Discover the wonders of Venice with an expert tour guide. Visit Doge’s Palace and Saint Mark’s Basilica, enjoy a romantic gondola ride along the Grand Canal and its minor waterways, and receive a bonus self-guided tour app to use in your own time.
About this activity
- Free cancellation
- Cancel up to 24 hours in advance to receive a full refund
- COVID-19 precautions
- Special health and safety measures apply. Learn more
- Small group
- Limited to 15 participants
- Mobile ticketing
- Use your phone or print your voucher
- Duration 3 hours
- Starting time 10:45 AM
- Skip the ticket line
- Instant confirmation
- Live tour guide
- English, Spanish, German, French, Italian
Experience
- Discover the magnificent halls of power at the Doge's Palace
- Ride a gondola down the romantic waterways and on the Grand Canal
- Admire the golden mosaics of Saint Mark's Basilica and its stunning treasury
- Receive a bonus app including a digital map and audio guide
- Guided tour of the Doge's Palace and Saint Mark's Basilica
- Skip-the-line entrance ticket (valid also to visit the Museums in Saint Mark's Square: Museo Correr, Museo Nazionale Archologico, and Biblioteca Marciana)
- Shared 30-minute gondola ride
- Download code for mobile commentary on the gondola
- App with an audio guide and digital map to use in your own time
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Guided tour of Museo Correr, Museo Nazionale Archologico, and Biblioteca Marciana
- Wheelchair users
Customers must book this activity online because the ticket office is closed
- All areas that customers touch are frequently cleaned
- Customers must keep distance in vehicles
- The number of visitors is limited to reduce crowds
- Customers must bring their own headphones
- Customers are required to bring and wear masks
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Prepare for the activity
10:30 AM: For the Doge's Palace and St. Mark's Basilica meet by the white building with the blue clock face on St. Mark's Square. The local partner's representative will be holding a sign with "tour" written on it. 3:45 PM: For the gondola ride, meet in front of the entrance to the Museo Correr, St. Mark’s Square. The local partner's representative will be holding a sign with "gondola tour" written on it. Customers are advised not to go to the bell tower.
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- Pets
- Smoking
Know before you go
- Unfortunately, this tour is not fully accessible for wheelchair users or people with walking disabilities
- In the case of exceptionally poor weather, high or low tides, or a local gondoliers strike, the gondola ride will unfortunately be cancelled. In these cases, you will be refunded gondola fees
- In the case of unplanned church services, or during days of exceptionally high tide, access to Saint Mark's Basilica may not be possible. In this case, you may be offered an alternate tour, or choose to take the tour another day
- You will receive an email after booking with the codes to download the gondola commentary
- There is a time gap between the Doge's Palace and Saint Mark's Basilica guided tour, and the gondola ride, which begins at 4:00 PM