Hello,
Thank you for all the advice about booking tickets for Florence museums. We've just come back from a very enjoyable holiday in Pisa and Florence. I wanted to add my few comments on the booking question. I agree with a number of other comments that the whole business is over-complicated when booking online and when you get to the museum. I feel we had to pay way over the odds for advance booking for the Uffizi and the Accademia, and when we got to the museums we had to ask people which queues to join. It all worked but it's a poor system. I guess it does limit the number of people in the museums. We are accustomed to galleries in London where there are often far more people. We waited about 15 minutes to get into the Uffizi, with our pre-booked tickets and nearly an hour to get into the Accademia. I asked someone in the regular queue for the Accademia and he said he'd queued for 90 minutes to get in, on a Tuesday in September at about 10:45 - he'd queued from about 9:15. We didn't buy the 3-day 72 euro card because we had planned to go elsewhere for the day on Monday, right in the middle of our time there, but, if we had reckoned on three whole days in Florence, it seems to me that the card is worthwhile. Another point: I also noted at the Orsanmichele church, where you can buy the card without queuing, it seemed, that advance tickets for the Bargello were on sale at a 3 euro premium. You could walk round the corner and get straight in for the standard price. Finally, we enjoyed very much the Palazzo Vecchio and the Bargello, which were full of interest and not busy.
Thanks again for all the information. David
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