Florence Accademia Gallery Express Guided Tour

Good tour but…

There was some confusion with time of tour. We arrived at most recent time. Waiting for our guide to arrive, was chaotic. Lots of people, no signage, no one to direct people. When guides finally arrived they seemed disorganized. Finally met the guide, Mary. She was excellent.. She helped us get through the door and and inspection. It was approximately 10:20 before tour finally started, nearly an hour after scheduled rime. I suggest more information prior tour. Better signage and perhaps a uniform so that we can find guide. As I stated Mary was excellent —very informative.

Did Not Complete Tour

I didn’t get to attend this tour because the group left right at 12 PM with no grace period and they passed me on the street as I arrived at the meeting point. I felt that a five minute grace period should be given to allow tourist, especially first-timers to Italy to find the meeting point location.

A nice experience I would like to repeat

Our guide was excellent, she had a nice level of knowledge and an interesting way to transmit it, the pace was good and the organization was fine despite the thousands of tourists over there

Very informative but the headphones didn’t work.

So worth it!

Very informative

The guide described in an organized manner the development of Renaissance art (eg, from Byzantine to Renaissance, and representative pieces), and how the David was made (where it was quarried, how long it took to carve, etc.). It was interesting to see several of Michelangelo's unfinished sculptures he had to abort after the patron (usually the Pope) no longer paid for his work on them.

Mr Joseph DeMita

We arrived at 9:45 for our 10am tour and could not find anyone at our meeting place. After walking for 20 minutes asking multiple people we were told it is Italy Pass and across street from our location. We finally found guy at 10:20 and were told we would depart at 10:30. We left at 11:05, were put in another line until 11:30 when we entered venue. Since we had to meet our next tour with your company at 11:45 for our noon tour our tour guide told us to just quickly go see Statue of David and head to next tour. We received absolutely no value for our charge and will be disputing entire charge with our credit card company. My tel is 617-538-6199.

Great tour guide that provided a wealth of information

Our tour guide was fantastic. We learned so much about Michelangelo and some of the more interesting aspects of his work. It was just the right amount of time to experience the statue of David!

Accademia Tour

We have now been in Italy for 10 days, taking various tours in Rome and Florence, the vast majority of which have been great. Our guide for this tour, Natalie, was terrible. She arrived late, did not know which line to get in, put very little effort into the tour, and ended it after 45 minutes. If you just want to see David, which is pretty much all she did, just get a ticket and skip the guide. She did not impart any meaningful knowledge and did not answer the one question we attempted to ask. By far the worst tour we have taken in years, due to the guide.

Bad experience

We waited at the meeting point for a long time but our guide did not show up. We tried to call the number given with reservation, but no one answered. Luckily, a very nice man leading a tour with Maestro Trips noticed that we had been stranded and offered to let us join their group.

Marta was Fantastico

We had an amazing day with our Tour Guide. I would highly recommend this to anyone going to Florence.

Accademia Gallery Express Guide Tour

Our guide was very knowledgeable . It was occasionally difficult to hear because the microphone kept pausing

Very insightful and THE way to see the David

Please do not take for granted how long the lines WILL be (this is speaking for high season in July, so the winter maybe its better) this is the way to see the David. Lorenzo is very knowledgable, takes you on a very insightful tour throughout the Accademia, not just to the statue of David. However his knowledge for the David is great and is a treat when seeing such an iconic piece of art.

The David

Our tour guide, Mary, was so knowledgeable! She spent over an hour pointing out various works in the Accademia, and giving insight into the Medici family, the difference between Gothic vs Renaissance styles, etc. The Tour culminated with detailed information about Michaelangelo and his statue of David. So glad we took this tour! The Tour company even got us on an earlier tour having arrived 25 minutes before our tour started.