Purchasing tickets to view The Last Supper in Milan

If worse comes to worse, you can book a walking tour of Milan that will include a visit to Last Supper.

I just checked the broker website I often use, and they have one ticket available for your date. You may have to buy a tour in order to see it (about half a day, the Cenacolo is usually at the end of it).

I called about 30 times before I got through and then easily purchased tickets from a good English-speaking clerk. About 4 in 5 times I got a busy message. Then once I did get through (and pressed 2 for English) I heard the music repeat until I was disconnected again. Finally got through. I felt like I could have painted my OWN Cenacolo Vinciano by the time it was over.

Another option, if you stand the risk, is to keep checking the website, keep it open all day and refresh every hour. Everything sold out the day after they went up for sale, but tickets got released over the next month and I got lucky. If you register ahead of time and just keep checking, you might get lucky too. I went last October (during the Expo) and never managed to get through the phone after what seemed like a hundred tries. And I refused to pay for a expensive city tour I didn't want, except as an emergency back up plan.

Hope you get what you want!

Thanks for the information. Happy to report that I called first thing this morning and got through on the first try! Literally there is only one day and one time that we could possibly go and it was available!!! And even for the English speaking tour! Those are twice a day at 9:30 and 3:30. We fly out the night of Sept 6th at 6:55 so the 3:30 tour would not have worked.

How did you make the phone call to them? I am assuming you get charged for calling that line from the U.S. if you don't have an international plan on the phone you're using, but maybe I'm missing something.

I'm trying to get tickets for The Last Supper but if I'm going to be racking up charges on the phone to do it (especially when it seems most times people aren't getting through), I figure I might as well try to find a third-party vendor that still has tickets for early September (have not been able to find one) or buy one of the pricier tours. So any advice on getting them by phone without surcharges is appreciated :)

Check Walks of Italy. They have a Milan tour that includes Last Supper. Price very reasonable IMO.

Eurobound: First, see what the costs are on your current phone plans to call Italy. If they're too high for you, you may be able to add a discount plan just for a month. For instance, if you have T-Mobile, for $15 extra per month you can make unlimited calls to Italy, and can cancel this after you make the necessary calls.

Your land line plan may have a similar deal (if you still have a land line, of course). Two "external" options (not through their landline or cellphone carrier) that friends of mine have used are PennyTalk http://pennytalk.com/ and OneSuite http://onesuite.com/. These are a bit of hassle to set up for occasional use, but are great for ongoing use.

Check with your friends - someone may already have a discount plan of some sort, particularly if they have relatives overseas.

If you can't find a reasonable plan to Italy, and none of your friends has one, you could set up Skype and add Skype credit; it's $0.02 per minute to call non-Skype numbers (yes, two cents).

In the past, I've used 10-10-987 to reduce costs when calling Europe, but more recently, someone here reported that they couldn't get it to work. If you want to try it: http://www.1010987.com/