So my family and I are going to florence and Rome this summer, and doing some research it seems to make sense to get advance tickets for places like the uffizi gallery and sistine chapel.
However, there are a lot of companies to get tickets from, are the all good and legit. My question is who would you recommend to get tickets from? Mind you I don't need a tour just the entrance ticket.
Along the same lines are there other places you might recommend having advance tickets for?
Thank you for your advice
Posted by
Gettysburg PA
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You can book all your advance tickets with the official sites. Unless you are looking for tours, don’t use a reseller
Let us know if you need those links
Posted by
Minnesota 🎒
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These are the official ticketing sites for the most-visited museums:
Uffizi, Accademia and some others in Florence, although you will not need advance tickets for ALL of them:
https://www.b-ticket.com/b-ticket/uffizi/default_eng.aspx.html
Vatican Museums (the Sistine is IN the museums):
https://m.museivaticani.va
You may end up booking a tour for the museums as general entry tickets are reported to be snapped up almost as fast as they become available.
Colosseum/Palatine/Forum: advance, timed-entry tickets are mandatory for the Colosseum:
https://www.coopculture.it/en/tickets/index.html
Galleria Borghese: advance, timed-entry tickets are mandatory:
https://www.tosc.it/en/artist/galleria-borghese/
Posted by
Gettysburg PA
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Or you can wait til Kathy responds ;)
Posted by
Washington DC
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Yes, you should get those tickets early. If you do not plan well ahead, you'll either not see those sites or will have to pay extra money to a ticket broker. It's always best to get ordinary entry tickets from the venue itself. If you want a tour, that sometimes (not always) means buying elsewhere. This is the sort of information Rick provides in his guide to Italy. That book will help you avoid making costly mistakes.
For the Sistine Chapel, which is part of the Vatican Museums, look here:https://tickets.museivaticani.va/home
Someone else will give you the link for Uffuzi tickets.
Other places in Rome requiring purchase ahead of time (how far ahead depends on the site and the date of your visit) include the Domus Aurea, the Borghese Gallery and lower level of the Colosseum. I don't know about the regular entry to the Colosseum.
I haven't been to Florence recently, so I have no information about the situation there beyond the fact that you really can't count on just walking up to the Uffizi and getting in.