Gondola Rides & Canal Tours

Written by Viator, August 2010

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Reply by Viator, May 2013
Doing what: Small-Group Tour: Best of Venice Walking Tour and Grand Canal Water Taxi Ride

Excellent guide. A fabulous and informative afternoon.

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Reply by Viator, May 2013
Doing what: Venice Gondola Ride and Serenade

We thoroughly enjoyed our gondola ride - a great way to finish our day in Venice.

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Reply by Viator, May 2013
Doing what: Skip the Line: Venice in One Day

This tour is in 2 parts - a 3 hour walking tour and a one hour boat tour later in the day. The walking tour is excellent - skip the line is really worthwhile as the lines are huge. The walking tour is quite draining (we had a very hot day). You will need to take water but beware- public toilets are nowhere to be found! You will need to buy a drink in a cafe to use the toilets. The boat tour gave a totally different perspective - much smaller group (about 6) and our guide was very knowledgable. We only had a limited time in Venice - this tour enabled us to make the most of our time.

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Reply by Viator, May 2013
Doing what: Venice by Night Tour and Gondola Ride

The venice by night tour was very enjoyable and informative. The private gondola ride was nice however it would have been nice to have someone available to take a photo of us in the gondola, also our gondolier was using his cell phone and wanted to smoke as we were riding.

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Reply by Viator, May 2013
Doing what: Venice by Night Tour and Gondola Ride

This was amazing. We discovered the other side of Venice on foot. Our guide was very informative and very passionate about Venice. The highlight was taking the gondola ride at twilight time into night, truly spectacular!!!!!!!!!

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Reply by Viator, 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.

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Reply by Viator, May 2013
Doing what: Venice by Night Tour and Gondola Ride

It's a nice night walk and beautiful to see venice at night on gondola!

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Reply by Viator, May 2013
Doing what: Venice Walking Tour and Gondola Ride

This was our first tour in venice and nice to walk around and get familiar with the confusing passageways of venice!

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Reply by Viator, May 2013
Doing what: Venice by Night Tour and Gondola Ride

Very informative guide, lovely to experience the gondola ride.

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Reply by Viator, May 2013
Doing what: Venice Grand Canal Boat Tour

Be sure to be the first in the boat to get a seat in the rear, otherwise you may have to sit inside in which case this tour would have a much lower rating. The whole point of this tour is to see and experience a ride on the canals, which sitting inside makes difficult. The tour itself was very pleasant. We saw many of the major sites from the boat, including little known areas that I visited by foot the next day. The guide was very professional and knowledgeable; in fact he was a native Venetian! This is a good and less expensive way to see Venice by boat (rather than a gondola), but again, make sure you get in first and get a seat in the stern!

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Reply by Viator, May 2013
Doing what: Venice Grand Canal Boat Tour

The tour gave a good impression of the overall layout of Venice.

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Reply by Viator, May 2013
Doing what: Venice Gondola Ride and Serenade

I have mixed feelings on this review.....the people running the ride were extremely rude but the gondola ride itself was nice. The gentleman doing the serenande was really talented and very enjoyable but they had the gondolas ganged up in a bunch to hear one person when I thought the singer was just for our own gondola ride. And if you hope to sit in the ONE seat for two then you better hope you are positioned in line to get that seat or you are not sitting next to each other in a 6 person gondola!

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Reply by Viator, May 2013
Doing what: Venice Grand Canal Boat Tour

Really good experience

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Reply by Viator, May 2013
Doing what: Venice Gondola Ride and Serenade

Good. But the singer sings for 4-5 gondolas and your grouped together for your ride. So the singer may not be on your boat. Can still hear clearly but I didn't know that before.

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Reply by Viator, May 2013
Doing what: Skip the Line: Venice in One Day

In terms of history etc I unfortunately don't feel I got a great tour, the headsets were not good and although the guide spoke good English, I had to be looking at him to understand him. But, tour was worth doing because its so easy to get lost and on limited time at least u kno u have seen the sites.

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