Early Morning Vatican: Small Group Tour Max 6 People or Private
Overview
Inclusions
- Tour in a Safe and Semi Private Group of 6 people
- Enjoy Early Entrance to the Vatican Museums before the general public
- Skip the long ticket lines
- Learn from a Professional Local Expert Guide
- Private Option of this tour is Available!
- Guaranteed to skip the lines
- Entry/Admission - Stanze di Raffaello
- Entry/Admission - Sistine Chapel
- Entry/Admission - St. Peter's Basilica
- Entry/Admission - Vatican Museums
What to expect
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
With the luxury of our truly small group size of 6 people max, or in the personalized intimacy of your very own private group, you will be guaranteed to get the very most out of your Vatican experience. This way you can easily navigate through the countless masterpieces with an expert guide, ask all the questions you wish, and have the guarantee of a personalized experience. We trust this makes ALL the difference!
Walk through the heavily decorated Gallery of the Candelabras and enjoy the trompe l’oeil in the Gallery of the Tapestries. After you learn about the impressive Gallery of the Maps, continue to the exquisite Raphael Rooms. With your professional expert tour guide, you will be sure to see all the highlights as well as hidden gems! You will not only learn the fantastic history of the powerful Popes but will also delight in the bits of gossip and other little-known stories about life in Vatican City.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Stanze di Raffaello, Viale Vaticano, Vatican City Italy
The Papal art collection at its best in the Raphael Rooms
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Sistine Chapel, Viale Vaticano, 00165 Vatican City Italy
Enjoy a thorough explanation of the incredible masterpiece that is the Sistine Chapel and learn all about it from your professional expert guide before you actually enter the chapel. As it is a holy place, it is strictly forbidden to speak inside. That is why we guarantee you will learn all about it before you enter. Then, once inside, you will have time to take it all in and admire the breathtaking beauty of this world famous site in contemplative silence.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: St. Peter's Basilica, Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Your comprehensive Vatican tour concludes with VIP entrance directly into St. Peter’s Basilica without standing in the long lines. Walking through the Basilica, you will learn all about the secrets of the magnificent and ornate decorations, sculptures, altars and chapels. Visit Michelangelo’s Pieta and walk down the main nave to admire the dome he designed that sits on top of the largest Catholic church in the world.
Duration: 45 minutes
Additional information
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Near public transportation
- Most travelers can participate
- Occasionally the Basilica may be closed due to last minute private events outside of the tour operators control and often without notice. In these uncommon circumstances the tour will operate as usual and the time spent inside the basilica will be made up elsewhere on the tour. No refunds will be granted in the event the Basilica is closed
- Starting in 2024, the Vatican Museums will discontinue early access for ALL tour providers, instead opening to the public at 8AM. This tour will then be offered as a first entrance experience, which we recommend for a less crowded, more personalized, and fully guided experience.
- Vatican management maintains the right to delay the opening of the Sistine Chapel for religious reasons, in this case the guide will modify the itinerary and extend your visit of the museums to ensure you make the most of your time before access to the Sistine Chapel is permitted.
- Please note St Peter's Basilica is closed on most Wednesday's. If you book during a day in which the Basilica is closed, your tour of the Vatican Museums will be extended to compensate the closure
- Not recommended for travelers with mobility issues
- This tour operates within current local COVID-19 protocol. We are not responsible for any persons who do not adhere to regulations, and in said circumstances will result in loss of the tour without refund.
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
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Very good and knowledgeable guide. Well organized. They finish the tour in St. Peter's which allows you to continue to explore for 5 minutes or hours. Luca's knowledge and humor added to the success of the tour.
Very good and knowledgeable guide. Well organized. They finish the tour in St. Peter's which allows you to continue to explore for 5 minutes or hours. Luca's knowledge and humor added to the success of the tour.Definitely book this! We got there at 7:30 and were broken into our private group and allowed early access before everyone else in line. This allowed us to see most of the Vatican relatively alone - we did have to wait in a line to get into Dt Peters but it moved really fast and it was 4x the len...
Definitely book this! We got there at 7:30 and were broken into our private group and allowed early access before everyone else in line. This allowed us to see most of the Vatican relatively alone - we did have to wait in a line to get into Dt Peters but it moved really fast and it was 4x the length in the hot sun when we left at 10:30. Linda was absolutely wonderful. She had a great energy (especially with us dragging at 7:30am after a long night before). She was incredibly knowledgeable and made the tour seem to fly by. I would highly recommend this tour and Linda!!This was a wonderful tour. We decided to do the early access with a small group of people and it was well worth it. We were able to get into the Vatican, Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Square well before the general public, very little waiting. Our guide was very friendly and knowledgeable. T...
This was a wonderful tour. We decided to do the early access with a small group of people and it was well worth it. We were able to get into the Vatican, Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Square well before the general public, very little waiting. Our guide was very friendly and knowledgeable. This was the only way to see everything we wanted to see. When we left the lines to get in were around a 3 hour wait, so book the early entrance. Beautiful experience.Early access doesn’t mean it won’t be crowded. Very crowded, couldn’t pause to take it in. It’s truly an amazing place, and we traveled so far. We had less than 10 minutes to see the Sistine Chapel.
Early access doesn’t mean it won’t be crowded. Very crowded, couldn’t pause to take it in. It’s truly an amazing place, and we traveled so far. We had less than 10 minutes to see the Sistine Chapel.ELLA gave a fantastic tour! You could tell loves her job and is very knowledgeable and engaged about everything she showed us. And the semi private option worked out great. There were just 6 of us and it was manageable and still very personal. Highly recommend!
ELLA gave a fantastic tour! You could tell loves her job and is very knowledgeable and engaged about everything she showed us. And the semi private option worked out great. There were just 6 of us and it was manageable and still very personal. Highly recommend!Ella was a wonderful tour guide during our trip to the Vatican and basilica! She is very knowledgeable and we had a great time soaking in everything she talked about.
Ella was a wonderful tour guide during our trip to the Vatican and basilica! She is very knowledgeable and we had a great time soaking in everything she talked about.