Skip-the-Line Vatican Tour

Experience the best of the Vatican with a skip-the-line group tour. See the highlights of the museums, Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter’s Basilica while making new friends. Don’t miss out on this budget-friendly and time-saving opportunity!

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Borgo - Meet your tour guide at our office, located in the oldest neighbourhoods of the Vatican, Borgo Pio. Following a self introduction by your guide, you will walk through the charming shops of the Borgo, as he/she shares some local tips for eating and site seeing in Rome, including off the beaten track sites that you must visit during your…
What's Included
  • Admission tickets to the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, and/or St. Peter’s Basilica
  • Entry/Admission-Vatican Museums (NOT included if you book the option: ONLY ST.PETER’S BASILICA TOUR)
  • An expert tour guide with over 10 years of experience. Excellent storyteller.
  • Entry/Admission- Sistine Chapel (NOT included if you book the option: ONLY…
What's Not Included
  • If you book the “Museums & SISTINE CHAPEL Tour” option it does NOT include St. Peter’s Basilica.
  • If you book “ONLY ST.PETER’S BASILICA TOUR” option it does NOT include the Museums & Sistine Chapel.
  • Gratuities (Tips)
Additional Information

A holiday in Rome without visiting the Vatican is like a day at the beach without swimming in the sea. See the best of the Vatican museums and gain direct entrance with skip-the-line access to the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica, while our excellent guides entertain you with stories that go with each masterpiece.
This budget-friendly tour is the…

Location
Via Plauto, 17
Via Plauto
The meeting point is located in Borgo Pio, near St. Peter's square. The exact address is Via Plauto 17/A. IMPORTANT: Please check your booking for the start time of the Vatican ENGLISH tour. Arrive 20 minutes before at the meeting point ( Via Plauto 17A ) for check-in. Thank you !
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Kathleen_c
Jul 6, 2025
Worth every penny - Very organized skip the line Vatican tour. Guide was great! He went at the right pace based on his frequent check-ins with group. Well worth it.
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Glen_c
Jun 30, 2025
Very informative... - Very informative Professionaly hosted Seemed pricey,but actually good value Great touring gbese world reknowned features,if you haven't experienced this then you should
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Nicole_b
Jun 14, 2025
Paola tour guide was exceptional and knew all the good spots for resting. - Book early visits as the lines get longer and longer and temperatures get hotter and hotter. It’s was a 3 hour tour which was just enough to see everything.
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Tiffanyva3342bc
Jun 6, 2025
Wonderful tour guide! - Our tour of the Vatican was wonderful! Our tour guide was very knowledgeable and you could tell that everyone who worked there knew her and liked her a lot. Highly recommend!
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Catherine
May 23, 2025
A fabulous tour in Rome - The guide was wonderful! He was knowledgeable, energetic, and acted like it was excited to be showing us something he likely sees all the time. He was German? Cannot remember his name, but he encouraged questions and added so much color and detail about everything we saw! I highly recommend them!
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Robertwf8295ge
May 16, 2025
Outstanding Experience. Having a Priest bless our family in the Cistene Chapel was a lifetime experience. Awesome! - Carl was an incredible guide. He had a thorough knowledge of the history of everything that we were looking at. He is clearly well read and informed beyond his job. His English was terrific. He was able to communicate with everybody on the tour as well as people that we met along the way. Me and my family felt very secure in his guidance. Carl looked out after everyone, however he took extra care in making certain that me and my wife caught up, She walks slowly. We really enjoyed the whole experience. We would recommend Carl to anyone as a guide. He has to be your best. Respectfully, Robert Wareham
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Eric_t
Jun 22, 2025
Overpriced and under delivered. - This tour was overpriced and under delivered. The tour guide was very friendly and knowledgeable, but her thick accent and the tiny earphones made it impossible to understand—particularly with the noisy crowds that surrounded us. We were rushed from one location to the next, and it was difficult to keep up because of the crowds. We would have been better off paying regular admission and touring at our own pace with an app or some other audio guide which would have been easier to understand.
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Sameera_f
Jul 4, 2025
Boring Tour guide!! Not engaging, bad mood! Ruined my Vatican Experience - The tour guide was really boring. Not engaging at all.. He was only involved with one family and kept talking to this one person only. From the beginning I found him being rude to other people in the tour. During the tour, we were kept outside the hot sun for 15-20mins, to explain something showing pictures from a board. It was too boring and too hot to even listen to it. There should have been a backup plan knowing the weather was going to be too hot. Even with the speakers, I couldn’t grasp what the guide was saying. Inside the sictine chapel, the guide was scolding a tourist for taking a picture while we were trying to enjoy. He was away from us but since we all had the speakers, it was very disturbing for us to hear. I am not a catholic, I took this tour so I can learn something about their history, about pope, etc.. Did I learn anything? No Can i remember anything he told me ? No Did I waste my money? Yes! I am a frequent traveler. I travel around the world and use Viator to book tours. Never in my life have I been this disappointed! I will think twice before using Viator and I will let the platform no about this horrific experience. The last few minutes, the tour guide mentioned, “if you have a good experience, please leave a review. If not forget you met me as this is our bread”. Then why waste our hard earned money? It is our bread too. It felt like someone forced him to do this. Extremely disappointed. You should be refunding my money!
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Gerald_b
Jun 23, 2025
Total waste of time and money - I never found your tour guide and didn’t use this at all!!! Terrible experience and total waste of time, I spent 2 hours trying to find the tour and had no luck!
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Sean_s
May 13, 2025
Go elsewhere - I paid $633. The average with me on the tour was $150. Tour guide left the group and didn’t give any explanation as to how to follow up after the museum. Google did it. Dave your money, use Google and you won’t be disappointed. I ended up bringing 8 people with me to the Basilica. Because she bailed and didn’t tell anyone what was next on the “skip”. It was a joke.
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Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).