What Makes Our Rome Tours Great

Choose a small-group tour of Rome and Vatican City and visit the Eternal City in an intimate group, led by an expert guide, and enter all the sites with the privilege of skip-the-line tickets. These are the three pillars that in the past years have allowed us to build a renowned tour company specialised in small-group tours and private Rome experiences. We have served thousands of travellers visiting Rome from around the world, and we created unique itineraries in Rome, Vatican and Florence for each of them, smoothly integrating these three elements into a single, outstanding tour experience:

1. 1. Skip-the-line admission tickets included for all sites;

2. 2. Selected English-speaking tour guides;

3. 3. Intimate Small-Group Rome tours and Vatican tours.

Add to all this an exceptional customer care, as a cherry on the pie, and you will have the perfect guided tour experience. Easy to say, not so common to find in a field of unstructured tour operators or mass-tourism agencies that treat travellers like numbers. What makes our Rome tours great is a unique combination of unique tour design, exceptional service, great staff, smooth tour management, and personalized customer care.  Join the great family of Roma Experience today!

Small-Group Rome Tours

Our group tours of Rome and Vatican City have a limit of maximum 12 people per group. However, for some specific tours around Rome – like our some Colosseum Tours or our original Tour of Rome at Dawn — you might be in as little as 6 people per group, or in a larger group of maximum 24 (in the underground of the Colosseum, because of certain restrictions implemented bt the Colosseum Administration.) But most of our tours have a limit of 12. Please notice that we always use headsets (which we would provide at the beginning of the tour) for all groups larger than six, so that everyone can hear the tour guide loud and clear.

Visiting Rome

There is not one Rome, but many. The Rome of the emperors and the Rome of the Christian martyrs. The Rome of powerful popes and that of the catacombs where the first followers of Jesus would bury their dead. There is the Ancient Rome and the Medieval Rome, that of the Renaissance and that of the Baroque, and many more. There is Vatican City! We at Roma Experience have the passion and commitment to take you through the mazes of the Eternal City, Rome, Florence and Vatican City, to show you the best of a city that has attracted millions of visitors and pilgrims for centuries. You will discover Rome’s secrets and hidden gems, admire the highlights of a multi-layered metropolis, with thousands of years of history and incredible stories to be told. Read about Rome attractions and highlights in the next paragraph, or skip to the next section to learn about our most popular guided tours of Rome and Vatican city!

TOURISTIC ATTRACTIONS

Learn more about Italy and about the history of Rome, read our in-detail free guides on how to visit the Vatican by yourself, on how to purchase a Colosseum ticket, or just how to avoid the crowd when in Rome, what to do at night, where to spend less, or even where to spend more if this is what you want during your Rome trip. Our free guides of Rome and Vatican City cover most, if not the most important sites in the Eternal City, and provide practical and historical information that would allow you to properly plan your Italian trip, decide your itinerary, select the touristic attractions to see or avoid, make up your mind about the budget to invest in this or that activity, possibly to decide what guided tour experience to join. And, if at the end of the day, you want to read, and learn, even more, take a look at our Rome blog as well!

GUIDED TOURS OF ROME

We have a wide range of day and night tours available in Rome and Vatican City. All our guided tours are designed with the goal in mind to make your stay in the Eternal City a memorable experience. Our tour experiences in Rome, Florence and the Vatican are led by the best English-speaking local guides. All itineraries include skip-the-line admission tickets, and we have a limit of maximum 12 people per group unless indicated. Private tours are also available for all the cities in Italy where we are present: Rome, Florence, Vatican City, Naples, Amalfi and Pompeii. Join our top-rated tours of Rome and the Vatican. Choose your preferred small-group Rome tour or private Rome tour below. You have an overview of our most popular itineraries below. Otherwise, you can browse all our city sightseeing tours from the top menu above, or search Rome tours by date, on our Small-Group Tour Calendar for Rome and the Vatican.

SISTINE CHAPEL AND VATICAN MUSEUMS

When planning your Vatican tour, it is important to remember that not all the sites within Vatican city are managed under the same administration. While most Vatican tours include Museums, Sistine Chapel and St Peter’s Basilica, please remember that the administration of the first two sites (Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel) is different from that of the Basilica of St Peter. This is why, Vatican Night Tours for example, only have access to the museums and the famous chapel painted by Michelangelo, but not access to the basilica. But even if you take a Vatican day tour consider this: if you go without a tour guide, you first see the Vatican Museums and then you get to the Sistine Chapel. Once there, if you don’t have a guide, you are sent back to the start. Whereas, if you are with an official guide, you can go directly to St Peter’s Basilica through a dedicated passage. This is important to know because if you are planning to visit both sites, you might need to go back to St Peter’s square and stand in line under the sun for another hour or so. To summarize, visiting the Vatican is amazing, but if you don’t know exactly what to do, you might waste some of precious time and energy. Taking a Small-Group Vatican Tour or a Private Vatican Tour is an effective way not only to learn and admire the highlights of Vatican City but also, at the end of the day, to save money and time.

BEST VATICAN TOURS

Check out brand-new original tour From Dark To Light. This stunning full-day combo tour will take you through a unique itinerary that includes the underground exploration of the Roman Catacombs and Vatican City, including Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and St Peter’s Basilica. During both tour sections, you will be in a small-group tour, led by an expert licensed guide. If you just want to tour Vatican City without the Catacombs, check out our original Vatican Experience: For this popular small-group Vatican tour, we have three different start times to meet everyone’s needs. There is a morning tour starting at 8:30 am, an afternoon tour starting at 1:30 pm, and finally an Early Morning Vatican tour starting at 7:30 am, before the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel open to the general public. This way you can see these famous sites without the notorious late morning crowd.

For more option please visit our top-rated page of Vatican Tours. All our Vatican City experiences include Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and St Peter’s Basilica, except the Vatican Night Tour which includes only the Museums and the Sistine Chapel, but not the Basilica, as churches are closed at night. Even the big one!