Vasari Corridor tours: every way to book, compared
What you are actually booking
The corridor reopened on 21 December 2024, and the version that reopened is not the one in most guidebooks. Self-portraits hung along it from 1973 to 2016; they now have twelve permanent rooms inside the gallery, and the passage was put back to what the museum calls its “original bareness”. So the thing you are paying for is a walk of more than seven hundred metres, taken one way, from Room D19 on the Uffizi’s first floor to a door beside the Grotta del Buontalenti in the Boboli Gardens. We describe what there is to look at along the way in detail elsewhere. This page is only about which booking gets you in.
Two things follow from that bareness. The first is that nothing on the walls explains itself any more, so a guide has more work to do here than in 2015. The second is that the cheapest booking is not automatically the wrong one: plenty of people want the road, the windows and the quiet, and are content to read up beforehand.
Reserved tickets: in on your own
Two products cover the gallery and the corridor on one reserved timed ticket with no guide attached. The plainest is the reserved entry ticket, which also has an audio-guide variant as a second booking option. The other pairs the same timed entry with multilingual apps you install on your own phone before you arrive — English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Croatian — and some of its booking options add a tasting of Tuscan products, olive oil and truffle and cantuccini among them.
One reviewer, Waldemar from Poland, made the most useful point anyone has made about the app: it flags up more than there is time to stand and look at. Treat it as a menu rather than a checklist. This format suits people who read labels happily, who dislike being shepherded, and who want the corridor without paying for interpretation they will not use.
Guided in the gallery: the small-group formats
Three products put a licensed guide in the Uffizi, and they differ in one detail that matters more than any other: whether that guide is still with you inside the passage. On the small-group tour the corridor is an option on some booking choices and is walked one-way, unguided — the guide covers the gallery, then hands you over. It meets at the Leonardo da Vinci statue and runs in English, with headsets when the group needs them; hotel pickup, food and the Pitti and Boboli interiors are not part of it.
The Masterworks tour caps the party at nine as it is sold, and reads a short list of works closely instead of sweeping the whole gallery. It has two booking options, gallery only or gallery plus the Medici Passage, and the longer one includes re-entry to the Uffizi afterwards. Meet at the Leonardo da Vinci statue and look for the blue flag. The third product keeps its guide with the group in the gallery and along the passage on the corridor option, finishing near the Boboli Gardens and the Buontalenti Grotto; it runs in Spanish and English, meets at an operator sales office on Via Cavour, and states plainly that it is not suitable for wheelchair users.
Private: your own guide, five languages
One product is fully private, with your own guide and your own party, and it is the only one here offered in Italian, English, Spanish, French and German. That spread is the reason most non-English speakers end up on it. It meets at the Neptune Fountain on Piazza della Signoria, and bags, backpacks, food and plastic bottles are excluded outright, so travel light. We go through the case for spending more on the private and very-small-group page.
The six bookings we track
All six, in one grid. Each card opens the operator’s GetYourGuide page, where the current price, the departure dates and the cancellation terms for that specific booking option are shown.
Self-guidedCorridor access includedUffizi Gallery & Vasari Corridor Reserved Entry Ticket
Ticket + appCorridor access includedUffizi & Vasari Corridor Timed Ticket with Audio App
Small groupCorridor optionUffizi Small-Group Guided Tour with Vasari Corridor Access
Max 9 peopleCorridor optionUffizi Masterworks Tour (Max 9) with the Medici Passage
Guide throughoutCorridor optionUffizi Gallery Guided Tour with Optional Vasari Corridor
PrivateCorridor access includedVasari Corridor & Uffizi Gallery Exclusive Private Tour
Three formats, side by side
The reserved ticket, a small-group guided tour and the private tour, on the points that actually differ. We have left price and length out on purpose: both vary by booking option and by date, and the widget below quotes them properly.
| Uffizi Gallery & Vasari Corridor Reserved Entry Ticket | Middle groundUffizi Small-Group Guided Tour with Vasari Corridor Access | Vasari Corridor & Uffizi Gallery Exclusive Private Tour | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Format | Reserved timed ticket, no guide | Licensed guide, small party | Private party, your own guide |
| Guide inside the corridor | No, you walk it alone | No, walked one way unguided | Yes, on the corridor option |
| Languages | Self-guided; audio-guide option | English | Italian, English, Spanish, French, German |
| Where it starts | The Uffizi, on your slot | The Leonardo da Vinci statue | The Neptune Fountain |
| Best for | Reading it yourself | A first pass at the gallery | Questions answered as you walk |
| View → | Book this → | View → |
Whatever you book, plan the rest of the day from the Pitti side. The corridor is walked one way and puts you out in the Boboli Gardens, across the river from where you started, which is a fifteen-minute walk back over the Ponte Vecchio if you have booked lunch near Piazza della Signoria.
Before you book, read the write-ups
We have gone through the main products one by one — what each includes, where it starts, what its reviewers keep saying, and who it leaves out. Start with our tour reviews if you are torn between two of them.
Can’t make these dates?
Browse other Vasari Corridor tours and find one that fits your schedule. Dates, prices and cancellation terms come straight from GetYourGuide.
Live dates and prices
The widget below is the timed ticket with the audio app, the usual starting point for a first visit. Change the date to see what is running; the figure it shows is the current one, and it is the only figure we trust enough to put in front of you.
Frequently asked questions
Which format should we look at first?
Decide whether you want the walk or the explanation. If you want the walk, a reserved timed ticket covers the gallery and the corridor and sits at the bottom of the range. If you want the walk explained, a guided or private booking is where the money goes. Our honest verdict page sets out who tends to come away happy and who does not.
Is the Vasari Corridor included with a normal Uffizi ticket?
Not automatically. Some booking options are sold as a combined reserved ticket covering the gallery and the passage; others are gallery-only with the corridor added as a paid option. Read the option name before you pay, and see what actually determines what you pay for the parts that catch people out, the Boboli Gardens among them.
Which days can we not go?
The Uffizi is closed on Mondays, on 1 January and on 25 December, and open Tuesday to Sunday. The clock times shift by season and there are occasional evening openings, so we do not print them: check the Uffizi Galleries’ own page for the day you are choosing.
Can a wheelchair user take one of these tours?
The museum has fitted the corridor with ramps, platforms and lifts and describes it as wheelchair accessible, but that is the museum’s provision and not a promise from any operator. One of the guided products above states outright that it is not suitable for wheelchair users. Confirm on the booking page itself, and read our accessibility notes first.