Sistine Chapel and Vatican Museum Guided Tour

Rome, Italy

2 hours 30 minutes (approx.)
Offered in: English

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Overview

What's Included

Discover the Vatican City with our expertly organized guided tours.
Our meeting point is located just 100 meters from the Vatican Museums’ main entrance.
Professional licensed guide included.
Official entry tickets included.

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

Via Santamaura, 10, 00192 Roma RM, Italy
Meet us directly at the meeting point. Please arrive 20 minutes before the starting time.

End point

Vatican Museums
00120, Vatican City
The tour ends inside the Sistine Chapel.

Ticket Redemption Point

Via Leone IV, 10, 00192 Roma RM, Italy

Itinerary

Vatican Museums

2 hours • Admission Ticket Included

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received within 48 hours of booking, subject to availability
Not wheelchair accessible
Stroller accessible
Near public transportation

Most travelers can participate
Guests must arrive 20 minutes before the starting time. Not wheelchair accessible. Strollers allowed.
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 20 travelers

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Cancellation Policy

This experience is non-refundable and cannot be changed for any reason. If you cancel or ask for an amendment, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

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Reviews

3.4

based on 21 reviews

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Cannot recommend to anyone

Jared_T, Jul 2024

We waited two hours past our scheduled time at the coffee shop (we were given 2 drinks/ pastries voucher for our inconvenience) and then waited another 45 minutes in line for the Vatican in burning sun. Then once inside we waited another hour for the actual guide to secure our tickets and separate the groups. This company is extremely disorganized. Gave two stars for the poor guide who had lost her voice by the end of the day. Can not recommend.

Response from Host, Jul 2024

Good morning! Sorry with all due respect but your review is not correct. You were notified by message and CONFIRMED the time change at 5:15 p.m. on June 21 (we also have screenshots of the conversation), so it is absolutely not true that you had to wait two hours at the meeting point. If she didn't agree with the time change, we also offered her a refund and she decided to come at 17:15!! We also offered her a free aperitif, as we did with all our Viator customers! In addition, the wait could not have been 45 minutes in a row because the Museums close at 18:00 !!!! Like all visitors, the wait is for security checks of up to 15 minutes.

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Sheila_R, Jul 2024

Sistine chapel was beautiful. Disappointed in our guide and that our original tour that included St Peter’s was cancelled.

Response from Host, Jul 2024

Good morning! Thank you for your review. But there is a mistake: none of our tours include St. Peter's Basilica. To make a quieter and longer tour, we prefer not to include the Basilica. In addition, St. Peter's Basilica is totally free.

Excellent! Worth the price.

Ryan_R, Jul 2024

Our guide El was great! (Still a wait to go through security, but it is a quicker entrance). She was thorough and knew her history on the tour of the museum and Sistine Chapel. Stopped for plenty of time to take pics as well. One note is that it doesn’t take you to the Basilica so make sure to do that on your own. Stop for a bite of authentic family style cuisine after at a local restaurant La Vittoria a short walk away.

Response from Host, Jul 2024

Thank you so much!!♥️

Rushed, unorganized, time and date kept changing

stephen_g, Jun 2024

Rushed, unorganized, time and date kept changing which caused us to have to change our train tickets. Once inside I felt as if it was a rush to get to the Sistine Chapel to end the tour. Regrettably I can’t recommend.

Response from Host, Jul 2024

Good morning Stephen. Thank you for your reservation. Unfortunately, his visit happened to us, on a chaotic day given the closure of the Vatican Museums on Saturday and Sunday. For this reason we had to change his reservation and make sure that you had time to see the Sistine chapel

Big crowds

STEFAN_N, Jun 2024

Our guide was very good. Very long queue to get in though. Inside extremely busy and hot. Still a great experience

Not well organized!

Troy_H, Jun 2024

Don’t expect to find your tour group easily. Very frustrating with bad communication and unclear instructions to meet up. Have to call to get someone to help and even then it was difficult. Luckily we did get into your. Your guide was nice and seemed knowledgeable but very hard to understand his accent.

Scheduled 3:30, tour started at 6 and Sistine chapel closed at 8. Ripoff!!!

Latrice_G, Jun 2024

We had a 3:30 appointment and the voucher said arrive 30 minutes before appointment. We arrived at 3 pm and was told at 3:40, viator overbooked the guides schedule. They had us wait at the cafe offering 1 free drink each (4 of us)until the next scheduled guide at 5 pm. Other people showed up approximately 4:55 and were offered a drink and a sandwich on the house. Tour started very late leaving us no time to get the full experience we paid for. The guide was not prepared, spoke too low and could barely hear through ear speaker. Our last day in Rome and we lost time and money. Viator needs to get better guides when people travel so far and spend so much for a once in a lifetime experience only for it to be ruined.

Ditch the tour, go solo

Glenn_M, Jun 2024

I'm going to cover off sounding like an entitled American, but I feeli should share. Our tour was bumped from 10:30 am to 5:30 pm, so we were already jet lagged, but Vatican tickets were sold out and this tour was our only choice. Our guide was too quiet to hear until we got an audio ear piece, which was loud and she kept coughing into it. We didn't "skip the line," we waited outside the city and in the Vatican lobby for a very long time while our other guide secured tickets. The Sistine chapel was breathtaking.

Skipped the line.

Jennifer_H, Jun 2024

Informative and easy. We walked right in and our tour guide was amazing. She knew so much. Our group was very small. We met at a nearby cafe and literally skipped the line.

it’s okay

chariza_l, Jun 2024

too chaotic but the Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel is beautiful. However, the tour is very chaotic.

Extraordinary Disappointment

Sara_P, May 2024

We purchased nonrefundable tickets for a 10:30 am tour. I wrote to the tour operator to ask when the tour would end. I heard back the evening before the tour. He was rescheduling the tour to 5 pm and for our inconvenience, he was offering an aperitif. We had to leave town at 4:00 pm. I wrote back to confirm the time was 5:00. Heard nothing. I reached out to customer service who told me they sent my note to the tour operator. No help there. I thought maybe that there had been some miscommunication so we showed up for the tour 30 minutes prior to the start. We did not want to forfeit the $200 we had paid for the tour. The people where we were told to redeem our vouchers were not helpful and told us to go wait outside. I asked another person who said we needed to go to the meet up spot so we did. We waited 30 minutes. No show. Went back to the place where we were to redeem the vouchers, another person tried selling us new tickets. The whole experience was disappointing to say the least and our interactions with the people who were redeeming the vouchers was very sketchy. The only redeeming thing about the whole ordeal was that we did receive a refund.

Beautiful experience that needs to be done once in a lifetime!

Antonio_M, May 2024

Incredible sightings of art, paintings, architecture and just an amazing time! Well worth it! Guide was friendly and well versed.

Simply awful, do NOT waste your money!

Patrycja_K, May 2024

This was the worst tour I've had in years. Our tour guide, English speaking, Mikele I believe was his name truly does not enjoy or is capable of entertaining and educating his groups. It started with our group running late and miscommunicating meeting time. The confirmation document had listed 3.30pm as tour time and asked for participants to show up 30min early so many of us arrived at 3pm. It turns out the tour was not until 4pm and since some folks ran late and others could not show we waited additional half an hour. Because of that we rushed the main part of the tour and had really poor narrative of the art around us. To add insult to injury, the main tour guide made derogatory remarks about his co-pilot at the start of the tour. Towards the end he escorted us to the entrance to the church and said "the tour is over now, go sightsee for an hour inside". NOT worth 200 euro we paid for two people.