Itinerary
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Pass By: Piazza San Marco, 31024 Venice Italy
The tour starts in the marvelous Saint Mark's Square where there is the imposing Doge's Palace
Stop At: Doge's Palace, Piazza San Marco, 1, 30124 Venice Italy
An unmissable guided tour to discover the Doge Palace: the most important palace of the Venetian Republic, where you will see how Venice was ruled during the golden centuries. Be stunned by hundreds of artistic masterpieces in its spectacular rooms, paintings and sculpture from the best of Venetian artists.
Cross the Bridge of Sighs and go down in the old Venetian prisons and feel the anguish of the prisoners. Here also Giacomo Casanova was jailed.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
Stop At: Canal Grande, 30100 Venice Italy
After the Doge Palace tour, you will get on gondola for an amazing promenade through the lovely waterways and the magnificent Grand Canal with its historical palaces which belonged to the Doges and rich families. During the itinerary you will admire Mozart’s and Desdemona's House, La Fenice Theatre, Rio de le Ostreghe and on the Grand Canal, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection Palace, La Salute Church, Punta della Dogana and a breathtaking overview of Saint Mark’s basin. Comfortably seated on your special boat you will listen to the mobile-app narrating history and legends of the attractions around you: 10 points of interest described in your languages!
Duration: 30 minutes
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Venice Tours Srl Close to St.Mark’s Square, Calle S. Gallo, 1093/b, 30124 Venezia VE, Italy
11:20 AM
1 hour 30 minutes(approx.)
Returns to original departure point
Not wheelchair accessible
Near public transportation
Not recommended for travelers with back problems
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
Most travelers can participate
For security reasons suitcases, backpacks or large bags are not allowed inside the Doges’ Palace, the storage service is free of charge.
Each gondola can host maximum 5 people; the seat aboard cannot be chosen but will be assigned by the gondolier depending on guest's weight
The tour does not operate in case of exceptionally bad weather (in these cases it can be postponed the days after otherwise it will be refunded)
ATTENTION - MORNING TOUR: The visit to the Doge's Palace is at 11:20 AM - the gondola ride is at 3:00 PM. Please consider the gap of time between the Doge's Palace and the gondola ride.
ATTENTION - AFTERNOON TOUR: The visit to the Doge's Palace is at 3:20 PM - the gondola ride is at 5:15 PM. Please consider the gap of time between the Doge's Palace and the gondola ride.
On certain dates, most travelers staying outside of Venice who are planning to visit for the day will be required to pay a €5 access fee. For further details (including exemptions) and to learn what days this fee is applicable, please visit: https://cda.ve.it
The customers health is the most important matter for us, the tour operates in according to the Covid-19 National directives in order to guarantee the experiences in a safe environment.
All customer touchpoints are frequently cleaned, and the tour will leave with small groups.
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 10 travelers
Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Posted By : lisakB112LP
We had a dreadful experience at Doge’s Palace. Our tour guide was an older gentleman with an extremely heavy Italian accent and was not understandable. Viator refused to refund any portion of this tour. I will think twice about booking any Viator tours again!
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Posted On : 2023-10-20
Posted By : Jaime L
We saw parts of the beautiful Doges Palace however; this tour was extremely unorganized, overcrowded and not timely. We were passed from “colleague” to “colleague” over and over again. None of the tour guides had any urgency to help us. We waited 15 mins past the start time. Then we waited longer to get into the palace. Inside the tour guide was kind and knowledgeable but she told us lots of parts of palace were only shown on extra tours. Then when we walked to the gondolas, we waited for over 1 hour for our ride. There were dozens and dozens of people waiting. Other tour groups came after us and were allowed to go on the gondola ride before us. People were very patient for the most part. When we were finally able to ride, people behind us were yelling and upset we were allowed to go. The whole thing was frustrating and very unorganized!
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Posted On : 2023-09-24
Posted By : schwabr
Doge’s Palace and the gondola ride were really cool. That being said the tour was poorly organized/scheduled. First we meet a guide at the tour office, we left the tour office to walk to another place to meet another guide, who then walked us to Doge’s palace. These are all within a few minutes walk of each other and took up a lot of time. As the tour started, our guide announced we’d be done around 5:15ish. We booked the Doge Palace and gondola ride package and had to be at another place by 5pm for the gondola (most in our group only booked the palace tour part). We ended up having to leave the tour early just to make the gondola ride. Also, at the beginning of the tour they gave us our tickets to the museum for our self-guided portion of tour, but was told it would be closed before our guided tour ended and we should use use them the next day. So we didn’t get part of the tour since we were just in Venice for the day. Frustrating. We would have gladly picked up the tickets to the museum earlier and done the self-guided part prior to the palace tour if we had known. Our guide for the Doge’s Palace was clearly knowledgeable. However, her presentation was just a nonstop stream of consciousness and she was hard to follow most of the time. It was as if she didn’t have a prepared agenda/tour. Very odd.
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Posted On : 2023-07-12
Posted By : Matt_D
Excellent! The guide was fantastic - very knowledgeable and engaging. Really wish it was longer. Definitely recommended.
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Posted On : 2023-05-15
Posted By : BWMR1967
Just loved this tour. Such a grand palace. I am so glad we pre bought tickets the queues to get in were huge.
Our guide was very knowledgeable. Well worth it
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Posted On : 2022-10-09
Posted By : ChrisRav4
The history is incredible but a heads-up about the amount of stairs would’ve been good, anyone with mild limited mobility this is not the tour for you.
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Posted On : 2022-10-06
Posted By : Claudia_W
Honestly it was Meh. The tour guide spoke with a heavy accent that was difficult to understand at times. He just seemed to be going through the motions and didn’t interject any excitement into his tour.
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Posted On : 2022-06-24
Posted By : JFBundEF
Das Büro ist etwas schwieriger zu finden. Jedoch ist René mit uns extra mitgegangen, damit wir den Anschluss an die Führung im Dogenpalast nicht verlieren. Vor der Führung werden Empfangsgeräte mit einem Kopfhörer ausgehändigt. Der Palast selbst ist sehr beeindruckend und wunderschön! Es gibt für ca 2 Stunden vom ersten Treffen bis Verabschiedung keine Sitzmöglichkeiten. Die deutschsprachige Touristenführerin war Top, Wissenswertes und Lustiges hatte sie zu erzählen, sogar meine kleine Tochter hatte Spaß!
Ca 2 Stunden später ging es zur Gondelfahrt für 30 Minuten. In einer Runde durch kleine Kanäle geht es mit anderen Gondeln, manche mit zusätzlich bestellten Sängern in den Canal Grande. Zu bestaunen gibt es Häuser, Brücken, das von Fischen und Muscheln bewohnte Kanalwasser und die Gondolieri, welche die Gondeln absolut perfekt zum Teil über die kleinen Kanäle steuern. Ein wunderbares Erlebnis!!!
Das Team ist sehr freundlich und hilfsbereit, eine tolle Erfahrung und Erinnert an Venedig! Mille Grazie
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Posted On : 2023-07-02
Posted By : rosannat00
Sono venuta con mia sorella e la sua famiglia a Venezia per il ponte di Pasqua devo dire che non ricordavo più quanto fosse bella e magica, mia sorella è rimasta a bocca aperta della sua magia e beltà , palazzo Ducale un vero giro turistico da Mike e una notte per chi Amal arte veneziana , il barocco , lo sfarzo di Venezia ...senza ombra di dubbio è da visitare....e per vederlo bene almeno ci vorranno 4 ore .
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Posted On : 2019-04-23
