26 Sep 2022
I’d seen these packages before I set off but was sceptical with the “skip the queues”. We arrived at Vatican and saw massive queue so tried to go round to the museum instead hoping for smaller but this wasn’t much better. A lady there who was obviously a tour separating people into queues and said we would be waiting about two hours (looking at queue it would not have been far wrong) so she mentioned what she could do for us and the price and we followed her back to the tour shop. We paid the 118 euro and was in a group which started around 30 people - I believe our guide was called leonardo. We was then took to the Vatican museum where they arranged the tickets and took us through with the headsets, a nice and relaxed tour - you can’t possibly see everything so that’s understandable, we finished off going into the Sistine chapel. After this he said that tour groups can get entry straight into the main Vatican if we followed which we did and then we were past the security checkpoints instantly ready. We are off to the colosseum tomorrow and considering paying for the tour again as it helps with the knowledge rather than walking aimlessly and also saves you time which on short city breaks time is prescious