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Vatican Tour: No-Wait Access to Museums & Sistine Chapel
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35.7k Ratings
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Explore the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter’s Basilica on a guided tour. Skip the lines and immerse yourself in the rich history and magnificent artwork of the Vatican in just three hours.
Explore the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter’s Basilica on a guided tour. Skip the lines and immerse yourself in the rich history and magnificent artwork of the Vatican in just three hours.
Duration:
3 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Vatican City - Vatican Museums tours with skip-the-line access are popular, yet even fast-track lines can be lengthy. This exclusive experience provides admission through a dedicated entrance, ensuring a queue-free visit.
- Vatican City - Vatican Museums tours with skip-the-line access are popular, yet even fast-track lines can be lengthy. This exclusive experience provides admission through a dedicated entrance, ensuring a queue-free visit.
What's Included
- Reserved Priority Access to the Vatican Museums
- Access to the Sistine Chapel
- Guided visit of St. Peter’s Basilica (except: Wednesday morning & if Express option selected)
- Audio headsets so you can always hear your guide
- Group of 20 people or less
- Reserved Priority Access to the Vatican Museums
- Access to the Sistine Chapel
- Guided visit of St. Peter’s Basilica (except: Wednesday morning & if Express option selected)
- Audio headsets so you can always hear your guide
- Group of 20 people or less
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Gratuities
Additional Information
Enjoy more indoor time with immediate entry to the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica through an official partner entrance of the Vatican. In this extensive guided tour, you will get the chance to explore the highlights of the Vatican within just three hours, encompassing the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter’s Basilica and more. Wander…
Enjoy more indoor time with immediate entry to the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica through an official partner entrance of the Vatican. In this extensive guided tour, you will get the chance to explore the highlights of the Vatican within just three hours, encompassing the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter’s Basilica and more. Wander through the enormous collection of art and history with a professional guide. Multiple starting times in various languages are available.
- We regret that we are unable to accommodate guests with wheelchairs or any impairments requiring special assistance. We are also unable to accommodate strollers or baby carriages on our group tours.
- At times, despite our priority access tickets, we may experience delays in getting through mandatory security checks when entering these venues
- St Peter’s Basilica is subject to last-minute closures for religious ceremonies. When this occurs, we’re happy to offer customers an extended tour of the Vatican Museums. While we endeavour to tell tour groups ahead of time if there are any planned disruptions to the Basilica’s opening hours, this is not always possible and in these cases we are unable to provide refunds or discounts.
- On Wednesdays, due to the Papal Audiences, access to St Peter’s Basilica is not possible until 1pm
- St Peter’s Basilica is not accessible on the express tours options
- Please be advised that access to St. Peter’s Basilica will not be guaranteed unless the names of all participants in the booking are provided in advance. This requirement is essential for security and the Venue organizational purposes. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation in ensuring a smooth and enjoyable visit.
Location
Via Tunisi, 4
Via Tunisi
Meeting point: At the bottom of the steps across the street from the Entrance of the Vatican Museums. The steps are located right next to Caffè Vaticano on the corner of Viale Vaticano and Via Tunisi.
The closest Metro stop is Line A (Ottaviano – Musei Vaticani).
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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Kimberly_b
Jan 14, 2025
Our guide Paola was very... - Our guide Paola was very enthusiastic and knowledgeable. The tour was much more than expected. She helped guide us through the amazing works of art making it a very interesting journey. It was obvious she had been well educated.
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Jie_g
Jan 12, 2025
We loved this tour! - The tour was amazing! We absolutely loved our guide, Chiara—she is one of the best guides we've had on this trip. She is incredibly knowledgeable, funny, and patient with everyone. The skip-the-line access made the experience even better, especially given that it's the Jubilee year, with more visitors at the Vatican. We learned so much from her and will definitely recommend both this tour and Chiara!
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Daniel_d
Feb 4, 2025
Vatican tour - Great tour. The tour guide Lisa was very knowledgeable on the subject. The only downside was that St Peters Basilica was closed which was disappointing, bur not the tours fault. Had a great day.
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Matthew_m
Jan 28, 2025
Item was a great tour... - Item was a great tour really detailed and nice and well planned felt relaxed and could see everything in detail
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Jillian_d
Jan 19, 2025
Great time of year to go,... - Great time of year to go, no crowds. Still a bit difficult to hear at times because of ongoing construction for the Jubilee. Overall a good tour!
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Caroleann_d
Oct 20, 2024
Great Viator Tour - Ana was a wonderful guide, who shared lots of fascinating history with great passion and excitement. We enjoyed our tour.
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Annie_s
Jan 10, 2025
Paid for full tour but only got half - We paid for a full tour to see the Vatican museums, the Sistine chapel and Saint Peter‘s Basilica. Our tour guide had a very heavy accent that made it very difficult to understand, and the pope decided to close the Sistine chapel access so we had to wait an hour and a half after our three hour tour of the museums. Would definitely skip the museum tour next time and just get skip the line tickets to see the sistine chapel and Saint Peter‘s Basilica.
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Elaine_d
Feb 8, 2025
Disappointed - My partner and I paid 198euro to do a guided tour of Vatican museums and St Peters basillica. Unfortunately my partner done his back in the day before our tour. We sent on a doctors note to say he suffered with back problems. My partner couldn't walk and the tour was 3 hours long so Unfortunately we couldn't do it. We did not get a penny back because my partner was not hospitalised. Thankfully he was not hospitalised but I will never use viator again and will not recommend them.
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Marcela_r
Nov 26, 2024
Don’t be even a second late - My husband and I arrived 3 (THREE) minutes late and missed our group. We understand this was entirely our fault, but absolutely no accommodations were made for us, such as arranging for us to leave with a different group, since there were countless leaving simultaneously. At least we were given our tickets and were thus able to enter the Vatican museum on our own) - we missed St Peter entirely, however, since the line was impossible to stay on due to the cold and we would only be able to enter directly with the group. The whole experience was very frustrating- the rain was heavy and we got lost on the way, and lost a lot of money because of 3 minutes. Do not recommend, simply because of the staff were so unhelpful.
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Sandy_a
Oct 19, 2024
We never could find the... - We never could find the location of where to meet on our email. It kept referring to the app. We went round and round with that. Finally we found where to go from asking many people on the street. We arrived 3 minutes late and our tour had already left. They did give us tickets to go on our own. Very frustrating morning as we looked for 1 hr. Not happy!!!!!!!!!
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