My understanding (from reading the forum) is that you need to buy the tickets for the Last Supper as soon as they get released, before the tour companies scoff them up. The June tickets go on sale March 8th. My question is: what time do they usually release them? Are they released at 12:00am in Italy meaning 6:00pm EST on March 7th? Or, at some other time of the day. Thanks, with any help anyone can provide with this matter.
Posted by
Noblesville, Indiana, USA
1373 posts
We visited about 5 years ago and purchased tickets to a walking tour that included The Last Supper as well as the Duomo and the Sforza Castle. It was money well spent!
Posted by
St. Louis metro area
140 posts
I went through this process within the past month. Tickets are supposed to go on sale at 8 a.m. Milan time.
I thought that their system wasn't working properly when I first started working with it, since it would show available of 9 tickets, for example, for the time that I wanted, but then when I tried to reserve one, the system said no tickets were available. But eventually it worked. So my take-away is to persist; eventually maybe an hour or hour and a half after ticket sales supposedly opened, the system worked beautifully for me.
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7 posts
How does one make contact to buy the tickets if not thru the tour agencies?
Posted by
North Carolina
312 posts
Donna, here is the link:
http://www.vivaticket.it/index.php?nvpg[tour]&id=744
wm221, were you successful? I started looking for tickets at 2 am Eastern time (8 am in Milan), because their site said the box office opened at 8:00, but June tickets didn't start showing up till about an hour later. And then, as reported in a previous comment, it was weird for a while - it would show tickets were available, but then would say they weren't, and the days on which tickets were available would change. Perhaps they were still loading ticket information. Then at one point every day in June EXCEPT the one I wanted showed available tickets, so I thought all was lost. I was about to give up and get a nap before morning, but I decided to check once more, just a few minutes ago, and suddenly the date/time I wanted was available.
In retrospect, I should probably just have called them and gotten two extra hours of sleep.
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OP
14 posts
Melissa
I was doing the same exact thing starting at 2am. Checked at 4am and it still didn't show any. Finally at 6:30 I was able to get admission tickets. There was only 1 ticket left for admission with an English tour. So we ended up with just regular admission at the same time. Figured that it's not a very big area and we should be able to hear the tour guide talking. Wasn't sure about the audio guide purchase. Maybe we can add it on when we are there.
I did originally have a tour booked through Viator. Just canceled it and saved $120.00. Pays for the night stay in the B & B.
Enjoy your trip.
Posted by
Toledo, Ohio, US
11613 posts
Glad you got your tickets!
Re: audio guide, you should have about 15 minutes before you enter the Cenacolo where the painting is; you might want to start listening early, so you can concentrate on seeing this painting while you are in the room.
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98 posts
So when do the July tickets go on sale on the website?
Posted by
North Carolina
312 posts
The site doesn't list the opening date for July tickets yet, but based on recent history I would guess 8 April. I imagine by the end of March the opening date will be listed.
wm221, glad you got your tickets too! I just checked out of curiosity and my date is sold out now, so it was worth the frustration and lost sleep. I didn't buy the audioguide either but I'm assuming we can buy it when we arrive at the site.