A guide who works with your party and nobody else's, and on several of these a fare quoted per group rather than per head. Work out your cost per person before you compare anything here with a shared seat.
A route written around a form you fill in after booking, from two hours to six, with a Milanese host who collects you on foot. No admissions are included.
From $93 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Your own guide, four travellers at most, and tickets to both the Duomo and the Last Supper inside the fare. Three hours, with pick-up available as a booking grade.
From $343 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Quoted per group of two, which makes it a couple's tour. Camparino to the cathedral by way of Piazza Mercanti, with 45 guided minutes inside and the terraces optional.
From $551 per group, up to 2
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Eight languages, three hours and a licensed guide working with your party alone. Priced per group of six, so it divides well; the cathedral ticket is an add-on.
From $349 per group, up to 6
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Half an hour and up to 75 edited photographs in Piazza del Duomo, priced per group of twenty. An exterior session that buys no entry to anything.
From $67 per group, up to 20
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Several of these are quoted per group rather than per head, so work out your cost per person before you compare.
Check availabilityA licensed guide who works with your party and nobody else's, for a fixed number of hours, on a route you have some say in. In Milan that is a walking product rather than a vehicle one — the centre is small enough that a car is a hindrance, and every private fare here goes on foot.
The distinguishing feature is the pricing. Several of these are quoted per group, in units of two, six or twenty travellers. The shared departures are quoted per head. That one difference is why a private tour looks expensive on a listing page and often is not.
Divide before you judge. A fare quoted for a group of six costs the same whether two of you travel or six do. At four people or more, several of these land close to what four shared seats would cost, and you get the guide's whole attention with it.
One private walking tour here runs in Spanish, English, Italian, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese and Ukrainian. The shared small-group departures captured here are English-only, and the Fabbrica's audio guide is a paid extra either way.
Reviewers of the shared walks describe groups of thirty-five and more, where a headset is the only way to hear. On a private walk you are close enough to ask a question and get an answer, which is a different product.
Two of these are sold as days you shape: one sends a personalisation form after booking and writes the route from your answers, and durations run from two hours to six. If there is one thing in Milan you came for, this is how to be sure of it.
| Private | Small group | |
|---|---|---|
| Who is with you | Your party only | Up to 14, or larger on the walks |
| How the fare is quoted | Per group on several, in units of 2, 6 or 20 | Per person |
| Languages | Up to eight | English |
| Headsets | Not needed, and not always provided | Provided |
| Start time | Agreed with the operator | Fixed |
| Cathedral entry | Included on one, an add-on on two, absent on two | Included on most |
| From | From $67 | From $30 per person |
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You get a licensed guide for a set number of hours, working only with your party, in the language you booked. On one of these the cathedral and Last Supper tickets are both inside the fare. On another the guide collects you on foot from a central hotel.
What you frequently do not get is admission. Two of these include no entry to anything at all, and two more sell the cathedral ticket as a paid add-on bought one per person at checkout. One is titled for the terraces and marks them an optional extra fee in its own itinerary. Read the card rather than the title: none of these is dishonest, but none of them says it in the name either.
Work out your cost per head before you compare anything. A fare quoted for a unit of two is a couple's price and a poor deal for one traveller; a fare quoted for six divides to very little across a family. The unit is printed on each card above, next to the price, for exactly this reason.
Then add the admissions. If the fare excludes cathedral entry, that is €10 a head for the church or €26 for the church and the roof, and visitor information has the full price list. A three-hour private walk with two add-on tickets is a different number from the one on the listing page.
Tell the operator your accommodation when you book. Only one of these collects you, and it does so on foot rather than by car, which limits it to central addresses.
If you are travelling alone, the arithmetic rarely works: a fare quoted for a group is being paid entirely by you. A shared guided rooftop departure gives you two hours in the building with entry included for a fraction of it, and the rooftop page compares those.
If Leonardo's Last Supper is the reason for the trip, only one private fare here carries the reservation, and the shared combinations on the Last Supper page are cheaper for the same slot. And if you want the terraces guided, check the exclusions first — a duomo rooftop tour milan is not automatically a rooftop tour. The full field is on Duomo Milan Tours.
A licensed guide, the language you want, and a route shaped around what you came to Milan for.
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