About me, and about this site
I am Theres Voßmann. I guide people around Würzburg for a living, which most weeks means walking a group up the staircase of the Residenz and watching them stop talking when they look up. I have been doing it for eleven years, long enough to have seen the Hofgarten roses come and go a dozen times and to have answered the same question several thousand times: how much is it, and do I have to book a tour to get in.
Why this site exists
Because the answer to that question is cheerful and almost nothing online says it. An adult ticket to the staterooms costs about ten euros. Everyone under 18 goes in free, and so do students over 18 from general and vocational schools with valid ID. The ticket you buy at the desk or online already entitles you to join a guided tour at no extra cost — in English twice a day, in German every full and half hour. The Court Church, the Court Garden and the university museum in the south wing are free to enter.
People arrive here having been told, by search results and by listings, that a palace like this needs weeks of planning. It does not: the palace is a morning, and the day around it is where a good booking pays off. So I wrote the plain version: what the ticket costs and covers, the tour that comes with it, and what’s free to see.
What this site is for
The palace ticket and the day around it are two different purchases, and this site keeps them straight. The state ticket is bought from the palace. The staterooms are sold by the Bavarian Palace Administration, at its own desk on Residenzplatz and on its own website, with the guided tour already included.
Of the twelve tours I list, the winter half-day includes entry to the Residence: its inclusions read “Entry to the Residence”, it walks the staircase and the Imperial Hall and ends with a drink, and it runs on winter dates. The others are the day around the palace — guided walks and wine tastings in the old town, and Romantic Road coaches to Rothenburg. I read all twelve rather than assuming, and what each one covers in its own words is on every tour we list.
What I can point you at is the day around the palace. A walk through the old town with someone who knows it, a glass of Franconian wine on the Alte Mainbrücke, a coach down the Romantic Road to Rothenburg with the driving done. That is the part of a Würzburg trip where a booking makes the day, and it is what one day in Würzburg is built around.
Where the facts come from
Prices, hours and tour times come from the Bavarian Palace Administration, which runs the building, and the cellar figures from the Staatlicher Hofkeller, which is the state wine estate underneath it. I say which is which and link to both. Tour details come from the listing pages themselves, read in full rather than from their summaries, and quoted where the wording matters.
Reviewer quotes are verbatim, typing and emoji and all, and each one names the tour it was written about — the Munich coach’s thousands of reviews describe a Rothenburg day from Munich, and the Würzburg walks are described by the people who took them. It is all set out on the reviews page.
Where I do not know something, the page says so. The Hofkeller publishes no times or prices for its own cellar tours, so this site prints none. The operator gives no figure for the parking in front of the building, so neither do I.
How the site pays for itself
If you book a tour through a link here, GetYourGuide pays me a small commission and you pay exactly what you would have paid anyway. That is the whole business model, and the disclosure page spells it out.
Corrections are welcome. Hours change with the season, a listing gets rewritten, a garden gate closes for works. Tell me and I will fix the page.