Express Early Morning Sistine Chapel Tour with Max 6 People
Description
The Express Access to Sistine Chapel in Rome, in a small group of 6 participants is a perfect 2 hours tour that will allow you to visit the Sistine Chapel and Raphael rooms in the early morning. With your expert local guide, you will have direct access into the Sistine Chapel with no waiting in lines to fully absorb the beauty of Michelangelo's masterpiece prior to large tourist groups arriving! Your guide will then take you to the Raphael rooms for an intimate experience with these fresco masterpieces. Our small group size of maximum 6 people creates a friendly environment where you can interact with your knowledgeable guide. Your guide will then lead you back to the Museums' galleries, where you will be given information on how to enjoy the rest of your time inside the wonderful Vatican Museums.
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Have a truly intimate experience in a near-empty museum.
Make the most of your time in Rome with the early access to the Sistine Chapel in a small group Tour. Limited to just 6 people per group, you will have direct access to the Sistine Chapel prior to the arrival of public tourists. Enjoy the incredible beauty of Michelangelo's masterpiece with your expert local guide and learn the history, techniques and secrets behind one of the most visited sites in Italy. With over 25,000 tourists visiting per day, you will be thankful to enjoy it prior to the regular opening times!
Enjoy the gorgeous frescoes of Raphael as your expert guide explains these masterpieces in detail with historic anecdotes.
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Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- A dress code is required in places of worship. No shorts or sleeveless tops allowed. Knees and shoulders must be covered by both men and women. You may risk refused entry if you fail to comply with these dress codes
- Please be aware that the Sistine Chapel is a Holy Place and talking inside is strictly forbidden. In the Express Access to the Sistine Chapel Tour the first 30 minutes of the tour are held outside of the Museums in order to give you a comprehensive explanation before entering the chapel.
- Vatican management maintains the right to delay the opening of the Sistine Chapel for religious reasons, in this case the guide will modify the itinerary and extend your visit of the museums to ensure you make the most of your time before access to the Sistine Chapel is permitted.
- IMPORTANT: Please advise our team if you believe that a disability qualifies you for complimentary access to the Vatican
Reviews(420)
Panem was an excellent guide, she made our visit very interesting for us and our children, we loved seeing the museums and sistine chapel with almost no people was amazing
Debby was wonderful! We had a wonderful time and learned so much!
Barbara was our guide. She was fabulous! Well prepared and very knowledgeable. She gave context to what we were seeing with the history behind it. We loved the Sistine Chapel, the maps room, and mass at the Bascilica.
we had an awesome time and learned so much.
Our door was scheduled for 730 to 930am. The doors do not open until 8am, so 30 minutes of the tour is waiting in line. Our tour guide was funny and insightful. She left us at the Sistine Chapel at 9:15, and I wish she would’ve used the 15 minutes to show us a few more things or tell a few more stories before getting to the Sistine Chapel. You spend a lot of the time in the museum looking up. After staring up at the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel, all of us ended up feeling a little bit dizzy. You are actually able to go back and revisit the entire museum, but it was starting to get busy and hot inside the museum and so we opted to go elsewhere. I loved the staircase at the end.
LivTours was great, easy to get to, and perfect directions. We had the BEST tour guide ever! Dario!!! He was funny, fun, engaging, informative and made a hot, lengthy tour feel like 10 minutes. The experience was my second time at the Sistine Chapel and Vatican but this time it was much more memorable. My 18 year old son and husband loved it. So many stories, that you wouldn’t find in books. And he kept our group together in a nice natural way. He also had our admission tickets and told us when we’d need them. Everything worked great!
As artists we wanted a tour guide with experience and Chiara did not disappoint. Her expertise in art history was greatly appreciated. She know where to take us for maximum exposure and showed us how to backtrack to the areas we wanted to spend more time. Wonderful early morning tour, no crowds, and easy to discuss all the magnificent art.
Our guide, Assunta, was so kind and explained so much. She even made it a point to get us as close to important artworks as possible giving us a truly special experience.
Luisa was amazing, I’d give this 6 tour stars if I could but there are only 5. Skipping the line was great, and we were able to get in very easily. She also had access to the lifts! The Vatican museum itself is very large, and there’s no way we could make sense of everything on our own, so her perspective was much needed and appreciated! We all learned so much, even our 7 year old. She even got to know a few facts about our family and was able to connect something about each member to the tour. Highly recommend!!
Claudia C did amazing and explained everything so well. She also made sure we stopped in the shade as much as possible
