St. Peter's Basilica Private Guided Tour

Monuments

Complex of St. Peter's Basilica tour with private Vatican guide

This booking lets you have an exclusive tour St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican with an official guide. Visitors can enter the Basilica from a special entrance to cut down on waiting time and can stay in the Basilica as long as they want after the tour.

Suitable clothing
Suitable clothing

Suitable clothing must be worn to enter St. Peter's Basilica, as appropriate for a sacred place (shoulders, neckline, and knees covered).

Duration
Duration

The guided tour is approx. 1 hour. Visitors can stay in the Basilica as long as they like after the tour.

Language
Language

Visitor's choice from options provided on the booking form.

Fast entrance
Fast entrance

This booking gives you quick entry.

Availability
Availability

Every day except religious holidays. On religious holidays only certain times can be booked.
Tour starting time: 9:30 am – 10.30 am - 11:30 am - 2.30 pm - 4:30 pm.

Electronic Voucher
Electronic Voucher

Electronic voucher, voucher on cell phone accepted.



Telephone Assistance
Telephone Assistance

+39 055 5321180
(Mon-Fri 8:30 am -6:30 pm/ Sat-Sun 8:30 am -4:30 pm)

Description of your booking

A fascinating guided tour of the monumental complex of St. Peter's, St. Peter’s Square, the Colonnade of Bernini and the Basilica with all its artistic treasures that it holds.The visit with a private guide includes fast track entrance into the Basilica.
Book your visit online. You will receive an email with a copy of your online order and then only later your ticket.
If you order after 6:00 pm in the evening (Rome time), you must wait for the next morning to receive your ticket or our message which will inform you when you will receive the ticket.
The tour is also available in the following other languages: Italian, French, German and Spanish.

What is included

What is included

- fast track entrance to St. Peter's Basilica
- exclusive guide service
- private guided tour in English for 1 hour

What is not included

What is not included

- audio guide
- hotel pick-up/drop-off
- visit to the dome
- tour of the underground section of the Basilica

*IMPORTANT

PLEASE NOTE: please be on time at the meeting point.
Access to the Basilica is reserved to visitors with an appropriate attire.

Prices

PRICE: up to 4 people the tour has a fixed cost of € 200.00. For groups of 5 to 10 participants, the supplement is € 20.00 per person. To book this tour for groups over 4 participants, please send an email to info@ticketsrome.com. 
Children under 7 years old participate free and no resrevation is required for them.

Cancellation policy

From booking to 5 working days before the day of the tour, the cancellation fee is 40% of the total price of the tour. For cancellations communicated to Italy Travels 4 or fewer working days prior to the day of the tour, the cancellation penalty is the full amount of the tour (100% of the total price), i.e. there is no right to any refund.
Changes must always be communicated in writing by email to receive a partial refund when allowed by the cancellation policy as stated below. For the purposes of calculating the cancellation fee, we will use the date of receipt of the client's cancellation request. For these purposes, requests for cancellation received by telephone, without anything in writing, will not be considered valid.

When

Every day except religious holidays. On religious holidays only certain times can be booked.
Tour starting time: 9:30 am – 10.30 am - 11:30 am - 2.30 pm - 4:30 pm.
The guided tour is approx. 1 hour. Visitors can stay in the Basilica as long as they like after the tour.

Where

Piazza San Pietro – Vatican City

vox meeting point
The meeting point is – facing the Basilica - under the right side colonnade*, just in the middle, precisely in correspondence of the Police hurdle (see drawing below).The staff - wearing a blue jacket with the Vox Mundi logo printed on it - will wait for you to accompany you, through a dedicated gate, inside the Basilica.

Useful info

Italy Travels cannot be held responsible for partial closing museum rooms, itinerary variations inside the museum, cancellations or entrance delays due to unexpectable events, strikes or decisions taken by the museum direction or unexpected variations of the Pope movements which involve the museum buildings.

The tour itinerary

The tour starts outside the Basilica meeting the guide at the beginning of Bernini's Colonnade. A journey into the heart of Christianity to discover the artistic and architectural masterpieces of great artists such as Michelangelo and Gian Lorenzo Bernini. You will admire the colonnade of St. Peter's Square, the Pietà by Michelangelo, the majesty of the Dome of the great Master, and the interior of the great Basilica benefiting from a privileged entry without queue.