Raphael's Rooms
- Address: Viale Vaticano, Vatican City
- Hours: Open Mon - Sat 9am - 6pm
- Admission: Requires ticket to the Vatican Museums
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Raphael's Rooms Reviews
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Review by krae808, April 2012
Doing what: Skip the Line: Vatican Museums Walking Tour including Sistine Chapel, Raphael's Rooms and St Peter's
I absolutely loved my tour. My tour guide (I feel horrible for not being able to remember her name, but she's originally from Ireland) was superb. She had a great mix of historical and fun facts about everywhere we went and everything we saw. I was so thankful for the fact that we did not have to wait in line to get in because we did the tour on Good Friday, meaning that we probably would've waited in line for at least 3 hours.
I also thought it was really nice that we saw the major highlights of the Vatican museum, Sistine Chapel, Raphael's Rooms and St Peter's because I know that I would have gotten horribly lost and frustrated without some guidance.
I would definitely recommend this tour to anyone, both children and adults (there was a family with three little girls all under the age of 10 who successfully completed the tour).
Review by Dan, USA, April 2012
Doing what: Skip the Line: Vatican Museums Walking Tour including Sistine Chapel, Raphael's Rooms and St Peter's
This was a fantastic experience. Veronica, our guide, was terrific. Knowledgeable about all areas of the Vatican. She made the experience that much better. Saw the Vatican Museum, the Raphael rooms which are rooms where Raphael painted the walls and ceilings, the Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter's Basilica. Everything was great. You can take photographs just about everywhere except for the Sistine Chapel. In the rooms with tapestries, they just ask that you don't use a flash.
Review by happy ski's, Australia, April 2012
Doing what: Skip the Line: Vatican Museums Walking Tour including Sistine Chapel, Raphael's Rooms and St Peter's
The Vatican, Sistine Chapel, and St. Peters Basilica is a MUST when in Rome. Make certain that you don't miss Raphael's rooms. Not all tours incorperate this. I loved Italy and it's historical past, so many tworlds are held in the Vatican Museum, Sistine Chapel, and Basilica that stir ones interest. Fantastic but requires more than a day to absorb all it has to offer, we went twice but feel we would love to spend more time to bathe in the beauty of it all, and we are not of the Catholic religion, We have a keen interest in the architecture, art and history of such a great place.. Will be going back again some day.
Review by Brian S, March 2012
Doing what: Skip the Line: Vatican Museums Walking Tour including Sistine Chapel, Raphael's Rooms and St Peter's
The guide for the tour was very knowledgeable and informative about the Vatiican Museums - Sistine Chapel - Raphael's Rooms and St Peter's. Making it a pleasure for the visit.
Review by Janetta W N, January 2012
Doing what: Skip the Line: Vatican Museums Walking Tour including Sistine Chapel, Raphael's Rooms and St Peter's
An excellent tour! Veronica, our guide gave us such interesting information whilst going through the Sistine Chapel, Raphael Rooms and other sections of the Vatican museums. Amazing art! Without a guide we would have missed most of the interesting facts. A wonderful morning! Also, to skip the extremely long line at the museum entrance was already worth all the money!
Review by jonathan a, November 2011
Doing what: Skip the Line: Vatican Museums Walking Tour including Sistine Chapel, Raphael's Rooms and St Peter's
Knowledgeable, friendly and fun guide. Having the Raphael Rooms to ourselves was fantastic.
Review by Bridget M, October 2011
Doing what: Skip the Line: Vatican Museums Walking Tour including Sistine Chapel, Raphael's Rooms and St Peter's
Francesca was a terrific guide! This tour was great - we even got a little sneak peak into the Papal apartment! Fabulous tour, definitely recommend it to skip the lines and get a whole lot of information about the museum including the Raphael rooms.
Review by Catherine, October 2011
Doing what: Skip the Line: Vatican Museums Walking Tour including Sistine Chapel, Raphael's Rooms and St Peter's
Extremely worthwhile guided tour to introduce us to the vast collections of the Vatican Museums. Our informative and well organised guide Anna shared some of the history of the Museums, the Popes of the time and St Peter's, as well as pointing out interesting details and information on many of the artworks, sculptures, mosaics, tapestries Raphael Rooms and the Sistine Chapel. And yes, we did skip the long, long lines outside the Vatican Museums.
Review by Peter A, United Kingdom, October 2011
Doing what: Skip the Line: Vatican Museums Walking Tour including Sistine Chapel, Raphael's Rooms and St Peter's
Our guide was interesting, indeed passionate about everywhere we look us on our walking tour of the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and Raphael's Rooms. We had been to St Peter's Basilica before but still learned facts new to us. Very sadly we have lost his name but if all your guides are as good I would recommend you unreservedly. My wife and I are not Roman Catholics but we were in awe of all we saw and heard. We rate this tour very good value for money and one of the great highlights of our first long visit to room. Having read the look on the Vatican since we are extremely happy to report that we missed nothing of great note into 3 hours, indeed it would have taken 3 days and the guidebook to have seen as much and learned so many facts. Thank you very mush Viator and a big thank you to Rome, a magnificent city.
Review by Richard O, September 2011
Doing what: Skip the Line: Vatican Museums Walking Tour including Sistine Chapel, Raphael's Rooms and St Peter's
This was a wonderful tour and worth the extra money to go early. Though the lines were getting long, we went right in. Our guide was so passionate about all that we saw and really explained what we were seeing. She took time to take us off to the side and explain things before we entered. She was exceptionally informative about the Sistine Chapel, which she went into great detail before entering. I have to say we appreciated Raphael's rooms more than the Chapel partly because the crowd was smaller. It is really hard to see things in the Chapel as there are so many people. We found the tour start area with no trouble and the ear peices and small group made it that much better. I would highly recommend this tour to anyone wanting to see as much of this fantastic area as possible and come away with knowledge as well.
Review by Bill, USA, September 2011
Doing what: Skip the Line: Vatican Museums Walking Tour including Sistine Chapel, Raphael's Rooms and St Peter's
This was a small tour of 10 individuals. The guide was very friendly and knowledgeable about the history of the Vatican and the early church. There were larger tour groups that seemed to rush through but our guide took her time in allowing us to see as much of the Vatican as allowed. While the Sistine Chapel was amazing, I much preferred Raphael's Rooms where you have the chance to get a close look at the paints of a master. Word of caution, with the number of stair and long hallway, I strongly recommend you wear a good comfortable pair of walking shoe. I highly recommend this tour for individuals wanting to learn more about the Catholic church.
Review by Anthony Prowling, September 2011
Doing what: Skip the Line: Vatican Museums Walking Tour including Sistine Chapel, Raphael's Rooms and St Peter's
Thank heavens we bought a tickest in advance. The queues of people standing in line to buy tickets was something to see to believe. Well worth the trip. Time spent was sufficient. Sistene Chapel, Raphael Rooms and St Peter's Basilica wereall amazing.
Review by Justin A, September 2011
Doing what: Skip the Line: Vatican Museums Walking Tour including Sistine Chapel, Raphael's Rooms and St Peter's
The Vatican tour was amazing. We had an other group that took a different tour and they didn't get to see the Raphael rooms. Those are well worth it. Our guide took us right up to the front of the line and gave us a quick history lesson and took us around to the highlights. My advice is never go here with out a tour.
Review by John M, August 2011
Doing what: Skip the Line: Vatican Museums Walking Tour including Sistine Chapel, Raphael's Rooms and St Peter's
Our tour guide was called Maria.
She provided and entertaining and insightful tour of the museums and St Peters explaining so much about the art works that we viewed. Throughout she added little bits of extra information that the guide books just wouldnt have. In particular her explanation of the artworks in the rooms by Raphael was outstanding!!!
Her guide to st Peters was excellent - covering so much of the evolving history of the basilica and pointing out things the guide books had not mentioned.
Overall She provided an outstanding tour and I have already recommended her to friends travelling to Rome this month.
Review by Neil Robert A, August 2011
Doing what: Skip the Line: Vatican Museums Walking Tour including Sistine Chapel, Raphael's Rooms and St Peter's
Incredible, incredible incredible!! Definitely do not miss this tour! St. Peter's and Sistine Chapel defy words. The beauty of it cannot be described. I found Raphael's Rooms to be a bit long winded although the tour guide was extremely knowledgeable, little tough to take in so much information all at once. When we walked in, there was a two hour wait in line to get in. Definitely worth the price of the tour just to avoid that. Absolutely worth every penny. DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!!!!
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