Vatican Tour: Explore Museums, Sistine Chapel, Basilica

Experience the best of the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel with a skip-the-line group tour. See masterpieces, get direct access to St. Peter’s Basilica, and learn from an expert guide.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Maya Tours - Once you book, we organize everything. Just show up and check-in at the Maya Tours office (VIA GERMANICO, 16) at the correct time (Please arrive 10 minutes before your booked departure time) and your guide will escort you inside the Museums & provide you with your ticket.
  • Vatican Museums - Explore the Vatican Museums with an…
What's Included
  • Skip The Line St.Peter’s Basilica Entry (when possible)
  • Skip The Line Priority Access Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel Tickets
  • Small Group Tour Experience with Expert Official Licensed Vatican Guide
  • Introduction to the highlights of St.Peter’s Basilica with a guide
  • Free to explore in the Basilica and Papal tombs after the tour has finished
What's Not Included
  • Location Pick Up & Drop Off
  • Scavi / Necropolis
  • On Wednesday mornings St. Peter’s Basilica may be closed to the public due to the Papal Audience
  • St Peter’s Basilica is subject to last-minute closures for religious ceremonies, with no warning
Additional Information

Skip the line, avoid the long queues and explore the Vatican’s exceptional collections, the magnificent Sistine Chapel & Basilica with an expert guide in an intimate group. Enter the breathtaking Basilica of St.Peter and the Vatican Grottoe beneath. This extensive and exclusive tour is designed for those eager to experience everything the Vatican has to…

Location
Via Germanico, 16
Via Germanico
Once you book, we organize everything. Just show up and check-in at the Maya Tours office (VIA GERMANICO, 16) at the correct time (Please arrive 10 minutes before your booked departure time) and your guide will escort you inside the Museums & provide you with your ticket.
Cancellation Policy

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

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Irene_m
Oct 9, 2024
Loved the experience and our guide was great. - I liked being in a small group. Our guide was great and moved at the right pace with lots of entertaining stories. Highly recommend.
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William_v
Oct 9, 2024
Vatican City Tour - Deborah the tour guide was an amazing! - Our Tour Operator - Deborah (Vatican City tour) was outstanding ! She made my two kids, my wife and I feel at such an ease with all the amazing information she disseminated to us….. our kids and us will never forget this tour - Deborah was soo knowledgeable, it has been worth the money and great learnings from it. She is a Vatican City citizen and you can tell that a lot of people that work at the Vatican have a lot of respect toward her. We were so lucky to have been guided by her. We love her sense of humour it made the tour feel fun.
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Stevemv9502uw
Oct 9, 2024
So glad we booked this tour - Honestly the best tour I've ever had, anywhere. Deborah was a fantastic tour guide. I was dreading having to shuffle around and barge through other visitors, so I found the brisk pace of the tour suited us perfectly and Deborah made us feel like VIP's. Her passion for the Vatican, experience, knowledge and connections really made it a special experience for us. As Deborah put it, we could spend an hour in each of the dozens of rooms but there simply isn't time and it wouldn't work for everyone in the group (8 people in our case). I was fully satisfied that I had seen everything I wanted to, and we all have the freedom to explore for as long as you want when the tour is finished. The skip-the-line ticket is well worth it... the queue is enormous otherwise!! Simply unforgettable.
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David_g
Oct 6, 2024
Deborah was Fantastico!! - Our guide Deborah was amazing!! Her awareness of our group, her knowledge and her story telling were second to none!
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Marissa_c
Oct 6, 2024
Christina was the best guide! - We loved our tour guide Christina! She was so fun and had so much knowledge about the art and Vatican. Excellent guide.
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Bruce_d
Oct 5, 2024
Very knowledgeable and worth every penny. - Our tour guide was extremely knowledgeable in all aspects of the Vatican and St. Peter’s Basilica. She kept our group together under very challenging conditions with the masses of visitors. Would highly recommend to anyone interested in touring Rome.
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Patricia
Oct 5, 2024
We recommend this tour and even more with Marco! - Marco shared his passion for the Vatican and for the city of Rome in general! A very good time in his company that we would have continued well!
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Madison_k
Oct 5, 2024
Look no further - book with Maya Tours!!! - Christina was absolutely amazing. We had such an amazing time being guided by her. My favorite part of the tour was every ceiling. So much beauty, history and skill.
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Morgangt4830pt
Oct 5, 2024
Great Tour - Guide Debra Is Excellent!!! - In all of the tours that I have taken (both in and outside of the USA), I have never had a better guide than Debra! I have back issues that cause me to walk a little more slowly than people sometimes and I told this to Debra before our tour began. From that second forward, she went out of her way to make sure that the tour was comfortable for me and that we were going at exactly the right pace and she did this without making the tour too slow for the rest of the group and without making anyone miss anything that she had to say no matter where they were in the group. In a place that is so incredibly crowded as practically everywhere on this tour was, that was incredible to see. Debra knew exactly how to work her way through the crowds so that our entire group was able to hear everything that she had to say and see everything that they could see. I still do not know how she managed to pull off what she did to give everyone the best tour possible. She was that impressive! Her amount of knowledge was incredible and her skill in telling everyone about what we visited was so great! She kept the tour fun and interesting from the moment it started until the moment it ended. She also not only gave people time to take pictures, but she made sure that everyone got the pictures they wanted before moving on to the next stop. I honestly cannot put into words how great she was! As for the tour itself, it’s fascinating but be prepared for HUGE crowds of people. You will be fine making it through them with a guide like Debra but if you have a problem with them then this might not be the place for you to visit. Overall, I would rate this tour a lot higher than the 5 out of 5 stars that I am allowed to give it! Everywhere we visited was beautiful and interesting and Debra was amazing!!! I highly recommend this tour and this tour company!!!!!!
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Kathy_m
Oct 6, 2024
Beautiful - It was ok, felt rushed and hard to understand the guide. Still a great experience, it was definitely worth skipping the line but is was way too rushed as a group.
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Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).