Exclusive Vatican: Sistine Chapel & St. Peter's Fast Pass

We paid $375 for an English guided tour of the Vatican, Sistine Chapel, and St Peter’s Basilica. Our guide was a very pleasant Italian gentleman. Unfortunately he was very soft spoken and had a strong accent. Combined with a poor audio earpiece we heard very little and understood even less. He also left us before entering the Basilica leaving many in the group confused about where to go. We would have been better off with a self guided tour.

Great tour. What an amazing experience. Our tour guide was very helpful and very very knowledgeable. I would highly recommend it.

It was great until we got to St. Peter’s Bacilla our guide left us and we had to get in by ourselves it was awful waiting in that line we paid to have a English speaking guide and we had none we had to just look not what we paid for

The Vatican museum is longggggg. The guide was good but never just stopped talking. You don't have a minute yo just look at things. They move you along like cattle. I regret taking this tour.

Communication was less than expected. We were not given an itinerary prior to or during the tour. We. spent 20 minutes in the latter vestibule of the Sistine Chapel, with no guidance. We did not know where to go next. We excited on our own and never saw the inside of the Basilica. The lines outside to get into St. Peter's were extensive and we paid for a part of the tour we never saw. Poorly organized and most disappointing. Find another alternative.

It was excellent, well organised and our guide Antonio was very good at explaining everything, including the importance of staying together. His description of the interior and Roman history was well researched and he obviously had a lot of experience of working within the busy Vatican environment which enabled us to efficiently view all of the museum, Sistine chapel and Basilica within the time allotted and without feeling overwhelmed by the crowds.

It was very difficult to understand our guide. The headset sound was not clear and his accent made it difficult to understand. I told him and tried to get closer to him to understand but it was difficult. I wish we had just gotten a self guided tour and saved the money.

The tour guide and process was fine. We spent so much time in the Museum (2.5 hours) that we had little to no time in the Sistine Chapel, then to find out they closed the tunnel to St. Peter’s. As such, our guide ended the tour and said we were on our own for St. Peter’s and that we would have to leave and walk around. The museum section took so long, that we lost opportunities. the skip the line was the best part of the tour and there are many options with vendors on the street to pay them €50 or so for skip the line access. This tour was very expensive and not worth it. In the end, we paid more money to get access Or fast pass to St. Peter’s! This was a 3 hour tour and most of it was in the museum. I would not recommend. Our tour guide was good but didn’t read the group, at least 6+ ppl kept walking away to look at other things as was so much talking, and the headsets Horrible! Most of the time, I listened to other guides and took off the headset. Not comfortable at all.

The tour guide talked a lot and too fast. Didn’t really understand much of what she was saying. She zoomed through most of the Vatican and was hard to take pictures. Just felt rushed.

We loved this tour—she did a great job moving us through a crowd and educating us on what we were looking at, with such interesting pieces that we would’ve missed had we gone on our own! She also took care to make sure everyone’s interests and wants were achieved—for me it was being able to walk through the Holy Door.