Discover the Vatican's masterpieces with our specialized guides

Duration

3 hours

Description

This tour can’t be beat! The best way to visit the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel but not only, before doing so, you tour the Vatican Gardens on an open deck electric bus! However, there is a catch, availability is very limited, so be sure to book well in advance.

• Meet your guide in our office near the Vatican entrance and reach the place with the guide.

Our office is very close to the entrance to the Vatican Museums. This is where you will meet your private guide, who will have your very special tickets and will accompany you to the Vatican Museums. The guide will take care of the formalities and will introduce you to the Vatican representative who will accompany you to the bus.

The guide will not accompany you on the tour of the Vatican Gardens, as the bus capacity is very limited, but you will have audio guides.

• 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.

• Meet again with your guide after the bus tour. Tour the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel with your guide.

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.

Should you wish a transfer (to or from the place of your choice) it is available at an additional cost.

Note: This tour might not be available on Wednesdays for the Pope receives a public audience and the church remains closed until 2:00 pm.

Note: If you are coming on a cruise for the day, do not book this tour. Please find the tours that are right for you here: https://mybesttour.com/tour/cruisers/