Accademia (David) Reservations.

Just ask your hotel to make the reservations. It is easier than messing about with web sites.

Try this site: http://www.tickitaly.com/tickets/accademia-ticket-booking.php
Jean

The official site for the Florence museums is b-ticket, the link below will get you started. If it comes up in Italian, click on the Union Jack somewhere around the upper right hand corner.

http://www.b-ticket.com/b-ticket/uffizi/default.aspx

THANK YOU, but its not the official site and the add on doubles the admission price, I found the official site but ordering tickets constantly gives an error page, hence, I emailed the museum, waiting for resopnse.

B-ticket is the "official" site (per Rick), but they tack on fees for the reservation. The other sites are third-party sites and they tack on even more.

Please let us know if you succeed in getting a reservation by e-mail---that would be good to know.

We were very successful asking our hotel to get us tickets for both the David and Uffizi for our trip in a few weeks. Just email and ask them if they will do it. (FYI - They will expect reimbursement in cash - very common for everything in Italy. No one claims income and pays taxes. No wonder the country is going bankrupt.)

FOLKS HELPING FOLKS!!!

I would like to THANK all of you for your advise! The oficial site, B-Ticket, for some odd reason,keeps giving an error message when you hit buy, and I consider myself somewhat computer savy. Hence, I decided to call, operator took my name, number of tickets, and time. I asked her if she needed my credit card number, but she said NO and wished me well.I have no idea if I saved my family a wait in line, should be interesting! Gene

I wonder if the error message was due to your bank rejecting the credit card charge. Mine does that automatically with charges from Italy, unless I call them in advance and pre-authorize the charge. And even then, my American Express card still rejected the charge when we were trying to buy tickets for La Scala. Fortunately I had pre-authorized another card as a backup, so we were able to get our tickets.

This only happens with charges from Italy---I was able to charge my train tickets on the Swiss rail site with no problem, and no pre-authorization.

So it's very good news that we can just call and reserve tickets without paying for them in advance. I made our Accademia reservations this morning too!

Gene,

that's exactly what we did: calling the museum directly to speak with a real-live person. And we had our reservation done in 2 minutes with no payment necessary. And yes, when we arrived in Florence we did bypass the line-up and went to another door where the reserved tickets could be picked up.

I used the following site:

http://en.firenze.waf.it/

Gene, you did well to reserve by phone. If you get there and there is little or no line at the ticket window - just buy regular tickets, thus you will not have to pay the reservation fee.