St Mark's Square (Piazza San Marco)
ATTRACTION Keywords:
Cultural Experience,
Must-Do Experience,
Monument - Historical,
Plaza / Square
St Mark's Square (Piazza San Marco) Reviews
We've found 149 St Mark's Square (Piazza San Marco) reviews from Viator.com travelers and members: what they loved, what they liked and what they think could be improved. It's all here to help you make the most of your next trip.
Review by Ronald C, May 2013
Doing what: Small-Group Tour: Best of Venice Walking Tour and Grand Canal Water Taxi Ride
A great tour. The first hour was with a guide in a water taxi and was very interesting. The second hour was with a different guide around St Mark's Square and inside the beautiful Basilica. The third hour was a fascinating walk through the wonderful, narrow alleys of the relatively quiet eastern part of Venice, finishing near the Fish Market and Rialto Bridge.
Review by miquel t, April 2013
Doing what: Skip the Line: Venice Walking Tour with St Mark's Basilica
the weather was not to good very wet and windy, but the guide was really good and we had a great morning with no waiting at the basilica, and we were shown all the wonderful buildings and little plazas, we lso had a very good fish meal next to the fish market. thanks for every thing, really recommend your guide.
Review by Pauline G, United Kingdom, April 2013
Doing what: Skip the Line: St Mark's Square Highlights Tour
Had to really press our guide to explain more details about the square and explain the history of the architecture. Our guide was friendly but things felt a little rushed. That said, going back to San Marco a second time as very helpful especially after doing the walking tour. If I have one criticism it is that St Marks really deserves a tour in its own right along the lines of that to the Doges Palace. Although we could have done this on our own, we found the observations of a guide a better investment.
Review by Mark C, April 2013
Doing what: Skip the Line: Venice Walking Tour with St Mark's Basilica
We been on about 20 Viator tours and his was the first bad one. Check in was chaos. They got us in the wrong group and forgot to give us audio phones. Once we got them they didn't work well. Saint Mark's was closed for a special so what head of line got us was seeing the outside one vestibule. That wasn't tour company's fault, but they made no attempt to have people come back later for the tour. We went back on our own the next day and it took 30 seconds in line to get in (we admit that is unusual). Rest of tour was a fast 3 mile walk through the streets of Venice with a guide whose English wasn't the best. We'll give benefit of the doubt they were having a bad day, but this tour was a poor choice.
Review by Kathleen P, November 2012
Doing what: Skip the Line: Venice Walking Tour with St Mark's Basilica
We thoroughly enjoyed our guide and her knowledge of the history of St. Mark's and the bell towers and old buildings and how the city was built was just what we were looking for. We would book Viator tours again defintiely!
Review by Valerie B, November 2012
Doing what: Small-Group Tour: Best of Venice Walking Tour and Grand Canal Water Taxi Ride
This was a good tour despite the fact that it poured rain for half of it! Our tour guide was very knowledgeable about what she was telling us and remained very upbeat through the downpour! She took us to some very interesting places and we really enjoyed the visit into St. Mark's Basilica.
Review by Daniel S, October 2012
Doing what: Skip the Line: Venice Walking Tour with St Mark's Basilica
This is a great way to see Venice if its your first time there. We had a great tour guide that was very informative. You really need someone to tell you about the city as you walk around otherwise you just miss out on a lot. St. Marks is beautiful inside.
Review by Janet L L, October 2012
Doing what: Small-Group Tour: Best of Venice Walking Tour and Grand Canal Water Taxi Ride
This was a terrific introduction to the Grand Canal and the areas not too far from St Mark's Square. We had two female guides, both terrific -- knowledgable and energetic. I would recommend this tour, at least with these guides!
Review by h f, October 2012
Doing what: Skip the Line: Venice Walking Tour with St Mark's Basilica
This was a very good introduction to Venice we covered St Mark's Square and the Rialto area and were given lot's of historical information. I recommend this tour for anyone in Venice as a starter for your trip to get you up to speed with it's history and the many places to visit etc.
Review by grapesmom, October 2012
Doing what: Skip the Line: Venice Walking Tour with St Mark's Basilica
Loved the tour, did not want to see it end. Very informative, entertaining. Loved skipping the quite long line at St Mark's. Was a good value for the money.
Review by Brenda M, October 2012
Doing what: Small-Group Tour: Best of Venice Walking Tour and Grand Canal Water Taxi Ride
Really enjoyed this tour. It covered the highlights of Venice on both water and land. Meeting place is on the bridge right next to St. Marks Square. Highly recommend this tour.
Review by mrsrobb, October 2012
Doing what: Skip the Line: Venice Walking Tour with St Mark's Basilica
I am sure the tour would have been great but we could not make it there! The St. Mark's square was flooded due to rain when we got there and there were thousands of people trying to navigate along these narrow platforms set up above the water. TAKE CARE to add enough time to try to get to your destination as it can take about an hour to get from one end of the square to the other during a flood like this.
Review by Jenny M, October 2012
Doing what: Skip the Line: Venice Walking Tour with St Mark's Basilica
St Marks was great and the rest of the tour was walking around the streets of venice.
Review by Karen L, October 2012
Doing what: Skip the Line: St Mark's Square Highlights Tour
Probably just what we wanted. We have two children that did ok for the hour long tour. Nice to be able to go straight into the Basilica. We learnt some history and enjoyed that. St Marks is so busy all the time with tourists, I think that you can't really last more than an hour at a time. Tour guide was good....we had ear pieces that helped us hear her even when she was not facing us. They worked well. Se spoke good English.....which is a must if you are to take in all the facts.
Review by Rosamin B, October 2012
Doing what: Skip the Line: Venice Walking Tour with St Mark's Basilica
We took the 2 hour walking tour, it was informative and took us around the interesting and historical spots. The best part is being able to enter the St Mark's Basilica without having to wait in line. Over all the tour was a bit too long, and the guide spoke in too much detail about the location and its history, to the point that we started to loose interest a few times. A lot more sightseeing and less talking would have suited us more, or perhaps cut the time down with the same spots being visited and less explanations.
