Itinerary
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Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
2-hour guided tour of the highlights of the Vatican Museums.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Sistine Chapel, Viale Vaticano, 00165 Vatican City Italy
Visit the Sistine Chapel
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: St. Peter's Basilica, Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Visit the biggest church in the world at your own pace.
Duration: 30 minutes
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Via Tunisi, 5a, 00192 Roma RM, Italy
3 hours(approx.)
St. Peter's Basilica, Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City
Not wheelchair accessible
Stroller accessible
Near public transportation
Most travelers can participate
A dress code is required to enter places of worship and selected museums. No shorts or sleeveless tops allowed. Knees and shoulders MUST be covered for both men and women. You may risk refused entry if you fail to comply with these dress requirements.
Please note that St. Peter's Basilica is an active parish and is therefore subject to unforeseen closures for spiritual celebrations.
St. Peter's Basilica is not guided.
Tours with departure after 2:30pm will not receive access to St. Peter's Basilica
Please note: All guests must go through an airport-style security check. During peak and peak seasons, the wait time at security check can be up to 30 minutes.
This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 20 travelers
Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Posted By : Judy_F
Guide was nice and very knowledgeable, however we spent way too much time standing outside of the museum looking at pictures and hearing him describe what was inside va going inside and taking in the museum. Was very frustrating. Too detailed on history which we can read about. Wanted to walk more halls and keep moving not stop every 50 feet and listen for 10 minutes.
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Posted On : 2024-05-11
Posted By : johnzZ3108ST
The sites were beautiful the tour guide horrible. First he showed up 45 minutes late. Extremely rude. We did the English tour and it was so hard to understand him. When we asked to stop to take pictures we were told there is no time. We had 1 guide with 21 people.
We had the museum and Sistine chapel tour. We had to give a 20 dollar deposit (cash only) to use the radios. After the museum portion which he rushed through we got to see 3 out of 12 museums. He returned the 20 dollar deposit and 16 of the guest left bc he was rude to everyone.
I have done many tours on this trip in 9 different countries and this was the worst.
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Posted On : 2024-05-10
Posted By : Konrd_H
Vatican is huge but despite the size we were able to see the Museum: the amazing gallery of maps, the Laocoon group and of course the Sistine chapel and more… our guide gave us a very thorough insight about the chapel and Michelangelo’s work and with this it was a very cathartic experience to be there. At the end we could explore St Peters on our own. Great guidance, fully recommended! Thanks Chiara!
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Posted On : 2024-05-05
Posted By : Fraser_N
Our tour guide was excellent and did an amazing job with what he had to work with. Engaging, funny, made sure that we saw the highlights and didn’t lose anyone from our group, despite this tour company often seeming to loose people. Unfortunately, he was let down by the disorganisation of the actual tour company. The tour was nothing close to the advertised length, almost to the point that I’d label it false advertising. We spent at least the first hour of ‘the tour’ waiting around outside the shop for the tour company to get themselves organised, and then more time queuing to get into the Vatican. It was advertised as a 3 hour tour and I suspect the actual tour was 1.5 hours at maximum.
We only booked this tour as there were no general tickets left for the Vatican museum, and I suspect this is why most people were on this tour. If you are too late to get general tickets and accept that this tour is a way of getting into the museum at a massive price premium, then that’s fair enough. I certainly wouldn’t recommend this tour company otherwise.
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Posted On : 2024-05-02
Posted By : Meera201
Would not recommend booking the Vatican tour with City Rome Tours. In our conformation email we were told to arrive at designated meeting spot 30 minutes prior to our tour. When we arrived 30 minutes prior to start of tour we were initially ignored by the man at the desk and then treated very rudely. He told us to return 10 minutes prior to start of the tour. When we returned the small office appeared very disorganized. We waited outside with other people who were also on the 12:30 tour. Eventually another person came out and called names and handed out entry tickets. This person was more helpful and explained that we would be taken to the Skip the Line entry spot and would have a 5 to 7 minute wait to get into the Vatican Museum. The line went quickly and we gained entry in timely manner. However we did not get a Guided Tour the tour was on our own.
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Posted On : 2024-04-24
Posted By : Shahnee_N
I had a frustrating experience with City Rome Tours. The ticketing process was unclear, leading to confusion at the tour start. I missed important information buried in excessive details on the website, emails and confirmation. The staff took no responsibility after failing to ensure all participants were ready before proceeding. The 10.30am tour guide was dismissive when I encountered issues and lacked compassion. Although they offered a later tour after this mistake, it was inconvenient, and the 2.30pm guide's unclear speech added to the disappointment. Overall, the service felt more transactional than customer-oriented.
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Posted On : 2024-04-24
Posted By : Donna_S
The 16 Chapel and Saint Marcus Church. It was extremely crowded, and the true guide was somewhat difficult to understand
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Posted On : 2024-04-22
Posted By : Isabel_M
Horrible experience would not recommend! When we booked with VIATOR we booked the fast track VATICAN(chapel and basilica) tour. When we got to our destination to meet our tour guide FRANCO, Franco guided us in to the Vatican museum did not give us proper guidance and ended up leaving us. We didnt get a chance to enter the St Peters due to the fact that he left us and we were lost. Keep it’s mind we were a group of 15 tourist trying to navigate a place we never been too. When asking for help they told us to exit and we had to exit through the entrance where we started. When we exited we got directed to the St Peters through the outside
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Posted On : 2024-04-21
Posted By : Arpad_T
the tour was shorter than expected/promised. this was promised lating for 3 hours, was about 1,5 in total.
I think we missed a lot out,
the tour guide was though very nice and prepared for the time she was there
Jumping the que was nice though with the pre-paid tickets.
we did not see a single painting, apart from those in the chapel.
It would have been also nice to hear a little about the cathedral, as she just left us there for a free program.
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Posted On : 2024-04-15
Posted By : 104sarkhann
Overly priced for a pretty crappy tour. I did however enjoy we got to bypass the longer lines but still…
The tour started okay, the guide instructed us where we are going and security protocol. Everything was smooth in the beginning. It gets rough when the tour guide begins to speak, I being a multilingual I understand that sometimes thick accents get in the way, but this guide was truly difficult to understand. It felt like we were listening behind a wall, followed with an endless amount of pokes and jokes against the crowd, it made the experience much harder to follow with. Furthermore the guide, skipped through several rooms in the exhibit and spent 20 minutes outside under the sun which cut through our exhibits.
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Posted On : 2024-04-06
