Legendary Venice St. Mark's Basilica with Terrace Access & Doge's Palace

Our guide was excellent. He provided great insight to the history and life of Venice with an extra touch of humor. He was very accommodating for pictures and allowed for time to soak in the tour. Great way to see Venice- highly recommend it!

Exellent guide with much knowledge and details. Smal group, leaving on the hour. Audio foreseen so everybody can hear the guide at all times

Tour was great! Our guide was fantastic and very knowledgeable. I would highly recommend to friends and family!

Susan was a wonderful guide, her many years in the city and her interest in it was very evident, cannot recommend enough.

Our guide Susan was vibrant and engaging as she provided context for what we were viewing throughout the tour. Her enthusiasm channeled a positive experience for all.

The tour was spectacular. We did the 3 hour tour, but it felt more like 30 minutes with Susan. She is clearly very well studied in Venetian history and it shows throughout her tour. We were lucky to have gone during a slow season as both the Basilica and Doge’s palace were nearly empty and it felt like a private tour.

The tour was very good, our tour guide was excellent taking her time to explain, perfect English, experiencing such a wonderful place and having a guide to detail explain everything was genuinely brilliant would recommend.

Susan was a fabulous, thorough and entertaining tour guide. Beautiful and rich history. Even my 14-yr-old son enjoyed it!

Susan was our guide. She has raised in Venice for 25 years and teaches art history. Couldn't have asked for a better experience.

Loved the attention to detail our guide gave, her knowledge of the history of Venice and the buildings was excellent

Highly recommend. Whole family agreed that this was one of the best parts of the trip as it gave a true sense of Venice and the history which helps as you walk around and discover it's layers beyond the tourism of today. Moses was a great tour guide and provided fantastic information specific to the tour of the church & palace but overall Venetian life throughout the various time periods. This tour also gives you access to some special areas for great photos & views. We were worried that 3 hours may be too long and get boring, this was certainly NOT the case.

Visiting St. Mark’s basilica, Very informative. The tour was wonderful and the guide’s English was excellent. Thank you Nicolette 🙂

Our Guide, Pamela, was excellent - very interesting and she has a lovely voice that is easy to listen to. Even though the tour is 3 hours, it did not feel that long. It was great skipping the lines also.

We had an amazing tour guide! Eleanor was incredibly knowledgeable, passionate and friendly. Our group ended up being overbooked, and we had a particularly difficult family touring with us, but Eleanor handled everything perfectly and was patient until the very end. Highly recommended!

Wow great! We had Pamela and she did a great job of explaining everything! Exactly as advertised. We did one day in Venice and this tour allowed us to see everything we needed to!

Our tour guide was wonderful, lots of great detail and very nice. The tour is 3 hours, and there is a very short break between doge’s palace (2 hours) and the basilica (about 50 minutes). Good chance to grab a coffee and sit for a moment. Our guide did a great job of engaging everyone (including our kids 9 & 12 years old) and kept us on time, too. Brava! They hand out a little receiver device and wired earphones so you can hear the tour guide as you go on the tour. The earphones aren’t great quality (and were too big for my kids), so if you have headphones with a wire that you like I’d recommend bringing them. Overall it was great - highly recommend!

Our guide was excellent! He was so amazingly knowledgeable and enthused about all aspects of the tour. The only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 is that it was quite long and was very tiring by the end…maybe a longer break for coffee (and sitting) before the tour of the Doge’s Palace wd help.

Skip the line tours are so worthwhile. We don’t have the patience or the stamina to stand in line for hours for anything. So we normally chose the small group skip the line options which allow for more tour time and immersion. You can also better enjoy the points of interests. Our guide was patient and informative. She provided enough information without letting it get boring.

It was a good tour. Instructions about getting a ticket ahead of time are wrong. We wasted a lot of time trying to find the place to get the tickets. Finally about time to go we saw tour guides show up. The address is correct and you meet the guide under the arch at the correr museum.

The guide was fantastic, knowledgeable and funny! Good coverage of St. Mark’s and the Doge Palace. Strongly recommend

Moses was a fantastic guide, he has much knowledge and shared it so well with us, adding a perfect amount of historical context to the buildings. I feel I know a lot about the history of Venice now and this really enriched my experience here.

Susan was very clearly spoken and easy to understand. She had a good knowledge of the subject and was quite witty at times.

The guide was enthusiastic and very knowledgeable. We learned a lot. I would recommend this for all ages.

Our tour guide, Nicolette was delightful! She shared great stories and much history with us! Touring these incredible buildings was educational…

Our tour was led by Pamela who was very engaging, well informed and communicated well. This was a very good way to experience 2 of Venice's outstanding treasures. There is so much to see in each of them that it's not possible to appreciate everything in each in one visit. A return is required! This tour also has the advantage of skipping the queue, which can be long.

The experience was awesome, Daniela our guide was informative but entertaining. I highly recommend this tour. Perfect timing with the sun shining on the domes of St Marks.

Marie Theresa is an amazing guide. She is funny, insightful and very knowledgeable of the city. It was amazing to see the world‘s best Basilica and to understand the story behind it and the whole city. Highly recommended tour to take when you are in Venice and ask for Marie Theresa, I am sure 3 hours seems very short time with her as our guide.

The depth of knowledge and enthusiasm Susan had was infectious. The total tour was 3 hours and she kept it alive the whole around. Totally recommend.

The guide was very knowledgeable but her Italian accent made it difficult to understand. If you’re an art lover, you’ll enjoy the explanations on all the paintings on the ceilings. Our “small group” was 16 people. Not what I expected.

The three hour tour was excellent. The basilica history and art are worth the tour alone. The Doge Palace and prison were fantastic. The Venetian history that the Palace represents was something we did not really know. Our guide Susan brought everything to life and was extremely knowledgeable. We were very fortunate to have her as our guide Note there is a great deal of walking and stairs on this tour. A couple of persons were able to get an elevator in the Palace thanks to the guide