This was excellent. Our guide was hugely knowledgeable with a genuine enthusiasm for her subjects. You do get to skip a hugely long line and avoid hours of waiting in a hot sun - it only took around 20 minutes to get in. I recommend this tour to everyone.

This tour definitely allowed us to skip the line and go at a fast pace thru the Vatican, Sistine chapel and Basilica. The tour guide received her training in the archaelogical history of this area and has lead tours for 15 years. Kind of like a fire hose of information. Highly recommend the tour if you want to see many things in Rome in a short time.

An amazing, informative, and exhausting 3 hours (prepare to walk ... a lot!). Our tour guide (Valentina) is an art historian with an encyclopedic understanding of the the Vatican and its art. Her commentary was absolutely wonderful and really gave us great context on what we were seeing. There is no way you can "see" the Vatican in only 3 hours, but this was an absolutely first rate introduction to the art, the buildings, and the history of this important place. You do NOT want to do this on your own. You will stand in line for hours to get in. We walked right in courtesy of this tour package. I would never do it any other way. Thank you Valentia for an amazing visit!

Jon our tour guide was great. He was very knowledgeable and friendly and asked what we wanted from the tour to make sure we got the best experience. Absolutely recommend doing a small private tour over the big group ones.

Oksana was an amazing tour guide she provided us with so much of her experience and knowledge during the tour. She made it enjoyable even though you walk for over 2 1/2 hrs the travel was very doable and level mostly but there are stairs in the museum and church you have to manage. Would highly recommend the tour and if you can ask for her if available.

The guide was very knowledge and friendly ! He was funny and very personable, he entertained us with stories of previous tours and visitors as well as private stories of his most loved memories of the Vatican. (Actually seeing the pope). He paid special attention to our comfort, heat , sun , rain etc, Only wish this tour was longer ! I feel I only experienced a small Portion and am now wanting more knowledge about this fabulous place . Great job making this entertaining as well as fact filled !

Despite enormous crowds, our tour guide Enrica managed to take us through museums, the Sistine chapel and St. Peter's Basilica, and all with a smile on her face. She did her best to share her vast knowledge in history and arts with us in a fun and interesting manner and pointed out a lot of memorable details we otherwise sure would have missed. We definitely recommend this tour to everyone who wants to explore Vatican efficiently!

We had a truly fantastic time at the Vatican! It would have been a much different experience without our intrepid tour guide Emma! Her help navigating the very confusing lines at the Vatican was essential and her knowledge of the important pieces of the Vatican collection was extensive. She turned what certainly would have been a crowded, frustrating experience into a special day!

Mario is a wonderfully engaging and entertaining guide who takes you beyond the sights themselves to share the motives and meanings behind them. I recommend him highly.

Janette was an amazing guide - thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge and your personality made the tour a memorable experience.

Eugene taught us so much. He was so enthusiastic and knowledgeable. It was such an amazing experience. I teared up when the priest blessed my husband and I. I am filled with love for each of the artist and the spiritual feeling I now feel. Thank you Eugene for your love of this tour.

Our tour guide was Jad who was very enthusiastic, informative and introduced humor into his delivery to keep people engaged. He recognized and engaged with all the people on the tour. Although the tour was with the flow of other groups he conducted the tour at a pace to suit everyone on the tour allowing time to answer questions and toilet breaks. The tour of the Vatican museum, the Sistine chapel and Saint Peter’s is a must and was enhanced with Jad’s knowledge and interaction with the tour group.

Tour guide was outstanding in knowledge, conveyence and passion for tour and topics. Tour path well chosen, efficient and guide expertly highlighted key art and sight aspects and history. Excellent!!

Humorous and disarming, sincere and endlessly engaging, Mario is a wonderful guide with a vast breadth of knowledge in antiquities, art, historical culture and all the spaces in between. We started our tour with brief introductions in which Mario instantly, somehow, remembered all of our names. The line and security were surprisingly quick and we were off. We traversed the rooms and galleries at a brisk pace, sometimes pausing for more in depth back and forth on specific works. I found myself longing for more time to explore every room and gallery, but Mario assured us our 3 hour tour was time sensitive to have access to and see the most worthwhile sights, though begged us to return to spend an hour in this room, two in that, a few in the garden, etc. Indeed, we purchased a Vatican book at the gift shop, and when we perused it later over drinks and food at a lovely shop Mario had suggested, we had seen every single major work represented! By the end of this tour your feet will hurt, your belly will grumble, you’ll be awestruck and breathless by the endless grandeur and spectacle of it all and you’ll wish it were not over. We could not have imagined a better guide to hold our hands (figuratively) through such an experience. One older lady in our group tried to adopt him, we all felt fast friends, and after our questions were answered most thoroughly, the place was indeed closing and we couldn’t possibly have seen more even if we wanted. Thank you for the lovely tour, we wish you and your family all the happiness and hope to see you again one day on the next adventure!

Our first trip to Italy seemed like a visit to the Vatican and Sistine Chapel was essential. We appreciated the highlights we were shown, although sometimes we could see interesting displays in other rooms that we did not go into, and the focus on ancient maps was not really worth the time spent. We were given a legend to the Sistine Chapel art that was helpful, and the guide did point out details we would not have otherwise noticed.