Private Vatican Breakfast Tour | VIP Experience

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Private
3 hrs 30 mins
Vatican
Refundable booking
Vatican Early morning entrance breakfast buffet

Enjoy the most important meal of the day in one of the most important places in Rome, the Vatican Museums. LivTour’s Private Vatican Breakfast Tour begins with skip the line access to the Vatican Museums in the early morning hours before the crowds arrive!

After entering, your experienced tour guide will escort you inside to enjoy the serenity of the early morning in the courtyard while enjoying your Papal breakfast with some treats made exclusively for the Vatican, which you can find nowhere else! The breakfast includes morning favorites such as eggs, pancakes, Italian pastries, cappuccino and much more.

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  • Savor a Papal breakfast in the Vatican before the crowds
  • Enjoy early morning entry into the Vatican with skip-the-line tickets
  • Experience Vatican highlights with an expert dedicated private guide at your side
  • See famous works of art by Michelangelo, Raphael and other great Italian artists
  • Marvel at Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel - one of Rome’s most enchanting highlights
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Your Private Vatican Breakfast Tour with meeting your expert tour guide who will facilitate direct access to the museums and take you through a quick security check.  Along with your private guide, you will make your way inside where you will be seated to enjoy a scrumptious Papal breakfast. As you savor your cappuccino, you can enjoy a hearty selection of farm to table dairy products – coming directly from the papal livestock!  Surprisingly these products, produced on papal estate farms, are exclusive to Vatican City and cannot be found elsewhere.

After an enjoyable and unforgettable breakfast, your private guide will take you on a complete tour of the Vatican Museums. Your tour will include all of the Vatican highlights and a few added extras. The Vatican Museums is the fifth largest museum in the world, so there is a lot to see, which is why we curate our tours in a way that you see the best of what this art and history museum has to offer.

In the Courtyard of Statues, you will see the celebrated 15th-century state of Belvedere Torso, considered to have the perfect form, and artists have used it for centuries as inspiration, even Michelangelo!  The tragic story of the city of Troy is depicted in the masterpiece statue of Laocoön.  As your expert guide leads you past other Vatican treasures, such as Emperor Nero’s lavish bath which was once housed in the Golden Palace. Your LivTours guide will also share with you the wonders of the Gallery of the Candelabra, Gallery of Tapestries, and the renowned Gallery of Maps – a Renaissance version of Google Maps.

Of course, no visit to the Vatican would be complete without visiting the Raphael Rooms, part of the papal apartments of Pope Julius II. Enjoy the elegant Raphael frescoes that have been recently restored.

Now it is on to admire the fresco that took Michelangelo four years to finish, the Sistine Chapel. This was once a private chapel, close to the size of a standard basketball court, it can very easily fill up with travelers who have come to experience the beauty of this majestic work in person. Your private guide will explain to you how Michelangelo’s passion for sculpting influenced his painting, leaving us with the depiction of the human form in a new three dimensional way.

Lastly, it is on to visit the largest Catholic church in the world, Saint Peter’s Basilica. One of the most important landmarks for Christians, the burial site of one of Jesus’ apostles and the keeper of the keys to Heaven, Saint Peter. Your private guide will share with you the awe-inspiring works of art such as Michelangelo’s sculpture of the Pieta and Bernini’s Baldacchino Altar canopy made of solid bronze. Before leaving, your guide will tell you about the Papal Tombs and give you instructions for climbing to the to of the Dome if you wish to do so after the tour.

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  • Early Morning Vatican skip the line entrance
  • Delicious Papal breakfast
  • Fully guided experience
  • Raphael Rooms
  • Sistine Chapel
  • Octagonal Courtyard
  • Muses Room
  • Round Room
  • Gallery of the Candelabra
  • Gallery of Tapestries
  • Gallery of Maps
  • Borgia Apartments
  • Saint Peter's Basilica & Square*
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  • Places of worship have strict dress code requirements for entry. All participants are required to have shoulders and knees covered (no tank tops or short dresses) to enter.
  • There is no flash photography inside the museums, and no photography allowed inside the Sistine Chapel.
  • St. Peter’s Basilica is an active church and can be closed unexpectedly for liturgical ceremonies. If closed, the time inside the Vatican Museums will be extended.
  • *Please note: Michelangelo’s Pietá is currently under restoration until September 2024
  • Please be aware that the Sistine Chapel is a Holy Place and talking during your visit inside is strictly forbidden, therefore your guide will give you an explanation of the Sistine Chapel beforehand during your tour, in order to give you a comprehensive explanation before entering the chapel.
  • Backpacks are not permitted in the Museum.
  • Guests with wheelchair accessibility needs will find difficulty with this itinerary proposed in this tour. In order to ensure a barrier-free tour with alternative routes, please book the private version of this tour.
  •  Everyone in your group, regardless of age, needs a government issued ID to enter the Vatican Museums.
  • Guests with mobility concerns should contact us at booking@livtours.com as soon as possible, as the itinerary may need to be adjusted to accommodate specific needs.
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LivTours’ group size of max 6 participants is and always has been based on sustainable travel, and we are proud to be at the forefront of change and innovation in the industry.  LivTours is committed to providing travelers with truly sustainable tours with the lowest possible environmental impact, all while supporting the local industries and people of each unique destination. To learn more about how you can actively support sustainable tourism  and how LivTours is contributing, click here.

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When you book a LivTours Private Tour or Experience, you are guaranteed a dedicated, expert guide that allows you the flexibility to start your tour at a time which is convenient for you, making planning easy. Our private tours ensure that you will get a tailored experience to meet all your needs so we go at your pace, perfect for families with younger children, elderly, or individuals with accessibility needs. Please be advised that all private tours begin at a base price starting at two people*. Prices are inclusive of entry tickets where applicable. *Some Ferrari private experiences are inclusive of one person only.

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Make your experience even more unique by upgrading your LivTours experience. Please note: add-ons are non refundable.

Add VIP Visit to the Bramante Staircase
Visit the first spiral staircase ever made, tucked away in the most striking secret room of the Vatican, open only to partners of the Museums. Originally a side entrance to the Belvedere Palace, it was the main entry for artists and workers. In fact, Michelangelo used this winding ramp hundreds of times as he came and went from his work in the Sistine Chapel. This is a true VIP moment to add to your tour.
400 €
One Way Pick-Up Transfer Service
With the one way pick up service, your driver will pick you up directly from your accommodation and drive you to the meeting point where you will be greeted by your tour guide. Guarantee stress-free. One way only.
starting from 105 €
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  • A charming, informative, rewarding morning - thank you Vera

    I have to start out by saying that LIV tours was 100% great for us, from pre-booking to the meeting point, touring with Vera, and enjoying our day. We (2 of our 4 people) had a similar tour years ago, with another agency, but the Vatican access to a pre-breakfast and the tour setups have changed (also they book way in advance). So after a search, I put in a request for a pre-booking conversation and got a call back to the US from a well-informed LIV agent who explained how things had changed. I booked for the four of us online. The online bookings and confirmations of the reservation, instructions for arrival all went smoothly and at the museum entrance, we were introduced to Vera as our guide for the day. We took Vera as the guide LIV assigned, but if you can request Vera, do so. As most guides would be, Vera was informed, pleasant, engaging, and a talented guide. But she also is really excellent and nearly a mind-reader in her ability to do a private tour. Vera matched up our interests, speeding up through areas we were a little less interested in, stopping for ideal photo locations, inserting stories around the key museum locations, and keeping our day light (as we wished), while being informative. Continuing through the St. Peter's Basilica, she helped us find many of the treasures within (for us, much more interesting than last time) and through the crypt below. She helped avoid crowds and other tours, never seemed to be in a rush or pushing us along, so the timing was impressively smooth. Every question was well-answered with deep knowledge -- could tell she does this every day. Vera gets our highest recommendation and we wish we could clone her for any and every tour. LIV provided everything they promised, and over-delivered with Vera. Thanks Vera!

    - Tim Krauskopf
  • Excellent Vatican tour

    We truly enjoyed our tour at the Vatican with Nadia! Her emmense knowledge was shared so well, and we were so appreciated of her help to truly take in what we were seeing. Her pace was perfect, not rushed, as there is so much to absorb! Wonderful experience! We will absolutely recommend LivTours for others we know looking for good tours to take when in Rome.

    - Tracey
  • Breakfast tour

    Emma was great and we really enjoyed her tour at the Vatican! We have recommended LivTours to our friends who will be in Rome in May. Emma was an excellent representative of your company

    - Greg G.
  • Thanks LivTours!

    We took four wonderful tours from your company during our visit to Rome in September. We started with a great tour of the Colosseum and Roman Forum that would have been hard to beat, it was so much fun. After that, we took a tour of Ostia Antica, the Borghese Gallery, and our favorite tour of all, a private tour of the Vatican with breakfast. I very much wanted to leave an exceptional review for our Vatican tour guide, Luca, who is an absolutely fabulous tour guide. We travel quite regularly, and all four of us felt he was one of the best guides we've ever had. Super friendly and kind, knowledgeable and passionate about the subject, and just a pleasure to tour with. I will recommend LivItaly Tours to anyone looking for an exceptional tour company. Thank you again!

    - Karen Barber
  • A great (and delicious) alternative to the normal early morning Vatican tour

    Everyone had told us that it's best to take a morning tour of the Vatican to try to avoid the masses. So when we saw this tour offering by LivItaly, we couldn't resist! You have to eat breakfast, right? Why not get into the Vatican early, have a VIP buffet in the museum's courtyard and then proceed through the museum. It was everything we hoped for and more!! Our guide Davide was absolutely fabulous: warm, friendly, very well-versed on everything Vatican and funny as well. The breakfast was delicious and the chance to see the Sistine Chapel before everyone else was there was definitely worth the early rise in the morning. We will certainly recommend this tour to all our friends and family!

    - Thomas Green
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By selecting Choose Dates Later / Buy as Gift at booking, any tour can be purchased without fixed dates. This is the perfect option if you want to purchase your tour as a gift for a loved one, or if you are in the pre-planning phase of your vacation. After booking, you will receive a Travel Voucher Code and full instructions on how to schedule your tours when ready. Once your travel plans are confirmed, you can easily use the Travel Voucher Code on the LivTours website to formally schedule your tours. You can find out more here.

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