Tours, sightseeing tours, activities & things to do | Viator.comSkip the Line: Florence Accademia and Uffizi Gallery Tour
based on 107 reviews
Duration: 2 hours 45 minutes (approx.)
Location: Florence, Italy
Product code: 2428M1M2
107 reviews of Skip the Line: Florence Accademia and Uffizi Gallery Tour
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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, 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, 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, June 2008
We could not hear the tour leader. You need something like an audio head set.
Reviewed by: Natalie L, United States, 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, April 2008
Accademia Tour only so-so. Could do it on your own. But Uffizi was great!
Reviewed by: Jean S, United States, 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, 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
In both galleries, we had a hard time hearing the guides since they tried not to be too loud so as not to be disruptive.
Reviewed by: Helen D, United States, October 2007
Our first guide was great. She took just the right amount of time and gave just enough explanation. The guide for the Uffizi was very knowledgeable but maybe too much so. I have studied art history, but even I was ready to move on and see the rest of the museum. We ran out of time and didn't get to see everything I wanted to see. Unfortunately, you don't know what kind of guide you might get.
Reviewed by: Robert A, United States, October 2007
The tours were informative. The Accademia really only had the "David," which is spectacular in its own right. The Uffizi was also great in all of its glory; it had tons and tons of great art. The only disappointment was that no headphones were given with either tour. It was hard to hear the guides, especially with so many other tours going on at the same time. Both museums were packed.
Reviewed by: Glenn K, United States, October 2007
Whether you get a good tour guide or not is a crap shoot. I felt that I knew more than the guide at the Accademia just from taking art history courses in college.
Reviewed by: Vanessa C, United States, October 2007
The crowds were huge and we still had long waits to be admitted. Guides were knowledgeable but hard to understand due to the crowd noise.
Reviewed by: Mark J, United States, October 2007
We thoroughly enjoyed our tour of the Accademia. Our guide was native to Florence, he was well informed and passionate about Michelangelo. His insights on the David were marvelous. I can't say the same for the Uffizi tour. Our guide was well informed, though her command of English was not very good. The real problem was the noise level in the museum and the fact that our group was so large that most people could not hear her very well. Many of us gave up in frustration and great irritation, though we would drift in and out of her tour as we moved through the Uffizi.
Reviewed by: Harry R, United States, September 2007
