Venice Day Trip from Milan with Guided City Tour
Description
Visit the breathtaking city of Venice on an action-packed day trip from Milan, and see the city’s top sights with a local guide! On a walking tour, discover must-see Venetian landmarks such as St Mark’s Basilica, Doge’s Palace and Rialto Bridge, while learning about their history. After wandering through St Mark’s Square and alongside the Grand Canal, visit a prestigious glass-making workshop to see a demonstration by a local craftsperson. Before returning to Milan, enjoy a 30-minute gondola ride at your own expense or simply enjoy some free time.
Tour Options
Itinerary
Depart by bus from Milan to Venice, with a short rest stop along the way.
Upon arrival in Venice, discover the beauty and charm of the city with its gondolas, exotic architecture and puzzling canals. On this day trip, Venice is yours to discover by boat and on foot. While in Venice you'll enjoy a boat trip across the Venice lagoon.
Take a two-hour guided walking tour where you will uncover the most significant buildings and monuments, untying the labyrinth of canals and narrow alleys until you arrive at the magnificent St. Mark's Square. Free lunch and enjoy some free time to explore the area.
Admire the breathtaking view from Rialto Bridge, one of the oldest bridges spanning the Grand Canal.
It’s time to go home! Enjoy a comfortable bus ride to Milan, with a quick rest stop.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
Hotel pick-up is available only from selected hotels. If your hotel is not listed, please make your own way to one of the designated meeting points. Important: for the hotel pick-up option, pick-up time starts from 06:00. Guests must be at their hotel lobby at this time, as the bus collects guests from multiple hotels.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Please note: this tour does not include gondola ride
- Please arrive at the meeting point 15 minute before departure time
- The tour in english is always guaranteed
- Spanish language is not guaranteed every day
Reviews(387)
Great trip and knowledgeble guide, despite he is not super friendly, but OK. Nice weather, so the day was very good!
Dear Roberto, thank you so much for your kind review! We are delighted to hear you enjoyed the Venice Day Trip and found our guide knowledgeable. We take your feedback about the guide's friendliness to heart and will share it with our team to ensure an even warmer experience for future guests. We hope to have the pleasure of welcoming you on another tour soon!
Venice is great for sure, but the tour guide did not make it a great experience, lack of basic touristic skills
Dear Omar, thank you for sharing your experience with us. We are glad to hear that Venice impressed you, and we sincerely apologise that our tour guide did not meet your expectations. The quality of our guides is extremely important to us, and we take your feedback regarding the lack of touristic skills very seriously. We will address this matter with our team to ensure a higher standard of service for all future guests. We hope to have the opportunity to welcome you on another tour in the future and provide you with a truly memorable experience.
The trip was great. A time well spent, full of history, unforgettable impressions, and fabulous views.
Dear Dalia, thank you so much for your kind words! We are absolutely delighted to hear that the Venice Day Trip was a wonderful and memorable experience for you. Venice is truly a magical destination and it is always rewarding to know our tours bring those special moments to life. We hope to see you again on another journey soon! Warm regards, Zani Viaggi
Poorly organized, the guide is a super nefarious person, just LOUSY. If you work with tourism you must be empathetic, polite. Able to interact and make the cinema pleasurable to people who take it
Great experience and we went on the day of Carnival. Even the Tour Guide said it was the most people he has ever seen in Venice. Buy the plastic boots to cover your shoes, as there will be flooding in many areas, especially St. Marks square. Gondola rides were fun but too short. Long bus ride from Milan. Edie was a good guide and Shepard considering the mass of people. Do this tour when there are no festivals.
It was a wonderful day trip Venice. The city is a must see with so many little areas to explore. Eddie was a wonderful and passionate guide. The free time allowed for the opportunity to explore the wonderful restaurants, shops, and cafes of Venice.
Incredible experience. We had Mario as our guide and he was such a gem! I traveled with my son and felt safe the entire time. Mario have extremely clear instructions along with a map for meeting points & times. 10/10 recommend!
Even the rain couldn’t ruin this experience of Venice. Being picked up at our hotel was really good. Who wants to wonder around a strange city at 6 in the morning trying to get to the right place. We were picked up right at six then dropped off but didn’t know what to do. Nobody else was there. Others started to arrive but no representative from the tour company. Buses arrived but the drivers told us to wait and shut the doors. So we stood outside in the rain. Once the tour person arrived things were organized but perhaps someone needs to be there when people are actually arriving. The tour person who came with us to Venice was very good. She pointed different things out to us. She even gave us her personal number just in case there were any problems. The tour person in Venice was knowledgeable but sometimes hard to keep up with. We needed more time to look and take pictures but she would rush off. Our radios were losing the connection with her and sometimes it was difficult to find her. (The thing she held was not as high as the ones we saw being held up by other tour guides. That added to the difficulty of finding her.). We were told we were lucky it was not as crowded as usual. I can’t imagine how difficult it would be to stay together if the normal crowds were there. The guided part ended with the glass factory. By the time we exited she was gone and we were on our own. Being on our own was expected but she was gone before we could even tip her. The first person took over when it was time to return to Milan. It was easy to start off with our hotel pickup but there weren’t any options that could be prearranged to get us back to our hotels. She gave us general directions to the Metro and a taxi stand but it was dark and raining and we were on our own. We never used the Metro and we’re on our phones trying to figure out the.pros and cons of taxis versus Ubers. Also in Milan you can’t flag taxis. But we wanted to tip her and in the confusion at the end we never did. (Probably shouldn’t have given people the option to leave by the back door of the bus.) But loved Venice! The tour people know their stuff. Just a few things could have been better. They do this all the time, but we don’t.
It was an awfully long day a total of 9 hours on the bus, but we got around 5 hours to see and explore, most of it on our own after an initially guided start in St Marks, and then a glass showroom. Plenty of time for lunch and then a good exploration of the island and canals. Guside and driver good and professional.
Long drive 4 hours to Venice and 4 hours back. The guide doesn't even bother to introduce himself. For such a long drive he could talk a little bit about Italy history and point out certain interesting buildings or area as we pass by Milan and Bergamo. Felt like such an easy job for him to get everyone on bus, talk a little about Venice, and walk us through the area a little bit. No what I expected after joining so many different tours. As for Venice, no as exciting. It may be cheaper to just buy a high-speed ticket to Venice and self tour.
