5 Tips To Skip The Line At St. Peter's Basilica In 2024!

Have you seen the lines at Saint Peter's Basilica lately? They coil around Saint Peter's Square, sometimes twice over!

Wait time can reach 2 hours! How to skip this line?

I share my secrets for avoiding those crazy lines so you can get right in!

⌚ CHAPTERS/ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Intro
00:47 - Come when it opens
01:10 - Visit the Vatican Necropolis
01:36 - Take the shortcut (find out how!)
03:53 - Use the pilgrims' entrance (see if this applies to you!)
04:38 - Bonus clip by @TheCatholicTraveler!
05:37 - Come in low season (when is that?)

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Hi Elyssa, I watched almost all of your clips before I went to Rome&Vatican last week. My trip was wonderful and well organized. I got lots of compliments from my companions and locals of how I planned it. Thanks to you for all the updated and useful information and tips. I hope your channel will grow bigger and bigger because you really deserve it 😊

[catherinechiara]

Hi Alyssa, thank you so much for your excellent tips. Greatly appreciated!!!

[tamina]

So informative and straight to the point! Thanks for your hard work 😊

[meangene]

I am so glad I found your channel. I'm from Texas and was in Rome at the end of March, and I fell in love with the city. Watching your channel just reminds me of my trip all over again. I can't wait to get back there. Thank you for your fabulous channel

[Breakawaywithnoreen]

Just to let you know that your channel is very helpful and informative. Thank you so much.

[miongoogle]

You are the most clear and comprehensive one I have seen. Thank you for your detailed explanations! I need to take someone in a wheelchair and your advised was so valuable!

[marioneill]

Elizabeth Lev is absolutely amazing. Her lectures are captivating (at least the videos I've seen) and informative.

[robm]

Thank you so much for your video! Followed your link and sent an email to the Vatican Scavi Office requesting tickets for my visit to Rome in September and was surprised when they responded in less than 24 hours granting my request!
2 tickets for 26 Euros. I'm subscribing and liking ALL your videos!

[miguelmiguel]

Great vid !! I was there this pass Easter week in did it was 2 hrs witting

[fernandogama]

I was there last Wednesday and Thursday, and the early AM seems to work the best to enter the Basilica. I know getting up early and getting to the Basilica can be a challenge, but its so worth it! And I was rewarded, I got to see the Pope last Wednesday. It wasn't planned, but I'm so glad I was there early. Regardless, thank you for all the tips.

[Nathancai]

Thank you so much for all the info! Will try to queue fitst thijg in the morning on sunday 9th July. Wish me luck😅

[lonlonf]

Thank you, Elyssa, for the update! I followed your recommendation and took an early 8AM tour with my family. Good to hear the shortcut is available, will save us time and energy going around the wall and waiting in line. Also, any hop on hop off tour bus company you recommend?

[VoteSeanS]

LOVE LOVE LOVE your channel and all your content. You deliver it so clearly and then the links you provide are so helpful. I have booked a tour that includes the basilica (it is an early morning, so when it ends we just walk over to wait in line for tickets to the dome? Since this is not the ideal time (with the sun) for a good view, I was considering to come the night before to just climb the dome, but based on your video, would you say don't bother due to long lines to gain entrance?

[jacklong]

Elizabeth, I completely agree with you about first securing a tour of the Vatican Necropolis, which I did before making any other plans for our visit to Rome. Afterwards, as you say, one has access to the basilica. But a visit to the Necropolis is in itself one of the great experiences of my life (I first visited in 1978) and greatly enhances one’s visit to St. Peter’s! I secured my ticket to the necropolis in October for May 3rd from the Vatican Scavi. A ticket only costs 13 euros

[huanho]

What a disappointment! I was thinking about taking the short from sixtina chapell 😂! Thx for explaining about the guided tour ❤

[theresavaltierrez]

I was there On Friday May 5th 830am waited an hour went back Sunday May 7th around the same time and walked right in no wait at all.

[ankitkedia]

Its an amazing masterpiece .. so beautiful

[spiffy]

I did it in early December with my wife. Thursday morning about 9am…maybe waited 15 minutes to get through security and into the basilica.
I will never bother with high season again. Seeing Rome in off season is the only way to go.

[girlieconcepcion]

Love your channel! Is St. peter basilica closed on Wednesday?

[miguelmiguel]

But also I think you should advice that ones they are visiting the cathedral they should visit first the dome of the cathedral because the entry closes at 5 pm
If someone visit the cathedral first it needs time to see to enjoy it by the time they finishing there would be no time to go upstairs and have to come back the next day and wait on other 2 hrs to go to the dome
I learned that in my own experience