Take a romantic evening cruise along Venice's canals aboard a modern Venetian boat. This evening tour by comfortable boat takes you along Venice's famous Grand Canal, and allows you to explore further than a traditional Venice gondola allows. You can choose to speed along for one or two hours with your very own boat and personal guide.
Posted By : Thomasd4444
Great experience of the grand canal with an amazing guide. She was very knowledgeable and interesting. It was a great way to go around the islands.
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Posted On : 2024-06-22 20:02:44 
Posted By : Astrid_R
Basically you are on a private taxi boat, mostly going through the Grand Canal, some side canals and in the open lagoon.
The windows of the boat are dirty from the waterspray and don't get cleaned before the next tour starts.
So taking photos or really seeing the sights is obscured.
For the most part, the tour guide explained the history of Venice rather than explaining what we were driving past.
A conversation better held over a dinner and not an expensive boat ride.
So overall we were not impressed.
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Posted On : 2024-06-15 06:11:45 
Posted By : Patricia R
Unfortunately it rained and the experience was not pleasant, we could not see anything because the windows of the boat fogged up, they should allow cancellation when the weather is not suitable due to rain, additionally the guide was sick twisting, sneezing in such a closed place, which generated unease In the group, he also provided little information so we had to ask him a lot of questions to try to make the visit more lively because in the rain, not being able to see anything was very boring… 2 super long hours
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Posted On : 2023-12-01 17:14:09
Posted By : Whitney_M
The tour was and boat were nice but we had issues finding our meeting location. Viator had listed two meeting locations and our location tour guide had a third meeting location so we had a late and unfortunate start to our trip as it was frustrating and changed the energy of our experience. They did provide 15 minutes at the end to help rectify but it was not the full luxury experience I had hoped for.
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Posted On : 2023-10-24 20:13:35
Posted By : Susan_M
Our guide was very knowledgeable and the tour was nice. My suggestion would be to have a separate (uncrowded meeting place). One of the biggest problems is that their meeting place was significantly crowded. It is difficult to find and once you find the place, there were 2 separate windows bearing the company name who had no idea what tour we were on and could not help with the Viator Voucher? After going back and forth in lines for almost an hour and tour guide "popped up out of nowhere" in the crowded area saying we're ready to go. This could have all been avoided with more clarification and a less crowded meeting place. After we met, the tour was good.
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Posted On : 2023-10-15 13:43:56
Posted By : Kevin_G
What a great way to see Venice, the Grand Canal and other points of interest in Venice! Our tour guide lady was awesome, so so nice, fun to talk too, her knowledge and history of Venice was great and endless! What a great way to see Venice by water taxi, private is the way to go. A little expensive it is, but a great way to go if you can! I enjoyed the tour from beginning to end! Thanks to our tour guide, she was great!
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Posted On : 2023-09-26 16:45:36
Posted By : Chris Z
Our tour guide and boat captain were both excellent. Both had great personalities and both are locals who are very knowledgeable about the area. You’ll see much more on this boat than you would on a gondola. I highly recommend!
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Posted On : 2023-08-15 15:47:54
Posted By : sstahel
Outstanding tour!! Our guide, Giulia, was AMAZING!! HER knowledge of the history and cultural elements of Venice were well communicated. The boat was very comfortable, clean, and very nice. We would tour with both Giulia and our driver again. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!! She also gave us a terrific dinner recommendation. Ask her!!
One note: there can be some confusion with the voucher redemption process. Use the booth to the left of the ferry dock, not the one on the dock. Be sure to reinforce that your tour is private!!!!!
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Posted On : 2023-08-14 13:04:02
Posted By : Anna_H
We cancelled this tour, but somehow the tour company managed to still charge us! It's very bad, as the price for this 'trip' is $580 for 1 hour, yet the price for a private 5 hour boat in Venice is $610!
No one would ever book this tour for that kind of money.
We are hoping to get a full refund given we cancelled it, and never went on the tour
Buyer beware- do NOT even think about booking this tour.
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Posted On : 2023-07-20 10:13:15
Posted By : Warren_H
Lara was a great tour guide. Punctual and kind. The boat and captain were perfect, private, and clean. The evening started great with good weather. We chose to even disembark in an area near Nick’s Gelatorria which has some of the best gelato on the isle. However, a storm came in fast and the rest of the tour was quite rushed. It wasn’t the fault of Lara or the company. My daughter really couldn’t hear anything Lara was saying, especially with the loud boat engine. A com system that most tour ciompanies use would have been more helpful. Anyway, a great evening overall as dusk approached this beautiful city. But I only gave 3 stars because we were simply left wanting at the end. Not great value at nearly $800 USD for what we experienced. But a solid 3-4 stars and probably would have been 4-5 if weather held great. Thanks Lara for the experience, and seriously consider a coms unit for guests in the boat so everything can be heard clearly no matter wear we are sitting.
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Posted On : 2023-06-11 12:50:01
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