Uffizi Gallery
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- Address:Piazza degli Uffizi, Florence
- Hours:Open Tues – Sun 8:15am - 6:50pm
- Admission:€6.50-10 for adults
Cultural Experience, Must-Do Experience, Monument - Historical, Museum
Uffizi Gallery Reviews
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Our morning tour of the Academia was great! Our guide made Michelangelo's David and 5 Prisoners almost come to life with interesting facts and stories. We absolutely love this part of the tour. The Uffizi Gallery portion of the tour in the late afternoon was somewhat dry. Our guide spent a long time on each painting. My wife and I were tired after an early morning train ride from Rome and walking in Florence all day. So possibly that contributed to our feelings about the Uffizi Gallery. Obviously this gallery holds some of the world's masterpieces, but I think if the tour guide would have added some humor, spent a little less time on each item and instead given us kind of a highlights tour for a general feel of the museum we would have enjoyed it more. If you love art, you have to do this tour. Definitely some of the best art!
The Accademia tour was in the morning and was very good; and the guide was very good. The Uffizi was late afternoon - but was too crowded with tourists; and the guide spent endless minutes in each area giving art history dissertations. While the Accemia was worth the time, the Uffizi was not.
I would have given this tour 5 stars if the equipment was working properly. The headsets we were given were useless. Not just our equipment, but several headsets were not working. We could not hear our guide in the Uffizi Gallery. She had to resort to just trying to talk over the noise. It was not the guides fault. She was very knowledgable and we would have learned so much more if we could have heard her. The Vasari tour, on the hand, was excellent because the group was small enough and we were the only ones in the corridor. Even without the headsets it was easy to hear. I would recommend this tour, but I hope the company checks the equipment before sending a group on tour.
I wish I could separate these tours. Our Accademia tour was interesting and funny at the same time. Our tour guide at Uffizi was not good at all. She did not wait for the tour after security and just went straight up the stairs without her group. A few of us were left behind trying to find her. The tour was okay, just the facts nothing else.
Our walking tour of the Uffizi Gallery was excellent. It was easy to find the meeting point, the group was only 10 of us and the tour guide was very knowledgeable and passionate about the subject matter. Couldn't have been happier with the tour. It was also great to skip the lines!
The Uffizi was great and we had an excellent guide. We had a late afternoon tour and the museum was shutting soon after our tour finished. I would like to have done a morning tour so i could have had a look at places we had missed or go back to revisit others after the tour ended.
Overall the tour was very good and the guides very informative. The Uffizi Gallery tour starts at 4.15pm and finishes half an hour before closure so you do not have any time to see the rest of the gallery. It would be better to start the Uffizi tour around 2pm.
A very interesting tour of the Accademia, and Uffizi Gallery in Florence on a whistle stop tour. We went by train from Rome, as my wife doesn't travel too well by coach. Florence is a place we both wanted to visit, and we were not disappointed by the small amount of sites we saw on our short day trip.
It was very fast getting in but I felt that our tour guide only focused on the statue of David and there was so much more in the Accademia that I wanted to know.
The Uffizi Gallery tour was great. It was a different tour guide and she was wonderful in all stories and history that made it all more easily remembered. Well done "British gal".
Not overly clear where you had to meet the guide and still had to wait but once in a good tour which helped to guide us round-the Uffizi is so huge and overwhelming that it helped to focus on a small number of paintings.
Mario, our guide, provided extensive background to assist in the viewing and enjoyment of the many masterpieces. The Uffizi was amazing but the Vasari corridor was excellent as well. He even provided a short lesson on art history using sculpture in the neighborhood on the way to the gallery. Outstanding tour from beginning to end. 5++ stars.
We had a great time. The guide for the Accademia was very informative but too verbose. It was hard to remain interested after the first hour. It is important for the guide to remember that the audience is varied not only in interest but in age too. Our guide for the Uffizi was terrific. She kept everyone moving and interested.
Our tour gruide (I forget his name) was really good. He had a great sense of humor and also had in depth knowledge. You could tell that he loved art. He kept us engaged through out. Breaking up Accademia and Uffizi into two parts and giving a break is a good idea.
This tour was wonderful because the guide was the best. He knows the history and talks the history with passion, which certainly affects the audience. However, we had a different guide for the afternoon tour to Uffizi. It was not as interesting since our guide was an older lady who often forgot about what she was talking about. So, it really depends on the guide for this type of tour.
We truly enjoyed this tour. I think splitting up the Accademia and Uffizi into 2 time slots with a long lunch in between was a great idea! At the Accademia, I really liked how the guide walked us through Michelangelo’s other works prior to the David and then we had the lots of time with the David to see it from all angels and hear the full background on it. The Uffizi was also amazing. The line to get into the Uffizi was longer than we expected and therefore the tour ran long. That’s the only thing that I would change is making sure that the tour ends on time.
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