St. Mark’s Basilica & Doge’s Palace Half-Day Tour with Gondola Ride

Beautiful views and a wealth of knowledge

Our tour guide was a wealth of information and it felt like we were on a private tour. Check in was easy and the tour stayed on time. At the end the gondola ride was breath taking as they take you through the city. It was so peaceful. A great way to recharge.

Great time

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

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

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

Natalia was a great tourguide and infused humor and fun into the tour. I really enjoyed the experience and learned a lot.

Great tour!

Nataliya was a fantastic tour guide. She is very knowledgeable about the history of Venice. We really enjoyed the tour!

Excellent tour!!

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

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

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.

Tour guide was great.

Marco was an excellent guide! Enjoyed every minute. Appreciated the knowledge shared and the local perspective.

A Must

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.