Venice : Private Custom Walking Tour with a Local Guide
Description
Venice’s winding canals and historic streets can feel like a maze to first-time visitors. Take the mystery out of your visit by exploring with a local on a private walking tour. This personalized tour allows you to discover the exterior of monuments, including museums, while learning about the city’s history and culture. If you wish to include a museum visit, your guide can customize the itinerary to fit your interests—just let us know in advance. Your guide contacts you beforehand to understand your preferences, ensuring you see the Venice you want to experience. Perfect for families, solo travelers, or couples, this tour uncovers Venice’s hidden treasures.
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Itinerary
Explore Venice alongside a local guide! Let him (or her) show you all there is to know about the city, the iconic places and the history but also some nice places to eat, go shopping and much more during this personalized and private visit. The itinerary will be designed by your local guide based on your preferences. Meet where you're staying to get familiar with the neighborhood, find out about the best places to eat, the easiest ways to get around, and the hidden gems you might have missed. By the end of the tour, you'll feel comfortable navigating the city and confident you have all the information you need to make the most of your stay. Important: This itinerary is completely customizable according to your wishes.Important: This itinerary is completely customizable according to your wishes.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
The local guide will pick you up at the hotel ( if located in Venice ). Travelers can request the tour to start from any centrally located hotel. In case your hotel is outside the city center we will select a convenient meeting point in the city center.Tour may end at a different location from the departure point unless requested in advance of the tour.
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Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- 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
Reviews(113)
Francesco was an amazing guide. He took us away from the tourist areas and gave us an authentic Venetian viewpoint!!
Francesco, a real Venetian, was a great guide who showed us the real story of Venice, of the Venetian people.
Venice is beautiful and Majid, our guide, was terrific. Touring late June is very hot and humid. I think May would be better.
Our guide, Majid was happy to create a tour including places we asked to see as well as things that he thought we would enjoy. We communicated in advance through WhatsApp. He also helped us purchase water taxi tickets in order to ride the Grand Canal. He was a wealth of information and we enjoyed his knowledge of Venice. The morning we spent with our guide gave us the awareness to confidently move around Venice for the remainder of our stay.
Sneh was amazing! He didn’t get my message about what we wanted to see ahead of time but it worked out perfectly because he had already seeing the things we don’t normally see on a tour. If you want to feel like your friend is showing you their town than request him because he will definitely make you feel like a local!
Great visit with our guide Nicoletta, who introduced us to the history of Venice in 2 hours! Excellent knowledge of both ancient and recent history; we were able to ask her all our questions! Essential for getting into the subject of the city! Immense thanks, Nicoletta!
Vittorio was amazing, knowledgeable and born in Venice and has a true love for Venice and sharing the hidden gems.
This is the BEST way to see and feel part of the Venetian community from an insider perspective. Away from the crowds Venice is relaxed, friendly and welcoming. Local shopkeepers in bars and food shops happy to help. The pace was relaxed. My wonderful guide quickly checked out my interests- walking, history, beautiful architecture and art, Botany, real stories and people and food. My guide Syed was incredibly well informed and the tour was one of the best I have been on
Majid was fantastic! Super knowledgeable and very good pace for our family of 4. We covered a lot of ground in 3 hours and learned so much about the history of Venice and recommendations for our visit.
Jack was a tremendous guide for our walking tour if Venice. We have not had a better guide! We started at St Mark’ square and wondered up to and across the Rialto bridge and then back. Make sure you ask for Jack.
