Best Way to Visit the Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel! TOTALLY WORTH EVERY PENNY!!! - My uncle & I did the Exclusive After Hours Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel GuidedTour with the Tour Guy and Marzia was our guide. We were a group of 20 guests and 1 guide, plus a museum security guard who accompanied us throughout the tour. A day before that, we had done a daytime guided tour of St.Peter's Basilica, the Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel with another company and the Vatican Museums, ESPECIALLY THE SISTINE CHAPEL, were SERIOUSLY OVERCROWDED!!!! We had experienced the Vatican Museums during their normal operating hours and I can honestly recommend you to take the after hours tour! Unless you enjoy jostling with tens of thousands of people in all the corridors, hallways, passageways and staircases in the entire place! Marzia was a FANTASTIC guide!!! The tour started at 6.30pm, Marzia lead us through the Vatican Museums which were TOTALLY EMPTY of people other than ourselves! We could walk through the passageways with ease without having to push through the hordes of people and spend time to look at the frescoes and paintings without getting shoved aside by rude and inconsiderate people who just wanted to take great photos for their Instagram accounts without knowing the story or history behind the paintings that they are seeing! Marzia explained the significance of the important paintings and sculptures in the Raphael Rooms, the Gallery of Maps, the Gallery of Tapestries, the Octagonal Courtyard, the Octagonal Chamber of Legends & Heroes, the Egyptian Museum and lastly, the Sistine Chapel. We spent around 40 minutes INSIDE THE SISTINE CHAPEL AND HAD IT TO OURSELVES!!!! A day earlier, when we entered the Sistine Chapel during the daytime tour, there were around 10,000 people in there and we were squashed like sardines in a can, even worse than that! We had to struggle and physically push our way through the crowd of people who refused to budge, just to get to the exit on the other side of the hall! If you are planning to visit the Sistine Chapel for the first time, please do yourself a favor and book the Exclusive After Hours Tour for yourself and your loved ones! This tour is quite pricey but TOTALLY WORTH EVERY PENNY!!!!Highly Recommended!!!!

Superb morning at The Vatican Museums - The Vatican Museums and St Peter’s do not require any of my superlatives to do them justice- they are truly amazing and saturated with beauty, history and culture A special word of praise to our tour guide, Giovanni who, besides handling a quite large (20 odd) group very expertly and with great good humour through the crowds was an absolute mine of relevant information with the depth and breadth of knowledge worthy of a Professor of History or Art His genuine interest and love for the buildings and contents and their history shone through and helped towards a truly memorable experience - Grazie Giovanni per Una mattinata davvero straordinaria ed interessantissima.

Tour around Saint Peters Basilica in Vatican City - The most incredible visit to the The Saint Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City where we had a tour with Carl. What an amazing guy Carl is. His passion, enthusiasm and knowledge of everything inside and out of the basilica made the whole thing fantastic giving so much detail in the all of the intricacies! If you can specifically request Carl on your visit i genuinely don’t think there’s a better guy to show you around! Thanks again Jack and G the English couple 🙌🏼

AMAZING GUIDE - Alessia was a wonderful knowledgeable friendly guide She really went out of her way to explain the history behind so many parts of the tour Highly recommended

Lucia is an excellent, knowledgeable guide. - Our guide Lucia was wonderful. It is a big attraction with long lines (which we didn’t stand in) and lots of regulations, which she made sure we knew about. She was an expert on the history and the facts about the Vatican.

Great experience and Giovanni is highly recommended guide! - Our guide Giovanni was very passionate about his job and with rich knowledge about Vantican! We had 3 hours guide and didn’t even feel long due to his fascinating guide. Highly recommended!

Giovanni the best! - Giovanni the tour guide was simply amazing, rich in knowledge and sincerity passionate about it! Clearly recommend this tour with him!

Great tour! - We had a wonderful private tour and learned so much about the Vatican! Even with Sistine Chapel being closed, due to the conclave, the day was full of interesting facts and places. The additional skip-the-line tickets to Santa Maria Majori were such a blessing to us. Thank you for a great tour!

Spécial thanks to our guide! - Very interesting visit thanks to our excellent guide Lucia! So many things to see and so much information to learn! Many thanks!

Guide Shak fast like shark! Pure business - We had a guide by the name of Shak, the experience was not as expected since we paid for a 3 hour tour paying 200 euros for two people but she finished the tour in 1 hour and a half. Everything very fast and bad, we did not have time to see or take pictures or anything. It was all pure business.