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Florence Accademia and Uffizi - tour ?
To skip the line/guide tour, or not. That is the question. Advice?
The viator.com website has a guided tour with skip the line feature for 65E per person. But you can buy tickets for the Accademia for like 6.50E per person. Obviously, the draw is having a guided tour AND skip the line feature. What do you suggest we do? And/or what service to you recommend?
Re: Florence Accademia and Uffizi - tour ?
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no. especially not the uffizi! you can get timed entrance tickets and avoid the lines all together-no need for a tour for that. for the academy-i dont know-we did a tour for that one (dh wanted to) but i believe they also have timed entrance tickets.
for the uffizi you can either email your hotel and ask them to get you ticckets for a certain time or just wait until you get there, go to the ticket office and get a ticket for sometime later during your stay. you can also buy them on line but the system is notoriously slow/crashes and unreliable.
We went to Florence in 2008. I don't know what the value of skipping the line is, but we took this day-long tour that covered both sites (among others) and were very happy with it: http://www.italy.artviva.com/package/1/original_florence_in_one_day
We enjoyed the walking tour in the morning, and particularly liked the Uffizi portion because we were lead to the highlights and were given a lot of information about what we saw.
The Accademia is small enough to do on your own, but I say get the skip the line passes, no guide.
I would do the guided tour for the Uffizi - it's much bigger and can be tough to take everything in!
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I think getting there early is worth more than skipping the line. I've been to the Uffizi twice, and almost didn't bother with in the second time because I had such a bad time the first time. The problem wasn't the queue for tickets, but there were so many people inside it was hard to see the art. When we went back, we got there maybe 20 minutes before it opened and the crowds were not so bad inside. The Rick Steve's audio tour was great.