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The information on this page relates to Tickitaly's private tours of the Vatican. We also offer group Vatican tours, as well as Vatican tickets for those who would rather explore by themselves, not take part in a tour.
Please select a date by clicking on the calendar icon below and then select the tour that interests you (Tour 1 or Tour 2). You'll find detailed information further down the page.
Visitor information for various sites of the Vatican City, Rome
About tickets, admittance, dress code and more ...
For the time being please send us an email or fill out our contact form if you'd like to arrange a private tour ... please read on below for pricing and details.
THE TWO PRIVATE VATICAN TOURS ON OFFER:
Tickitaly is able to offer two exclusive private Vatican tours, both in the company of a dedicated English-speaking tour guide who will introduce you to the artistic and architectural wonders of the Vatican City, Rome. These are private tours - the group will comprise your party and your party only, offering you a privileged and dedicated tour.
These are exclusive tours, and the price reflects this. However, there is one enormous advantage - peace of mind. Most Vatican tours are put together at the last minute, and may well see timings changed, or not happen at all. You'll book your spot, perhaps months in advance, but you may well not receive confirmation until the day before your tour is due to start. This is not scare mongering, it's just the way that collective tours of the Vatican work. With tickitaly.com you'll set off for your trip to Italy knowing that all arrangements have been finalised well in advance.
Both tours last three hours and both tours include visits to the Sistine Chapel and the Vatican Museums. The difference between the two is simple - the first tour also takes in St Peters - the second does not, and includes a longer and more thorough visit to the Vatican Museums.
PRICING
The prices below are per person, and are all inclusive, covering the cost of the tour guide, booking fees, entrance tickets and the 'Whisper' audio system:
Euro € 135 a head for 2 people.
Euro € 99 a head for 3 people.
Euro € 81 a head for 4 people.
Euro € 69 a head for 5 people.
Euro € 66 a head for 6 people.
Euro € 60 a head for 7 people.
Euro € 58 a head for 8 people.
More than 8 people - price on request (contact
us here).
TOUR ONE - VATICAN AND ST. PETERS
This three hour tour takes in the Vatican Museums, the Galleria
dei Candelabri, Galleria degli Arazzi and the Galleria delle Carte
Geografiche, the Sistine Chapel and the Basilica of St. Peters. Clients
may also
request a visit to the Tombe dei Papi.
Click
the links at the top or bottom of the page to book this Vatican tour,
and click
here for more detailed information on the places
visited.
TOUR TWO - THE VATICAN MUSEUMS
This tour also lasts three hours, and takes in the Sistine Chapel,
the Vatican Library, the Galleria
dei Candelabri, Galleria degli Arazzi and the Galleria delle Carte
Geografiche, the Museo Pio-Clementino, the Sala a Croce Greca, the
Stanza di Raffaello, and, on request, the Pinacoteca.
Click
the links at the top or bottom of the page to book this Vatican tour,
and click
here for more detailed information
on the places visited.
PLEASE NOTE: Recent years have seen an incredible
surge in bookings for the Vatican, and a less-than-perfectly-organised
administration
has seen
some small amount of queueing necessary in peak season, even for
private pre-booked tours such as ours. There is simply nothing that
can be done about this, but please click
here for a page explaining
how to maximise your chances of avoiding such a queue. Again, this
affects everyone, and if you find someone claiming to be able to
bypass this, then they're being disingenuous, to put it mildly.
MORNING OR AFTERNOON?: in the past we used to recommend booking tours in the morning - not
so now. Several enormous tour operators have begun to block-book the
early morning tours, and are being allowed to do so; consequently,
the Vatican has started to shunt forward other early morning tours,
sometimes by one or two hours. They don't always do this, but if they
do they'll do so with total disregard to previously booked dates. Should
this
occur, and should it affect one of our bookings, we will give notice,
via
email,
at least 15-20 days before the tour date.
We are therefore now advising that you try to opt for afternoon tours,
where there is less chance of timings being shifted. Note we said less chance
- the Vatican does what the Vatican wants, and there can be no absolute
guarantees. Please also note that we would recommend avoiding Saturday
if at all possible - some level of queueing seems inevitable if recent times are anything to go by.
DRESS CODE & ACCESS:
You'll need to be wearing clothes that do not leave your shoulders/arms
or lower legs bare. No shorts, short trousers, short skirts, sleeveless
shirts or bare shoulders. All visitors to the Vatican Museums will
be required to pass through a metal-detector prior to being granted
admittance. Wheelchairs are available onsite and do not need to
be reserved.
Persons with disabilities or those of very advanced years will never have to queue at any point (in fact the Vatican has won an award in this area), but they can only be accompanied by one person, others in such a group will need to queue regularly, unless a paid tour is booked for these people as well.
Wheelchairs are supplied free of charge inside the Vatican, but the tour here follows a different route, and more than 2 people may not accompany the person in the wheelchair. If a group is larger than this, they'll need to book a disabled tour and a non-disabled tour, unless they choose to take the person in the wheelchair along with them on the standard route and carry the chair themselves when necessary (stairs).
THE 'WHISPER' SYSTEM:
For groups of more than seven people it is obligatory to use the 'Whisper' audio system. Your guide will be talking into a small microphone and you'll each be listening on special earpieces. This is included in the price. If you or your group are still looking for a hotel in Rome, please allow us to recommend ahotelinitaly.com.
YOUR TOUR GUIDE: More often than not, your guide will be Federica, an officially licensed Rome Tour Guide. Federica, a native roman, graduated in Art History, with an M.A in conservation and restoration of works of art. She is 35 and has been working as a tour guide in Rome for 6 years. Federica is the author of 'Rome, Then And Now' - Amazon link |
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