Doge's Palace (Palazzo Ducale)
- Address:San Marco, 1, Venice
- Hours:Open Summer 9am - 7pm (until 6pm in Winter)
- Admission:€ 13 for a Piazza San Marco museum pass
Doge's Palace (Palazzo Ducale) Reviews
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This was an excellent tour with a very knowledgeable tour guide. He took us through a nice walking tour of Venice,pointing out the little things we might have missed on our own, then into St Marks cathedral and the Doges Palace. Well worth the time and money!
Laura was an excellent guide and coped well with recalcitrant staff at the Doge's Palace. It's a really interesting place, especially the range of sights it offers - colourful and grand rooms, prison cells, the bridge..... However, it would be much better to pay for everything up front, instead of this messy additional entry payment.
Our guide was wonderful and very knowledgeable. I wasn't as impressed with the palace as I thought I would be. It had nothing to do with the tour. Make sure you read about the Doges Palace before you book to make sure it is something you really want to see.
This was a very interesting tour and our tour leader had a good knowledge of the Doge's Palace. It is always good to have an informed tour on places such as this. I would recommend this tour.
The description of this tour is incorrect as we thought we were walking around other parts of Venice but it is just a 2 hour tour of the Doges Palace. The tour guide was excellent but having paid online with Viator we did not realise we had to also pay for the entrance fee into the Doges Palace which was €13 each, the same as we would have paid on the door if we had done it ourselves. I am not sure therefore why we had to pay Viator £20 each before we went. Overall it was not worth the jump the line fee which I'm assuming the £20 each was for as there was no queue anyway and we could have had our own pre - recorded guide from the Palace.
The tour gave an in-depth account of the palace architecture, life of the Doge, and Venician politics. The tour guide was extremely knowledgeable and personable and had been doing the tour for over 25 years.
Our guide was amazing the tour was well paced and very informative. It was great we had time after the tour to stay in the Doges Palace and look around more. Would recommend this tour.
I was disappointed in this tour as I found the advertisement to be misleading. The "walking tour" was the tour of the Doges Palace only. This should be called "Walking Tour OF the Doges Palace not WITH! My group thought we would also have a walking tour of Venice. This tour also promotes that you will see things that you would otherwise not see on other tours which is not true. Any one touring the Palace saw the same things. And the "inquisition" has nothing to do with the Catholic church.
Doges Palace and Bridge of Sighs was excellent. Guide very impressive and knew her stuff. Never felt rushed and the tour was the proper length. The Doges Palace is an increible place.
This was a very good tour and the guide was very informative and gave us a lot of history about the Doges Palace. Very recommended.
An interesting and informative tour explaining the history of the Doges palace and it's importance in the ruling of Venice.
We did not know what to expect and were pleasantly surprised by the Doges Palace. The instructoins were not clear so we missed the morning walk. The instructions appeared to give us an option of a morning tour and afternoon tour, when in fact the moring is the walk and the afternoon is the palace.
This tour was also provided by the same company as our Doge's Palace tour. We had a great guid, it was just unfortunate that the headsets they used were substandard
We were very disappointed with this tour. It was not a venice walking tour, we only toured the Doges Palace. The tourguide did not give any background information or historical acccount of wwho the Doges were. It was more like an architectural tour. We had no idea about the relavance of the palace, who were the Doges, what was their role in society, etc. We found out that this same guide gave a walking tour of Venice in the morning and in that morning tour she explains all of the stuff that we were missing. So this tour should be titled "Continuation of morning tour" or something like that because the current title is misleading.
This was a very informative tour. The guide was very knowledgable. I understood this was a Venice Walking Tour BUT it was only a tour of the Doges Palace -- nothing else was include. we were disappointed. 2.5 out of 5 stars.
