Florence Pass and Firenze Card: prices, museums included and when a pass is worth it

A Florence museum pass is only worth buying when the arithmetic works, and the arithmetic almost always rests on four numbers: Uffizi €29 with booking, Accademia €24, Brunelleschi Pass €30, Palazzo Vecchio €19. Tiqets’ The Florence Pass costs €92.50, the official Firenze Card €85 for 72 hours and does not include the Duomo, and the Uffizi Galleries’ own PassePartout €40 for five days. Here is what each one actually buys, and the museum at which it stops being a waste of money.

The Florence Pass by Tiqets: two products, one name

Watch out here, because the catalogue carries two listings with the same name, and they do not include the same things.

The original version costs €92.50 (3.9 stars from 2,548 reviews) and covers three entries, chosen one at a time: the Uffizi Gallery with priority entry and either a digital audio guide or a guided tour in English; the Accademia Gallery with entry, assisted priority access or a guided tour; and a Duomo component, either a guided visit of the cathedral alone, the bell tower with cathedral and Baptistery, or Brunelleschi’s Dome as a paid upgrade. It also includes a city audio guide app with more than seventy points of interest and offline maps, plus a code for 10% off your next five bookings in Florence, valid for a month.

The newer version costs €88.50 and, despite a subtitle that mentions Brunelleschi’s dome, the dome climb is not among the options: the Duomo choices are the guided cathedral tour, or the bell tower, cathedral and Baptistery with priority access. The city audio guide is missing too. Four euros less, two things less.

One point matters more than the price: this is not a timed card. It is three separate tickets, each with its own date and time slot, subject to availability; there is no “72 hours of validity”. Both versions are shown as non-refundable at the time of checking.

The honest comparison: the Uffizi at €29, the Accademia at €24 and a Giotto Pass at €20 come to €73 at official prices, against €92.50. You are paying around twenty euros for a single booking, the audio guide and slots that are available when the official channels are full. Whether those twenty euros are worth it depends on how close your date is.

Firenze Card: €85 for 72 hours, without the Duomo or transport

This is the city’s only public pass, covering more than sixty museums with one visit each, including admission, temporary exhibition supplements and booking. A single rate of €85, no student or senior reduction, valid 72 hours from your first entry, issued in your name, non-transferable, either physical to collect in town or digital in the app.

Three exclusions weigh heavily.

The Duomo complex is not in it: no dome, no bell tower, no Baptistery, no Museo dell’Opera. Anyone who wants to climb has to add €30 for a Brunelleschi Pass, as we explain on the Duomo page.

Public transport is not included, and the Firenze Card+ add-on is no longer sold: buses and trams are paid separately, €2.00 for 90 minutes.

The Vasari Corridor is not covered: holders can buy the supplement at €20, with no booking fee.

In exchange, the card solves a genuine problem: booking the Uffizi and the Accademia is compulsory but free for holders. At the Uffizi you book online using the holders’ option, by phone on 800 615 615 or at the desk at Piazzale degli Uffizi 2; at the Accademia by phone on +39 055 294883 or at the booking points around town. Anyone travelling with a holder but without a card pays only the €4 booking fee at the reserved entrances.

Under 18s in the family group are free, but they have to be linked to the card at the time of purchase and still need booking. The Restart extension costs €28 and adds 48 hours, digital only, only for museums not yet visited, and can be activated within twelve months of buying the original card and after it has expired. On refunds: you can withdraw within 14 days if the card has not been activated, and not afterwards.

A warning about resellers: the same Firenze Card on GetYourGuide comes up at €94 (4.2 stars from 410 reviews), nine euros above the official price. The stated advantage is more flexible cancellation than the official terms, which allow withdrawal only within 14 days and only on an unactivated card; the exact conditions, though, vary from listing to listing and should be read on the product page before you pay the difference.

The official prices the sums are based on

All the calculations below use advance purchase, because that is what a card replicates: the booking fee is already inside the pass price.

Worth remembering: in state museums under 18s go free and EU citizens aged 18 to 25 pay €2; on the first Sunday of the month entry is free but cannot be booked. No pass beats those three rules.

Break-even: two, three, four museums

The line that counts is the second one: three major museums are not enough. The real break-even sits around the fourth big museum in three days, and visiting six means genuinely filling three days, travel time and queues included. If your itinerary is “the Uffizi, the David and a walk”, which is the most common case, the card loses thirty euros.

And if you add the dome? The Firenze Card does not include it, so the basket becomes €85 + €30 = €115 against €102 of single tickets for four items. The Duomo always makes the card’s arithmetic worse, never better.

The comparison with the Tiqets pass uses a different basket, because it includes a Duomo component:

Families with children under 18

The sums change completely here, and almost no pass survives them.

Two adults and two children aged 10 and 15, three museums in 72 hours: Uffizi €58 for the adults alone, Accademia €48, Palazzo Vecchio €38 plus €2 of presale on the children’s two free tickets — a total of €146. Two Firenze Cards cost €170, with the minors linked for free: you lose €24. The result also depends on the booking fees charged on free under-18 tickets, which the museums do not publish in one place: at the Uffizi and the Accademia they appear at the booking stage, and they are the only item minors genuinely pay.

The reason is simple: minors are already free in state and civic museums, so the card’s “free for children” line saves the booking fees, not the tickets. The card only comes back into play when the two adults visit five or six museums each.

The exception is the Duomo, where children do pay: €12 reduced from 7 to 14 on the Brunelleschi Pass, €30 full price from 15, free under 7. For a family of four, the dome climb is a separate item of around a hundred euros.

Uffizi, Pitti and Boboli only: the 5-day PassePartout at €40

This is the best-value pass in the city and the museum sells it directly. €40 for five consecutive days, one entry each to the Uffizi Gallery, Pitti Palace and the Boboli Gardens, with priority entry; €58 in the version with the Vasari Corridor.

The comparison is merciless: the same three entries bought separately in advance cost €29 + €25 = €54, so the PassePartout saves fourteen. The same product resold on Tiqets sits at €45 and on GetYourGuide at €58.96: five and nineteen euros above the official price.

Two rules to respect: booking is compulsory only for the Uffizi, which must be the first museum you visit, arriving 15 minutes early at Door 3; and if the five days include a closed Monday, 25 December or 1 January, validity extends to a sixth day. All the details are on Pitti Palace and Boboli.

Uffizi plus Accademia: combo or official tickets?

It is Florence’s best-selling pairing and deserves its own sum. The two official tickets bought in advance cost €53. The Tiqets combo with reserved entry sits at €69.50 (4.2 stars from 872 reviews): €16.50 more, in exchange for the city audio guide, a single booking and slot availability when the official channels are full. It is non-refundable.

GetYourGuide listings for the same pair show “from” prices below the official total: that almost certainly means afternoon slots or reduced tickets, not a cheaper full-price ticket. Which slots and which rates are covered cannot be read off a “from” price: it is only written on the product page. Always check the time before comparing.

If saving money is the only goal, the best move remains Uffizi entry from 16:00 at €20 booked in advance, which no pass replicates. More detail on Uffizi and Accademia and David.

Turbopass and the other city passes: read the penalties

Turbopass’ Florence City Pass claims 22 attractions including the Uffizi, the Accademia, San Marco, the Innocenti, the Archaeological Museum, the Opificio, Casa Buonarroti, the Synagogue, the Leonardo Interactive Museum and more, with the hop-on hop-off bus as a supplement. Prices run from €93.90 for one day to €153.90 for seven, with €113.90 for three days. It does not include Palazzo Vecchio, Pitti Palace, Boboli, the Bargello or the Duomo.

The sticking point is the conditions: the official terms set a cancellation penalty of €40 per pass on the Florence product — not the €30 of the general tariff — and €30 for each booking change, with cancellation possible only if the pass has not been used and no tickets have been issued.

On GetYourGuide the same bundle appears as a City Pass at €93.90 (3.5 stars from 44 reviews), while the official Firenze Card resold there sits at €94. With the Uffizi and Accademia at €53 official, a commercial city pass only makes sense with at least three extra minor museums and no Duomo on the programme.

The verdict: who should buy what

No pass if you are visiting two museums. The Uffizi plus the Accademia is settled with €53 of official tickets, or a combo if slots are scarce.

The 5-day PassePartout at €40 if your itinerary revolves around the Uffizi–Pitti–Boboli group and you have at least three days in the city. It is the clearest and simplest saving in the Florentine catalogue.

The Firenze Card at €85 if you are an intensive visitor: four or more major museums in 72 hours, curiosity about the civic collections, children in tow and no intention of climbing the dome. Add €28 of Restart only if at least two important museums are still unseen.

The Florence Pass at €92.50 if you want one booking for the three big names, are travelling close to your date and find the official slots gone. You are paying around twenty euros for convenience: know that, and pick the version with the dome if the climb really matters to you.

Turbopass and similar city passes only with a long itinerary of smaller museums, and with the €40 penalty in mind.

In short: Florence’s passes are not scams, they are tools for one specific visitor profile. Add up the tickets you genuinely need at the official prices on this page, compare the total with the price of the pass, and buy only if the number is in your favour. The full ticket picture site by site is on Tickets, the discounted pairings on Combos, and for the two most requested climbs it is worth reading Duomo and Palazzo Vecchio before you decide.