Reviews Florence in One Glorious Day

Reviews Florence in One Glorious Day

Florence in One Glorious Day (or two): The Original Florence Walk, The Masterpieces of the Uffizi Gallery Tour and The Original David Tour

“Interesting, informative and entertaining”

I found all three tours to be well run, interesting, informative and entertaining. I originally had doubts as I did not know anything about and had not previously been all that interested in art or history but they really got me in.
Steven Jukes

Florence in One Glorious Day (or two): The Original Florence Walk, The Masterpieces of the Uffizi Gallery Tour and The Original David Tour 

“Thoroughly enjoyed all the tours”

My husband and I took three Artviva tours last week during our quick visit to Florence.
I just wanted to tell you that we thoroughly enjoyed all three of the tours, and are so happy we got to see Florence and its wonderful art and architecture through the eyes of your enthusiastic and knowledgeable tour guides.  Both Sara and Paola were fascinating to listen to, and I'm sure we learned many things we wouldn't have found in any written guides.  We were so impressed with the depth of their expertise on Florence and its art. Thank you very much.
Ellen and Vincent Forlenza

 Florence in One Glorious Day (or two): The Original Florence Walk, The Masterpieces of the Uffizi Gallery Tour and The Original David Tour 

“I had a great time”

I had a great time on the tour.  There was three of us in our group and we did the all day tour.  We started with the walking tour and it was the best of the three we all thought.  Our guide was fun, informative, and got us involved with the tour which is nice.  To me that means that the guides actually care what our thoughts were instead of just telling us stuff.
Mr. Tommason

Florence in One Glorious Day (or two): The Original Florence Walk, The Masterpieces of the Uffizi Gallery Tour and The Original David Tour 

“High quality tour of Florence”

Thank you so much for providing such a high quality tour of Florence.  Paul, our guide for the three walking tours we took was fascinating.  We found him to be highly knowledgeable about the history and art.   He also provided very interesting details about the sculptures .  We would highly recommend your tours and hope to return to Italy  and take more ourselves!
Sincerely,
Sandy and Les Jacobs

Florence in One Glorious Day (or two): The Original Florence Walk, The Masterpieces of the Uffizi Gallery Tour and The Original David Tour 

“The guides were wonderful”

We thoroughly enjoyed each of the tours.  The experience was entirely made by the attitude, energy, style and knowledge of the guides.  In each of the tours the guides were wonderful.  Very knowledgeable, very amusing, very engaging and very helpful.  I think the choice of paintings to talk about I the Uffizi gallery was inspired.  I had not really appreciated art before, but it was fascinating to see and understand the development in technique and style through the choice of paintings.
Michael Parker

Florence in One Glorious Day (or two): The Original Florence Walk, The Masterpieces of the Uffizi Gallery Tour and The Original David Tour 

“The tours were great”

Both tours were great. The guides gave us an in-depth perspective on Italian history and architecture that made our trip to Florence enjoyable. All questions were answered with enthusiasm and patience. Our morning guide took time to offer recommendations of her favourite local spots, which we found were accurately described and added to our fond memories of Florence.
Annie Tokarz

Florence in One Glorious Day (or two): The Original Florence Walk, The Masterpieces of the Uffizi Gallery Tour and The Original David Tour 

“All tours have been organized on a very professional and efficient way”

All tours have been organized on a very professional and efficient way. It was our first visit to Italy in general, and to Florence in particular, and when we saw how many tourists were there (even at the end of the tourist season) and how long the queues for the tickets were, we really appreciated the way your tours deal with the ticket purchase. You obviously hire the best guides: with their great knowledge and passion they would give us the background of the place of visit and then show the major highlights, allowing enough time for us to explore the rest. We reckon this is the best way of organizing such tours.
Thank you again for your great service.
Viktor and Olga Melekhine

Florence in One Glorious Day (or two): The Original Florence Walk, The Masterpieces of the Uffizi Gallery Tour and The Original David Tour 

“Really interesting and informative in a fun and engaging way”

These were just the right mix of information and history and walking.  Really interesting and informative in a fun and engaging way. Great also for the kids.  It was lovely to have guides who were so passionate about Florence.  And the groups were just the right size, too.
Ms. Dabelstein

Florence in One Glorious Day (or two): The Original Florence Walk, The Masterpieces of the Uffizi Gallery Tour and The Original David Tour 

“Very impressed”

Fantastic, good amount of time spent and very informative commentary and wonderful tour guides. Very impressed.
Mr. Duma

Florence in One Glorious Day (or two): The Original Florence Walk, The Masterpieces of the Uffizi Gallery Tour and The Original David Tour 

“The tours were very nice”

The tours were very nice.  We had Paul for all three tours and is very pleasant and  knowledgeable for all the tours.  We found you on the web.  It is a must to have the Original and Best Walking Tours of Florence or you will certainly miss many things without having a tour guide like Paul.
Had a great time!
Jim

Florence in One Glorious Day (or two): The Original Florence Walk, The Masterpieces of the Uffizi Gallery Tour and The Original David Tour 

“The delightful tours”

Thank you for the delightful tours. The one we liked the best was the morning walking tour with Sara. It was so complete, so comprehensive, so interestingly conducted, and so efficiently organized.  We commended Sara for it and expressed our appreciation.  All the guides were good but Sarah stood out for her obvious love of what she's doing.  She also peppered her annotation with interesting information, trivia, and human interest stories.  She kept the tour alive with the vibrant way she conducted both the David Tour and the morning walking tour. Thank you for a memorable time in Florence largely because of the tours with you. 
Linda Que and her cousin, Angela Du

Florence in One Glorious Day (or two): The Original Florence Walk, The Masterpieces of the Uffizi Gallery Tour and The Original David Tour 

“Fantastic guides”

I just wanted to pass on my thanks to the fantastic guides that we had on all elements of the Florence in One Glorious Day tours. The guides for David statue and Uffizi Gallery were particularly impressive and I felt that their knowledge was immense. Despite a long and arduous journey back to England that helped make a great holiday
Ian and Jackie , England

Florence in One Glorious Day (or two): The Original Florence Walk, The Masterpieces of the Uffizi Gallery Tour and The Original David Tour 

“Memorable experience!”

We truly loved Florence and a good part of the reason was how we were introduced to this mystical City.  Our tour guides Paola and Sara were fantastic!  You could sense their passion for the City and for what they were doing.  They both were so engaging and were so willing to answer any questions that we had.  We did tours in other cities in Italy but I would definitely come back to Florence because of the quality of the tours.  Thank you again for making this such a memorable experience!
Micki and Mike

Florence in One Glorious Day (or two): The Original Florence Walk, The Masterpieces of the Uffizi Gallery Tour and The Original David Tour 

“Excellent”

All three tours were excellent. All three guides were knowledgeable, passionate about their topic, considerate and concerned for their guests, and fun. The information they provided was almost overwhelming, but that is not a complaint, just a recognition of the vast amount of information there is for them to share. We would definitely recommend these tours to others visiting Florence. We enjoyed out walk back to your offices with Corrina discussing life in Florence. Our experience viewing Michelangelo’s "David" was the best ever because of the information shared and the descriptions provided by Elizabetta. You have an excellent staff that we hope to see again someday when we can spend more time in Florence/Firenze taking more time to appreciate things.
Gary & Lorrie Link

Florence in One Glorious Day (or two): The Original Florence Walk, The Masterpieces of the Uffizi Gallery Tour and The Original David Tour 

“It was really fun”

Rick Steves mentioned ArtViva/Best Walking Tours in his book Italy 2010, so I registered online
while planning my vacation in Italy. After arriving in Florence, I joined a tour and can't think of a better way to start a vacation in Italy. Our tour guide in the morning was Elizabetta, and she was wonderful. Her art history & history background is phenomenal-she made the tour fun and interesting. She answered all of our questions and made everybody an important
part of the tour. It wasn't just a lecture of facts, it was really fun. If she taught history or art history,
people would be lined up to take her classes, and I would be first in line. I recommended the
walking tour to many people I met while on vacation, and will continue to recommend it. I hope
you have a great year. Ciao.
Rita Sconfienza