How and where to get tickets for the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel in Rome
Where and how to buy tickets for the Vatican Museums?
What is the cost of the admission ticket to the Vatican Museums?
The Vatican Museums ticket includes a visit to the Sistine Chapel?
Where and how to buy tickets for the Vatican Museums?
The Vatican Museums have an efficient sales system and pre-ticket sales. That essentially have two choices: you can buy it on the spot, or pre-book them on the Internet on the official website of the Vatican Museums: http://biglietteriamusei.vatican.va/musei/tickets/index.html
Before you rush to the site, please keep in mind that both solutions have their advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, by purchasing tickets on the spot you are more free to reschedule, move or cancel your visit. On the other hand, it must be said that pre-purchase tickets will easily overcome the problem of long queues (sometimes more than an hour!) that have for you an annoying waste of time (and boredom, if you are with children and older people).
If you decide to pre-purchase tickets, though, weigh up the times: you have to book very broad advance, expecially if you plan to visit the Vatican museums during peak season. Skip the line Tickets purchased by the Vatican website are available in limited numbers.
If you book your tickets online, the system will send you a coupon that is not the real card but a voucher to present to the speakers for the actual withdrawal. We forgot the third option: Vatican Tickets can be purchased by you from the authorized Travel Agencies.
What is the cost of the admission ticket to the Vatican Museums?
But this luxury of skip-the-line has its price. That is, the only full entry ticket would cost € 16.00, but if you buy your ticket on-line you need to add the booking fee, then we go up to € 16.00+ € 4.00 per person, ie, € 20.00 per person. But these moneys are well spent, expecially at busy periods.
Given that this is the price, beware of those who try to sell you the entrance tickets to the Vatican Museums in prices that can not be verified, or appointments behind the closure of museums: There are input shifts to book Vatican Museums tickets, and the last is at 15:00 (maybe there is a mischievous attempt to take advantage of the short time line, about to close, to sell tickets that are not booked electronically!)
The Vatican Museums ticket includes a visit to the Sistine Chapel?
Yes, the ticket entitles you to visit the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel (only for the day of issue).
When you buy tickets for the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel
In high season (April/May/June/September/October and Holidays) you should book your tickets at least 24-48 hours in advance, and in any case the Vatican Museums tickets can be booked (with a maximum of 10) from 60 days before the date of the visit.
What is needed to make the online reservation of the Vatican Museums
To make your online reservation is needed: an identity document and the names of all participants.
It is possible to book a reduced ticket online for kids (ages 6 to 18 years old). You can also book a reduced ticket online for students under 26 years of age presenting, on the day of the visit, an International Student Card or student card.
After the booking request, you will receive an email to confirm your email address. After booking confirmation, it will be sent the voucher with the reservation code (you should store it). The day of the visit, it will be checked for booking via the bar code present on the voucher, which can also be shown in electro
nic format (smartphone or tablet). If the voucher is lost, the Welcome Office of the Vatican Museums will print you back to the reservation.
Up to an hour before the visit it is possible to change the date of booking (subject to availability). You can not make changes to the number of people.
