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At the Vatican Museums, with your private English speaking guide (either ourselves or one of our family members or, should they not be available, another licensed and pro tour guide) you will have the chance to get the benefit, enthusiasm, experience, advantage and fun of someone who knows his way since years.

How is a private Vatican tour with us, Rome Travels.Com? Intimate. Fun. Entertaining. Passionate, deep insight tailored for any clients wishes and, at the same time, stimulating as we are all your party. The benefit you may have are immeasurable. Same thing for all over the other guides who work with us.

Why choosing Rome Travels ? Started with our Father, Sandro Pellegrini in 1971, after hundreds of tour per year, we know how to modulate every clients' need. We are also Official Vatican Tour Guides: out of 1.080 of Official Rome Guides, we have been selected only in number of 62.

What we provide here is to have a private tour with a licensed Vatican Official Tour Guide (licensed by the Vatican City State, not only by the Province of Rome).

In quality of Vatican Official Guide, we selected 6 different Vatican Private Tours that the 90% of the visitors don't know even the existance and assume to see all the Vatican Highlights by having only a couple of hours of tours. That is not for you if you chose to have a private tour with us !

RESERVATION AT THE VATICAN MUSEUMS - YEAR 2010 - ONLY THROUGH US AND WITH A PRIVATE GUIDE -
VATICAN TICKETS WITH NO QUEUES - AVAILABLE TIMES AND DATES -

From Monday through Saturday (except Vatican Holidays: see Vatican calendar 2010 Here ), it is possible to reserve the entrance according to these new hours:

A) 08.00 am-08:30 am -
B) 08:30 am - 09:00 am

C) 09:00 am - 10:00 am
D) 10.00 am-11.00 am

E) 11.00 am-12.00 pm

F) 12.00 pm-01.00 pm

G) 01.00 pm-02.00 pm

H) 02.00 pm-04.00 pm

NOTE on payments:

To confirm any tour, we require either a deposit or full prepayment by Visa-MasterCard + 20% VAT on top.
In case you wish to pay the deposit, it will be charged at cost + 20% VAT and then the balance by cash to your assigned tour guide. The amount of the deposit depends on which kind of tour is selected.

OR, You may Call Our On Line Number in US : + (201) 204 - 9020

VATICAN PRIVATE TOUR 1 - BASIC - The Vatican Museums with the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica
Duration: 4 hours.

What we will see:

We normally include the Vatican highlights: The Pine Cone Courtyard, either The Braccio Nuovo Museum (if open) with fabulous sculptures or The Vatican Painting Gallery (Caravaggio, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian), The Pio - Clementino Museum (best sculptures in the Vatican), The Candelabras Gallery, The Gallery of Tapestries, The Maps Gallery, The Raphael Rooms, the Sistine Chapel and, of course, St. Peter's Basilica with its crypt too. Here, besides many Popes' Tombs, there is the one of John Paul II.

Duration: Minimum 4 hours. For more, pending on request.

COSTS:

• From 1 to 5 people: EUR 350,00 (4 hours) + entrance fees with reservation: EUR 30,00 per person
• From 6 to 10 people EUR 450,00 (4 hours) + entrance fees with reservation: EUR 25,00 per person
• 11-20 people: 65,00 EUR per person (ticket with the reservation included - no lines)
• 21-50 people: EUR 55,00 per person (ticket with the reservation included - no lines)

We guarantee NO LINES at the Vatican Museum due to our booking system. No problem if you prefer to add one or more hours to our Vatican Private Tour 1.
Payment: by Visa - MasterCard via Paypal.

NOTE: 20 % VAT TO BE ADDED IN THE ABOVE COSTS

VATICAN PRIVATE TOUR 2 : Museum Vatican, Vatican Gardens and St. Peter's Basilica -

A Day in the Smallest country in the World, The Vatican City State
Duration: 6/7 hours

Nobody does this kind of tour except those who are with us.

This is unique! With Us, being Vatican Official Guides, you may want to have a really special Vatican tour seeing most of the Vatican highlights. NO LINES WITH OUR RESERVATION - VIP ENTRANCE AT THE VATICAN MUSEUMS !

How does it work ? How the tour will be conducted? The tour will be conducted in 7 steps - No lines and no crowds throughout the entire tour. Step-by-step we inform you that

1) We will enter the Vatican Museum beating the crowds with no lines around 08.30 am/09:00 am. Intro on the Sistine Chapel (as inside the Chapel we need to keep the silence).
2) Then, we will leave the Vatican Museums and have our great stroll/glimpse of the Vatican Gardens for a couple of hours.
3) We will enter the Sistine Chapel through the "secret" back door from the Gardens, away from the "hordes" of tourists. Ready to be in extasy with the Michelangelo's Art works.
4) We will leave the Sistine Chapel to see the Vatican Apostolic Gallery going towards the Vatican Cafeteria. Have some quick lunch.
5) Visit of the rest of the best Vatican artworks: mosaics, sculptures, frescoes: The scupltures in the Braccio Nuovo Museum and Pio-Clementino; visit of the Candelabras Gallery, Gallery of Tapistries and Gallery of Maps. We will be re-entering the Sistine Chapel to go to St. Peter's Basilica with no lines.
6) Visit of the Vatican masterpieces in the Basilica of St. Peter (optional: with or without the Vatican Grottes) and St. Peter's Square.
7) End of the tour in the Vatican School of Mosaics and Micro-Mosaics.

Duration: Appx. 7 hours -
Note: Available every day but Wednesday and any Vatican Holiday.

COSTS :

1. Our Guiding fee: EUR 600,00 from 1 to 10 people. From 11 to 15 people, there is the supplement of EUR 50,00.

2. Fee/Royalty to be given to the Vatican for providing the guided tour with a Vatican Guide: EUR 250,00, from 1 to 15 people.

3. Entrance fees: EUR 19,00 per adult (Reduced for children, age 6-18: EUR 12,00 per child), inclusive of the admission to the Vatican Museum and Vatican Gardens (we never pay them as we are official Vatican tour guides). These admission fees must be paid on the tour date to the Vatican Office.

4. Head-sets (mandatory in case of more than 5 people on the tour): EUR 5,00 per person for the entire tour.

Payment: everything to us, EUR 300,00 by credit card (Visa-MasterCard). Balance by cash on the tour date or credit card.

NOTE: 20 % VAT TO BE ADDED IN THE ABOVE COSTS

VATICAN PRIVATE TOUR 3


After-Hour tour of the Vatican Museums (Sistine Chapel)

This kind of tour is available only EVERY FRIDAY EVENING and its costs is 250,00 EUR per person ( the children pay 125.00 EUR each, 50% off, age 6-18 ). It does includes:

• 3 hours of guided tour inside the Vatican Museums with the Sistine Chapel with a Vatican Official Guide (myself if available)
• Admission fee with reservation to the Vatican Museum with NO lines.
• Running days: starting on April 9th, every Friday at 19:00 ( 07.00 PM ) in the following months: April, May, June, September, October.

If you are a company and/or Travel Agent and want to arrange an after-hour Vatican tour for your partners (30 people and more), you can pay by bank transfer.

After-Hour Tours of the Vatican Museums with the Sistine Chapel

Available Dates - Year 2010

July 2nd & July 9th,
September, October

We booked Every FRIDAY Evening

Entrance: between 19:00 and 21:00

Exit: not later than 23:00


Cost: EUR 250,00 per person
( EUR 125.00 per child )

Included:

• 3 hours private guided tour conducted by a licensed Tour Guide of and by the Vatican City State ( possibly myself if I am available )
• Admission fee with reservation with NO LINES
• 20 % VAT INCLUDED.

Payment: either deposit of EUR 100.00 EUR per person and then balance by cash or full prepayment with Visa-MC.

Cristiano Pellegrini with The Cardinal Secretary of State, His Eminence Tarcisio Bertone, on last May 27th, 2010. The Cardinal Bertone is officially Secretary of State of His Holiness The Pope Benedict XVI and on the last 05/27 His eminence saluted and greeted all the Diplomats accredited by the Holy see.

VATICAN PRIVATE TOUR 4 - St. Peter's Basilica, Dome Tour + The Scavi Tour (Vatican Necropolis *), Historical Museum of the Treasure of St. Peter, Pope's Tombs (Grottoes of the Popes)

Duration: 3/4 hours

We will get the full insight of the extraordinary Vatican City on many aspects: Arts, History, Architecture, Early Christian Times & Christian Archaeology, St. Peter's Tomb, the Vatican Necropolis, Michelangelo's Dome, Bernini's Masterpieces and the Treasure of St.Peter.

The latter is one of the most famous and admired world collections within the Church, with Sarcofagi, Medieval donations of great Artistic and Religious value of several Kings and Emperors who, throughout the centuries, wanted to give a homage to St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles. Unique tour. An half day dedicated to most of the Vatican complex but the Museums. NO LINES WITH OUR RESERVATION.

* As of March 2008, the Scavi Tour must be booked only individually by visitors, not anymore by third parties like us. For more info, click Here (Vatican Web Site - Scavi Office)

COSTS:

• From 1 to 5 people: EUR 350,00 (4 hours)
• From 6 to 10 people: EUR 400,00 (4 hours)
• 11-20 people: EUR 35,00 per person *
• 21-40 people: EUR 25,00 per person *
• Tickets to the Dome's lift: EUR 6,00 per person
• Scavi Ticket: EUR 10,00 per person
• Historical Museum of St. Peter's Treasure : EUR 5,00 p.p.
• * : Included as well the rental of the head-set for this Vatican tour
• NOTE: 20 % VAT TO BE ADDED IN THE ABOVE COSTS

VATICAN PRIVATE TOUR 5 : Vatican Gardens with St. Peter's Basilica
Duration: 4 hours

Discover the magnificience of the highlights of the Vatican Gardens: monumental fountains, gardens, a nice stroll through the world trees and plants, stupendous views of the St. Peter's Dome, works of Art going back to the lst C. A.D.
The guided tour of the Vatican Gardens is a glimpse of the Vatican City State, the smallest independent State in the world: a journey through natural settings, historic monuments and works of art that span its 2000 year history.

The Vatican Gardens cover around 22 hectares (54 acres), half size of the entire size of the Vatican City State (109 Acres).We will then visit St. Peter's Basilica entering from the Vatican Gardens and this means with no lines at all. We will add, as an optional visit, the Grottos of the Popes underneath the main level of the Church.

COSTS:

• From 1 to 5 people: EUR 350,00 (4 hours)
• From 6 to 15 people: EUR 400,00 (4 hours)
• 15-50 people: EUR 55,00 per person *
• Fee/Royalty to be given to the Vatican: EUR 250,00 (from 1 to 15 people)
• Entrance fees to the Vatican Gardens (from 1 to 15 peopel): EUR 8,00 per person

* : Included in the cost as well the rental of the head-set for this Vatican tour + entrance fees to the Vatican Gardens (13,00 EUR value)
NOTE: 20 % VAT TO BE ADDED IN THE ABOVE COSTS

Payments via PayPal with Visa-MasterCard.

VATICAN PRIVATE TOUR 6 - Vatican Necropolis of St.e ANNE with the Vatican Gardens:

Duration: 3 hours.

We will first visit the Necropolis of S.te Anne, discovered in the last 50 years under the structures of a parking area inside the Vatican. It was the same huge necropolis where St. Peter the Apostle was buried, but it is on the other side of the Vatican slope, the Vatican hill. tombs of the middle class, good frescoes, great mosaics. Afterwards, we will visit the Vatican Gardens.

NOTE: we can add with one hour more (doing 4 hours instead of 3 hours) the visit of St. Peter's Basilica, without doing any queue to get in (entering from the Vatican Gardens).

Costs (3 hours tour):

• Our Guiding fee from 1 to 15 people: EUR 250,00
• From 15 to 50 people: EUR 55,00 EUR per person *
• EUR 250,00 to be given to the Guided Tour Office desk once inside the Vatican Museums
• EUR 8,00 per person to get into the Vatican Gardens (again, Us, being official Vatican Guides, never pay them).
• * : Included also the head-sets throughout for the tour and the entrance fees to the Vatican Gardens (13,00 EUR value)

Payment via PayPal with Visa-MasterCard.

VATICAN PRIVATE TOUR 7 - The Vatican Meridien with or without the Vatican State Archives

People may have this very special Vatican tour only in reason that myself, Cristiano Pellegrini, I am a qualified Vatican tour guide directly by the Vatican City State. NO ONE else does this tour.

Tour only on request, running days: Mon through Fri, from 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm. No tours from early July to early September. Max 25 poeple admitted.

Costs:

In combination with any of my Vatican Private Tours: EUR 700,00 ( full day myself ) +

• EUR 250,00 for the special permit to see either the Tower of the Winds of the Vatican State Archive from 1 to 5 people; EUR 300,00 from 6 to 10 people; EUR 500,00 from 11 to 25 people max.

To have the special permit to see both sites (Tower of the Four Winds + Vatican State Archives): EUR 500,00 from 1 to 5 people; EUR 600,00 from 6 to 10 people; EUR 700,00 from 11 to 25 people max.

You did not find dates or type of Vatican tour you are looking for ?

No problem, please ask us and we will try to do our best to accommodate your request or special needs.