Uffizi Gallery guided tours

Great tour. Manoel was super nice. We wish it were a bit longer, as we wanted to view the rest of the museum with our guide.

Considerate, intellectually, satisfying, illuminating, excellent teacher guide we felt enlightened and well taken care of

Myself and my friend had a great tour of Academia. It was concentrated on the history of Michelangelo given it was only an hour duration but we enjoyed that and understanding this amazing artist in more detail and centring around the build of David. I recall it was Vera who was our guide in English. She was very good and could be clearly understood. Still left us the opportunity to explore the valley further after the tour.

I love to learn history of a place as rich with culture as Firenze, and the knowledge of art we viewed was phenomenal

Well structured and focused on main artists & paintings. Thanks to our great guide Mirella

Two parts of the tour, so the review is an average of the two. The first tour of Uffizi was incredible. More than five stars for Rachele- cannot say enough good things about her. She was so knowledgeable and interesting and a truly exceptional guide. She made it really a fantastic experience. We bought the combo of two tours and unfortunately, we didn't understand that we were supposed to pick a different time for the second tour. So there was a little bit of confusion about that - both were listed for the 1 PM slot when in fact we were supposed to pick a different time for the second tour. Just something to be aware of when you are booking! The other thing is that the second tour was run by an entirely different company, which is not apparent from this site. The guides who were there immediately brought us into a different tour, though, which we appreciated. The tour guide was knowledgeable, but going to the Accademia, there was a lot of waiting time outside, and our guide was a bit more difficult to understand. Amazing experience to see the David of course. But maybe three stars for this part of the tour.

I loved the tour. Both our guides were nice and funny. It was very good to skin the long lines and get the insides of every important piece of art.

Its a very extensive gallery, it is overwhelming to try to see it all and appreciate it all. Definitely a trip that requires multiple visits if you wanna make sure to appreciate all that it has to offer. The guided tour was an awesome introduction to the space and its highlights. It made a busy day not as overwhelming and very informative. I would love to come back again and do another tour focusing on different aspects of the collection.

Perfect guided tour in French with Marie, excellent guide. We were two adults and two kids and Marie really took the time to adapt the explanations to the kids so that they can follow the visit. 😊 It was really nice and we really had a good time there. I definitely recommend Marie.

Love the tour guide who was very kind and professional , love all the queue jumping, and everything else, but just the earphone need to be updated. The sound from the earphone was not clear as it's radio transmitted, too much noise. It makes me rate the tour 4 stars out of 5.

The evening before we were asked if we would be willing to come early due to the illness of a guide. We agreed and were thrilled. It was a wonderful tour that refreshed our knowledge and taught us new things. We stayed in the Uffizi for almost three more hours with our eyes wide open. Great, any time again. The very nice and incredibly knowledgeable guide was wonderful.

We had a fantastic tour with Hillary and she really helped us make the most of the incredible Ufizzi, seeing and hearing about it's treasures - thank you so much.

The tour was really very interesting, and the guide Luigia was really valuable. Entertainment, curiosity and professionalism perfectly endowed for a small group. Information to reach the meeting point simple and unambiguous. Really a great experience!

I didn't realize the tours were separate companies . We enjoyed our tour to the Accademia to see David. I didn't enjoy the ufuzzi tour. The guide spent WAY to much time explaining paintings I had no interest in seeing .

Excellent! Well organised, knowledgeable and friendly guide. Only six of us on the tour. Would not have seen much without a guide as Uffizi was very crowded.

Our guide was extremely knowledgable about the works inside the museum. She was able to relay detailed information about the artist and works throughout the tour that I would never have k own about. I highly recommend this tour.

It was an amazing tour! From the meeting point we were looked after and assisted well. But the best part of the tour is our guide OLGA whi was not only very informative but also wlvery witty and funny with her comments. I also like the fact that she showed images of historical figures in her iPad so we can appreciate the person she is talking anout and how they connect with the paintings history. We would definitely recommend her tour!

We booked only 30 minutes before and found the meeting point easily. The tour guide was very easy to listen too with lots of interesting facts - it was like listening to a well told story 😊 making the visit memorable. Would recommend

I loved this tour! Our guide was passionate about the subjects and highly knowledgeable. We also had a wonderful group, full of interesting questions and interest in the tour. Highly recommend!

Uffizi tour guide (Crown Tours) was really good. Accademia tour guide (Italypass) was mediocre as a guide and unfortunately it was also difficult to understand her accent (Russian). In a crowded place audio guide was not enough to hear the guide properly.

There ended up only being two of us on the tour which was brilliant! Cristina was fabulous! She was so passionate and knowledgeable about everything she showed us. Cristina showed us all the important things to see and then guided us to what we could see afterwards.

Excellent experience, alone would have lost a lot, in my opinion guidance needed. We had Chiara, very good and very knowledgeable!

The tour guide was excellent, she gave us a lot of interesting information and it was a very beautiful experience. The only bad of this tour was the meeting point that it was at the tour agency which was far away from the uffizzi and it was a veeu hot day !

Great experience, Ms. Angela, our guide, very good. Highly recommended to have a guide to visit the Uffizi.

Great knowledge sharing. It really set us up to enjoy the gallery by understanding the art and it's significance at each period of history. Skipping the line was well worth it.

Our guide Chiara was superb. We heard about all those things that only a good proffessional can explain to you. Uffizi is magnificent, but needs a guide for a full experience. Thank you. Kiitos.

Our guide Martha was wonderful! She brought the pictures to life, and drew the arc to the next era in such a way that everyone could understand the progress! I could have listened to her for hours! What a great experience!

Well organised and so easy to meet up with our guide who the cut the queue and got us into the gallery very quickly. Our guide was very knowledgeable art historian with a passion for the subject that was very engaging. We were shown all the key paintings in 2.5 hours and learned so much . We would have been lost wandering around for hours if we did it ourselves and we would not have seen 1/2 the key works.

Kiara, our guide was simply fantastic! Not only was she very knowledgeable about Florentine art history, the Medici Family, and the gallery, but she also contextualized the art pieces and the artists in the larger context of florentine and Italian history. We did not feel rushed at any point and she was also very patient with our questions. I highly recommend the tour and Kiara as the guide!

Competent and committed. Very well organized

The whole experience was very professional.

Well-balanced style and rhythm

The guide was excellent and pationate about the visit. Very nice person and knowledgeable.excellent story teller. But the group was not a small group as I expected . We were 16 ! The waiting time at the uffizi was longer than foreseen the rooms packed. I was expecting a smaller group that would not rush . But in view of the chaos around the uffizi the entire experience was a miracle .

The guided tour was great but working out the ticket verification was very complicated. The confirmation email said the tickets were confirmed & we were ready to go. However the next line in the email said we had to go to the office, which was out if our way across town & when we got there the notice on the doir directed us to the ticket office in the piazza Della republica. Your messaging needs to be more exact about where people need to go - several people on our tour made the same comment!

Enjoyed the vast knowledge of the guide although we had to really concentrate hard to understand her at times because of her accent.

Our guide was imformative without beeing boring or too academic, keeping our interest for the full three hours.

Guide was knowledgeable and spoke excellent English. Museum was wasn't so crowded.

Excellnt, knowlegabletour guid. So much more meaningful being wee informed!

Very easy to get ticket and time to get in was good. The audio guide was a little confusing as not aligned with the flow of the museum

Already being there is memorable. It was raining inside, the best was dripping from the roof ,blocked the staircase formed a long queue for the elevator. It is the Uffizi, it must not drip inside and you have to find quicker solutions, to dry 2 drops. Amazing place as always otherwise. 6 time for me mao disappointed

Great tour. Manoel was super nice. We wish it were a bit longer, as we wanted to view the rest of the museum with our guide.

We visited the Uffizi Gallery late in the afternoon so it wasn't very crowded. The exhibits there are exquisite, no doubt it is one of the world's greatest collections. People with reduced mobility should be made aware, they will need to request access by lift to the top floor, as there are several magnificent flights of stairs to get there! But once you do, it's amazing! Not only the artwork, the building itself is stunning, beautifully maintained and the views out over the city are also worth seeing! Fantastic value for money too.

Considerate, intellectually, satisfying, illuminating, excellent teacher guide we felt enlightened and well taken care of

All beautiful, I had already visited it years ago but every time I come it's like the first time. I would never get tired of looking at the masterpieces in the gallery and also the scenery outside. Only advice I can give is upping the wifi reception which works well on the second floor but not on the first, more so because having the audio guide we could not use it on the second floor. Otherwise beautiful experience.

This was our 3rd visit to Uffizi and our best. We went in the earliest time slot so it wasn't too busy. Also we loved the terrace on the 3rd floor and enjoyed cappuccinos with the lovely setting and view. I would not waste $$ on headphones - very limited and not too informative. Instead ask chatGPT to prepare an itinerary for you based on how long you plan to visit. Ciao!

Myself and my friend had a great tour of Academia. It was concentrated on the history of Michelangelo given it was only an hour duration but we enjoyed that and understanding this amazing artist in more detail and centring around the build of David. I recall it was Vera who was our guide in English. She was very good and could be clearly understood. Still left us the opportunity to explore the valley further after the tour.

It was a good experience and everything went perfectly we said goodbye to the queue the agency on time they greeted us right away and gave us the tickets thank you

The guide was great. It gave you information about the exhibits of course but also the museum itself.

Thanks a Lot!!! It was Amazing!! Unforgettable journey and wonderful experience!

A vast selection of best artists

Avoid queues. Visit with audio guide

A great collection and without a long queue!

I love to learn history of a place as rich with culture as Firenze, and the knowledge of art we viewed was phenomenal

Well structured and focused on main artists & paintings. Thanks to our great guide Mirella

The art was outstanding. Seeing everything for the second time with different eyes.

It was very surprised because they have Best known pieces and others.

I booked my ticket last minute and the process was so easy!

Everything perfect and organized not to make too many files ...the audio guide good

Botticelli !!! Beautiful works studied for years and see up close!

In the premise that you are very kind Everything went well 😊 Fast flowing Audio guidance very good

They were unforgettable hours. Everything was well organized.

I always wanted to come and my dream fulfilled!

The instructions in Headout for collecting tickets were very good, however after this it was very confusing. At points it seemed the queue was fairly well managed but numerous people including ourselves were unclear when to queue, it also seemed like people were queue jumping. The actual gallery experience was good though I think somewhat overpriced.

The Uffizi tour was better and the guide has very knowledgeable.

The tour guide for uffizi was great - very knowledgeable and funny. However I thought I had booked a city walk also - this didn't happen. Not a big deal but the website wasn't very clear.

The tour was cancelled very last minute by the tour guide being sick, I was called and a voice message left on my phone which I appreciated and the confirmation of a full refund for the tour.

Omar was incredible; his knowledge of art and the way he took us on a journey through time periods and brought out the emotion,psychology, layering of color and dimension to the painting was phenomenal. We have booked two other tours through your company since this experience. Thank you!

LLadies that were guides were excellent, very interesting stories and very competent. Lunch in Calcio n Pepe was dissapointing, food was excellent, but they hardly wanted to serve us when we said that we paid the lunch to the agency and showed voucher. Also the guided tour in Uffizzi covered only the second floor. When we booked, it was not mentioned. We walked through the rest of gallery alone, with no guidance. All in all, I think that I overpayed the tour. Got no discount for children, as well. All in all, I think that I overpayed the tour.

It was nice been in a small group of only five people. I booked the lunch as well, expecting to meet other tourists, but I was the only person doing the lunch, so that was disappointing. Also, could you provide a vegetarian option for lunch.

So thankful for this group. Tour was fantastic, but the small acts of kindness shown to our family by the guides and organizers were special.

We toured Florence highlights and, later that,day, the UffiziGalleries. The morning tour was disjointed, and the guide practically ran us through the streets. She--Claudia--often got so far ahead that we worried we'd lose her. She was knowledgeable, but her information was not well organized. And she asked "guess what's in my mind" questions. No one likes those. The Uffizi tour was still physically challenging, but the guide was much better. Her knowledge was well organized, and she built the experience as a narrative, making a LOT of information easier to,remember. And unlike the morning guide, she encouraged and responded well to questions.

Claudia was amazing and so informative during the city tour. There was no information about where to get the Uffizi tour. We assumed that the Uffizi tour came next but we had to come back 1 1/2 later. We had already scheduled another tour. Christiana wa experienced and gave us great perspective on the gallery.

Ufizi galery guide was very knowledgeable. Everything was well.organised.

Renata our guide, made the tour very enjoyable and entertaining, with a lot of knowledge of history!!! Highly recommended

Everything went smoothly, the guide (Constanza) was professional and really knew her stuff! Would recommend 100%!

A guide was excellent! He used humor and interesting stories. The best.

Such knowledgeable guides, really enjoyed the whole day

We had a great day with super guides, and a nice lunch. Chiara was superb!

Irine was brilliant Excellent job Lots of information and very interesting Thank you

The amount of time outdoors in line ( 50 minutes) was beyond acceptable for a guided tour with prepaid tickets.

The venue was beautiful, the guide was knowledgeable - it was crowded but they way the groups stagger with one another naturally didn't make the crowds overwhelming... great price and the instructions for meeting points and directions were clear.

Difficult finding the rep in the first place as so crowded and no signs. But once found the rep and the guide especially were just excellent.

The pricing was too expensive. Also it would have made it easier on us to get the tickets for both museums at once. Our guide was not on time for the second meeting at the Uffizi gallery so we got confused about where to go and had to walk to the office and then back to the gallery.

This review is for Martha our guide and the Academia. Wonderful experience. Our experience at the Ufizzi was not good. The guide's English was not good, her voice was hardly heard, her microphone had a lot of interference, we decided to leave the tour before it ended.

Getting information prior to the tours was not clear. The tours themselves were well run but too little time at each venue and the lunch was scheduled too closely to our Uffizi Gallery tour. Luckily our tour guide called the restaurant and they were able to accommodate us at a later time. I would have liked to have time after the tours to see more of the venues but that was not possible. Next time I would book these tours separately.

Knowledgeable and enthusiastic guides. However we signed up for two museum tours with lunch. The scheduling of these was not good. There were only a few minutes to get fun one venue to the next and no time to linger in the museums after the tour. Instead I would suggest scheduling lunch between the tours to make it more directive

Wonderful guide! But lots of confusion re: timing of event. We were relaxing after Accademia tour which I needed due to bad knee. Confirmation indicated 4:00 tour of Uffuzi and got a call around 11:00am tour that we were late and had to run across to the Uffuzi asap. Was a stressful and painful journey to the office which was where it was indicated. Hobbled through the Uffuzi with a great guide who told me to make an official complaint. Will do when home! Can't waste my time doing that now.

This was a great tour! Our tour guide Deborah was FABULOUS! She was friendly and knowledgeable. I really enjoyed it. Nothing bad to say. Sign up for this!

Cristina was wonderful and insightful - she gave us so many stories that we will keep forever, because she coloured in the history and connected so many dots for us. We beamed with joy for like two straight hours. She's really really special. Her English isn't amazing.

Our two guides were pleasant, friendly, and very knowledgeable. They spoke excellent English. Thank you for a very nice experience.

We were late for our initial tour, and were easily accommodated for another time. Our tour guide at the Acadamie was brilliant- engaging, humorous and informative. He had us eating out the palm of his hands. I’m sorry I can’t remember his name - A fabulous young man. Our tour guide at the Uffizi, Phillippo, was outstanding. A lovely fellow with passionate and informative explanations. He brought the art to life.

Enjoyed the tour. Guide knowledgeable however somewhat rushed due to wait times to get into the Uffizi and gallery academic which was disappointing for a reasonably expensive tour

It’s good to spend a bit of extra money, especially when you are in great cities like Florence. We simply had to book this tour with all its frills, it was totally worth it.

It was so easy to book this tour. And I saved a bit of money in the booking as well. The guide was professional and polite. I am not a history or art enthusiast but when in Florence, I wanted to understand the art of the place and the guided tour turned out to be the best decision.

This is a great tour as it includes skip the line tickets to both the museums. I mean if you are in Florence you have to go pay a visit to David! The guided tour helped us save time and make sure we saw all the important and good stuff in the limited time.

This tour is well packaged and I took the evening tour with dinner. The tour was great as we got a wonderful guide who is a local and also quite versant with art history. The dinner was better than expected. I have had terrible experiences with such package tours but this was worth writing home about!

I was searching for great deals in Florence and stumbled upon Headout. I was skeptical at first but this tour was quite special. I will be using headout in the future too.

Good tour, got it at cheap rates. Best part if you can book everything before and all you have to do there is just go according to plan.

Skip the line worked great except in the offices, the tour guides were great.

Ticketing experience was a bit confusing, but the team was extremely helpful.

Easy to book. Great detail on meeting space. Somewhat overly detailed during the walk. A bit difficult to understand with language barrier, but a wonderful tour. Maybe some time for quick Q&A during the walk would be nice.

The guide we had was very insightful

Knowledgeable guides- Sarah and Clair. Not a very big group:) easy to follow schedule:)

We had a fabulous time on the walk. Our guide was so knowledgeable and took time to help us appreciate the art we saw. It made our trip to Florence even better than we thought possible.

Claudia was an excellent guide with a very good sense of humour and very knowledgeable. Lots of rests during the tour. I didn't feel overloaded with information

Great experience! Annette was a wonderful tour guide! Highly recommended!!

Sarah was an amazing tour guide with wonderful insight into the art we toured. I would love to come back to Florence and tour with her again!

Annette was warm. Friendly, and so well informed. She shared great information without toooooo much detail- just the right amount of information that really understand what was going on! She was lovely. I would definitely recommend this program to a friend!

My itinerary was changed 1 day prior to my arrival and couldn't do the second part of the tour. These things are unacceptable as i already planned other activities after the tour.

Everything about the tour was excellent. Things went very smoothly, and our guides were terrific -- knowledgeable, friendly, and in the case of our guide for the Academia, funny and very engaging. Our issues were beyond anyone's control, namely that Firenze in general and the Uffizi and Acadamia in particular, were in the throes of a tourism apocalypse. It was one of my most unpleasant experiences in a half century of traveling. The guided system helped a lot, easing our entry experiences and getting us to some of the most important works of art to see. Thank you for that. But for me, at least, these positives barely turned a nightmare into a very bad dream.

Our guides, Daniela and William, were both so knowledgeable and did such a wonderful job of giving us a narrative tour of the history of Florence and the Ufizzi gallery. They made the tour super interesting and made the history come to life. We really enjoyed this tour!

Our guide Olivia was excellent, and her stories and knowledge base was very good. I felt the guides were kind and very observant of the group. The company worked hard to contact and get late comers on track. We had a bad experience in Barcelona, so this was refreshing to see. I would definitely use them again.

Very knowledgeable and friendly guides! But, the tour wasn't as expected... we booked a walking tour... 2.5 hours, with entrance to the two museums. We walked for 1.5 hours and spent approx 3.5 in the museums. Which for us was too much.

When time is limited ,it's the way to go, short and sweet. Worthed every penny. Valentina was very good and I liked her approche to keep us active by constantly asking is questions 😁. .

The guide was excellent. She showed a mastery of the subject and a very interesting way of exposing. The only detail is that on the tour we were accompanied by two families with children and the guide was more attentive than the parents themselves, this diverted the attention of the tour guide to the care of children. My opinion is that there should be a minimum age or a special tour for children.