VIP Guided Tour Rome Colosseum, Vatican Museums, lunch included

Rome, Italy

8 hours (approx.)
Pickup offered
Group discounts
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

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Overview

Discover the highlights of Rome with ease and on this private full-day tour of Rome. Travel by deluxe private vehicle between locations alongside your own personal chauffeur, with hotel, airport, or cruise port pickup and drop-off. Enjoy guided tours of the city’s greatest hits, including the Colosseum, Roman Forum, and the Vatican Museums. Includes a gourmet Italian lunch.

Discover “Rome in a day” on a private, full-day highlights tour
Enjoy a personalized experience with your own personal certifiedguide
All entrance fees and a gourmet Italian lunch already included
Relax with hassle-free round-trip transfers from hotel, airport, or port

What's Included

Transfer from one site to the other by private luxury car with chauffeur
Pick up and drop off (from hotel/port/airport)
Professional Certified Guide
Italian gourmet Lunch
Guided Tour of Colosseum, Roman Forum and Palatine Hill
Guided Tour of Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel
Colosseum entrance ticket (valued at €18 per person)
Colosseum reservation fee (valued at €2 per person)
Please note: Colosseum fees as above. The remaining cost of the experience covers other services.

Meeting and Pickup

Pickup points

Select a pickup point

Pickup details

We also pick up on any central hotels/apartments/B&B in Rome. If it is not central (a ray of about 8 km from the Pantheon), let us know its location and we will ask a supplement for the extra distance. You can choose pickup location from Civitavecchia Port and Fiumicino Airport. In this case, please provide arrival and departure times to arrange the pick-up and drop off. Note: Kindly select the correct tour option where you will be pick up. If your accommodation is not mentioned, during the booking, please provide details regarding its location. If your accommodation has not been booked yet, you will modify the booking later by providing the data relating to it. Kindly add to your booking an email address you can check frequently. If you do not receive further messages, by mobile phone or by email, default pick up time is confirmed.

Operating hours
.8:00 am

Itinerary

Ancient Rome

2 hours 30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Vatican Museums

2 hours 30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Infant seats available
Near public transportation
Stroller accessible
Not wheelchair accessible
Most travelers can participate
Remember to cover knees and shoulders before entering the Sistine Chapel
The order of the visited sites could be reversed, especially for tours booked very close to the date of the experience
This is a private customizable tour

Please indicate the names of all tour participants when booking.
Please bring your identity document
If children are present, please also indicate their age
The tours may not be modified with regard to the places to be visited, except for the golden option, where the duration must still be respected
Please, communicate if there are disabled people partecipating the tour
Each traveler must present a valid ID card or document that matches the name provided at the time of booking for successful entry to the Colosseum and Roman Forum.
Due to the Jubilee, some monuments may be under restoration. Please pay attention to any messages we may send regarding potential changes.
As announced by the Directorate of Museums and Cultural Heritage, we would like to inform you that from 11 January 2026 to April 2026, Michelangelo's fresco of the Last Judgement, located in the Sistine Chapel, will not be visible to the public due to extraordinary maintenance work. Please note that the Sistine Chapel, with its vault decorated by Michelangelo, the Vatican Museums and Raphael's Rooms will remain open to the public throughout this period. However, the entire wall of the Last Judgement will be covered by scaffolding to allow for a complex and delicate restoration process.
This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate

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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

4.2

based on 5 reviews

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Great day great tour

GEORGE_H, Sep 2023

Great day. Our guide Massimo and driver Andrew where great! Taking us through the sites Massimo gave us a wealth of information and brought to many special points which gave the best views for photos. This is a great tour and you get very personalized service.

Response from Host, Oct 2023

Dear George, Having satisfied customers is our greatest pride. A sincere thank you for choosing us. We hope to see you again soon! Thank you very much!

Worst tour I’ve ever had.

Nicole_S, Jun 2023

This was by far the worst tour we had in Europe. Do not book this tour. So many bad things I don’t have room here for them all. The guide was not equipped to answer questions. She promised things and didn’t follow through. Our driver did driver jobs between our stops so wasn’t available to us. We couldn’t leave things in the car. I think we entered the Vatican with some crazy brokered tickets. The guide wouldn’t allow us to get audio guides. When I asked her if we could step into the shade and remarked that we are “weak” she said “yes, you are”. The lunch included in the tour was disgusting. We had no ability to order our own food. We paid a lot of money for the tour and did not get what we paid for. We did not have skip the line tickets to get inside the Colosseum despite it being promised in the viator description. The tickets for the Vatican were very shady. We had to wait for some sort of broker to arrive. Then we were told not to identify our guide as a guide inside and she kept farting away from us. Finally, we were supposed to have 8 on our tour but luckily only had 7. No way the transportation would have comfortably held 8 adults. I can’t say enough bad things about this tour.

Response from Host, Jun 2023

Dear Ms France Thank you for your review. Regarding your comments, we would like to point out the following: We apologise that the guide did not meet your expectations, we could never have imagined that such an experienced guide, could make such mistakes. -As you can see from TripAdvisor, the above is an isolated incident. Our agency enjoys excellent reviews for its services and was awarded a certificate of excellence during 2018. Nevertheless, we apologise for the incident. -The car was an 8 seater Mono DeLuxe + driver, had it been a 7 seater, the guide would not have been able to board with you. It was available for pick up and drop off at the port of Civitavecchia and for transfer from site to site as specified on the website. For safety reasons, no personal items could be left in the car. -Unfortunately, on combined tours, for reasons of time, lunch is a set menu, a first course, a second course and a side dish, water. We also took care of the drinks you consumed extra, which were not included. The restaurant is a typical Roman eatery and usually no one complains but we will take note of it anyway. - We had had a conversation via whatsapp messages at the time of booking, in which we warned you that the Colosseum skip-the-line entrance tickets had run out and that you could buy them on the day of the tour by standing in line, you agreed. Unfortunately, due to the large influx of visitors that morning, there were no more available, but we still managed to buy tickets for the Forum and Palatine. You write, that some of you needed shade, unfortunately the Roman Forum is outdoors. For the entrance to the Vatican Museums, you were informed that you would enter as a group but with a personal guide inside and you accepted. The one you call 'Broker' is the same colleague of ours who gave you the money back at the restaurant for the extras and she was the one who had the entrance tickets, in fact, that morning we had several groups entering at the same time and she was there to co-ordinate the entries. The tickets were absolutely in order, subject to very strict controls by means of barcode scanners. For this inconvenience, we offered you, at the time of booking, an overview of the most beautiful squares and fountains in Rome by car, even if you then decided to only see the Trevi Fountain because you were too tired. -We will still make a partial refund for these reasons. We hope to have the opportunity, in the future, to prove to you that our tours remain among the most popular with customers in the city of Rome. Carlo

Rome Private Tour

Monica_R, Oct 2022

Our tour guide was kind and efficient. They provided 2 Benz vans for private transportation. I would recommend this company!

Response from Host, Nov 2022

Dear Monica, thank you for your excellent review, every day we strive to give our best and offer quality services, seeing the appreciation of our customers is our greatest satisfaction. Best Regards Carlo

Tour was grest, guide was...

AAMER_M, Jun 2022

Tour was grest, guide was excellent and we covered all the important sights in Rome. We skipped the long lines and enjoyed every moment of the tour.

Response from Host, Jul 2022

Dear Mr Mumtaz thank you for review. It is a pleasure and an honor for our agency to read your wonderful words which we also report to our guide. Without a doubt. they repay us for the work done. We look forward to seeing you soon in Rome to find further wonders that the Eternal City can reserve for you. Best regards Carlo

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