Venice Walking Tour and Gondola Ride: Explore Charming Squares, Bridges, and Narrow Streets

Embark on a Venice walking tour and gondola ride to uncover the hidden treasures of this enchanting city. Explore charming squares, bridges, and narrow streets, and glide along the canals in a classic Venetian gondola. Discover the highlights of Venice with a knowledgeable guide, from Piazza San Marco to Rialto Bridge.

Duration: 2 hours, 27 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Canal Grande - The itinerary of this Gondola Ride will take you on the Grand Canal.
What's Included
  • Professional guide
  • Gondola ride (30 minutes)
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Interior visits to Venice attractions
Additional Information

Delight in a pedestrian exploration through the city, discovering its gems spread across quaint squares, bridges, and narrow paths, followed by a distinctive Venetian gondola boat ride. Traverse the Grand Canal and the minor waterways around the Fenice district, absorbing the allure of this romantic city as you meander through scenic cobblestone streets…

Location
Alilaguna & Bucintoro Viaggi -Ticket Office San Marco Giardinetti
Riva degli Schiavoni
Alilaguna ticket office is located at San Marco Giardinetti vaporetto stop, next to the Royal Gardens. Please don't look for Alilaguna office on Google maps. Strictly requested to be at the meeting point 15 minutes before the departure of the tour.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Mark_w
Sep 27, 2024
Great way to learn Venice - Great explanations on the history of Venice and answered lots of questions. Easily understood and entertaining.
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Sc_c
Sep 26, 2024
Walking Venice and Gondola ride - It was interesting to learn about the history of Venice and how it was created from a salt water marsh, and how it changed in form and culture.
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Karen_m
Sep 23, 2024
Great memories - Hearing the history of Venice and hearing the woman singing Volare in the gondola as we crossed a bridge. It brought me to tears remembering my father’s favorite song!
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Bradley_g
Sep 21, 2024
A good summary of Venice and how life did/does take place. - This was a good walking tour of some more residential sections of Venice nearer to Piazza San Marco. The most difficult part was exchanging the Viator voucher for tickets, as the meeting location is at a very busy spot. Allow sufficient time for waiting in a queue for your tickets, since only one window is open for that purpose. Once on the tour the guide provides useful history about Venice and how life there did/does take place. There is lots of walking and steps involved, but that is just part of visiting Venice! The gondola ride was a nice ending to the tour, shared with 2-3 other members of the tour group (it is not a private ride).
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Stephanie_f
Sep 14, 2024
Good value - Good mix of commentary, history, anecdotes. Guide was knowledgeable, nice that we could postpone gondola tour til next day when drier.
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Sarah_g
Sep 22, 2024
Disappointing Tour & Poor Audio - The tour guide walked quite fast, it was very busy & hard to keep up. The audio ear pieces were terrible & you could barely hear her. Nearly everyone in our group took them off. We were all disappointed at the end the guide didn’t show any of us where the gondola ride was, just took our audio ear pieces & walked off & left all of us standing there. I wouldn’t recommend this tour & we were pretty disappointed.
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Barry_b
Sep 21, 2024
Would not recommend the gondola ride - The guided walking tour was excellent. I can remember her name but she took us down some side alleys and showed us some hidden gems we never would have seen. The gondola ride sucked. Several went out at one time which I understand but we stayed right next to another one most of the time and the gondoliers were all yelling back and forth to one another very loudly. He didn’t even attempt to speak with us. The ride was not what we expected. Very disappointed.
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Lori_s
Sep 15, 2024
Very poor tour guide - First, I want to say that we have booked several excursions through Viator on this trip. And all have been spectacular. However, this walking tour Was very disappointing. And many others on our tour felt the same way. (9/13/24 3 pm). In fact, many of us were joking with each other about it. Our Guide could not have been more disinterested and it reflected in how she interacted with the group and what she chose to show us. Midway through the tour many of the people had just taken out their audio earpiece and put it in their pocket because Her information was so pedestrian. Additionally, we had a gentleman on our tour that was in a wheelchair, while he was able to slowly walk up and down the stairs over the canal, she literally had no regard for the pace at which he was able to go and just would takeoff walking, many times getting so far ahead that her microphone would disconnect from our audio because she was so far ahead of the group. I want to reiterate we have had wonderful experience with Viator, in fact had just come from another tour with Alessandra at Saint Marks and the Doge and she was brilliant and lovely. The gondola portion of the ride was beautiful. And we had no complaints there.
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Kathryn_p
Sep 18, 2024
Aweful - If i could give negative stars i would. Guide was horrible. Unorganized showed up late didnt know we had a go dola ride which we never got because it was so unorganized. Need a regind
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Paul
Sep 15, 2024
Not good - Tour guide seemed confused from the beginning. At end we were half hour over and then she didn’t know it was a part gondola tour. Then waited over hour for our tour. Very disappointing.
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up to 9 guests
1 Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).