patricia took us directly to each site, skipping every line and even getting us in private entrances which saved us hours of waiting time, because she knew all the people that worked at the sites due to her 35 years in the field. We saw sites that would have taken at least 3 days to see otherwise. Patricia was extremely knowledgeable! We’re so glad we went on this private tour rather than an excursion on a bus through the cruise ship. My daughter is coming to Rome next year and I’m recommending Patricia and Stefano to her. Thank you all for such a great and memorable excursion!!
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