Salzburg Cathedral tickets: entry, a guided tour and the organ concert

The Salzburg: Cathedral Entry Ticket with Audio Guide Option is an entrance ticket and little more, which is its point. The description calls the building a magnificent piece of early Baroque architecture and says you can walk around at your own pace, with or without an informative audio guide.

At $8 it has the lowest price of the 35 tours compared on this site. It is rated 4.5 on 155 reviews. The listing gives its length as one day, a ticket for the day and not a visit with a set duration.

Two things the data leaves open: what the audio guide adds to the price, since the title calls it an option, and the opening hours. Check the listing for both before you plan the visit around a fixed time.

Salzburg Cathedral: Guided Tour with Entry Ticket, $13. A guided tour of the cathedral: the architecture, how it was built and its history, with what the listing calls its secrets. Forty minutes, 4.5 on 136 reviews. The entry ticket is in the title, so the $5 over plain entry is what the guide costs.

Salzburg Cathedral: Organ Concert at Midday, $13. The description names it Musik zu Mittag: up to seven organs filling the cathedral with sound, in the heart of the Old Town. Thirty minutes, 4.6 on 2,508 reviews, the fifth most reviewed of the 35 listings on this site.

The concert description does not say whether the ticket also lets you walk round the cathedral before or after, and no composer is named. If you want both the visit and the music, check the listing or plan on two tickets. The evening concerts at Mirabell Palace and the fortress are compared on the concerts page.

At these prices the question is less about money than about which half hour you want. The three listings cost $8, $13 and $13; nothing else on this site is priced below $21.

The weight of reviews sits with the concert: 2,508 at 4.6, against 155 and 136 at 4.5 for the entry ticket and the guided tour. Those two samples are small, so read their ratings as an indication. Per hour the guided tour works out at $19.50 and the concert at $26.00, which says more about how short they are than about value.

Where a ticket here is not the right purchase: if you want a guide for the whole Old Town and not one building, the two-hour Old Town, Mozart, & Mirabell Gardens Walking Tour is $39, rated 4.8 on 739 reviews; its description does not name the cathedral. The top pick on this site is the Salzburg: Original Sound of Music Tour at $84. All 35 tours are on the main page.