Great tour guide/fun boat ride/educational glass blowing - Ezra was our guide for this tour. He was knowledgeable about glass manufacturing and selling, having worked 7 years in this glass industry and about all the hilites of Murano island. He stayed by our side after leaving a fascinating glass factory to point out interesting sites and history. It was an efficient use of our 1/3 day time in Venice. My wife and I highly recommend.

An Interesting Look at Incredible Art Being Made - We enjoyed our excursion to the Murano glass factory! Ricardo was enthusiastic & informative on all aspects of Venice. We started with a look at the history of Venice through a high tech 3D simulation. Watching the artist blow glass into a water pitcher & horse was mind-blowing! Incredible works of art were displayed & sold upstairs! Shopping in Murano gave us a chance to purchase beautiful gifts!

A great show. Good for... - A great show. Good for all ages. it was fascinating to watch the master glass blower create a horse in such a short amount of time.

Great Murano tour without spending the whole day - First off, and very important, the directions for the meeting place to start the tour were specific so it was easy to find. The boat ride over was nice and full of information. The glass factory that you tour has nice glass and good quality. When you first show up you are taken into the glass room where the artisans are busy heating and blowing glass. You will sit in stands, similar to bleachers, and watch. Afterwards, you are given time to shop at that factory and then will have time to go walk and explore Murano and see other glass stores/operations. Our guide was very engaging and informative, and I wish I could remember her name because she was awesome. She grew up in Venice and her father had his own glass blowing shop at one time.

Excellent group experience in Murano - The island of Murano is always beautiful, the visit to the glass factory is very interesting. Many thanks to Claudia who was a fantastic and knowledgeable guide!

Cool glass blowing tour - Claudia our guide was terrific. She had the added credibility of being from Venice and having a father and grandfather who owned a glass blowing factory.

I do not recommend booking an excursion with Venice Tour - The island of Murano is beautiful and I can recommend visiting it but it is not necessary to book an excursion for it, since you can visit it by taking the vaporetto, which is a very good and accessible public transport, with many schedules. In our case, the "guide" also contributed absolutely nothing to the trip to the island. He simply accompanied us to the taxi that took us to the island and then left us at the glass factory without any explanation. If we had done it on our own it would have been the same but much cheaper.

Murano Glass Blowing Tour - The tour was disappointing. Although it was a small group, we couldn't hear much of what the tour leader said. It would have been better if she (Claudia) had a microphone and we had been provided with ear buds. The worst part was that when we arrived at the factory, we were ushered in to a demonstration in English that was almost over. A Portuguese speaking group then entered, and we sat through a demo in Portuguese. Then our English speaking guide tried to tell us that we were finished, but we insisted that we had paid for a tour in English, so he reluctantly agreed to provide it. Would not recommend this tour.

Too short. Big delay before the toor. Glass exhibition and workshop experience were lame. Everybody was in a rush - Too short. Big delay before the toor. Glass exhibition and workshop experience were lame. Everybody was in a rush. The glass shop was extremely expensive compared to the others, pretending there was a 50% special discount for the group.

Terrible experience - DO NOT BOOK - Absolute waste of time and money. We left half an hour late and the lost time was not made up to us. The glass blowing demonstration lasted 10 minutes maximum, before being ushered to spend copious amounts of time in the glass blowers shop being pushed to buy things. The glass blowing also wasn’t in English as promised with the booking. Our guide said that it was better for us to roam around instead of her giving us a tour, which is not what I booked for. Would be better off catching a vaporetto to Murano and wandering the gift shops at your leisure which will save you quite a bit of money!