Your Vatican museums and Sistine Chapel tour begins with you meeting your host in The vatican city. You will then be walked to a private entrance that is open to visitors on priority.
With your skip-the-line ticket in hand, you will have the privilege of escaping the long queues and have the fastest entrance into the Vatican Museums. Your host will briefly introduce you to this museum complex and hand you a map if the museums. Thereafter, you have all the time to leisurely explore the 9-mile museums’ rooms and galleries.
Now on your own, you are free to draft your plan and explore the museums according to your will. A few of the highlights of the museums include Raphael’s Rooms, the Etruscan Museum, and the Pinacoteca Gallery. Most of the Vatican Museums tours end at the iconic Roman attraction - the Sistine Chapel. Be marveled by Michelangelo's legendary frescoes, The Creation of Adam on the ceiling, and The Last Judgment on the wall of the Sistine chapel.
If you wish to enjoy this Vatican museum tour with a guide in tow, then you have the option of upgrading it while booking to include a tour limited to 20 people. The knowledgeable guide will offer you thorough information about the history and art of the Vatican city.
Faster Than Skip The Line Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel Entrance Tickets - Rome
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Tour Information
Key Details
- Mobile Voucher Accepted
- Free Cancellation
- Instant Confirmation
- Lowest Price Guaranteed
- Duration: 3 Hrs
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Language:
English
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Departure Time :
Depending of the option selected.
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Departure Details :
Vatican City
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Cancellation Policy : For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience. Tours booked using discount coupon codes will be non refundable.
Overview
This ticket is perfect for an independent sightseer who wants to visit the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel without a tour guide but would still like to avoid the long lines that form outside this famous site. When you arrive, youll be escorted through a special no-wait Vatican Partner entrance before being set free to spend as much of the day as you want exploring the famous collections.
Highlights
Tour is wheelchair accessible
Skip the line
All entrance fees included
Know More about this tour
Inclusions
Small-group tour (if option selected)
Exlusive Access to the Vatican Museum
Map and a brief orientation at the beggining of the tour
Entry/Admission - Vatican Museums
Entry/Admission - Sistine Chapel
Entry/Admission - Stanze di Raffaello
Exclusions
Gratuities
Hotel pickup and drop off
Food and drinks
Entry/Admission - City Wonders
Entry/Admission - Vatican City
Additional Info
Confirmation will be received at time of booking
On Wednesday you will be unable to include St. Peter's Basilica and St. Peter's Square. This is due to the Papal Audience during which access to St. Peter's Basilica could be closed.
While this ticket is a Skip the Line entrance, there is a security check that every passenger must go through. We cannot control the delay this might cause to entering the museum.
We recommend that backpacks are not taken on this tour
Not wheelchair accessible
Near public transportation
No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
Travelers should have a moderate physical fitness level
Traveler Reviews
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My partner and I highly recommend this guided tour of the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel. Our guide, Annalisa, was excellent -- knowledgeable, friendly. We enjoyed it immensely.
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Great tour! We ended up paying twice because we got lost from the subway after my phone, that I used for navigation, was pick pocketed at the subway, arrived late and missed our 8:30 AM tour, only to be talked into paying for the next available tour by a salesman on the advice we we can get a refund for the earlier tour that we missed. However this was not the case when I contacted customer support. My advice is if you arrived late and missed the tour, don't think you will get a refund. I traveled with my family of 9, including my 86 year old grandmother and 3 children, so a very costly mistake to take the subway and get pick pocketed. Very misleading salesman to think we can get a refund and pay again!
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The particular day we went to the Vatican there was practically no line so this skip the line pass was really not needed. We did not do the guided tour as we didn't have much time, so we basically overpaid about 30 euro to skip ahead of about 5 people.
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LInes to get in were very reasonable so the skip the line wasn't necessary in a November weekday. Don't be late because you will lose your time slot like we did. Tour guide was very accomodating and got us in the next available time. Also make sure you get dropped off at the exact spot listed on the confirmation. Vatican city has many entrances. It took us 30 minutes of walking to get to the right pickup spot. The tour guide called me using a phone number listed from Ireland. I ignored the call not realizing it was him. If the number was a local number I would have answered - my only real complaint.
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The meeting point for getting the tickets is far from the museum entry and meeting point of other tours. We also missed our time slot due to the metro being very busy. Regardless, the staff promptly managed to accommodate us in the next group. As a suggestion, maybe try simplifying the whole thing having only one meeting point for all tours.
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Touring the Vatican does not require a guide but you would be nuts to try to do this on your own. Spend the money to get a full tour, earlier in the morning the better, then if you really need to visit come the next day and repeat on your own. The tour guides do get special treatment and you do skip lines! (Very long lines). Educated guides, head phones, good pace.
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Way to crowded to experience the sistine chapel. Rushed thru the area so did not take the time to see everything on ceiling. Just tried to follow the crowd out of the chapel.
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This stipulated it was for the Vatican museum and Sistine Chapel but it also states that administration to St. Peter's Basilica was free. What it doesn't say is that going directly from the Sistine Chapel to St.Peters is NOT allowed with this tour but IS allowed with the guided tour. So with this tour you have to exit the museum, walk all the way around Vatican City, then reenter thru the front gate and get in line with about 5,000 other people if you want to see St Peter's Basilica.
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Good way to see Vatican but hard to figure out directions to redeem tickets, address Vatican City, was not an actual redemption point, tour guide helpful, needs to be more accurate on where to go redemption point was where you met tour guide a little confusing.
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We went on a Saturday which was our only full day in Rome. Big mistake! The no-wait tickets got us in after about a 10-minute wait, compared to the hours-long wait otherwise, However, the Museums were so completely crowded that it was impossible to enjoy the visit. The Sistine Chapel was literally a sardine can, with guards ordering the jammed together visitors to keep moving. The visit turned out to be an unpleasant experience. Do not go on a weekend if you can avoid!
