I'm looking at doing an early morning tour to the Vatican museums in early November. With tours like Walks of Italy, how much time did you spend in the Sistine Chapel? (Also looking at Roman Guy, and Context Tours although I don't think theirs is early morning).
Thanks!
Somewhere around 30 minutes, but easily half of that was sitting along one of the walls to rest a bit and listening to the staff repeatedly admonish people for taking photographs, as if better photographs than they'll ever take of that ceiling weren't readily available online.
Five years ago we used Walking Tours of Italy for The Vatican and the Colosseum/Forum tours. Both were skip the line tours and in my opinion the best tour $'s we spent. We spent approximately 30 minutes in the Sistine Chapel with hardly anyone else in the room. On the way out after the tour the Chapel was wall to wall people. For the Colosseum we got to go below and to the fourth level where walk ins cannot go. We were more than satisfied.
About 30 minutes in the Chapel. Guides will give info about it before you enter.
I did the 7:30 am tour; Meetup is at 7:30, inside the Chapel about 45-60 minutes later. The mob comes in shortly after 9. You will see them when you walk by on your way out.
