Venice Half-Day Guided Tour with Gondola Ride

We had a ton of trouble finding the office to meet our guide. Google maps wasn't working well and we just kept going in circles around St Mark's Square. We asked military, regular police, and other shop owners for help but ended up finding the office 30 minutes after our tour departed for the Basilica. Thankfully, we were able to catch up to our party in the Basilica. For whatever reason, when going through the Doge Palace, those of us who were going on the gondola ride, had to leave the group and return on our own later to see the rest of the tour. The timing seemed to be too tight. The guide was great, but the timing was just off for the whole day. When we went on the gondola, the gondolier spent the whole time yelling at the other gondoliers and joking with them. It was like a bad Disneyland ride. We were one gondola after another just making a circle back to the meeting point. I think the only thing that was pointed out to us was where Mozart had stayed.

Arianna was the BEST tour guide I have ever had. Thank you soo much for making Venice such an amazing experience for my wife and I - this was the highlight of our honeymoon.

The Tour Guy was the company we should have booked with - avoid Headout (a broker). The website on mobile when I booked put the wrong date - the Crowdsite glitch also happened and the site booked the tour time+day AFTER it already happened! HEADOUT REFUSED TO CHANGE IT! Luckily THE TOUR GUY CHANGED IT. AVOID HEADOUT. As for the tour, Venice is such a unique, magical place. Our guide was a lovely local Venetian, a professor-like lady and had tons of information - she was kind and very considerate. She gave us the basics of all we needed to know. I think we might have preferred a guide with more stories and less facts and who was a little more fluent in English - it was often hard to understand everything. Also, try avoid Italy in the summer, the heat is unbearable and we underestimated this. Bring lots of water and a fan or spray mist bottle. Crazy heat! Climate change not doing places like Rome and Venice any favours! The overall experience was the best it could've been, it was good.

Our guide, Marina, was excellent and had so many interesting stories about Venice and its wonderful history, art, and architecture. Her knowledge was absolutely amazing. We greatly enjoyed the experience.

Really enjoyed the tour and liked our tour Guido Gloria

Everything was about as expected, so everything was ok

First of all, I expected to go, Murano Bruno because it was written on website, but when we go to türe, they said to us Bruno is not included and we said please ask they said to us where did you buy your ticket? We said we bought the tickets on Headout. They said to us head out sometimes doing like these things something like this. Be assumed to include Basilica, cultures,, Palace and Murano Bruno tour, I paid €140 for two most of the people paid just €100 for the Tour. I paid this price for included inclusion criteria but it was not met. And I paid much more and it was a time consuming, unfortunately. I request to be adjusted mistake.

We really enjoyed the tour. Nico, our guide, was awesome. He had deep knowledge of backgrounds and explained everything very well. Basilica and Palazzo were very impressive. The gondola a fun bonus and a must in Venice anyway.

The activities and tour guide helped me experience Venice very effectively