Uffizi Gallery Tickets: Three Ways In, Compared

At $84 per person, the guided tour is the most reviewed way in: 6,123 reviews at 4.6. You meet your guide in front of the Guido Aretino statue on Piazzale degli Uffizi, go in with a pre-booked, timed ticket through the priority entrance, and spend 1.5 hours in the Renaissance rooms.

The guide takes you through masterpieces by Botticelli, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli’s Birth of Venus among them, in a collection that runs from the 12th to the 17th century. When the tour ends, step out onto the terrace for a panoramic view over Florence.

• A live guide in eight languages: English, Italian, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian and Armenian.
• A private group option is listed.
• Give the full names of everyone in your group when you book.
• Reserve now and pay later.

For $75 per person, rated 4.4 from 1,902 reviews, you get the Uffizi plus the Pitti Palace and the Boboli Gardens. Only the Uffizi has a date and time. After that visit you have five days for the other two, whenever they are open.

In the Uffizi, look for Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and Caravaggio’s Medusa, and the ancient Roman statues along the corridors. Across the river, the Palatine Gallery in the Pitti Palace holds works by Caravaggio, Rubens and Titian, and the Boboli Gardens give a sense of the power the Medici family enjoyed.

• An audio guide in 18 languages, from English and Italian to Japanese and Korean.
• Meet the hosts 15 minutes before your Uffizi time, at the corner of the Uffizi ticket office and Via Lambertesca, in front of the Benvenuto Cellini statue.
• Keep the ticket after the Uffizi: you show it at each of the other sites.
• Non-refundable.

At $66 per person, rated 4.4 from 873 reviews, this pass starts with a timed Uffizi entry on the date you choose. That entry switches it on, and you then have five consecutive days for the rest, with no fixed entry times.

The plan gives the Uffizi 3 hours: 96 rooms, Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and Primavera, and a terrace café over Piazza della Signoria. Then cross the Arno to the Pitti Palace, once home to the Medici, Lorraine and Savoy families.

• Palatine Gallery: more than 500 Renaissance works, with Raphael, Titian, Rubens, Caravaggio and Perugino.
• Gallery of Modern Art: Italian art from the late 18th to the early 20th century.
• Treasury of the Grand Dukes: jewels, cameos and gemstones of the Medici and Lorraine.
• Museum of Fashion and Costume, inside the Pitti Palace.
• Boboli Gardens, with 1.5 hours in the plan.
• Tickets and two digital audio guides arrive by email.

None of the three is a Uffizi Gallery and Accademia tour. Michelangelo’s David stands in the Accademia Gallery, which is not on either pass’s list of sites and not on the guided tour. For timed entry and guides there, see our Accademia and David guide; for the cathedral, see our Duomo and dome guide.

Book the guided tour if the Uffizi is your one museum: $84 per person, 6,123 reviews at 4.6, a guide in eight languages and free cancellation listed.

Staying a few days? The wider pass at $66 per person covers the Uffizi, the Pitti Palace with its galleries and the Boboli Gardens. Pick your date with care: it is non-refundable.

Our top pick is the Cinque Terre and Pisa trip: $100 per person for 12 to 12.5 hours, by train between the coastal villages and then on to the Leaning Tower. The most reviewed trip on the site is Pisa, Siena and San Gimignano, at $55 per person with 11,897 reviews. Compare all twelve in our list of trips.