Damith Samarakoon
Member
Hi everyone,
Was hoping someone might be able to offer some advice on a decision I am trying to make
We are a group of 7 - 6 adults, 1 2-year old travelling to Florence in September for the first time.
13-17th to be exact. In all we have roughly 3 and half days as we arrive around midday by train from Rome on the 13th. We are also planning a half day trip to Pisa at some point. So it leaves a total of 3 days to spend in Firenze!
We want to see the following places
Definite
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-Duomo and the other stuff on site - Baptistery, Bell Tower, Museum.
-Uffizi
-Palazzo Pitti
-Baboli Gardens
-Palazzo Vecchio
https://www.visitflorence.com/florence-monuments/palazzo-vecchio.html
-Academia
http://www.accademia.org/buy-tickets/
Maybe*
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-Basilica santa croce
-Basilica of Santa Maria Novella
*(We will be going to the Piazza's but might not necessarily want to go in aka buy a ticket)
I am looking at buying tickets for the rest individually vs Firenze card vs Amici degli Uffizi card.
Individually
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I tried to price these individually for 6 adults and our daughter and it came up to around 680 odd Euros. About 113 Euros per person. Unless my 2-year old figures out a way to chip in.
1) Would this be accurate?
I used the links I've added to price them. Hopefully they are the right places to book the tickets.
The Firenze card
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This seems to cover all of these for 72 Euros ahead. But we are tied to 72 hour restriction
The Amicii card
-----------------
Gave up on this after your comments about it and also after reading some comments about people who bought it being left in the cold when the rules changed.
In conclusion
----------------
The Firenze ticket seems quite reasonable for what we want to do. Saves us about 40 Euros per head.
It just means we need to pack in most of the sites on our list into a 72 hour period. Not impossible from what I read because Florence is small enough to hit them up by just walking around.
2) My only issue with it is would this make us rush through things to tick them off ? Or can they all be enjoyed in 72 hours in a leisurely pace?
3) From what I read Firenze card gives you Skip the lines access to all of these places - and we don't need to book timed-entries ? Would that be the same for things like climbing the Duomo ?
4) What about my daughter, she won't even be 2 when we are there so I was hoping she would just get in free to most places but seems like this is not the case. Are we better off getting her a full priced FC as well or should we get individual tickets just for her from the official ticket sellers online?
5) Anything else to consider?
Any help deciding on this will be greatly appreciated.
Was hoping someone might be able to offer some advice on a decision I am trying to make
We are a group of 7 - 6 adults, 1 2-year old travelling to Florence in September for the first time.
13-17th to be exact. In all we have roughly 3 and half days as we arrive around midday by train from Rome on the 13th. We are also planning a half day trip to Pisa at some point. So it leaves a total of 3 days to spend in Firenze!
We want to see the following places
Definite
--------
-Duomo and the other stuff on site - Baptistery, Bell Tower, Museum.
-Uffizi
-Palazzo Pitti
-Baboli Gardens
-Palazzo Vecchio
https://www.visitflorence.com/florence-monuments/palazzo-vecchio.html
-Academia
http://www.accademia.org/buy-tickets/
Maybe*
------
-Basilica santa croce
-Basilica of Santa Maria Novella
*(We will be going to the Piazza's but might not necessarily want to go in aka buy a ticket)
I am looking at buying tickets for the rest individually vs Firenze card vs Amici degli Uffizi card.
Individually
--------------
I tried to price these individually for 6 adults and our daughter and it came up to around 680 odd Euros. About 113 Euros per person. Unless my 2-year old figures out a way to chip in.
1) Would this be accurate?
I used the links I've added to price them. Hopefully they are the right places to book the tickets.
The Firenze card
---------------------
This seems to cover all of these for 72 Euros ahead. But we are tied to 72 hour restriction
The Amicii card
-----------------
Gave up on this after your comments about it and also after reading some comments about people who bought it being left in the cold when the rules changed.
In conclusion
----------------
The Firenze ticket seems quite reasonable for what we want to do. Saves us about 40 Euros per head.
It just means we need to pack in most of the sites on our list into a 72 hour period. Not impossible from what I read because Florence is small enough to hit them up by just walking around.
2) My only issue with it is would this make us rush through things to tick them off ? Or can they all be enjoyed in 72 hours in a leisurely pace?
3) From what I read Firenze card gives you Skip the lines access to all of these places - and we don't need to book timed-entries ? Would that be the same for things like climbing the Duomo ?
4) What about my daughter, she won't even be 2 when we are there so I was hoping she would just get in free to most places but seems like this is not the case. Are we better off getting her a full priced FC as well or should we get individual tickets just for her from the official ticket sellers online?
5) Anything else to consider?
Any help deciding on this will be greatly appreciated.