Rome: Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel Group Tour with Basilica

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: 1 day learn more
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 by the frescoes, painted by Raphael.
  • Sistine Chapel - Step inside the stunning Sistine Chapel and admire Michelangelo’s famous frescos “The Last Judgement” and “The Creation of Adam”.
  • St. Peter’s Basilica - Admire the masterpieces of St. Peter’s such as “La Pietà”, “Baldacchino” and much more!
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 Peter’s Basilica - and familiarize you with the history of numerous art pieces, including Michelangelo’s sculpture of La Pietà, Bernini’s vast Baldachino, among many others!

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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Karah_v
Aug 12, 2024
Great tour - Our tour guide, Anna, was very knowledgeable & prompt. We didn’t realize that this was roughly a 3 hour+ tour so plan accordingly for that!
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Matias_v
Aug 4, 2024
Great Experience! Great Tour guide! - As mentioned in the title, great experience. Very knowledgeable guide, afternoon apparently is less busy than mornings.
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Christine_c
Jul 25, 2024
Best tour - Loved the Vatican, the tour was excellent and the guide was great. Would highly recommend. Absolutely beautiful
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Brenda_c
Jul 16, 2024
Great experience! - Our guide was very nice and knowledgeable. We saw and learned so much!! I would recommend to others!
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Dan_f
Jul 13, 2024
Great Experience - We got a little worried when no one was around close to departure but it all worked out great. Our guide was very knowlegable and friendly. We moved very quickly through the lines and we had a great experience.
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Lori_p
Jul 13, 2024
Thoughtful Tour guide - Our family if 6 absolutely enjoyed Priscilla not only was she informative but so thoughtful about us all in the group. It was hot and she made sure when we stopped we were always in the shade and made sure we nee where she was at all times.
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Arantxa_m
Jul 12, 2024
great trip. nice experience. - great experience. good tour. very professional. we learnt a lot. good content maximizing the time. very well done.
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Elizabethanne_s
Jul 10, 2024
No Tour Guide - Our tour guide couldn’t make it so we were just given tickets for entry by a colleague. A bit of a letdown but we understand that these things happen. We just hope we’ll be given our 40% refund as promised by the colleague
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Krystal
Aug 8, 2024
A definite NO for those with mobility concerns - I arranged this tour for my husband, mother and I. My mother has some mobility issues. She is able to walk and do some stairs however we bring a lightweight collapsible transport wheelchair (that we can carry up and down stairs as needed) with us so she is able to rest when possible. We arrived at our meeting point a half hour early and met the tour guide shortly thereafter. We sat and waited for the rest of the group to arrive and also another staff member from the tour company who had a roster of everyone scheduled to be in the group. When that other staff member arrived it was almost as if she was avoiding my husband, mother and I, checking in everyone else but us. When I approached her to let her know we too were on this tour she began to tell me that since my mother is in a wheelchair we should not have booked this tour as they have other tours for those in wheelchairs. I explained that it was booked through a third party company that knew my mother had a wheelchair but we were never made aware of the fact that there was a different tour for those in wheelchairs and had I known we would have booked that. I then however went on to explain that my mother can walk and do stairs and that we would simply just carry the chair up and down any stairs we needed to as we’ve done one every other tour the past two weeks we’ve been in Italy without problem. The guide and especially the other member of their office that showed up with the roster were incredibly rude. It was clear they did not want us on the tour. The guide then reluctantly suggested that she could just give us our admission tickets (which we paid for mind you) and that we could enter with the group and then just do everything else on our own. Wanting to visit the Vatican as planned we said that would be fine. Truthfully, I am certain we enjoyed the Vatican far more on our own than we would have with the guide and group being able to see and do things as we pleased. With that being said, there is nothing about this situation that sits well with me. We sat next to the guide for over a half an hour prior to the tour starting, she saw my mother in the wheelchair but never once mentioned any concerns until her incredibly rude colleague showed up. It was as if they tried to ignore us hoping we would just go away and then completely dismissed everything I was saying regarding the fact that my mother could in fact walk and do stairs. It was clear they looked at us as a burden that they did not want on their tour. I highly discourage anyone within even the slightest mobility issues from booking anything with this company. I have travelled around the world taking part in tours with group members of all ages and agility levels and have never been experienced this type of blatant discrimination.
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Stuartjames_t
Aug 5, 2024
Tour guide did not show up! - Unfortunately our tour guide did not show up. Another employee from the company informed us 10mins before the tour was due to start. Very disappointing, Only 50% refund offered as the company had already purchased our entry tickets to the Vatican, which is of course not the customers fault! Other tour goers who had booked well in advance told us they were unable to get any type of response from Rome your way in the months before the tour. Avoid!
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