Hi Everyone
I thought I’d share my experience with buying tickets for the Last Supper. Hopefully someone can use the information.
- The website to use is https://cenacolovinciano.org/en/ and tickets go on sale quarterly, every March, June, September and December. I wasn’t sure when in the month, so I started checking daily, starting March 1. On March 17th, the notice popped up that tickets would go on sale March 18th at noon Milan time. I thought I would have a bigger lead time. It’s a good idea to have an account with them well before as you need to sign in to your account to buy anything.
- Woke up at 3:30 am Tuesday morning to get ready for 4:00 am. I’m on the west coast and Milan is 8 hours ahead (currently). I double/triple checked to make sure I don’t get mixed up with Daylight Savings Time. I also checked my keyboard and mouse to make sure I had enough battery so I didn’t have any surprises of something going out. I did worry that this would be the day that our internet would not work.
- On the first page, there is an area that says Visit the Last Supper, so I clicked there. It is this page that you can sign into your account. I wasn’t sure if this was the page to sit and wait, or do I click the little picture with the hand holding the ticket, so I opened that webpage as well. It turns out that this was not the right one, as I was diverted to a summary of transactions on my account just minutes before the opening. Since I had both pages opened, I went back to first one. About 5 minutes before 4:00 am, the page flipped to a Queue. It was here that you can see a green bar with a little man walking left to right to indicate how long you have to wait until you can enter the site. It also tells you have 15 minutes to enter, and approximately how long your wait is. I think this queue is only for the first day of ticket release. I need to be more patient.
- At 6 minutes past the hour, my page flipped back to the original one and I clicked the picture with the hand holding the ticket. I was diverted to another page that had a small calendar. It said I had 30 minutes to complete the transaction. It also had one of those captcha things where I had to pick all the squares with motorcycles. Then it went to another captcha, same idea. I got thru those and then was able to flip the calendar to my month, day and time. Already, my desired time was not available and the one I picked said only 8 tickets available (no Engish tour times were showing which I think are 9:30, 11:30, 15:00, 17:00 and 17:30). I clicked the time and was moved to the next page.
- This is the page where you get to pick the number of tickets and type of ticket. I did not spend a lot of time here, just picking the first option, full price one. I did not look at my options as I was worried about time. It was also here that I needed to click some check boxes agreeing to their policies etc. Hitting confirm sent me to another page. (continued in Part 2 below)