St. Mark’s Basilica & Doge’s Palace Half-Day Tour with Gondola Ride
Free CancellationSkip the Line
Explore St. Mark's Square's most iconic attractions with skip-the-line tickets and an expert guide
4.95
(422)
3.5h
Max 20 Guests
+5
The excitement of planning a visit to Venice can become a challenge due to crowds and long waits. Our expert guides grant you privileged entrance, allowing you to skip the lines at St. Mark’s Basilica and the Doge’s Palace. Next, it's time to relax as your guide will then lead you to the serene waters of the Grand Canal on a classic gondola ride, capturing the essence of this enchanting city in just a few hours. Without the hassle, our guides get you where you need to be with time to spare.
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Skip the line tickets
Passionate English-speaking guide
Gondola Ride
St. Mark's Basilica
Doge's Palace
Bridge of Sighs
Wheelchair accessible
Meet your guide at St. Mark's Square
St. Mark Basilica
Doge's Palace
Grand Ballroom
Golden Staircase
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GUO YEIN LEE
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December 02, 2024 05 am EST
Great time
Joshua mckenna
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November 29, 2024 01 am EST
Guide was engaging and knowledgeable, took us all around doges place and st marks basilica. The gondola ride was the highlight and a lot of fun! Recommend!
Outstanding Venice highlights tour
Kay Starnes
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November 27, 2024 01 am EST
We thoroughly enjoyed our tour of St Mark's Basilica and Doge's Palace. Our guide was very very knowledgeable and did an outstanding job making sure we understood all of the key highlights of both the Basilica and the Palace. He painted a vivid picture of Doge's Palace in each area of the palace so we felt as though we were there during those times ourselves.
Our gondola ride was wonderful despite the cold weather. Our guide was also very knowledgeable and shared interesting facts along our ride.
Wonderful morning in Venice
Jason Gilbert
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November 24, 2024 13 pm EST
We toured the Doge’s Palace and Basilica on a Saturday morning in November and it was fantastic. The palace was very uncrowded so it was easy to take in the beauty and grandure of the spaces. The basilica was a little more crowded but not unbearable. And to follow this with a wonderful and peaceful gondola ride was perfect. The only thing I would have like different would be a little free time in the basilica to really take it all in. Otherwise it was another great tour from this company.
Great experience
Hina Mahmood
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November 23, 2024 15 pm EST
Natalia was a great tourguide and infused humor and fun into the tour. I really enjoyed the experience and learned a lot.
Great tour!
Heather Weir
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November 19, 2024 16 pm EST
Nataliya was a fantastic tour guide. She is very knowledgeable about the history of Venice. We really enjoyed the tour!
Excellent tour!!
JoAnn Racino
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November 19, 2024 11 am EST
We loved this tour & our guide. She was full of information & humorous. The gondola ride was amazing & was a bucket list item for us.
Second half was better than the first
Melissa Jackson Holloway
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November 18, 2024 17 pm EST
As a first time visitor to Venice, I was excited to try to see as many things as I could during my short trip. I signed up for your tour to get a taste of both worlds with trips to the two near islands as well as the key sites in the Venice area. I was a bit disappointed in the Marano and Verano boat tours as they literally seem to be tours to go shopping. We saw a very short glass demonstration and then were lead straight into the gift shop with limited time to actually see or learn much about the rest of the island. The same thing happened in Burano, where we were unable to see a demonstration, which was the most important part of that visit. Again, we were able to visit some of the local shops, but because of the early tour in November many were just opening. The tour guy was lackluster once on ground but grave great information during the boat ride to both islands. Now the second half of the tour was fantastic. I believe our tour guides name was Natalia. She was absolutely fantastic and reminded me a bit of a history teacher, although she provided the information in a much more interesting fashion. I was really swept into her descriptions of much of the art that we were saying within the Doge and Saint Mark‘s Basilica. She swept me away from current day Venice into a time when all of this was originally built. She actually had props in a book that showed us with early Venice looked like. I really wish given the time of year that the tour would’ve been flipped with a visit to the doge in Saint Marks in the a.m. and the islands in the afternoon.
Five stars tour
Maria Taylor
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November 09, 2024 16 pm EST
Felippo our tour guide was very good and knowledgeable he kept us engaged the whole time…the whole team that met us from finish to end was very professional and organized very impressive tour company.
Ian St John
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November 07, 2024 20 pm EST
Tour guide was great.
John Greco
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November 07, 2024 20 pm EST
LYNNE AUGER
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November 07, 2024 13 pm EST
Marco was an excellent guide! Enjoyed every minute. Appreciated the knowledge shared and the local perspective.
Pam Hennesy
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November 05, 2024 18 pm EST
Priscilla Rogan
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October 30, 2024 15 pm EST
A Must
Jose Torres
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October 19, 2024 19 pm EST
Cloudy slightly rainy day.
This is a great tour which I highly recommend
We used the The Tour Guy before in Rome and as always they deliver.
The guide was extremely knowledgeable and informative.
Small group 13 people which made it much better than those large group.
The tour ended with a 30 minute gondola ride which was a max of 5 people per gondola and we were lucky enough to be just the two of us. Although the gondola ride was during rain it was an experience that will stay with me.
Sharon Meirose
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October 19, 2024 10 am EST
Tom and Shannon Bowman
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October 17, 2024 06 am EST
Beautifully Done Tour by Marco
Pauline Wood
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October 13, 2024 07 am EST
Marco’s depth of knowledge was amazing. He was very accommodating to everyone’s needs and had a great personality. He expertly guided us through the complicated history of this iconic place.
Jerry Angelo
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October 12, 2024 05 am EST
St Mark’s Basilica & Doge Palace
Mary Katherine Copeland
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October 06, 2024 13 pm EST
Marco was wonderful, funny & knowledgeable—-thanks for the tour
Fantastic tour with a great guide despite the weather and gondola cancellation
Hardeep Gill
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October 05, 2024 11 am EST
We had a wonderful tour with an excellent tour guide (Tulia) for St Mark’s Basillica and the Doge Palace. Tulia had an immense amount of knowledge and information to share with the group and it was very entertaining. I would certainly suggest going on this tour for these points of attraction alone. Unfortunately due to the weather and local flooding the gondola ride needed to be cancelled. While this was out of anyone’s control we were told by the local organizer that we would be refunded a certain portion of the tour fee because of this - a lesser amount was offered by those working higher up in the company operations (20 EUR vs 18 EUR).
Barbara McClellan
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October 05, 2024 04 am EST
Mark Turner
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October 04, 2024 09 am EST
Natalia was wonderful! Great tour!
Gayle Quick
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October 03, 2024 13 pm EST
We did tour of St Marks Basilica and the Doge Palace, crossed the Bridge of Sighs into the prison and finished off with a thirty minute gondola ride. Natalia was our guide. She was funny and very knowledgeable. She tried to get everyone’s name down and made us feel welcome in Italy. By the end of the tour she had used each of our names or nicknames, showed us her love of Italian art and history. Thanks Natalia!! Great time touring with you!
Doris Andres
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October 03, 2024 11 am EST
This tour was very interesting and informative. Although the basilica and Palace are magnificent, it wouldn't have been nearly as meaningful without a guide
Our guide, Martina did an awesome job, it was a fairly long tour, she kept it entertaining and informative.