There are plenty of Facebook posts advertising conducted tours of the Vatican. As we are older, St. Peter's Dome is probably not the best for us to attempt, given the narrow steps. What is a suggested tour company to visit the Vatican in early June 2026?
Thank you for sharing your experiences.
We used The Roman Guy (aka The Tour Guy) for our tour of the Vatican museums, the Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter's Basilica (not the dome). We were free to explore the gardens after our tour. We were happy with our tour.
We were free to explore the gardens after our tour.
Worth mention, maybe, that as far as I know the gardens can only be accessed with a tour, and I'm not seeing anything on the Roman Guy/Tour Guy website that includes the Museums/Sistine + the gardens.
Fran, I wish I had an option to offer up but I'll caution you is to use the Vatican's own official site for ticketing/tours or other respected operators recommended by posters on this site (the Roman Guy/Tour Guy is one of those.) There are several 3rd-party sites out there that are cleverly designed to look 'official' but are overpriced imposters.
This is the Vatican Museums official website; they do have a garden and museum tour although we've not taken it.
https://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en.html
My mistake. There was a green area with fountains, etc. that we were able to walk around in, and I thought those were the gardens. Thanks for the correction.
