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Hidden Venice Walking Tour and Gondola Ride
2 h
By walk
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Itinerary
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Pass By: Piazza San Marco, 31024 Venice Italy
Piazza San Marco, often known in English as St Mark's Square, is the principal public square of Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as la Piazza ("the Square").
Pass By: Teatro La Fenice, Campo San Fantin San Marco 1965, 30124 Venice Italy
Teatro La Fenice is an opera house in Venice
Pass By: Scala Contarini del Bovolo, San Marco, 4303, 30124 Venice Italy
The Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo (also called the Palazzo Contarini Minelli dal Bovolo) is a small palazzo in Venice, Italy, best known for its external multi-arch spiral staircase known as the Scala Contarini del Bovolo
Pass By: Ponte di Rialto, Ruga degli Orefici (Rialto) San Polo, 30125 Venice Italy
The Rialto Bridge is the oldest of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. Connecting the sestieri (districts) of San Marco and San Polo, it has been rebuilt several times since its first construction as a pontoon bridge in the 12th century, and is now a significant tourist attraction in the city.
Stop At: Canal Grande, 30100 Venice Italy
The Grand Canal is a channel in Venice, Italy. It forms one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city.
Duration: 30 minutes
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This is a typical itinerary for this product
Pass By: Piazza San Marco, 31024 Venice Italy
Piazza San Marco, often known in English as St Mark's Square, is the principal public square of Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as la Piazza ("the Square").
Pass By: Teatro La Fenice, Campo San Fantin San Marco 1965, 30124 Venice Italy
Teatro La Fenice is an opera house in Venice
Pass By: Scala Contarini del Bovolo, San Marco, 4303, 30124 Venice Italy
The Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo (also called the Palazzo Contarini Minelli dal Bovolo) is a small palazzo in Venice, Italy, best known for its external multi-arch spiral staircase known as the Scala Contarini del Bovolo
Pass By: Ponte di Rialto, Ruga degli Orefici (Rialto) San Polo, 30125 Venice Italy
The Rialto Bridge is the oldest of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. Connecting the sestieri (districts) of San Marco and San Polo, it has been rebuilt several times since its first construction as a pontoon bridge in the 12th century, and is now a significant tourist attraction in the city.
Stop At: Canal Grande, 30100 Venice Italy
The Grand Canal is a channel in Venice, Italy. It forms one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city.
Duration: 30 minutes
Included
- Professional guide
- Gondola ride (without guide)
Not included
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Guide (during the gondola ride)
Additional
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- May be operated by a multilingual guide
Features
Tourism
85%
Cultural
75%
Original
40%
Sport
25%
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3.00 pm tour. Gondola ride for the first half hour, 3 of us shared with another family of 3 - very relaxing and as expected. We had to wait for about 10 minutes or so for others to join us when we left the gondola, and then walk to the next meeting point where we met others for the walking part of the tour. It all took too long, and was quite disorganised. Too many people in the group. The guide was lacking any enthusiasm and not very interesting to listen to. Saw the Rialto Bridge from a distance on the tour, before we were due to head back to the starting point, so we left the tour at that point to go it alone .... and we were happy to do so.
We really enjoyed this tour because our tour guide was a Venice resident who grew up on in Venice and was raising 2 teenage kids in Venice. She gave us a really good sense of what it's like to grow up and live in the city. We learned things like the kids all have to learn to swim very young, that they learn to row but prefer motor boats and that the houses are always full of water.
For this tour we had a lady who was a resident of Venice and whose family had lived there for generations. She was very passionate about her city and went the extra mile to be informative. It was a very interesting walk and we learnt lots about the history of the city. The gondola ride which followed was very enjoyable. We had already had one which included a serenade but this one followed a different and more interesting route.