Skip the Line: Vatican Museums Tickets

Rome, Italy

If you'd like to visit the Vatican Museums without a guide, pre-book and skip the long entrance queues! Your Vatican Museums ticket will be pre-booked and pre-paid, for fast, hassle-free entry. After skipping the line, you can explore the Vatican Museums at your leisure, including the famous Sistine Chapel and Raphael's Rooms.

By pre-booking this Vatican Museums ticket you can avoid the long lines (which can take more than two hours!) to enter the Museums. Please note that all visitors must pass through metal detectors at the security check point, so please expect to wait 20-30 minutes to clear security. These special Vatican tickets include the standard ticket price plus fast-track access fee.

Do you want to get the most from your Vatican Museums visit?
For a small extra cost, you can upgrade your ticket and join a 5-star-rated guided tour. An expert guide will add value to your experience by pointing out the highlights of the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel and St Peter's Basilica and by sharing the fascinating stories behind the art. Your group tour also includes special skip-the-line access to St Peter's Basilica, a priority not available with individual tickets. The groups are small, never more than 20 people, ensuring personal attention from your knowledgeable guide.

USD $42.77

Traveler Reviews

Review by: Penny A C	April 2012
We met our representative exactly as described and made our way into the Vatican bang on time. This is a hassle free way of experiencing Rome's busiest attraction.

Review by: fernando v	April 2012
the only reason i don't give it a 5 star is because i would have really liked to have gone in earlier. the 2:30 check in was a bit late in the day.

Review by: sian a	April 2012
Excellent organisation - saved 3 hours in the queue - very efficient.

Review by: Elinor P	April 2012
Prebooked ttickets for the Vatican - a must - certainly when you see the siz of the queues. Met Graham our Guide who was very helpful and knowledgable and entered Vatican very quickly. Visited Collessum on our own but again with rebooked tickets for that and the Palentine Hill. Would certainly use this company again.

Review by: Vida G	April 2012
Excellent guide who added to the whole experience. We certainly skipped the queue of several hundred people. Well worth it.

Review by: David P	April 2012
It worked; we skipped the lengthy queue to the Vatican Museums. However if we had waited until late in the day the queues were small anyway and there were several touts offering line-skips and tours at competitive rates. At 4pm there was a tiny queue to the Colosseum and a guide at 5 euros. However pre-booking gives peace of mind and a full relaxing day to see everything.

Review by: Mark S	April 2012
Saved waiting in the long queues .

Review by: Cheryl M	April 2012
Cheryl and Mackenzie, the guides, were both efficient and charming. Our trip to the Vatican Museums was certainly made easier by booking with Viator.

Review by: Wendy S	April 2012
Just fine. Everything worked.

Review by: Gladys C	April 2012
The guide was on time, took us inside so we didn't have to wait on line, she gave us our tickets and we went on our merry way.

Review by: rrae	April 2012
I went on this tour and it was very organised, guides are knowledgeable and extremely nice people. Skip the line tickets are a must at the Vatican and this was a good option.

Review by: howdyhigirl	April 2012
Recommended because you skip a line that's over an hour long to get tickets - we met the guide exactly where they said who then gets ticket for you (after security check) - then free to roam as you please.

Review by: Barbara M M	March 2012
as the waiting time would have been about three hours without this service it was well worth doing. the whole think from meeting the viator rep to being in the museum took about 25 mins including security.

Review by: Barbara M M	March 2012
excellent service. the whole thing took about 25 mins including the security check. as the waiting time was about three hours wuthour these tickets it was amasing.was

Review by: Andrew T	March 2012
Got bored half way through the tour

Review by: Kiona M	March 2012
Very quick entrance, friendly hostessess.

Review by: Timothy M	March 2012
We found our guide and went in through the security queue as expected then stood and watched while our guide queued to buy tickets and chatted with the teller. He then handed them to us with no advice or suggestion of what to see. Very dissapointing.

Review by: Margaret B	March 2012
Very simple instructions to follow and it all worked like a charm. Thank you, it made seeing the Vatican very easy.

Review by: HUMBERTO V	March 2012
This was cool did it on our own and rented head phones for explaination, but would recomnend to get a tour guide.

Review by: Stefan K	March 2012
Really enjoyed the tour. Well organised and the guide was extremely informative and entertaining. Thoroughly recommend.

Review by: Stacey M	March 2012
All worked accordingly to plan but not worth the money at this time of year.

Review by: Mark G	March 2012
Saved a long time queing up and the hostess was friendly and knowledgeable

Review by: Susan T	March 2012
Our experience was very enjoyable but I personally had difficulty hearing the guide via the headphone system due to the background noise. I tried hard to be at the front so I could lip read. Our guide was very knowledgable and friendly. We would recommend it and it was great to book it online in advance.

Review by: Melanie M	March 2012
Our tour guide provided us with good information about what we were seeing. This is a very popular and crowded venue and at times it was difficult to experience all that we were seeing. This was not the fault of the guide but the magnitude of the crowds. The skip the line was worth the money because the lines into the Vatican Musuem appeared to be long.

Review by: Wendy W	February 2012
excellent service. No waiting, apart from at security, which was minimal.

Review by: Ian P	February 2012
A real help. Friendly helpful staff.

Review by: Jane S	February 2012
Charming guide met us and directed inside the Vatican Museums skipping the queues. _br/_ We didn't have a guide once inside but used the hand-held audio devices which were clear and informative.

Review by: Alan Charles B	February 2012
Laura was entertaining and informative, we all enjoyed our tour and will recommend it.

Review by: George H	January 2012
Great tour. Guide was very knowledgeable and friendly. She also did a great job navigating us through the large crowds.

Review by: Paul L	January 2012
Getting our own tickets ahead of time was still worth it with out the tour. We got in right away and wound up doing the museum at our own pace about 5 hours. Renting the headsets was a plus. Bring earbuds to hear better and privacy/hands free

Review by: H. Trent M	January 2012
There were no lines to get in (it was January!) but Angela, our tour guide, was fabulous - worth the price of the tour! She shared a wealth of knowledge and kept it lively and interesting.

Review by: Felicity F	January 2012
I think that this would be very helpful if the lines were really, really long but as you need to get there 1/2 and hour before if the lines are moving it is probably just as fast to stand in the line (for us if would have been much quicker in the line)

Review by: L C, United Kingdom	July 2010
We went to Rome mid July and the queues to get into the Vatican museums were about 2.5 hours long, all in the sun! I would definitely recommed pre-booking the tickets before hand. Our rep was very helpful and easy to find and we were able to walk straight past all the queues and straight through secruity!

Review by: Kathleen W, United Kingdom	July 2010
well worth the money and time saved we had a fantastic time museums is a must see

Review by: amanda w, United Kingdom	July 2010
Excellent value for money.

Review by: Suzanne S, United States of America	July 2010
We got to the meeting place early and the tour guide of another one of your tours took us in because they had room it was very nice of them. Only way to spend quality time at the Vatican.

Review by: Jean-Guy G, Canada	July 2010
The day we went to Vatican Museums, there was a 3 block line up. very glad that I had booked the skip the line tickets!

Review by: Wendy S, United Kingdom	June 2010
Easy to arrange. Exact details of where to meet at the Vatican very accurate. Well organised with no fuss. thank you.

Review by: Ian A, United Kingdom	June 2010
At 1015am the queue was already at least 200yds long we simply skipped the whole queue. After that, we were on our own the museums are fantastic - the best and most comprehensive we have ever visited.

Review by: Alison W, Canada	June 2010
We were greeted right away. Were given our information and directions by a very friendly and happy staff member. They were very promt in getting us through security and with getting our tickets.then a pleasent goodbye and left to enjoy our day. All in all a very good experince.

Review by: Marian S. S, United States of America	June 2010
All was exactly as advertised, with a very pleasant young lady to assist us and no problems accessing the Vatican Museums charging admission to a church is forbidden in Italy, so entrance has to be through the museum, a long but fascinating walk from the Sistine Chapel and the Basilica. The meeting place is at the bottom of a wide stairway directly across the Viale Vaticano from the Vatican Museum entrance.

Review by: Glenys F, United Kingdom	June 2010
well worth doing.

Review by: Susan K, United States of America	June 2010
skipping the line is the only way to go....you could see hundreds of people waiting in line to get in and we just followed our representative right in,...she gave us a couple of tips, and we were free to roam and explore....for me this was perfect...i could take my time exploring the etruscan and egyptian rooms, the various paintings, etc...

Review by: Craig T, Australia	June 2010
Very happy we skipped the line! We didn't book a guide and probably should have - no doubt we missed heaps. What we saw was still amazing though!

Review by: Deborah C, United Kingdom	June 2010
Good instructions on how to meet guide especially if you use Google maps. Great tickets for skipping the enormous que to Vatican musuem, although a little expensive but worth it.

Review by: Dee L, United States of America	June 2010
It was great not having to stand in a long line - and the leader got us in and moving very quickly. Good idea.!!! Thanks!

Review by: Alex R, United Kingdom	May 2010
The tour guide was very easy to find based on the instructions provided. She spoke excellent English and the trip was very successful and worked exactly as described

Review by: Bradford N, United States of America	May 2010
The "Skip the Line" tickets were exactly as advertised. We were met by the local guide right across from the Vatican Museum entrance and at the proscribed time we were admitted to the Vatican ahead of all the tourists.

Review by: Ann L, United States of America	May 2010
Nice people, I had to make adjustments and they really went out of their way to oblige me. I had a great opportunity to see the underground excavations tour in the morining and so arranged to see the Vatican Museum in the afternoo.

Review by: Cynthia K, United States of America	May 2010
Worked great!. Huge line that we didn't wait in. Helpful, knowledgeable staff person who could answer questions re what to do, locations of things inside. Well worth it and easy to set up......