Tours, sightseeing tours, activities & things to do | Viator.comSkip the Line: Florence Accademia and Uffizi Gallery Tour
based on 191 reviews
Duration: 2 hours 45 minutes (approx.)
Location: Florence, Italy
Product code: 2428M1M2
191 reviews of Skip the Line: Florence Accademia and Uffizi Gallery Tour
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I enjoyed it but the place was so crowded it became difficult to hear our tour guide. Headsets would have been useful. What I heard was interesting. The second tour was much better we could hear well.
Reviewed by: Anonymous, United States of America, August 2008
Both tours were overcrowded and the guides were difficult to hear. The only advantage is not having to wait in line.
Reviewed by: Anonymous, United States of America, July 2008
Would have liked it better with a headset. The guides must have been professors of the Arts. The knowledge and the passion for the arts was inspiring. Just could not hear them over the other tourists and guides.
Reviewed by: Lydia T, United States of America, July 2008
The tour at the Accademia was terrible. We could barely hear our guide and therefore came back without an understanding of the art. About 90 of the group left within the first 10 minutes because it was so difficult to understand and hear our guide. On the other hand, the afternoon tour at the Uffizi Gallery was very good, and our guide was wonderful and provided us with lots of information on the art and the Renaissance and easy to hear and understand. I am not sure we would book this service again.
Reviewed by: Larry O, United States of America, July 2008
Couldn't hear the Uffizi tour guide at all and I am sure she had some very interesting things to say. Better off renting the headphone set and walking around yourself. Great guide at the Accademia!
Reviewed by: Christina S, United States of America, June 2008
The groups were too large and it was difficult to hear. It would have been nice to use earphones to assist. Also, to me there is not much else in Accademia other than David.
Reviewed by: Robert Z, United States of America, June 2008
Our guide at the Accademia was wonderful and made it all worthwhile. However, that afternoon at the Uffizi was very disappointing. We waited in a long line outside and inside, and our guide was very nice but not very interesting. She took so long on the first couple of rooms that we barely had time to get to the later rooms.
Reviewed by: Mildred S, United States of America, June 2008
The Accademia was very good, the tour lead was really great and informative. The Uffizi Gallery Tour was awful due to the instructor. The instructor would move to a new room and start her spiel before everyone was there. Along with that, the rooms were very crowded with other tour groups and she would stand right next to another and you could barely distinguish what she was saying if you weren't right next to her which only 6 people could. So, the other 14 of us heard nothing! We told her this problem and she basically did nothing. Felt she wanted to get the tour over as fast as possible.
Reviewed by: Michelle M, United States of America, June 2008
After looking forward to a highly rated tour, I was so disappointed. The guide was knowledgeable but most of the time we were unable to hear her commentary. Even with the headphones on, we heard absolutely nothing over the Bridge of Sighs nor did she wait for the last persons to arrive in the cell.
Reviewed by: Sheila G, United States of America, June 2008
We could not hear the tour leader. You need something like an audio head set.
Reviewed by: Natalie L, United States of America, May 2008
The guide for the Uffizi tour was quite good and very knowledgeable; however, the guide at the Accademia was VERY hard to hear, with a lot of "wasted" time.
Reviewed by: Lynn O, United States of America, April 2008
Accademia Tour only so-so. Could do it on your own. But Uffizi was great!
Reviewed by: Jean S, United States of America, April 2008
OK to get through the lines, but the actual tour was disappointing and shallow.
Reviewed by: Anonymous, Australia, December 2007
It was very hard to hear the guides. When I took a tour of the Vatican, we had earphones connected to the guide with a microphone. It was much easier to hear and follow along.
Reviewed by: Linda C, United States of America, November 2007
Our tour was split into two days, which was good - all of that art in one day would be too much. The David, at the Accademia, was unreal. It was breathtaking, but the rest was boring. The Uffizi was a little boring, too, because we aren't big art people and there weren't any really famous paintings there. The guides on this tour did not wear microphones, so we had to stay close to them to hear what they were saying.
Reviewed by: Michelle C, Canada, November 2007
