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
ATTRACTION Keywords:
Cultural Experience,
Must-Do Experience,
Monument - Historical,
Museum
Uffizi Gallery Reviews
We've found 36 Uffizi Gallery reviews from Viator.com travelers and members: what they loved, what they liked and what they think could be improved. It's all here to help you make the most of your next trip.
Review by Anna T, July 2012
Doing what: Skip the Line: Florence Accademia and Uffizi Gallery Tour
This was a good tour. The Academia museum was tiny. Really not much to see there other than David. Our tour guide did the best she could given the circumstances. The Uffizi gallery was much bigger. The tour was good. I think we were all museum'd out by the time we did this tour but overall I would recommed attending these galleries. Attending with a tour is always more beneficial because you learn a lot and are able to appreciate the works differently by seeing them in a different light. Our tour guide received great applause and even tips (which goes to show how knowledgeable and fantastic she was). I think these are not to be missed when in Florence. If I had to choose one, I would pick Academia because David is truly a masterpiece.
Review by Jongal, May 2012
Doing what: Skip the Line: Florence Accademia and Uffizi Gallery Tour
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.
Review by Raymond G, USA, April 2010
Doing what: Skip the Line: Florence Accademia and Uffizi Gallery Tour
Although the tour was a bit pricey and there wasn't much of a line at the time of our arrival to either the Accademia or Uffizi Gallery, our tour guide was very good and showed us all the highlights at both venues. We were in Florence for only one full day, which certainly was not enough time to enjoy this most remarkable city, but both tours made the best use of our limited time.
Review by Ajay G, July 2012
Doing what: Skip the Line: Florence Uffizi Gallery Tour
I'm giving this only 2 stars because the tour guide spent more time talking about the Medici family that run Florence for generations than it did on the art work itself. Also, the Uffizi Gallery itself is not so big or impressive to require a tour guide (its no Louvre). Just get a timed entry ticket and meander through the gallery yourself. No need for a guide on this one, really.
Review by Shelly, August 2011
Doing what: Skip the Line: Uffizi Gallery and Vasari Corridor Walking Tour
I do not feel that this tour was worth the expense. First of all, they don't give you enough time to see the entire Uffizi Gallery, so if you haven't seen it previously, don't plan on it during this tour because they stop you at the beginning of the second corridor. Also, although I had read so much about the Medici court and all that Cosimo did for Florence, the Vasari Corridor was a disappointment in that the artwork isn't even the works that the Medici's owned. In fact, once you get out over the Ponte Vecchio, it's all artist self-portraits and not the least bit interesting. I thought that there would be at least ONE portrait of the Medici's who had it built, but other than a tiny case with a few miniatures in it, there was none. I was disappointed. Also, our tour guide left two of the guests behind in the Uffizi (they had to use the restroom and the guide had said there wasn't time). Once the group is in the Vasari Corridor, no one is allowed in. So, they lost out...because of a bathroom break...which was a necessity in the hot Florence weather.
Review by Rosalind O, March 2010
Doing what: Skip the Line: Florence Accademia and Uffizi Gallery Tour
My husband and I were in Europe last month for 2 weeks. We chose to stay in Florence for three nights. Because one of those nights was a Monday galleries closed , I decided to book the tour of the Acadamia and Uffizi so that we would not waste time standing in line. Our tour guide was a middle aged man with a heavy Italian accent. He was very knowledgable and we learned alot from this personal guide. To improve the tour, I feel that in each gallery, we should have been given a print out of the floor plan for the gallery and told at the beginning of the tour what we were going to see This way we could leave the tour if we wanted to see something else and time was running out. The morning tour was good because we were able to stay later, get a brochure and see the other art that we were interested in. The Uffizi tour was disappointing because we met at 4:30 no map and were done with the tour at 6, and even though it did not close until 7 we were ushered out by museum staff at 620 or so. Starting the afternoon tour an hour earlier, or giving the passes to us in the morning to get into the gallery would have been much better. We did not get to spend much time in the Uffizi on our own.
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