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Venice Icons: St. Mark’s Basilica & Doge’s Palace Skip-the-Line Guided Tour

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  • United States
  • France
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  • Switzerland
  • Belgium
  • Canada
  • Spain
  • Australia
  • Germany
  • Mexico
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Richard Daniell

Richard

5/5

Apr, 2024

First class tour, our guide Monica (aka the mask of Zorro) was amazing, made the tour very interesting and engaging, she asked lots of questions of us instead of just preaching the usual. Highly recommend
Dalen Mickael

Dalen

4/5

Apr, 2024

A decent guide, but nothing more. But I guess it depends on who you come across... The sites are great! Attention, the meeting point is not correct, you have to go to the Venice Tours agency at "Campo San Gallo" and not to this famous wooden hut where we waited 20 minutes and had to join the group by express after having understood that it was not the right meeting point, a little stress but in the end the visit went well.
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Carolin Vietz

Carolin

5/5

Apr, 2024

Nice short guided tour in Venice with quick access to the most important sights and lots of interesting information. Booked at short notice and worked wonderfully.
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Ashley Fielding

Ashley

5/5

Mar, 2024

We had a fantastic tour guide who was very proficient in english and had lots of knowledge of the Basilica and Doges Palace.
Howard Baxter

Howard

4/5

Mar, 2024

The sights were absolutely amazing as was understanding the history However the guide was quite difficult to understand and spoke very quickly. He was very knowledgable which was great but it wa a bit information overload.
REMAUDIERE STEPHANE

Remaudiere

3/5

Feb, 2024

The tour lasts 2h30 instead of 3h. We could have spent more time in the basilica. We didn't even get close to St. Mark's tomb. The visit to the Doges' Palace: too quick too.
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Clyde George

Clyde

5/5

Feb, 2024

Doge's palace was amazing and especially loved the tour of the prison and explenation of the "bridge of sighs". Our guide was excellent.
PEREZ FRANK LIONEL GUILLAUME

Perez

5/5

Feb, 2024

It was a wonderful experience in sumptuous sites. Our Venician guide took us on a wonderful journey through time. I recommend this guided tour.
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Gammad Julius Glenn Gaspar

Gammad

5/5

Jan, 2024

Coming in as a tourist in Singapore - Monica was informative in touring us around Doge's Palace and San Marco Basilica. Worth doing this tour.
Christina M Graham

Christina

5/5

Dec, 2023

Our guide was fantastic! I don't think we would've enjoyed it nearly as much had we not done a tour. Would definitely do another tour again!
Claude Douard

Claude

5/5

Dec, 2023

Our guide Monica Z was fantastic, she is so knowledgeable and pleasant. We really learned a lot and had would definitely recommend it to our friends and family.
Morosan Bogdan-Constantin

Morosan

5/5

Dec, 2023

The objectives are impressive enough themselves but Rita, our guide, made it all worth it even more with all the historical context she provided in a funny manner. Meeting point was easy to find even though gps sometimes doesn't work great in venice. For acces to museo correr make sure you ask your guide for the tickets.
Lori Susan Sturges

Lori

5/5

Nov, 2023

This was a great tour that I did not research much prior to going so I learned so much from our tour guide Robbie. She was knowledgeable and witty and made the tour special. She was also happy to recommend restaurants to try out and we really enjoyed her recommendation.
SHELY HATUINA

Shely

5/5

Nov, 2023

Our tour guide Matias is so good. He shared lots of info and story behind the paintings and arts inside both Doge’s palace and St Marco Milano Cathedral.
TROSSET-MOREAU Aurore

Trosset-moreau

4/5

Nov, 2023

very good guided tour of the docges and St Mark's Cathedral: a very good combination with very interesting explanations!
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Floriane REBROIN

Floriane

4/5

Nov, 2023

Super guide with very good information in very good French. We had booked the mid-afternoon tour, so we had access to the Corer museum the next morning, which was great.
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Danielle Terry

Danielle

5/5

Oct, 2023

Skipped the queues with no Problem. Guide was very knowledgeable and although it was very busy and the group quite large managed to keep us all together and informed. Pointed out some really interesting stuff that we wouldn't have seen or known without her. Very enjoyable experience
Carla Suzanne Kunzman

Carla

5/5

Oct, 2023

We had a wonderful time on our tour! The guide was so informative and engaging. We could tell he really knew what he was talking about and enjoyed sharing his knowledge with others. Our tour started early and so there were very few people at Doge's Palace. It was amazing!
Günter Waldow

Günter

5/5

Oct, 2023

With excellent background knowledge, our guide Erica painted an impressive picture of the past of these two monuments!
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Renee Wisniewski

Renee

3/5

Oct, 2023

The aspects of the sites visited were good. The very necessary headsets weren't very good and combined with high levels of ambient noise and a guide with a very heavy accent, much of the information expressed was unintelligible. Tour went through smaller stone hallways where the listening device didn't work at all. Be aware - This tour also involves a lot of high steps (up and down), some of which have been significantly degraded.
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