Venice Walking Tour and Gondola Ride
Venice, Italy
- 2 hours 9 minutes to 2 hours 27 minutes (approx.)
- Offered in: English
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Overview
Explore the famous sites and hidden charms of Venice on this walking tour, followed by a ride through the city’s canals on an iconic gondola. Follow your local guide through a romantic maze of surrounding backstreets to discover some of Venice’s lesser-known gems. Learn the fascinating history of Venice as you wander through narrow alleys and over stone footbridges, and then hop aboard a Venetian gondola for a leisurely ride along the Grand Canal.
- Venice tour including a gondola ride and walking tour
- Take a gondola ride down the Grand Canal of Venice!
- Enjoy a walking tour of Venice, passing sights that the tourist maps miss
- Stroll through narrow back streets and alleyways while learning about Venetian history
Why Travelers Choose This Tour
This bestseller pairs a walking tour with a gondola ride, for not much more than the price of the ride alone.
What's Included
- Gondola ride (30 minutes)
- Professional guide
- Gratuities
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Interior visits to Venice attractions
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- Alilaguna & Bucintoro Viaggi -Ticket Office San Marco GiardinettiRiva degli Schiavoni, 30124 Venezia VE, Italy
Alilaguna ticket office is located at San Marco Giardinetti vaporetto stop, next to the Royal Gardens. Please don't look for Alilaguna office on Google maps. Strictly requested to be at the meeting point 15 minutes before the departure of the tour.
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.Start time.3:00 pm
Itinerary
This walking tour of Venice provides an excellent introduction to the city’s highlights and history, plus the classic Venetian experience of riding in a gondola.
Meet your guide near St Mark’s Square, wander through the surrounding neighborhood as your guide illuminates the history of Venice as a maritime superpower and incubator of Renaissance art. Admire iconic Venetian landmarks such as the Teatro la Fenice opera house, the Rialto Bridge and the mysterious spiral staircase of Scala del Bovolo. The specific tour itinerary may vary by day, as there is so much to see!
After exploring the city’s romantic streets by foot, climb aboard a traditional gondola boat for a romantic ride along the city’s famous canals. Navigated by a friendly gondolier, cruise by spectacular historic structures along the Grand Canal and float down smaller watery ways in the Fenice neighborhood. Then, step back on solid ground at the Dogana/Valaresso Station in central Venice.
Please note: The walking tour does not include entry to the monuments.
Meet your guide near St Mark’s Square, wander through the surrounding neighborhood as your guide illuminates the history of Venice as a maritime superpower and incubator of Renaissance art. Admire iconic Venetian landmarks such as the Teatro la Fenice opera house, the Rialto Bridge and the mysterious spiral staircase of Scala del Bovolo. The specific tour itinerary may vary by day, as there is so much to see!
After exploring the city’s romantic streets by foot, climb aboard a traditional gondola boat for a romantic ride along the city’s famous canals. Navigated by a friendly gondolier, cruise by spectacular historic structures along the Grand Canal and float down smaller watery ways in the Fenice neighborhood. Then, step back on solid ground at the Dogana/Valaresso Station in central Venice.
Please note: The walking tour does not include entry to the monuments.
Piazza San Marco (Pass By)
Gondola Danieli (Pass By)
Scala Contarini del Bovolo (Pass By)
Teatro La Fenice (Pass By)
Ponte di Rialto (Pass By)
Canal Grande (Pass By)
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
- May be operated by a multi-lingual guide
- If you're planning a day trip to Venice and staying outside the city, please note that an access fee will be required on certain dates. For more information, including details about exemptions and the specific dates when the fee applies, please visit (https://cda.ve.it).
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 25 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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Featured review
Thank you very much Sara. We had a wonderful day with you showing us your beautiful city. Sara was very engaging and informative. She made the tour accessible for adults and children alike. We highly recommend Sara and her tour.
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Excellent activity. Starts off with static explanation of why Venice is where it is. Then steady walk around. All well explained. Guide (Stephano) took many questions and answered them all. Quite a pace with a lot to see Prebooked gondola slot Gondola is 30 min trip on grand canal then some small canals. This is much cheaper than a full separate gondola ride. Only downside is sharing the gondola with 2-3 others. Overall good value and a good orientation start. Recommended
I was held up by unforeseen circumstances (our transportation to get into Venice did not show). When I tried to message the tour operator, about this, via messenger, I did not get a message back. The number that was in the booking to call, said: all circuits were busy. Not helpful as a contact number. I had hoped to talk to someone to try to catch up with the tour later or re-book for later, unfortunately that didn’t happen.
Very knowledgeable and engaging
We learned so much about the city’s history and every day life.
Highly recommend!
The tour itself with the gondola ride was very nice and informative however our guide was a bit rude and aggressive. She was rude to one of my friends that I was traveling with and kept telling her to put her phone down and if she was talking to her son. My friend was taking pictures with her phone not on the phone. This is the 2nd time on this tour for me and the previous guide 2 years ago was fun and amazing but his one might need to retire, she didn’t seem to be enjoying her job unfortunately, which made my friends first time on this tour not pleasant.
It was a lovely quick tour, guide was superb . The gondola ride was nice . Meeting point of tour was east to reach
Walking tour was very informative and you tour a lot of the back streets and not the main area's. Doesn't go into much detail about St. Mark's if you are looking for that. Gondola ride is 30 mins and was very cool. Each only holds 4 people so plan for that.
Our guide was excellent.....very knowledgeable and engaging. She was very proud to show us her home.
Our guide was excellent, providing a personalized account of the culture and history of her neighborhood in Venice, as well as valuable insights into Venice in general. Our gondola ride was perfection!
Extremely good walking tour taking on the less famous but perhaps more historical parts of Venice. Frederica was a great guide. Thank you. The Gondola trip was lovely and sedate and just needed to relax after the walk.b
Very informative walk around Venice. Enjoyed our guides enthusiasm. Also a nice 30 minute Gondola ride. This excursion moves you to the front of the line at the Gondola station
Very professional, timely and spoke clearly
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We really enjoyed this tour. Our host was knowledgeable and passing about the city. We got to see sights that we had missed whilst walking round ourselves. The gondola ride was fantastic.
This tour was fabulous! Our tour guide was very personable. We had a small group so he got to know each of us which made the tour more enjoyable.
He was very knowledgeable and gave us great recommendations for things to do around the city. We saw things we would’ve never seen on our own, so the tour was absolutely worth it.
A very knowledgeable and interesting guide who showed us the main sights as well as some off the beaten track. He was able to answer all our questions. The gondola ride afterwards was pleasant and enjoyable.
You go around a block 14 of the route is in a rough water way and told to sit still because if you move the boat will rock even in the other calmer canals.
Georgia was very knowledgeable. Gandola ride was fun. Lots of hidden secrets. Not sure what else to put here...
The walking tour was great with Paula. Enjoyed the quieter side of Venice.
The gondola ride was disappointing. The gondoliers assisting with entering and exiting the gondola acted like we were an inconvenience. I would hire a private gondola ride if I was to do it again.
Walking tour was interesting but gondola ride exceeded expectations. We expected to ride to be short with the reasonable price but it was about 20 mins and the best part of the tour
A great tour of the San Marco area of Venice. Our guide was attentive to the group, especially since it was a very hot day. There were brief parts of the tour that it was hard to hear, but overall a good experience.
The guide was funny and made the tour so amusing. And it included a nice gondola ride which was a great treat. I would highly recommend him and this tour
Poorly organized, tour started late and ran longer than stated. It was a group gondola ride which we didn’t get to take due to organization and things going longer than what was expected.
Great tour of venice, I enjoyed learning about the history and what the various buildings were used for.
Great tour, we would have been lost without guide. Very interesting info, but too much talk about celebrities that have visited Venice
Gondola ride was GREAT, longer than I thought it would be. Only drawback was the transition from walking tour to gondola was a little unorganized.
well informed tour guide gondola ride was awesome, could have had a stop for a drink of wine or something
A short fun look at the smaller streets and history of Venice. Followed by a gondola ride. We had a wonderful tour guide!
A fantastic walking tour, Marina was very knowledgeable, engaging humour, kept a good pace but it didn't feel rushed.
This was so cute. It was a little bit busy on the water but for the price and the experience, it was charming and we’re happy to have done it!
Very informative. You get to go further inside the city that you would not know. The Hondola ride was good too
Overall a good city walking tour which will give you an impressive overview of Venice and its many nooks and crannies. The Gondola ride (obviously) was wonderful. Only honest feedback is, the overall pace could be a little slower especially for first timers to grasp the essence.
Thank you very much Sara. We had a wonderful day with you showing us your beautiful city. Sara was very engaging and informative. She made the tour accessible for adults and children alike. We highly recommend Sara and her tour.
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