This no-wait access Vatican Museums tour includes all the must-see places of the Vatican Museums such as the Raphael's Rooms, the Gallery of the Maps, the Gallery of the Tapestry and the famous Sistine Chapel with Michelangelo's 'Last Judgement' and 'the Creation of Adam' Discover the Sistine Chapel. - Admire the paintings of the genius Michelangelo. - Know all the details and secrets of the most important paintings of the Vatican City.
Prices change with the date; the lowest is shown.
Out at sunset: the 2:15 PM departure is under way when the sun sets, around 5:11 PM in the coming weeks.
In demand: 191 of the next 262 departures are already sold out.
From the operator’s live schedule on Viator, checked Oct 14.
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.
See the famous Raphael's Rooms decorated by the frescoes, painted by Raphael.
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For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Rome: Vatican Museum, Sistine Chapel & St. Peter's Basilica lasts about 3 hours. The itinerary has 2 stops.
Prices start at $91 per person for this Rome experience, booked through Viator with the price shown before checkout. There are 6 booking options, so the final price depends on the option you choose.
According to the operator’s current schedule, it runs on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, with 12 departures a day between 8:30 AM and 4:00 PM.
It can: 191 of the next 262 departures are already sold out, so booking ahead is a good idea.
Yes. Cancel at least 1 day before the start for a full refund. Later cancellations are non-refundable.
The meeting point is 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. Hotel pickup is not part of this experience.
The experience is available in DE, PT, EN, IT, FR, ES.
It is a small-group experience with a maximum of 20 participants.
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Yes, bookings are confirmed instantly.
Travellers rate it 3.9 out of 5 across 659 reviews on Viator and Tripadvisor; it is run by Your Way Tours.
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Tour through the busy Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel was efficiently led by the tour guide. He also provided the right amount of historical information as well. The disappointing part of the tour was being left at St Peter’s Basiiica to tour on our own. The tour description is a giuided tour of St Peter’s Basiliica, Sistine chapel and the Vatican Museum . We were short changed!
Bad guide, incomprehensible English.
Very busy and if not for your guide, would be difficult to get any rear perspective. No time due to crowds to explore and examine the museum artifacts. Skip the line very effective.
Terrible. The guide was late to arrive and then gave us the wrong tickets. When the museum refused the tickets, the guide told us that she would not wait for the ticketing error to be fixed but wanted to leave without us. The museum management forced the guide to correct the tickets and would not let her leave us. Terrible experience. I would not recommend this tour at all.
Incredible tour with our kind, knowledgeable guide, highly recommended; be aware of a fair amount of walking and steps.
Our guide did not care about the people on the tour. She went very fast. We had little time to see anything. She did not speak clearly and most of our group could not understand her. A couple even dropped out as to them it seemed like a waste of time. The tour finished after 1 hour 30 minutes. She did not come into the St Peter’s Basilica. We were very disappointed and certainly would not recommend this tour to anyone. She was not carrying anything that we could easily see where she went. At one point we got lost and only because I remembered a man with a white hat did we find the group again.
Too much time spent standing outside going over history instead of inside looking: hated the fact that it seemed like only the least interesting art was even viewed and would have have gotten a much better experience if we just had not done a tour. The tour was quite boring. The only positive is that we got to take the shortcut between the the museum and the Sistine chapel.
The guide's knowledge was excellent. We enjoyed it a lot. However, we found the activity very expensive for the experience we had.
Everything was excellent, the knowledge of the guide was really good
This tour was cancelled by the tour operator a few days before the tour took place. Initially they did not offer a rebook and offered a refund. Meanwhile I booked a new tour through the Vatican booking process, this was also a guided tour, it was almost half the price of the original tour booked. The tour operator meanwhile got in touch with me offering alternative tour times and dates or a refund, I requested a refund each time ( 4 in total) despite this I received no refund. Today I connected Trip Advisor and was speaking to a very rude operator who told me I had to contact Viator and hung up the phone. I eventually got through to Viator UK, the operator was helpful and mannerly and my refund was made almost immediately. Surely when an operator cancels a tour it should automatically refund the cost and the buyer should not have to chase this down
| Tour | Duration | Rating | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rome: Vatican Museum, Sistine Chapel & St. Peter's Basilica | 3 hours | 3.9 (659) | $91 | |
 Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel & St Peter’s Basilica Guided Tour | 3 hours | 4.5 (41,896) | $79 | View |
 Skip-the-Line Group Tour of the Vatican, Sistine Chapel & St. Peter's Basilica | 3 hours | 4.6 (15,579) | $23 | View |
 Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel & St Peter’s Basilica-Small Group | 3 hours | 4.7 (714) | $113 | View |
 Skip the line Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and St Peters Tour | 3 hours | 4.7 (3,542) | $21 | View |
 Complete Vatican: Museums, Sistine Chapel & St Peters Basilica | 3–4 hours | 4.5 (455) | $87 | View |
 Private Vatican, Sistine Chapel & St Peters Basilica Guided Tour | 2h 30min | 4.8 (329) | $370 | View |