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Vatican: Early Entry to Museums, Sistine Chapel & St Peter's

3.5 hours

Skip the line

Small group size?

& Rome: Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, and Basilica Tour, group size?

I am looking at these 2. Thank you

I love your videos! I have a question - I have found conflicting information about the quick access passage from the Sistine Chapel to the Basilica. Is it reopened for regular use (with a tour) again after COVID?

Thanks again for your suggestions...we selected the "Walks" Complete Vatican Tour With Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel & St. Peter's in early Dec in the am and it was very good. There were still crowds, but our "skip the line" ticket made it simple with a few minutes to go through security. Our guide was great and our tour group was only 8 people in size (it could have been as much as 20). At the end of the tour we bought €8 tickets to climb the dome. It was a breezy but excellent day. If we were to go back we'd try the key tour you suggested.

First of all, I want to thank you for your very helpful videos.
My question is, you mentioned in this video that audio guides are available at the entrance. Where exactly can I get them and the cost. I found one from GetYourGuide at <7 euros. I wonder if they’re cheaper elsewhere . Thanks again.

I have always found it better to just book the standard tickets and to tour at our own pace, at times with an audioguide. Escorted tours go at the pace of the slowest or latest, and don’t allow any flexibility to dwell on something found personally interesting. Also, people play with their phones all the time.

Love your insight on all of your videos! We are traveling to Rome for the first time in 2024 and I've been looking for the Prime experience tickets through Vatican Museums website, but they seem to be no longer available? I have checked on different dates and the only bookable options are guided tours. Has anything changed recently? I appreciate your knowledge and insight.

I cant find the keymaster tour on the Vatican website😢

Is there a way to see the real Bramante stairs with a tour that costs more like 100-200 euro pp? Seems like it is either extreme VIP or difficult to find. Thanks! Love your videos :)

Hi! I love your videos and have been following for some while. I’m finally visiting very soon but was wondering how are things going with the whole war that’s going on near there? Is it safe?

Thank you so much!!!
Everything you share is very helpful and the way you present them is so friendly and honest!
I am grateful I have found you❤.
I am visiti Rome on the 14th of November and looking forward to seeing all that you mention!!!
I would like to ask how much earlier, of my time slot, ( 11.30) should I be at the Vatican museum?
I booked my ticket yesterday, no guide, just audio.
And also , what time does Saint Peter close?
Thank you.

Thank you so much! I would love a tour, but unfortunately im visiting on christmas, literally. So the only day i have to visit is the 24 of december, the guided tour on the official site is sold out and no tours are available for that day (for obvious reasons). Im counting on the audio guide. i'm fortunate that the vatican decided to move the free day from the 31 to the 24, otherwise i wouldn't be able to go. but if I go again I would like to do the key master tour.

I toured the Museums with people from my hometown and I hated the Vatican Tour Guide. He talked to us for an hour outside in the courtyard and it was FREEZING! Then I kept losing him and my group inside! He would take only a small group of people with him and talk to them, leaving the rest of us out of the party, wondering where he was, looking for him and looking for each other. After the Sistine chapel he came and got us and brought us to a door that led outside someplace where there was nothing around. No gift shop, no winding staircase. My friends walked back to their bus and I walked home. A bummer.

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Nice video.
Do you know if there is a tour available which allows one to go from Castel Sant Angelo to the Vatican through Passetto di Borgo? I once saw a video where people were doing this although I think they were only allowed to go until they reached a closed door before the Vatican.

I thoroughly enjoyed our tour of the Vatican Museum and had the opportunity to walk on the original Bramante staircase. Our guide was very knowledgeable! Only downside of our tour was that an "instagrammer" decided to stray off to take her IG photos. The group spent a half hour looking for her. We couldn't continue the tour until she was found. Felt bad for our guide as she is responsible for everyone. Plus...our guide was pickpocketed!!

when in doubt, follow Elyssa advice. We did a 6 couple college reunion in Tuscany/Rome. We paid a college professor $400 for private tour. I am expert in church history and one couple devout Catholic. This tour guy bashed the RC Church to the point where I was also unhappy. Moral: listen to Elyssa

Great.

I do appreciate all of your videos! Thank you, Elyssa.

thanks a lot for info!