Please arrive at the office approximately 30 minutes before scheduled entry time.
We will inform you about your scheduled entry slot.
We recommend that you take this tour in afternoon, around 2.00 or 2.30 pm, as this is when the place is normally least crowded, but the tour is also available in the morning.
Board the open deck electric bus and tour the Vatican Gardens.
The Vatican representative will help you board the bus, show you how to use the audio guides and explain that you cannot get up from your seat while the bus is in motion, but you can stand up when it stops.
However, you are not allowed to get off the bus until the tour ends.
At the end of the tour of the Vatican Gardens, you will be directed to the Courtyard of the (picture gallery) which is where you’ll meet again with your private guide and start the tour of the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel.
The guide will take you through the Gallery of Candelabra, Gallery of Tapestries, Gallery of Geographic Maps and finally you’ll arrive to the Sistine Chapel.
Please keep in mind that they want complete silence in the Sistine Chapel and therefore the guide will not be able to describe it to you once you’ll be in it, but will have to tell you about it, with the help of pictures, before you actually get there. Also, you can take all the pictures you want in the Gardens and the Museums, but not in the Sistine Chapel. Those who insist on speaking or taking pictures get thrown out.
From the Sistine Chapel you will go back to the entrance following a different itinerary.
Returning to the entrance you will find yourself in the same buildings, but at a lower level, so you will see more interesting things that your guide will obviously not fail to explain. You will pass through the Christian Museum, the Profane Museum, the Clementine Gallery, the Ethnological Museum, the Carriage Pavilion and more…
You will finally go back to where you started, and we are sure that at this point you will want to have a nice lunch your guide will be happy to recommend a nice place nearby.
Unfortunately, as much as we would like, we cannot include St. Peter’s Basilica on this tour, but for this we have a special tour that includes St. Peter’s Basilica, the Papal Tombs, and the Dome.
Rules and dress code of the Sistine Chapel
Click here for details and shorts must cover the knees.
Cancellations
Less than 96 hours before: 10% Penalty
Less than 72 hours before: 30% Penalty
Less than 48 hours before: 50% Penalty
Less than 24 hours before: the service fully charged.
