Vatican Tour

Please remember to cover your shoulders and knees on this tour and leave a big backpack at home. Students please bring your student ID with you.

Skip the line

In the winter months from November - February (except Christmas season) please try to book your tour on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday in order to make sure that the tour will take place. If those days don't suit you please still get in touch and we will try to accommodate you as of course we do want you to book with us.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
ASK THE PRICE BEFORE YOU SIT FOR COFFEE IN FRONT OF THE Vatican Museums

Good to know

DRESS CODE: Knees and shoulders must be covered at all times for the entire duration of this tour.
We always pass the public crowds waiting to get inside the Vatican Museums.

Please try to avoid booking mondays and saturdays because they are the most crowded days in the Vatican state. If you need to book this day we have ways of avoiding those crowds but it is a good idea to avoid these days anyhow. "Better to avoid a problem is wiser than to solve it"

The fee for the full Vatican tour will include the entrance fee as well as the reservation fee which allows us to skip the entire public line. We will use the tour agency line every day which guarantees no waiting in the public queue. That's smart.

What's included in our Vatican Tour?

The Vatican Museums, Raphael Rooms, Maps room, tapestries room, so many “stolen” Greek and Roman and Egyptian statues your head will spin. Don't worry though because we have ways of making this interesting without dumping it down.
Then you will see the Sistine Chapel, most time will be spent seeing the Chapel and talking about it.
After a short break we then enter St. Peter's Basilica. Believe it or not most people end up liking this the most.
In St. Peter's Basilica we take a full walk around its shape (when possible), we reveal the most amazing secrets of the Basilica and its art, doorways, mosaics, altars and then finally the most amazing piece of art inside St. Peter's Basilica, the Pieta by Michelangelo.

After the Basilica we take you to the Pope's Audience area to reveal St. Peter's Square which is so interesting it could be a tour on its own.

Some of our competitors say that no one can pass lines, or have tickets prepaid etc, that's only because they can't offer this service. We do pass the public line.

Other companies will offer to bring you to the museums later in the day, hoping there won't be a public line. You can never depend on public lines, that's why we always book tickets in advance.
This tour lasts around about 3.5 hours from the time we enter the museums to the time we say goodbye to you.

Although the tour starts at 1 p.m. some folks might be a bit late but we do employ young Irish students whose job it is to wait for you. They will then get you into the museums to your group.
But please don't be too late and if you like you can tip for this service if you need to use it.

Our 1 p.m. meeting point is on our map, we meet on the steps across the road from the Vatican Museums entrance,that's the corner of Viale Vaticano / Via Tunisi.
You can easily find us as the guide will be holding a yellowish umbrella with pictures of angels on it.

What To Expect

Meeting Point