Hi all - wife and I are planning three weeks in Italy this July with a lot of deeper cuts, but one stop is Rome and we're planning to see the two biggest tourist attractions. Two questions:
1) What happened to the evening tours of the Colosseum? I looked here around a month ago and saw there were small tours at night, which looked like a great option (we'd avoid standing in huge crowds in the baking sun). Are they no longer an option?
2) (big long shot here, but…) is there any circumstance in which visitors could get a relatively private look at the Vatican Museums? We went to the Louvre in July a couple years ago, and the experience was just really disappointing because there was a sea of too many other visitors that ended up taking a lot of our attention away from the art. Something like an early access (maybe as part of a tour?) would be phenomenal. As I said, a long shot, but figured I'd ask just in case.
Thanks in advance for your ideas!