Venice: Doge's Palace Ticket & Guided Tour + St. Mark's Area Tour | La Vacanza Travel

Venice: Doge's Palace Ticket & Guided Tour + St. Mark's Area Tour

Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
Destination: Italy, Veneto, Venice
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  • 2 hours 30 minutes
  • Venice
  • E-Voucher
  • Lowest Price
  • Not-Cancellable

Overview

Visit the magnificent Doge’s Palace in Venice, enjoy the skip-the-line entrance and enter inside the Palace accompanied by a qualified guide. The skip-the-line ticket for a self-guided tour of the palaces around Saint Mark’s Square is also included (Correr Museum, National Archaeological Museum, and Monumental Rooms of Marciana National Library). After the guided tour, you can wander through the maze of alleys and get to know some hidden gems using our fingertip digital map. Use your mobile phone to find out more than 200 points of interests.
• 2.5-hour Doge’s Palace and Saint Mark’s Square Museums skip-the-line tour in Venice
• Admire the architectural wonders of Saint Mark’s Square on a guided walking tour
• Enjoy skip-the-line entrance to Doge’s Palace and see the famous Bridge of Sighs
• Gain access to the palaces around St. Mark’s Square with a special museum pass
• Ideal introduction to Venice for first-time visitors or those short on time

What Can You Expect?

Visit: Piazza San Marco, 31024 Venice Italy

Here is the route: Piazza San Marco - Origin, history, and description of the main monuments: Basilica San Marco, Palazzo Ducale, Bell Tower, Clock Tower and Procuratie, Santa Maria Formosa - History and anecdotes relating to this wonderful and characteristic square. Campo SS. Giovanni e Paolo - The "Pantheon" of Venice, the Great School of Charity, the captains of fortune. Marco Polo’s House and Malibran Theatre - Anecdotes and past and recent history cross each other in this beautiful corner of Venice. Return to San Marco through the Mercerie, a vital connection between Rialto and San Marco and the city’s main shopping street


Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Pass By: Ponte di Rialto, Ruga degli Orefici (Rialto) San Polo, 30125 Venice Italy

Return to San Marco through the Mercerie, a vital connection between Rialto and San Marco and the city’s main shopping street


Visit: Doge's Palace, Piazza San Marco, 1, 30124 Venice Italy

You will visit the Palazzo Ducale, which has been for centuries the seat of the Venetian political power. In his splendid rooms, plastered and immersed in hundreds of paintings masterpieces, the duke and his council controlled the fate of a thousand-year old republic. You’ll live it together with a qualified and experienced guide who will show you the halls of power, plunging you into a very special historical context: the European Middle Ages and the immediate-following centuries. You’ll be surprised at the rich details of the gold staircase, at the realism of the scenes depicted by many artists who have decorated this building. You will relive the anguish of the prisoners crossing the famous Bridge of Sighs, and enter the Venetian prisons, famous for hosting Giacomo Casanova. The ticket for the palace is included in the tour price, and it will allow you to enter without waiting.

After the visit of the Doge's Palace you will have the opportunity to visit a Glass Factory close to Saint Mark’s Square where you can see a Glass Craftsman at work. Please note this is a free of charge optional tour of approximately 20 minutes and it is not a part of the tour.

Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes

Pass By: Museo Correr, Piazza San Marco San Marco 52, 30124 Venice Italy

You may visit the other magnificent palaces around St. Mark’s Square with the same ticket by yourself (Museo Correr, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, and Monumental Rooms of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana). You will discover the way of life for the Venetians with paintings, libraries, coinage, and sculpture. You can also visit the area built by Napoleon and the rooms restored for Sissi, the Empress of Austria.


Pass By: Ponte di Rialto, Ruga degli Orefici (Rialto) San Polo, 30125 Venice Italy

Enjoy the Audio guide with digital map to discover the 5 districts of Venice with their best attractions and squares, day or night, on a self-guided tour. Listen to the automatic audio narration of the city’s highlights, with more than 200 points of interest!

Inclusions & Exclusions

Inclusions
  • Walking tour of historical center with commentary by a qualified and experienced guide
  • Audio-receiver devices are included in case of groups over 10 people
  • Guided Tour of Doge's Palace - Skip the line entrance
  • Skip the line ticket for Museum Correr to visit by your self
  • Mobile audio guide for a self-guided tour of the 5 districts of Venice
  • Guaranteed to skip the lines
  • Entry/Admission - Doge's Palace

Exclusions
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off

Additional Info

  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Near public transportation
  • Not recommended for travelers with back problems
  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
  • No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
  • Most travelers can participate
  • Tour does not operate in case of exceptional high tide (in these cases it can be postponed the days after; otherwise, it will be refunded)
  • For security reasons sacks, bags, or knapsacks are not allowed inside the Doges’ Palace. Free deposit inside.
  • You must download the audio guide with digital map on your mobile phone.
  • You will receive the audio guide with digital map by e-mail. If you have any problems with this, please come to Venice Tours office (San Marco 1130) for assistance.
  • ATTENTION: the walking tour is at 9:00 AM, the visit to the Doge's Palace is at 11:45 AM. Please consider the gap of time between the walking tour and the Doge's Palace.
  • On certain dates, most travelers staying outside of Venice who are planning to visit for the day will be required to pay a €5 access fee. For further details (including exemptions) and to learn what days this fee is applicable, please visit: https://cda.ve.it
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 10 travelers
  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking

Departure Point

Departure Point

Calle larga de l'Ascension, 30124 Venezia VE, Italy


Departure Time

09:00 AM


Return Details

Returns to original departure point

Duration & Voucher Info

Voucher info

You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.

Duration

2 hours 30 minutes

Cancellation Policy

User's Reviews

Jennifer_A

02 Oct, 2023

History of the St Marks. The commentary of the guide was wonderful and educational. Was thankful for the short breaks. Only downside, the title inferred your of the Bascilica and Doges Palace. It didn’t say there was an hour walking tour first. We weren’t able to see St Marks because was described wrong.

Kellie_F

13 Jun, 2023

Our guide was amazing. She was knowledgeable, kind, and funny. We were so happy we got her for both parts of our tour.

Christopher_J

04 Mar, 2023

This was so disappointing. The tour seems straightforward enough. Starts at 9am, lasts 2.5 hours. This was my first La Vacanza Travel tour of a long trip. I signed up for this with plans to have lunch afterwards with a friend and go on a more substantial private tour in the early afternoon. I didn’t review details until I was headed to Venice exactly 24 hours before. At about the 23.5 hour before mark, while studying deeply-buried details at the airport in Germany, I discovered that this tour has a large gap in its timing. You walk for an hour at 9am, then are on your own doing…whatever…until the tour resumes at 11:45, going for another hour or more, presumably. So a 2.5 hour tour takes up half of a day. How ridiculous! So I messaged the operator, literally 23.5 hours before the tour, telling them I could not cancel my lunch plans and other later tour, all of which kicked off at 12:30. And their answer: it’s less than 24 hours before the tour, nothing can be done. Are you kidding me? At 23.5 hours before? You won’t extend to me this courtesy because of your foolishness? Well, I learned my lesson about these tours, and was much more careful to scrutinize the details of the future ones. But buyer beware! There are so many tour options for Venice - I’d use someone else.

O6855BJheathera

15 Oct, 2022

Venice Tours Srl- tour of Doges Palace and St. Marks - what a scam! This was the worst tour we have ever been on. This tour was not as described or as we paid for. We arrived at the appointed meeting place at 10:15 for a 3 hour tour and were met by a Venice Tours Srl gondola guide who showed us two cheesy VR images and then took us to a different location and a different tour company where we WAITED until close to 11:30. We paid for a small group tour - 20 or under - and our group was at least 23 people. The tour guide was terrible, he mumbled and was very hard to understand. He did not know where he was going and took us to the wrong line at the Palace where we waited until a Palace employee showed him where to take us for skip the line. The tour was only 2 hours long (the third hour was the wait!). After the tour I went back to the Venice Tours office where the staff gave me the run around and said to send an email explaining the situation. I wrote two emails and never heard back from Venice Tours. I feel this was a scam and I would NOT recommend using this tour company.

Michelle_P

05 Oct, 2022

Very informative guide. Dodge palace is spectacular learned alot during our trip! Lots of walking, but so worth every penny

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Doge’s palace tour great, landmarks tour just ok

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