Venice: Private After Dark Tour and Gondola Ride
Recommended by 94% of travelers
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Venice, Italy
- 2 hours (approx.)
- Group discounts
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
Venture to corners of Venice that most tourists never see and discover the haunted history of the city with this unique after dark tour with a private guide. Visit quiet alleyways and stroll past brooding palaces while you listen to tales of ghouls and spirits from Venice’s past. End your spooky adventure with a scenic gondola ride to admire the Floating City from the water as you glide along its canals.
- Learn about Venetian history through the lens of its lore and legends
- Explore with a local guide to discover quiet, uncrowded areas of Venice
- A private tour customized to the ages and interests of your group
- End with a gondola ride through the picturesque central canals
What's Included
- 30 minutes gondola ride
- Private guide
- Rialto Bridge, Bridge of Sighs, St Mark’s Square, Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo
- Marco Polo’s house (outside)
- Campo San Giacometto
- Food and drinks
- Tips and gratuities
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- Chiesa di San Giacomo di RialtoCampo S. Giacomo di Rialto, 30125 Venezia VE, Italy
In front of Chiesa di San Giacomo in Rialto in Campo San Giacomo di Rialto. Your guide will be holding a LivTours sign.
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.Itinerary
1
Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
2
Ponte di Rialto
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Casa di Marco Polo (Pass By)
3
Ponte dei Sospiri
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Near public transportation
- Most travelers can participate
- 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
- This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
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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
4.8
based on 64 reviews
Sibylle_J, Oct 2025
Gina was a fantastic host. Very entertaining and enthusiastic about letting us know lots of highlights and insites of Venice. Very much recommend this tour. It is great to experience the city after dark!
Shari_S, Oct 2025
Our guide was wonderful and the gondola at night is a must! The sights and information shared with us were interesting and the time flew! Taking a gondola ride at night was so peaceful and lovely, and our gondolier was amazing. Great information but also gave us time to just enjoy the peace. The only downside is it was a bit pricey.
Casey_B, Oct 2025
This was an excellent tour. Romy made it very special. Her passion and knowledge made the experience fun, exciting, and informational. We learned so much. Thank you Romy!
Ric_L, Sep 2025
It was so special. Imagine only two other gondolas seen in our time because so many people did not show as there was a light sprinkle of rain. The experience was magical seeing people turning their lights on as the day turned to evening. My wife and I loved all of it.
Sean_H, Sep 2025
Sabrina provided a wonderful walking tour of the city, telling us amazing stories and lore of various spots as we walked through winding streets. The trip ends with a lovely private gondola ride at night. We enjoyed every moment of the tour and are grateful to Sabrina for her time and local knowledge.
Howard_W, Sep 2025
Fabulous tour with private guide who provided many insights. The walking tour was perfect with a smooth connection to the private 30 minute gondola ride.
William_M, Jul 2025
Really interesting and Cristina couldn’t have been nicer. Showed us parts of Venice we hadn’t seen. Thanks again
Stephen_L, Jun 2025
Adrianna really made Venice come alive. So many little details that you would never think of to ask and would be left out of a general tour of the city.
Marcus_M, May 2025
We thoroughly enjoyed our private tour with Brankica! She gave us such an insightful and insiders view into Venice that we could have never experienced without her. She even offered to take pictures of us in the best locations around Venice and on our gondola ride to truly make it a memorable experience. Would highly recommend a private tour with Brankica to anyone who is looking to experience Venice.
jared_h, Apr 2025
We had a great time with Lorenzo
This is a must book especially when you're pushed for time in the city.
Jennifer_C, Nov 2024
This was more than we expected! Francesca was great and very knowledgeable! We learned so much about Venice and its history and the gondola ride was so peaceful and beautiful! We had a great time! Worth every penny!
Roger_P, Sep 2024
Our Guide was a doll! She knew her history and extremely knowledgeable. I am into WWII history. Finding out her family was part of the conflict from Croatia and to hear what her family went thru was exhilarating to talk about. It all tied with why Venice was the only city which was not destroyed by the Germans.
Lance_D, Jun 2024
Lorenzo was an incredible guide. His knowledge of the area was fantastic. He was entertaining and engaging. He made the tour fun and informative.
Abe_K, Dec 2023
Lorenzo was a fantastic tour guide.He opened Venice up to us, and we saw places we had walked past unconsciously in the past in a new light. 💡
Highly recommend this Tour! Exciting/Interesting and frightening history to Venice!
Anthony_H, Nov 2023
The local guide was very good. She was delightful. But everything else a joke. LIV, the local company kept moving the tour. They changed the time and then moved the location. How does the local company not know when the gondola's end. Really poor
Karen_C, Nov 2023
Walking around Venice at night with a knowledgeable host. Gondola ride at night was really fun. All a different perspective at night.
Lisa_J, Oct 2023
We thought this was a ghost tour ON the go dola ride, we were not expecting to walk all over Venice for an hour before getting on gondola.
Jeni_G, Aug 2023
This was such a fun and unique way to hear about the history of Venice while navigating its alleyways and canals. Our tour guide, Lorenzo, was a passionate storyteller, and pulled out all the stops for us. He even helped us make a dinner reservation at a local favorite where the food was excellent and not overpriced.
Stephanie_Q, Aug 2023
We thoroughly enjoyed our Ghost Tour and Gondola Ride with Jorge. He was very engaging and passionate about Venice and its rich history. We loved hearing about the dark side of this romantic city. Highly recommend!
Eileen_F, Jul 2023
Francesca was our guide and she was terrific. It was nice to see a lot of Venice in evening when it’s less crowded and temperatures are cooler. It’s not a ghost tour but a nice historical review of Venice. We had a party of 6 and was disappointed not to all fit in the same gondola. Our gondolier was quiet and didn’t speak the whole trip. Our young adult Kids got a young friendly gondolier which made their tour.
browneyes68724, Jul 2023
Our guide was very informative and well prepared. We had a great time. He customized perfectly to what we wanted.
Julia_M, Jul 2023
Our tour guide was absolutely wonderful! She thoughtfully answered all our questions and had tons of amazing stories to tell. She was clearly a great storyteller. We could tell she could go on and on about the whole city. I couldn’t recommend her enough!
Michael_F, May 2023
Sabrina was an excellent guide. Local knowledge was really helpful and also a real enthusiasm to ensure we enjoyed the tour. Definitely worth doing.
Brandon_L, Mar 2023
We had a very nice tour, although it wasn’t what we were expecting. We signed up for the “Ghost Tour” expecting scary or supernatural stories. In fairness, upon our initial meeting, our guide, Silvia, did warn us that it wasn’t really a “Ghost Tour,” but more some murder and mysteries. He was very knowledgeable and entertaining and did share a murder and a mystery or two, but we all felt as though the tour description by Viator was a little misleading. The gondola ride was wonderful and Silvia was very interested in personalizing the tour to be sure to show us new sights in his beautiful city.
Monica_C, Jan 2023
Elisa was a charming and passionate guide for this ghost tour of Venice. The gondola ride was a great way to kick off our visit to Venice and we really enjoyed hearing stories of haunted buildings and famous Venetian personalities from the past. In the walking part of the tour Elisa pointed out many unique characteristics of Venice and buildings that we would have never noticed on our own. A bit expensive but we thoroughly enjoyed our tour.
Kerry_A, Jun 2022
Our guide really took the time to explain everything, especially to my daughter. He was very knowledgeable and personable. Great tour!
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