Detailed Itinerary Vatican, Sistine & St Peter's Tour with Privileged Entrance

Excellent tour, especially if you want to have time in the Sistine Chapel without thousands of visitors. Our guide was extremely knowledgable and show us all the best Art and sculpture the Vatican Museums have to offer. A long tour but we'll worth it,

Wonderful tour of the Vatican with Elly! Fun and so knowledgeable. We had a very small group which made it easy to maneuver the museums, ask questions, and get to know our guide. Would recommend this tour and Elly to anyone!

The tour guide was very knowledgeable and knew the best way to navigate the facility to maximize our time in key areas of the museum and Sistine Chapel. Headset quality needs improvement, though.

The key to this tour was getting started early. Our small group tour was first in to see the Sistine Chaple. As the day progresses the Vatican becomes quite crowded. It is a tour that requires you to be on your feet for 4-5 hours so come prepared.

Looking forward to this tour for YEARS, so I booked privileged entrance, 5 hour extended tour @ 0730. It was July 2019. We waited in line for 1/2 hr until the Vatican opened. A huge rush of people with a HUGE line began to form inside while our guide obtained our tickets. She was lovely. We had moments where the rooms were 3/4 full of people but then by the time we reached the Sistine Chapel it was cram packed, not a seat to sit and marvel. By that time the air in the vast hallways became thin and HOT. Crowds of people were boarded through the museums. Anxiety settling in as there were no exits, just sweaty people bumping into you. Approximately 1 out of 5 rooms had minimal air conditioning. Ashamed that the Pope allowed this many people to visit this cherished and precious place at one time. Our group barely made it to 1/2 of the museums and did not get to go to St Peters Basilica because our tour was over 5 hrs at the time and there was a line over 1.5 hours to get into. Also, the rooms we were able to visit, one could not move around in to see the artifacts and admire the paintings. Such sadness. Did I mention it was 95F out? Just a miserable experience. Waist of money.

Very informative, guide had wonderful facts covering a wide range of of the treasures in the Vatican museum, and of St Peter's Basilica.

If you like to sleep late this tour is not for you. But, if you are willing to sacrifice some shut eye to experience the Vatican Museum - and especially the Sistine Chapel- without crowds of people, then I highly recommend the Detailed Itinerary Tour. Our guide, Francesco, was extremely knowledgeable and helped our group to navigate through the museum- outmaneuvering many of the other early morning tours so that we had many of the rooms all to ourselves. I would definitely recommend this tour.

An itinerary not to be missed! Our guide JAD from The Roman guy agency made this 5 hours tour an instrucful and smooth one.He knew every single details about everything .I highly recommend this tour