Rated Vatican Tour on Tripadvisor since 2011!

16th April 2018

Vatican Tour

Tour guide was a bloke called Grant. He did a fantastic job, certainly knew his stuff. Well worth the tour money as cuts the cues  

15th April 2018

Colosseum tour

A fantastic way to spend your time in Rome. Our guide Carlotta was warm and friendly with an excellent knowledge of the Colosseum. She even engaged our son for nearly four hours - a tremendous feat!!! We highly recommend this tour company. 

10th April 2018

Vatican tour with Mario

Toured the Vatican this morning. It was beautiful and very informative!  Excellent tour guide! I am glad we had him as he knew the history and told it with passion!

I would recommend this tour to anyone wanting to see the Vatican! Thank you!

9th April 2018

We loved Ana and the Vatican tour!

Terrific tour by Ana! She was knowledgable, friendly and funny! We recommend her and what a life tours 100 percent. Coffee and pastries were such a nice touch! Grazi!!

2nd April 2018

Great tour for the Vatican

Great tour & guide (Grant) to get the ”best of” to see the Vatican and Sistine chapel. Impressed by the level of knowledge, insigts and enthusiasm that Grant guided us through the impressive area. Its large at scale with many people, and massive queing - which is solved swiftly by using the service of a tour guide - highly recommend what a life tours!!!

25th February 2018

Marvelous Mario

This was another private tour we booked with What a Life and had the good fortune of having Mario as the tour guide.  Mario was fantastic!  He showed us the highlights in both the Colosseum and Roman Forum. He was able to bring to life the ruins of Ancient Rome!

22nd February 2018

This tour was exceptional as led by Carlotta. You could not ask for a better guide. Money well spent.

Van Hattem family

27th January 2018

I arranged these tours for both of my daughters last July and they enjoyed them very much. They thought the guide was very good and were so glad of the privilege to see so much history and faith in the tours. Highly recommend your tours!

23rd January 2018

What a fantastic early access Vatican tour from start to finish! Patrick Madden our guide was very knowledgeable and informative, he did not rush us and answered all of our questions thoroughly! Nothing was too much trouble for him. Patrick was absolutely excellent, he had a very pleasant manner, we could not have asked for a better guide!! We would not hesitate to recommend What a life tours and Patrick, they were very welcoming on our early morning arrival, making us feel relaxed and at ease from the very start of the tour! Thank you for the whole Vatican Tour experience, it exceeded our expectations!!

17 January 2018

Mario - you are a little legend. We booked with What a Life Tours for the VATICAN ART, HISTORY AND LEGENDS tour. We had only six people in our group and Mario our guide was brilliant. It was everything you could possibly want in a tour – a good guide, skip-the-line access & seeing all the major highlights in 3 hours all at a decent price. Mario was knowledgeable, clear & explained everything very well. He had a lot of knowledge about everything and was passionate when he spoke. It was the highlight of our Rome vacation for my family and I. I would highly recommend this tour to anyone. Thank you Mario for such an amazing day!

Chloe Newcombe

2nd January 2018

Booking and organization were very smooth. Our guide, Daniela, was amazing in both tours. She provided  very interesting and colorful information resulting in a great experience. Very professional, friendly and knowledgeable.
We had no waiting time anywhere. Highly recommended!

10th December 2017

Our tour guide, Mario, was incredible. I can't say enough good things about him! He has an advanced degree in Ancient Roman History and was incredibly knowledgeable. I have a degree in history myself so I  was very impressed by everything I learned. Mario is also very charismatic and has a great sense of humor - he had our group laughing from start to finish. This was by far the best tour I had in Rome!

Jamie Rose

1st December 2017

The only way to see the Vatican if you want to avoid the crowds. Very knowledgeable tour guide. I'm an Art Historian myself and I really enjoyed this tour. I wanted to show our twins Rome before they are out on their own. I have been in Rome and the Vatican many times, but that was in the early 80s when nobody cared about seeing the Sistine Chapel.Now you can't see anything, unless you take an early tour, the place is packed. I recommend that you spend the money, it is worth it. You got to see the Vatican at least once in your lifetime.

27th November 2017

My husband and I were blown away by this tour!  The guides were friendly and quickly escorted us to the Colosseum..We were taken through a special entrance with no wait and promptly started the Underground part of the tour.  We were amazed to see the original flooring, the hallways the animals and Gladiators used, and a remake of an elevator used to transport  them.  Next, we were guided by Carlotta, who was so knowledgeable and so much fun.  We never felt rushed and had plenty of photo ops.  Since we were there in October, we were allowed to go to 2 more upper floors!!  The views were breathtaking!  The Roman Forum was just as amazing made special by our guide Guiliano.  This was a tour of a lifetime made perfect by What a life tours! I would highly recommend this tour as it was exactly as stated with so many extras along the way. Thank you!

Donna Izer, USA

23rd November 2017

Quick four day visit early November. Glad we found "Whatalifetours" on google, as there our loads to chose from. Our guide at the Vatican took us straight off on his route which enabled us to visit the main and most impressive parts of the Vatican all on our own (he new all the short cuts) great knowledge on all areas, and never felt rushed. Personally you can't beat ancient Rome history, and the Colosseum is it's centre point, our guide this time is also an archaeologist his passion on the subject came through, with all the answers to my questions answered with passion. Both these tours we felt were worth while, with the lady from the office being in attendance at the start of both, making sure they went off on time. Listening to a recorded voice on tape, as some of the other tours are run, just would not have the same feel at all. Thanks once again, and if/when we visit Rome again we will be booking again.
Gary and Angela, U.K

10th November 2017

My husband and I did the Vatican early access tour with Mario as our guide.  The tour was so much better than we expected, Mario was an excellent guide, his knowledge of the Vatican and its history was communicated to us in an engaging, entertaining and comprehensive way. It was very special and something that I will never forget. I thoroughly recommend this tour!

9th November 2017

In Oct. 2017, I returned to bella Roma where I had grown up as an American teenager many decades ago.  My adult son joined me for a few days in Rome. Our tour with Daniela of the Colosseum and forum was the best I've ever experienced, and I've been on many.  She was exceptionally knowledgeable, interesting, and personable.  I learned so much about the construction of the buildings, typical day and events at the Colosseo, and many fascinating insights about the Roman culture.  When my camera storage was full and I couldn't take any more photos, my guide took the pictures I wanted on her own camera and had them sent to me through What a Life tours.  Can't rate this experience, guide, and company any higher!

6th November 2017

We would like to thank to Ana the superb guidance through the Vatican Museum, Sistine Chapel and Basilica of St Peter. We had the early morning tour what we definietly recommend to everyone who would like to avoid the big crowd. Don't forget to climb the dome of the Basilica after the tour finished!

26th October 2017

I booked this tour based on very little knowledge of how good this team was. They were BRILLIANT! They called us before we arrived to make sure we were close. The awesome content, care and pace were perfect. Group size was good and our two guides were simply excellent. Our 8 year old son was kept engaged for 3.5 hours - he loved every minute. I thoroughly recommend this company. We will definitely be using them again.

25th October 2017

What a Life Tours was great! We had been advised to book an early morning Vatican tour to avoid the crowds. We started with breakfast in their office and at 7:30 walked with our guide, Marcello, to the Vatican, where he gave us an excellent history and description of what we would see in the Sistine Chapel, while we waited for the doors to open at 8. We were delighted to find that when we got to the chapel, we had it almost all to ourselves....a powerful contrast to the wall to wall crowds we had to elbow through a couple of hours later. Marcello, our guide, was cordial and extremely knowledgeable...

25th October 2017

Had a fantastic, informative and interesting tour of the Vatican. Thanks so much Carlotta for sharing your vast knowledge and endless enthusiasm.

25th October 2017

Carletta was wonderful! She was incredibly knowledgeable and we even had their staffed archaeologist join our tour which gave us even more insights to everything we saw. We got incredible behind the scenes access to everything at the Colloseum. This tour was the perfect finale to our time in Rome. Highly recommend!

23rd October 2017

My husband and I, along with his parents, took this tour on 10/7 and LOVED it! Grant was our guide, and he was incredible. Super engaging, really fun and so knowledgable! He added little tidbits and extras that we never would have gotten on his own. For my husband and I, this was our 2nd time touring the Vatican, but we both learned and saw new things thanks to Grant. We highly reco this tour--and get Grant for your guide if at all possible!

23rd October 2017

I highly recommend 'What a Life Tours'. The knowledge of our tour guides was excellent and they kept us entertained for the the entire tour.

18th April 2018

Excellent Tour of Colosseum and Underground by Carlotta 

Carlotta was a fun, interesting, and informative guide!