Fantastic, organized and informative. Our guide was great, spoke beautiful English, the headphones were great. We even got a glimpse of the Pope.
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What's Included
Includes
- Skip the line entrance to St. Peter's Basilica
- Access to the papal tombs (Vatican Grottoes)
- Access to St.Peter's Dome (if Option Selected) With Elevator
- Upgrade for guided tour with professional licensed guide if option selected
Excludes
- Location Pick Up & Drop Off
- Scavi/Necropolis
- Audio guide or guided tour (Unless option is selected)
- Please note that for the Basilica it is mandatory to provide the full name of each participant.
Itinerary
St. Peter's Square (Piazza San Pietro), located in Vatican City in front of St. Peter's Basilica, is a massive, iconic Baroque plaza designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini between 1656 and 1667. Featuring an elliptical design with massive colonnades representing the "embrace" of the Church, it holds over 300,000 people and features a central Egyptian obelisk.
The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican, or simply Saint Peter's Basilica, is a church of the Italian High Renaissance located in Vatican City, an independent microstate enclaved within the city of Rome, Italy
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Maya Tours is excellent; in particular, our guide was extremely knowledgeable and gracious.
Tour went well. Guide was very helpful and informative. She provided great information and was easy to understand.
Great experience! Easy to find meeting place. Mariana, our guide was very knowledgeable and helpful.
Mariana was our guide. She was good, kind and very well prepared.
Extremely crowded as was expected so keep one eye on your guide and do your own exploring after the tour concludes
Guide was incredibly knowledgeable. Wouldn’t have been able to get the info from an audio tour. Skip the line was valuable considering you still had to wait in security line. Guide however made this enjoyable since she continued to give us information.
Whole process was seamless. Experience was fantastic!
You can’t go the Basilica without a guide, our guide was so informative and patient and stood us all in the right places to see all the key details. The dome is worth the climb !
This skip the line guided tour was amazing. Our guide was very kind and knowledgeable. The most difficult part is trying not focus on what she was showing us. Every inch was filled with something that took our breath away. The price was right and we had a small group so it was very easy to manage. Thank you for a great experience.
Marvellous fantastic, great, spitually superb, dream come true. And insperational journey
Definitely worth the money for a quality audio tour. We reserved noon on a Sunday which was just as it opened for free so be ready for long lines in the August heat.
A great guided tour, led by a lovely, friendly lady who was entirely knowledge about everything! Well organised, good pace for all ages, great value.
great experiencev very good value for money , went straight in no queue , guide very informative .
DO NOT buy this. There was nobody guiding us to a 'line'. We picked up the tickets from the travel office, then we were told go to the entrance and you'll see the sign, show your tickets and they'll tell you were to go. All a lie. We showed our tickets and we were shown to a line that was where everyone was standing in line to get in the Basilica. THERE WAS NO ONE TAKING US INSIDE OR TO A 'SKIP THE LINE LINE'. SO NO DO NOT BUY THIS! THIS IS ALMOST A SCAM!
Great tour. She knew so much about the Vatican and all the popes. It was fantastic to learn of the different doors and artifacts. I don’t remember our guide’s name, but she kept us engaged and learning the history of this small city.
Great experience! Our guide was very knowledgeable and helpful. St Peter's Basilica itself is very beautiful with incredible art and architecture. The view from the top of the dome was amazing. Though be warned there are about 200 steps after the elevator and the steps are narrow and steep. The view is worth the climb though. Would recommend!
Exceptional tour- we learned so much that we wouldn’t have known walking around the Basilica on our own. Well paced, friendly guide. Mariana was wonderful!
Marianna was a great guide! Very knowledgeable and kept the tour moving at a good pace so we could see many sights.
Really good tour, the guide was very well informed and funny. would recommend it to others. we did only tours without a real guide but with a recording which you listen to via an app. The guide is worth the extra money and then some!
Don’t believe the “Viator” meet point. It was totally different from where we needed to be and almost caused us to miss the tour!
It was wonderful, the guide Marianna was very sweet and funny.
An amazing experience. We were so pleased we booked this skip the line tour. Especially when we saw how long the regular line was. Our guide Mariana was knowledgeable and experienced; she shared her love for this wonderful Church. Visiting the tombs of the Popes and the Dome were special as we had never done that before.
First I had to find the queue for skip the queue, then they told me to go get a ticket 15 min walk away, then it was closed for lunch but managed to push in. Then wait for the paper tickets THEN ….go back to the skip the queue queue which was about 30 mins to get in compared with maybe 2 hours in the main queue. This is a strange and rather ridiculous skip the queue and join the shorter queue.
Money well spent. We were led to the front of the line, saving so much time.
Definitely worth doing this, although you still have to queue, it's a fraction of the time which means more discovery time. Fantastic place and the cupola is worth the hike. We skip the queue and did the stairs all the way. Be warned, the last leg is a tight squeeze, and the wall slope, very discombobulating 😆. The tour organisers we're really friendly and helpful. I would definitely recommend. 👌
Mariana was awesome. She was very knowledgeable.This was the best tour of our trip. We would highly recommend this tour!!
Our guide, Marianna, was excellent. She provided thorough and thoughtful context for each site we visited but kept it succinct. The ‘skip the line’ perk was definitely worth it to avoid the long queues!
Wear comfortable shoes.Be prepared for a slow walk with the crowds in where the tombs are, as so many people stop to take pictures and it’s quite a small area in parts. And get “skip the line” tickets as the queues were horrendous, particularly if it’s hot.
This place is a complete scam. We booked tickets for a service named VIP Skip the line Basilica & PayPal Tombs Tour with Dome. Apparently at the purchase the only option pre-selected was Basilica tickets. Not very obvious and transparent. Clearly a scam. We paid 80 Eur for absolutely nothing as the queue at the time was non-existent. I do not recommend this company.
A fun educational experience. Guide Mariana was well understood and funny too. Definitely recommended.
Skip the line bought but a waiting time of min. 5 hours to expect - not acceptable! The photos are just a small section of the queue.
It was the best experience, Mary did a great job showing us the basilica and the history inside it. The truth is, this is an unforgettable thing.
A great experience, thanks to the professionalism, sympathy, and good work of the Mary Guide, was all more entertaining and informative. I'm really glad I did the tour with a guide, things I didn't have planned at first
A great guide, has not stopped to look at the time, without rush, explanations and anecdotes....great... has taught us to the last corner
Paula took excellent care of everything and explained a lot in a refreshing way. She answered all the questions kindly.
Had booked the dome to go with it. Skip the line is highly recommended. Our guide Paula was just great. Clear recommendation.
The tour of the basilica was excellent. Our guide Paula was incredibly nice and showed us St. Peter's Basilica, the tombs and the dome in a fun way.
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