Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel Tickets
Description
With this priority access admission you will skip the line for Vatican museums & Sistine Chapel. Your tickets will be sent to your email a day before your booking date. Please use these tickets to enter at the allotted time you have booked for and enjoy your visit at your own pace. Navigate through the most important galleries and breathtaking masterpieces collection of art in your way without following any crowd. Marvel at Raphael's masterpieces, including the iconic "School of Athens." Immerse yourself in a world of exquisite frescoes and timeless creativity. Finally, admire the iconic artwork adorning the Sistine Chapel, where you see Michelangelo’s legendary frescoes and The Last Judgment. NOTE: Vatican Museums are one of the most visited museums in the world with more than 10 million visitors every year. Expect more crowd than usual since 2025 is the Jubilee Year for Vatican City and more than 25 million are expected this year.
Tour Options
Itinerary
With the PDF ticket sent to your email, enter the Vatican Museums from the entrance near Viale Vaticano 100, Rome.
From the glories of ancient Greece and Egypt to Middle ages Renaissance works, from statues which belong to ancient Rome to modern shiny bronze sphere, Vatican museums has more than 20,000 artifacts in display. Walk the hallways of the Pope's luxury palaces admiring pine cone courtyard, Egypt and Etruscan collections, glorious tapestries, Gallery of Maps, painted ceilings and large scale frescoes by Raphael.
The frescoes depict scenes drawn from the Bible's Old Testament and The Last Judgment by Michelangelo
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Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Please keep in mind these tickets are timed, and in the event you are late and missing your time slot, there is no possibility of reimbursement
- Arrive directly to the Vatican Museums Entrance and show the PDF tickets sent to your email/mobile
- All travellers must carry print or mobile version ID proof (Passport/Driving Licence/Govt. issued ID card)
- Knee length shorts are allowed and shoulders to be covered while entering Sistine chapel. Can use scarf for temporary purpose.
Reviews(261)
We were notified the night before the event that the tour was cancelled due to a technical glitch. This left as high and dry with no alternative option apart from to queue for three hours. We ended up having to pay more in order to avoid the extremely long cues.
Beware of cancellation at the last minute! We had booked our tour for the Tuesday before Easter weekend, purposely avoiding the busy period in Rome. The day before the tour, we received a WhatsApp message saying there was a problem with the ticket delivery system (email) and if it couldn't be sorted by 6m thst evening we would be given a refund. No tickets arrived. Buying additional tickets on the day was so much more expensive than our original booking so we did not do this and 4 days later still no refund. When ordering make sure you have ACTUAL tickets and not a voucher as the tickets may never arrive. So disappointed.
We didn’t really enjoy the Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel tour. It’s quite boring
We never received the tickets we booked many days in advance. The agent kept telling us they would be sent, until one hour before the time we had booked, when he said they were not available and a refund would be given. It was too late to get replacement tickets, we missed out on seeing the vatican. Very disappointed
Worst I've ever experienced. After booking the Vatican Museum and Sistine 1v in advance, we found out the day before we were going there that there were no tickets left. Do NOT book here!!!
Terribly disappointed!! Deserves zero stars!!! Book this tour elsewhere for your own good!! I booked this 5 months in advance with hype emails only a few hours before the tour... "get your tickets now... heres your tickets" the links didnt work!! We were told 2 hours before the tour that the tickets were no longer available... but that they would "look for other tickers for 1 hour, if not found then a refund would be provided". This meant we couldn't find our own elsewhere until then.... They didn't communicate that they hadn't found the tickets until we contacted Viator customer service long after the one hour was completed!
Booked the event over 6 months in advance only to find out 1 hour before entrance that my tickets weren't available anymore. I had to go find another tour company for my wife and I.
Experience cancelled at the last minute for non-existent and farcical reasons! Disappointing then that we had booked 1 month before. It is not 2 people who would have changed anything! So we queued for 7 hours for a 20€/person entrance!
Very disappointing experience. I received an email 2 days before my visit saying that my tickets were ready, but when I looked in the app nothing was there. On the day of the event, the company sent me a message saying that due to a “technical issue” my tickets were delayed. Then, they messaged again saying they would have an update for me by 2 pm (the experience was supposed to start at 4:30 pm.) They finally said they had no tickets and that they would issue a refund. While I’m thankful for the refund, it was incredibly frustrating to have to plan around maybe having tickets or maybe not. We wound up buying some at the Vatican itself and saved $60 per person, which was at least a win.
They dont have tickets, dont know what scam is this but they let you know 20min before that they dont have tickets for you and cancel on you. Many comments like this here but I did not read before and fall for the same thing. J hope Viator do something about this, I made a huge complain.
