Colmar 2H Walking Tour with little Venice Boat Cruise
Colmar, France
- 2 hours (approx.)
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
What's Included
- Local expert guide for the 2 Hour walking tour
- 25-minute guided cruise along Colmar’s canals
- Commentary (in multiple languages)
- Supervised place for strollers
- Companion pets allowed
- Ticket price does not include food or drinks
- Transfers to/from the meeting point
- Tips/gratuities for the crew
- Additional attractions or services not specified
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- 4 Rue des Unterlinden, 68000 Colmar, France
Please meet your guide in the square outside 4 Rue des Unterlinden, 68000 Colmar (in front of the Unterlinden Museum entrance). The walking tour will end at the departure point for the cruise. Your tour guide will bring you at at the departure point for the cruise
End point
- Sweet Narcisse Barque Colmar au fil de l’eauDépart au Pont-Saint Pierre, 10 Rue de la Herse, 68000 Colmar, France
The walking tour will end at this address. You can get the boat tour from here. Address: Barque Colmar au fil de l’eau Sweet Narcisse. Departure from Pont-Saint Pierre, 10 Rue de la Herse, 68000 Colmar
Itinerary
1
Colmar
1 hour 35 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
2
Little Venice
25 minutes • Admission Ticket Included
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Near public transportation
- Most travelers can participate
- Tour is free for children up to 3 years old.
- Tour can be bilingual
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 30 travelers
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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Reviews
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Maverick was THE GREATEST!!!!! So knowledgeable as well as funny!!!
However… 1) still waiting for the return of the boat fare…. since there was a parade/festival we didn’t get the boat. (wish viator told us this prior… poor Maverick had to deliver the sad news).
How do I go about getting the 45 euros back??? Maverick said it would just happen.
The walking tour of Colmar was very interesting and informative. Our tour guide had to translate in both English and French. It would have been better to if the group had been split between English and French people
It was a good walking tour. The guide Maverick was good and explained the history very well. If you want to walk around the town and know some interesting facts about Colmar in a short time, this tour works for you. Though the tour was good and included tasting local delicacy and cheese, the boat ride was cancelled by the company and it was communicated when the tour started. The company agreed to refund or provide guidance on booking it individually, but conveying this in advance could have been helpful. Also, the itinerary was a bit confusing to me while booking. It wasn’t clear whether total time of the tour was 2 hours or 2 1/2 hours including boat ride. There was very less time spent on La Petite Venise which was a picturesque spot with not much time to take pictures. The tour in English and French was combined. This was time consuming and led to repetition. These were some surprises, but overall the tour was good, I had a good time in Colmar.
Very disappointed, we arrived 15 mins early as advised to meet our tour host Maverick at 9.45am. His first comment was that we would receive a re-fund for the Little Venice boat ride as there were no tickets available. Our English group tour were not provided with boat tickets which was the main reason for booking the tour in the first place. However, he stated that the two French people in the group of 8 had been given tickets, to which we were astonished and said we would like to go now and try and secure boat tickets before Colmar becomes too busy with tourists.
I have tried contact him the French tour company but all you get is an answer machine message without the ability to leave a message and then get cut off. Very disappointing indeed and expect a full refund for the total cost of our tour, which we didn’t receive. Two other Canadian tourists did exactly the same and aborted Mavericks tour, as the little Venice boat tour was their main priority too.
Advice to anyone else booking please make sure that you receive your boat tickets prior to setting off
I had a bad experience on this tour. Firstly the guide sent a WhatsApp message with wrong starting address. When we reached the location, it was a parking lot of another place. We had to call him and walk for a while to find him. During the tour he barely spoke correct English and we struggled with understanding him. There were a total of 5/6 random buildings of which he spoke about the history. There was another couple who were French so he spoke mostly during the one and a half hour in French to them.
Secondly the tour is deceptive in how it is advertised. It says 2 hours. So we booked the tickets for 10:00 am and planned a departure from colmar at 1pm. We made the bookings 5 days in advance. When the walking tour finished around 11:30 am, the guide shared with us a QR code for the boat ride and asked us to go to the boat ride counter and disappeared himself. When we reached the counter, the guy asked us if we speak English and when we said yes, he said that our turn on the boat ride will come at 1:30pm. We told him that we are leaving collar by 1pm so we can’t wait till 1:30 pm and that the tour is advertised as 2 hours so we took tickets for 10:00 am. He said that we should have bought the tickets from his company and not on Internet as our tickets had got booked with them only yesterday (even though we had purchased them 5 days ago). He said that the next boat is at 11:40 but we are not on it and if we want refund, he will return only €10 even though the tour is sold for €50 per person on this website. Overall a total waste of time, money and energy. Really bad experience.
Loved our tour guide Maverick. He had tremendous passion for the history of Colmar.
It is a beautiful place.
There were 2 meeting places listed on the voucher. We were at the first meeting spot listed and no one was there. We called the emergency number and no one answered. We left a message and no one reached out. We never found the guide according to their meeting spot description and GPS link.
I never other - the local Operator changed meeting point and I was unable to pick up his message. What a shame!
Check the meeting point !
Lovely guide
Super boat trip.
Would recommend.
Interesting history and very informative guide
The address given to meet is not accurate. The boat tour can provide correct address which is a 15 minute walk into the city. This was very frustrating and how our experience began. Tour guide was knowledge, good English but challenging to understand at times given he speaks so fast with a strong accent.
2h is the right amount of time. Guide was knowledgeable. I'd recommend it early upon your arrival in Colmar as it helps understand where things are
The two-hour walking tour with Maverick was excellent. He had great narration, history and information about the area we were walking. After the tour he handed us off to the boat ride in “little Venice” and that too was great. Our boat operator also provided great narration of our tour and the history of the little Venice area of Basel.
THE TOUR WAS MADE GREAT BY THE BOAT/CRUISE OPERATORS! We also had a great guide for the walking tour, which was interesting and informative - we got a clear sense of Alsace people and history. Finding where to start the canal cruise was an epic adventure. We were told by the guide we would be fetched by someone if we waited in front of the sign for the cruise on a bridge. Nope. When we got to the canal cruise (up and around the corner, then down), we learned there was no room; this is an ongoing issue; as is cruise tickets being booked in French when the walking tour is in English. ONLY THANKS TO THE AMAZING BOAT GUYS’ KINDNESS DID THEY SQUEEZE US ON OVER THE LAST FEW CRUISES OF THE DAY. Big shoutout to the boat cruise company BUT the seller of this tour needs to smarten up and be way better organized!
Our guide had great stories to share about the history, architecture, and life in Colmar. There was a mixup with the meeting point, which was not the guides fault and I'll report om thst separately.
The Viator provided meeting point on their app was for the boat ride, not the walking tour. I did find out the correct address was sent in a text, but it didn't go through until after I arrived back in Germany. Not Viator's fault, just a heads up. Luckily our tour guide, Maverick, took it upon himself to come to us and start the tour where we were. Much appreciated 😀 Maverick had such great energy and clearly loves Colmar. We went on the 10am tour during Easter week and it was a great overview of the town, showing us the history and stories, and letting us know areas for further exploration after the 1.5 hour tour. The boat ride, through Viator but with a separate company, was quite nice. Highly recommend for all!
The guide was very nice and really very professional; he knew the subject inside and out. The boat ride is too expensive for the little time spent on the water; fortunately, the guide was there.
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Unfortunately, the boat trip was canceled, and despite assurances, we were not refunded the amount for the boat. It was also difficult that the tour was bilingual and therefore took too long at the individual points.
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