Rates per vehicle for this tour:
sedan (1/4 persons) 670 €;

minivan (4 persons) 700 €.

minivan (5/6 persons) 730 €;

minivan (7/8 persons) 770 €.

Driving times:
Civitavecchia/Rome: 1hr

Rome/Civitavecchia: 1hr'

We start from Civitavecchia at 8:00 am. You'll find the vehicle waiting right on the pier where the ship docks. It will parked as close as possible to the footbridge and your name will be posted on its windshield. The tour takes between about 10 hours, from when we start until we return to the ship, around 5.30 and 6.00 pm. We'll start the tour from the Colosseum and end with St. Peter's Basilica.

We should be arriving in Rome around 9.00 am and the Colosseum will be our first stop. I will tell you all about it and then let you go and explore the inside on your own. I'll also help you to buy your entrance tickets without having to stand in line. After the visit of the Colosseum we'll drive to Trevi Fountain via the Aventine Hill and Piazza Venezia where we'll stop to take a look at the Monument to Victor Emmanuel II and Mussolini's balcony. Leaving the Trevi Fountain we'll head for Piazza di Spagna (Spanish Steps) and after a short stop there we'll make another one in the Borghese Gardens to see the panorama of Rome and the Vatican from the Pincio Terrace.

Our final stop for the morning will be the famous Piazza Navona one of the most beautiful in Rome. At this point you'll probably start to get hungry and the possibilities are the following: a snack in Piazza Navona, some pizza in the cafeteria of the Vatican Museums or a typical lunch in a little neighborhood restaurant.

We should than start the tour of the Vatican around 2:00 pm. The Vatican Museums are enormous, about 1500 rooms, but we'll only see about 20% of what they have there on our way to the Sistine Chapel.

Because of the way they regulate traffic inside the Museums, they close portions of them when they get too crowded and detour visitors to a different wing, the itinerary  can change from time to time. Normally we visit the Cortile della Pigna, Belvedere, Pio Clementino Museum, the Gallery of Candelabra, the Gallery of Tapestries, the Gallery of Maps, Raphael's Rooms and finally the Sistine Chapel.

From the Sistine we'll go directly to St. Peter's Basilica, saving a lot of time which would be necessary to walk back to the car through other museums, driving around the outside of the Vatican

After visiting St. Peter's you'll want to take some pictures of the square, shop for souvenirs and/or get a drink. While you do that, I'll walk back to get the car and drive it to St. Peter's to pick you up and drive you back to Civitavecchia.

On Saturdays the Vatican Museums close earlier and that makes it a little difficult to do this tour because of the long line of people trying to get in before 12:20.On Sundays instead it's practically impossible because they're just closed for the day. Only the last Sunday of each month they're open and they don't charge for admission, so the place ends up being very crowded. It is notorious that the lines to get inside the Vatican Museums can be tremendous, but normally the situation gets better around 11/12.00 o' clock, though not all days are the same.

The best time of the week to visit the place, if the Pope is in residence, is on Wednesday mornings. Most of the people go to the Papal Audience (Wednesdays 10:00 am to 1:00 pm.). What causes the formation of the line is not the purchasing of the admission ticket, but the fact that the space inside is limited and therefore the guards stop the line from time to time when they see that that it's getting too crowded inside. Since 9/11 one also has to go through metal detectors and that made the lines become even longer.