908 ratings on the eleven Residenz listings, and 658 of them were left after a concert
Sixteen listings sit on this site. Eleven of them are about this building; the other five are Munich-wide things that appear beside it. Between the eleven there are 908 ratings, and across all sixteen there are 113 reviews with a sentence attached. The most useful thing about them is the shape.
The music outruns the tours, and what that tells you
Divide the 658 by the 908 and you get 72 per cent. Nearly three quarters. Put the two headline listings side by side and the same thing shows up in one line: “Munich: Classical Concert at the Residenz Palace” carries 389 ratings, and “Munich: Residenz Palace and Hofgarten Skip-the-Line Tour” carries 190. Divide those and the answer is 2.05, so the concert has been rated more than twice as often as the guided visit that walks you through the whole building.
Two more concert listings sit behind those. “Munich: Gala Concert in the Cuvilliés Theatre” has 109 and a score of 4.9. “Munich: Concert in the Court Chapel of the Residenz” has 108 at 4.4. “Master Concert in the Max-Joseph Hall in Munich” has 52. The fifth concert listing, the Munich Festival, is new to the platform with its record still building.
None of that is a verdict on the museum. It is a fact about what people plan ahead at this address — a guide or an evening — with admission bought at the desk on the day (what the three tickets cost). Which hall each concert uses, and how to pair one with the rooms, is on concerts inside the palace.
Two Munich-wide listings are bigger than all eleven put together
Here is the number to know before you plan. The Neuschwanstein and Linderhof full-day trip carries 16,428 ratings. Divide that by the 908 on every Residenz listing combined and the answer is 18.1, so eighteen times over. The Third Reich and WWII walking tour carries 7,257, which against the same 908 is 7.99, so eight times over. Neither is a Residenz visit: one walks the old town outside, the other spends its day in the Alps a hundred kilometres away — the two days that most often go round a Residenz afternoon.
The Munich hop-on hop-off bus has 4,638 and the German-language old town walk has 2,628 — the ride and the walk that fill the rest of a Munich stay. So four of the five Munich-wide listings on this site hold more ratings each than the whole Residenz catalogue does between them.
What that measures is search behaviour rather than quality. People book a castle in the Alps months before they land and a bus on the morning they arrive; they book a city palace when somebody tells them it is there. If you want the version of that argument written from this side, it is on is the Residenz worth it, and the comparison with the other Munich palace is on Residenz or Nymphenburg.
The five sentences in the whole record that will change what you do
Most of the 113 praise the guides and the music, and a few add practical details worth knowing.
- The tickets may not be in your voucher. Manfred, on the Max-Joseph recital: “Unfortunately, my vouchers didn’t mention that I had to pick up the tickets with the seat numbers at the box office. It caused some irritation!”
- The chapel is cold, except when it is not. István, on the court chapel programme: “they could have put in some warmers, it was very cold.” Fiona, on the Saturday concert in the same room: “I brought a coat thinking I would be cold but in fact it was quite stuffy.” Both are five stars. Both are describing the Hofkapelle.
- The theatre has its own way in and people miss it. Two of the ten written reviews on the gala concert say independently that the entrance was hard to find (the chapel, the theatre).
- A guided-tour ticket is not always an admission ticket. Ursula, the only reviewer on this site who spells that out, dropped a star for it. Her review is quoted whole on the either-or tour page.
- An advertised audio language may not exist on the day. Tina booked the bus expecting Danish and got Swedish(the bus page).
Every one of those is a practical problem with a practical answer, and the answers are on the pages that deal with doors and clocks rather than opinions: which door to use and what is open when.
Four listings here are young, and where they are covered
“Residence of Munich private tour with skip-the-line ticket” has five ratings. “Private Historian-Led Munich Residenz & Treasury Tour” has two. “Munich Residence Tour: Historical Highlights & Storytelling” has one. “Munich: Munich Festival in the Munich Residenz” has none, and no rating either.
All three of the ones with a rating are showing five stars, and free cancellation makes each an easy early booking.What each of them says it includes, in its own wording, is set out on every listing at this address.
The two remaining concert listings — the court chapel special-date programme with 108 ratings and the Max-Joseph recital with 52 — do have plenty of written reviews, and they are quoted where they belong rather than here: on the concerts page, next to which hall each one plays in and which nights each is on. The Christmas market crawl and the two Munich-wide walks that are not the WWII tour are on the full list.
Seven listings, seven pages, every quote printed as written
One page for the guided visit, one for each of the two concert rooms that carry the weight, one for the private tour, one for the tour that will not choose a palace for you, and one each for the two Munich listings whose numbers dwarf everything here. Each page prints the reviews in full and says how many there were to print.
Munich: Residenz Palace and Hofgarten Skip-the-Line Tour
The most-rated way into all three parts with somebody talking. Ten written reviews, all five stars, and three of them name the same guide.
10 written, one in TurkishRead the page ›
Munich: Classical Concert at the Residenz Palace
The single most-rated thing sold at this address: an hour of music in the old court chapel, the palace after dark.
10 written, one very longRead the page ›
Munich: Gala Concert in the Cuvilliés Theatre
The top-rated evening here — an evening inside the rococo theatre itself.
10 written, one with emojiRead the page ›
Munich: Residenz Palace, Museum and Treasury Private Tour
Sixteen ratings, four written reviews, and the highest price in this catalogue. Quoted whole.
4 written, all five starsRead the page ›
Munich: Nymphenburg Palace or Residenz Guided Tour
One listing, two palaces, and reviewers who praise the guiding at both.
9 written, two in GermanRead the page ›
Munich: Third Reich & WWII Walking Tour
Eight times the ratings of every Residenz listing put together, on the walk through the streets where this palace stands.
10 written, all naming one guideRead the page ›
Munich Hop-On Hop-Off Tour: 1-Day or 2-Day Ticket
The biggest bus sample in this catalogue, on the ride that passes the door.
10 written, none about the palaceRead the page ›Read the count with the score. Every page below shows the number of written reviews next to the number of ratings.
What the reviews settle, and what the desk decides
Which of the three tickets to buy is the desk’s question, and the tariff answers it; every review here is of the thing booked on top — the guide, the private party or the evening — and on that they are unanimous about the guiding and warm about the music. The tariff, with both savings written out, is on tickets. What you walk through once you are in is on what is inside. How much of a day it takes is on how long you need, and the whole argument in one place is the Residenz explained.
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Frequently asked questions
Which Munich Residenz tour has the most reviews?
The Saturday concert: “Munich: Classical Concert at the Residenz Palace”, with 389 ratings, an hour in the old court chapel. The most-rated tour is “Munich: Residenz Palace and Hofgarten Skip-the-Line Tour” with 190. Dividing the two gives 2.05, so the concert has been rated more than twice as often.
How many written reviews are there, and where did they come from?
113 across all sixteen listings, read off the listing pages themselves. They are printed here word for word, including typing errors, capitals and emoji. Each quote names the listing it was left on and appears under no other.
Why do some listings not have a review page?
Because they are young listings. The Munich Festival in the Residenz is new to the platform; the storytelling tour has one rating, the historian-led private tour two, and the second private tour five. The two remaining concert listings have plenty and are covered on the concerts page instead, beside the halls they play in.
Is the Residenz itself rated anywhere on this site?
No — every score here belongs to a product: a guide’s two and a half hours, an evening of chamber music, a bus ticket. The building’s own case is argued from the building on is it worth it.
Are these reviews independent of this site?
The ratings and the words are the booking platform’s and the reviewers’; nothing here has been tidied, softened or attached to a listing it was not left on. Booking through a link on this site pays me a percentage, which the disclosure page sets out in full.