Awesome Trip! - Had a great time and our tour guide was awesome! We even had extra free time to explore the area, would recommend this tour to friends/family

Great day tour - Our tour guide was excellent! Took us straight into Venice and checked in with us throughout the day. He took care of our gondola ride and suggested all the places to see. The glass blowing demonstration was wonderful.

Great Tour - We had a great time in Venice. Great food and sites. There was plenty of free time to explore, and our tour leader was the best!!

Good time! - A must do if you want a day trip to Venice! We rode the gondolas, ate lunch, bar hopped and had an overall enjoyable experience!

Great experience - Great trip, definitely recommend doing the gondola ride, it was incredible! Worth noting there’s really not a tour of Venice, our guide more just briefly oriented us to the city and gave free time to explore. I really enjoyed that set up though!

Five stars even with bad weather - Rainy, windy, cold and gondolas shut down. Why 5 stars? Constantine! He was an awesome guide. Funny, organized and connected. When gondolas restarted after 2 hour shutdown because of wind, he got us to the front of the line. Took us to an off the path restaurant with great food and no waiting. He knows Venice and made a potentially disastrous day a lot of fun.

Best Tour Guide - Great day! Honestly our tour guide was amazing! Hands down best we have had! Super funny! Thank you!

Over crowded/ unwelcoming - The group was too large for one person to manage 75 people 3 different languages, absolutely ridiculous. The lunch stop that was suggested by the guide was racist! We stay on a table with white folks ordered the same meal and they received drinks and food before us. So we sat and watched me eat for 7mins until we realized what was happening. We simply walked out and got lunch at another restaurant that was amazing and with great service. Don’t do the lunch the guide recommends EXPENSIVE AND HORRIBLE SERVICE somebody made a commission for that referral. The tour was too hectic because of the size of the group we went on the 13th July. Didn’t remember the guide name or the unfriendly bus driver. My previous tour with Sarah was the complete opposite to this experience.

Rushed & Ruined by Weather - Did 3 tours from Florence (this 1, Cinque Terre, & Tuscany/ Pisa tour). This one was my least favorite… It was very rushed, felt like we ran to everything, the glass blowing show was nice but felt like there was a push to sell. I did purchase a necklace pendant cause I liked it. The weather wasn’t great, it drizzled a bit, and seemed like there were flooded areas due to high tide. My shoes and socks were soaked, so carry an umbrella and buy some shoe covers that go up to your calves. The Gondola ride was okay (pricy if not shared amongst 4-5ppl) but ruined by the weather and the water was crowded with lots of other Gondolas. The photos didn’t turn out as romanticized. Food was okay. None of this was our tour guide’s fault. Constantino was a good guide. Would I book this again? Likely not.

Very disappointed in this tour and our guide - No time on our own for shopping and we weren’t able to pause for pictures anywhere. We were in a constant run to catch our guide Constantine who even joked about leaving people behind. The glass blowing was interesting but turns into a sales pitch and we asked if our guide earned a commission and were told “we can’t discuss that arrangement” so go watch the demo then leave if you want to have any time on your own at all. We went to lunch where he recommended and he was served drinks as soon as we walked in. Food was good but was very slow and took a lot of the day. For the gondola we paid 120 euros on the bus and the rides were 90. Our guide made good money in addition to the fee we paid to go. There was a lot of discussion about this from quite a few people in the group!! Very little was pointed out to us like us mentioned in the listing and no time to visit on our own. The very few things that were pointed out we were told not to stop, we could come back for pictures later- not possible! We bought two tickets for sites during the free time we were supposed to have. We didn’t get to use those. As we didn’t get any free time. We had to weave through a crowd in a near run to keep up with our guide. At times we could see the flag two blocks ahead and he never paused to see if the group was with him. We had able bodied people on the trip. Older folks should not attempt this tour! We were very excited about seeing the things on the tour listing and hearing info about each as indicated. NONE of that happened! We spent most of the day chasing our guide and felt like he spent the day taking us places where he made extra money. We had a bathroom stop on the way down- not on the way back- we also weren’t told we wouldn’t be stopping on the return trip so we didn’t go before we left the city as we weren’t given time. We were rushed to the boat to return. We returned to Florence a full hour and a half before the tour was set to end. It would have been nice to have spent that time in Venice seeing sights or shopping instead of being in a run to get back. Our guide bragged about finishing early and to brag on Constantine if we liked the tour. We wanted the time in Venice, that’s why we paid money to go. This was a once in our lifetime trip so it was very disappointing that we didn’t get to see and do more and enjoy our time in the city.