Explore some of the smaller, secret Venetian canals by motorboat on a 2-hour cruise, and discover the neighborhoods of Cannaregio, the Jewish Ghetto and Dorsoduro as well as the Grand Canal, too! While hearing anecdotes and history about the enchanting city from an onboard guide, look out for sights such as the Arsenale shipyard alongside intriguing lesser-known landmarks. See craftsmen at work at a gondola boat workshop, and then finish the cruise on a high note with a jaunt along the glamorous Grand Canal and underneath Rialto Bridge.
Posted By : Cassie_C
Our first tour of the trip! After landing in Venice all the way from the states, we were so grateful for this relaxing orientation to venice. We got so much information and understand the city better!
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Posted On : 2023-09-30 03:04:14 
Posted By : Patricia_B
Tour was in a taxi and not in a wooden boat like the photos. Taxi was old and run down. Tour guide talked badly about “tourists” and the way they shop. His knowledge about the history was limited. We found ourselves correcting him several times. One strange thing was he kept asking us to leave our belongings (purse and backpack) on the taxi when we got off. Felt sketchy. Tour guide left us in the shopping district and not back where we started like it said. It was a 40 minute walk back. We mentioned we wanted to go back and he ignored us. Just awful experience. This was our 4th Viator tour this trip. The others were great.
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Posted On : 2023-05-30 11:19:30
Posted By : Anant G
This was a great tour of some of the less touristy parts of Venice. It's divided up into the boat portion of the tour and the walking portion of the tour, that is mostly in the Jewish Ghetto. All the locations that were picked out were interesting and our guide did a good job of relaying information to us.
The one issue we had was that in the boat portion of the tour, we were sitting outside in the back of the boat and weren't able to hear the guide who was sitting in the front.
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Posted On : 2022-09-29 17:54:00 
Posted By : Jeff_S
There were 8 of us on this cruise and the boat used only had seating for 3 to 4 outside the cabin. Those seated inside the cabin really couldn't see what the tour guide was discussing/telling us to look at.
A boat without the cabin should have been utilized
Also, really not so many secret canals as the tour was titled, they were just canals that most tourists would not see since they were mostly away from the main tourist locations
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Posted On : 2022-08-29 12:17:40
Posted By : Greg_B
The tour guide was very knowledgeable and spoke wonderful English. She took us to all the main attractions and then some, thank you
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Posted On : 2022-07-07 05:31:54
Posted By : Ellen_M
This was an excellent tour and I wholeheartedly recommend it!
Georgia was our guide and she was superb. She gave lots of history and background on the city and the buildings. One of the highlights was our stop at the Jewish ghetto where we spent a significant time learning about how it came about and how it has transformed over the years.
This was such a great introduction to our visit to the city!
The driver was great and the boat was excellent and smooth. Perfect trip!
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Posted On : 2022-05-21 14:43:59
Posted By : Paul_N
Lovely to travel all around Venice in boat with guide.
Couldn’t quite hear all commentary from back, but a lovely couple hours
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Posted On : 2022-05-01 05:10:26
Posted By : Dustin_B
The tour was amazing and just what we were looking for. Nice chance to explore outside of city center and check out other areas. Our tour guide was knowledgeable and extremely friendly. Shared tour but ended up being private as noone else was on the boat. 10/10!
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Posted On : 2021-08-29 03:46:55
Posted By : TimWandMelG
We very much enjoyed our Venice Canal Cruise: 2-Hour Grand Canal and Secret Canals Small Group Tour by Boat organized tour in September 2019. The instructions were sent to us well in advance i.e. the departure point was St. Mark's Square Royal Gardens, Piazza San Marco and they provided detailed directions telling us to arrive at the meeting point at least 10 mins prior to departure which, having read some of the TripAdvisor feedback from other customers, we made sure we did. Even so it was still quite a hassle finding the tour guide via multiple cellphone calls as there is more than one entrance to the Gardens and the instructions despite being detailed were not specific. However, we met the guide and the other couple we were riding with and soon set off. The plus of this tour was the guide who was completely professional and friendly and super-knowledgable. Also seeing the neighborhoods outside of the main tourist area around San Marco such as Dorsoduro, Cannaregio, and the Jewish Ghetto, were much appreciated. We toured multiple small canals, cruised around the Arsenal, and at the end went out onto the Grand Canal before ending the journey floating beneath the Rialto Bridge and back to the start. Our guide never stopped imparting information and knowledge the whole time. He was wonderful. Here’s the thing though - only about half the tour was on a boat! After the first 30 mins we disembarked for a walking tour through the Jewish Quarter. Don’t get me wrong, this was interesting, seeing the Jewish buildings and especially the holocaust memorial, but the point is this was never mentioned before the trip. In any literature. If you book a 2-Hour Grand Canal and Secret Canals Tour shouldn’t the canals tour take two hours? And if it doesn’t, shouldn’t the tour be called a one hour boat tour/one hour walking tour?
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Posted On : 2020-03-16 21:43:45
Posted By : paulmY4688OB
Booked well in advance and was really looking forward to this cruise but they cancelled it 2 days before as they were 2 people short of the minimum number of 5. Whilst I understand and offered to pay for another empty place they just cancelled it and it did leave us with selecting other trips at short notice
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Posted On : 2019-11-01 08:27:31
