Vasari Corridor tour reviews
There are four sensible ways to walk the Corridoio Vasariano, and we have reviewed each of them separately. We publish no score out of five, on purpose. GetYourGuide already keeps a live rating on every activity page, and any number we typed here would be stale within the week. What we judge instead is the part that holds still: the format, what the operator commits to, what it leaves out, and who each version actually suits. The full spread sits on all tours.
The four we review
Uffizi & Vasari Corridor Timed Ticket with Audio App
Both sites on one timed ticket, with a multilingual app you install before you fly. The longest language list of the six, and one very useful complaint from a reviewer.
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Uffizi Small-Group Guided Tour with Vasari Corridor Access
A licensed guide for the gallery, then the corridor walked one way on your own. Read the booking option before you assume otherwise.
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Vasari Corridor & Uffizi Gallery Exclusive Private Tour
Your own guide and your own party, in any of five languages. The reason to pay for the top of the range, and the reason not to.
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Uffizi Gallery & Vasari Corridor Reserved Entry Ticket
One reserved slot, no guide, nothing else attached. The plainest way in and, for a lot of people, the right one.
Read the review ›What every one of these reviews has to say first
The corridor most articles describe no longer exists. Between 1973 and 2016 it was where the Uffizi hung its self-portraits, in a passage the museum itself admits “lacked air conditioning and adequate lighting”. Those paintings moved out. Since 2023 they have had twelve permanent rooms on the gallery’s first floor, painted pink and hung chronologically. The corridor reopened on 21 December 2024 restored to what the museum calls its “original bareness”: more than seven hundred metres of empty, well-lit architecture running from the Uffizi, along the top of the Ponte Vecchio, to a door beside the Buontalenti Grotto in the Boboli Gardens. If nobody has told you that before you book, a review has failed you. We set out the whole walk in what you see inside.
How we read a tour page
Three questions decide most of it. Does a guide come into the corridor with you, or only as far as the door? What language will the guiding actually happen in? And where does the thing start, given that the historic centre is a limited-traffic zone and you will be walking to the meeting point on foot? After that it is a question of temperament, which is what our verdict page is for. If money is the deciding factor, the mechanics of what you are paying for are set out in what it costs, without figures we cannot keep current.
We are an independent desk. We are not the Uffizi Galleries and we are not the operator. Where a product has a weakness we name it, and three of the four reviews below do exactly that. How we are funded is on about us.
Frequently asked questions
Why do your reviews not give a score out of five?
Because it would be a photograph of someone else’s opinion, taken on a day that has already passed. Ratings and review counts move constantly, and a stale one printed on a page is worse than none at all. Every review here docks a link straight to the live GetYourGuide activity page, where the current rating sits beside the current price. Our job is the durable part: format, honesty and fit. See all tours for the side by side.
Which Vasari Corridor tour should I book?
If you want the walk and nothing more, read the reserved entry ticket review. If you want context in the gallery beforehand, the small-group tour is the usual answer, as long as you accept that the corridor itself is walked unguided. If you are travelling in a language other than English, or with someone who needs the pace adjusted, the private tour is the only one guided in five languages.
Are these reviews independent?
Yes. We do not sell tickets, we are not the museum, and we have no relationship with any operator. We earn a commission when a reader books through a GetYourGuide link on this site, which costs the reader nothing extra and does not decide what we recommend. The full statement is on our affiliate disclosure page.
Is a guide worth paying for if the corridor is empty?
That is the real question, and the honest answer is that bareness cuts both ways. There is very little on the walls to explain, so a weak guide has nothing to hide behind, while a good one has an unusually clear run at the history. The Uffizi portion of a combined tour is where most of the value lands. We weigh it up in is the Vasari Corridor worth it.