Venice

Venice: Doge's Palace Guided Tour with Skip The Line Tickets

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Overview

The Doge’s Palace is one of Venice’s premier sights, but the vast size of the palace and long line to enter are daunting. With this private guided tour, zip past the crowds with fast-track admission and cover the entire palace without feeling overwhelmed with the insights of your guide. Learn about this sumptuous building’s historic and cultural significance and admire its highlights in just two hours.

Save time with priority entrance at a scheduled time
Visit with a guide to tour the entire complex in just hours
Delve into Venetian art and history by visiting a cultural treasure
A private tour customized to your group’s ages and interests

What's Included

Skip the line tickets for Doge's Palace
2 hours guided tour at a relaxed pace
Expert local guides for insider knowledge
Admission to Correr Museum, National Archeological Museum, and Biblioteca Marciana

Transport to the meeting spot
Guided Tour of the Correr Museum

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

P.za San Marco, 3, 30124 Venezia VE, Italy
We meet in Saint Mark’s Square near the waterfront by the two large columns. Our guide will be under the one with the winged lion on top. Your guide will have a signboard that says, “Walks In Europe.”

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

What To Expect

Piazza San Marco

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Doge's Palace

1 hour 40 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Bridge of Sighs

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Museo Correr

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received within 48 hours of booking, subject to availability
Not wheelchair accessible
Near public transportation
Most travelers can participate
Acqua Alta ( High Tide ) in Venice can cause delays in entering the Doge's Palace and the palace authority may decide to suspend skip-the-line priority, especially around the months of October, November, and December.
Please note that if you take the 1400 (2 pm) tour, Correr Museum will be closed before your tour finishes. Therefore, you will have Correr tickets for the next day.

Please note that carrying any type of weapon or sharp objects, such as a knife, is not allowed for this tour.
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
Clients must arrive at the meeting point 15 minutes before the start of the tour. This is due to the timed entry of the tickets.
Tickets are timed and expire within 5 to 10 minutes.
Please be advised that it is not possible to join the tour after it has commenced.
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 16 travelers

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.

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Reviews

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Doges Tour w Alexia

heather_c, May 2024

Alexia was super knowledgeable, happy to answer all our questions and even extended our tour!! Loved it!

Fun tour at Doges Palace

John_D, May 2024

Was a good tour through the Doges palace. Tour started like 20 mins late and then another 20 mins waiting in line (thought it was skip the line?)

Great tour but it was the guide Claire who made it so good.

lyndse_S, Apr 2024

My husband and i have done plenty of tours over the past couple of years with some great guides but our tour guide today, Claire, was the best by far. She made it personal by memorising everyone's name and and involved everyone the whole time. Claire was fun, bubbly, full of knowledge and full of energy. You could see how passionate Claire was which made the tour even more special. Thank you Claire for being such a fabulous guide. We defiantly recommend this tour 😊

Great tour!!!

Jennifer_D, Apr 2024

Sandra was absolutely wonderful! So knowledgeable and such an incredible guide. Really brought the past to life. Best tour we’ve had here in Italy.

Excellent guide

Patti_S, Apr 2024

Our guide was informative but in an interesting and easy to follow manner did not limit her talk to long ago history but more recent events

An enjoyable learning experience!

Lynn_P, Apr 2024

The Tour Guide Eliza was outstanding. Always making sure the group members special needs were completely taken care of. Several members, myself included, needed a slower pace especially with stairs and she ALWAYS made sure we were comfortable and waited for everyone to regroup before continuing. Eliza’s knowledge of the history and methods/practice at that time were complete and clearly explained. I would sign up for another tour with her any day. Thank you.

Doges' Palace & St. Mark's Cathedral

Colleen_S, Apr 2024

This is an excellent 3 hour tour for those who want to know more about the history of Venice, art in Venice and the antiquity mosaics in the Cathedral of St. Mark's. Our guide was excellent: knowledgable, personable, clear and articular. Even though April, the crowds were full in St. Mark's Square, so we were glad we were "skipping the line." We saw and learned so much. Our guide was very detailed about the Palace, the Doges, the art, the prison + Bridge of Sighs and the Cathedral construction and art.

A bit dull for families with young children

Tom_B, Apr 2024

We did the tour with three children under the age of 11 over Easter weekend. We had more negatives than positives to say about the tour if you are going as a family. The positives included the meeting spot being easy to find and our tour guide was super kind and looked to engage our children throughout the tour. The negatives included us still having to wait in line for 45 minutes with our 'skip the line' tickets, the audio on the headphones provided made it difficult to hear and the content of the tour within the Dogge was dull for children. If we could have a re-do, we would have elected to have done an alternative tour catered to children like the Dogges Prison tour.

Skip the line tickets did not work very well

Jerry_M, Apr 2024

Even though the Doge Palace is impressive our experience wasn’t. We had skipped the Line tickets, but the crowds were so large around the palace on Easter weekend that it took over 50 minutes to start our tour. I feel the people that issued the tickets should’ve been totally aware of the problems on the Easter weekend from past experience. Our tour guide was good, but she spent way too much time upfront outside the palace and then realized we were not going to get in very quickly.

Response from Host, Apr 2024

Thank you so much, Jerry, for joining us on our tour of Venice. We truly appreciate your understanding of the challenges posed by Venice's crowds, particularly during peak times like Easter when the Cathedral of San Marco is closed, leading to increased traffic at the Doge's Palace. The attractions featured on our tour are undeniably remarkable. Venice's allure often exceeds its capacity, prompting the implementation of entrance fees. Our tour is designed with this in mind, offering the convenience of navigating through crowds with seasoned professionals who do so daily. Our guides are well-versed in managing such situations. While we understand it may have felt overwhelming, accessing the Palace without one of our guides and Skip-the-Line tickets would have been nearly impossible. Imagine the additional hassle of queuing to purchase tickets amidst the already bustling groups you'd need to navigate alone. We look forward to seeing you on our other tours!

Excellent Tour

TimothyNichols, Mar 2024

Our tour guide was excellent. I learned all about the structure as well as the various artworks throughout.

Lovely Doge’s Palace

Carl_V, Mar 2024

What a wonderful experience. And Clara was the consummate guide. Knowledgeable and funny with a ton of energy.

Visit Doge Palace

Robert_E, Mar 2024

Edi, our guide, was wonderful. She was very knowledgeable, funny and professional. I highly recommend this great tour. It was a little difficult to locate the tour “helpers” initially because they were not located where the description stated and they forgot their flag to identify them.

Understand how the Venetian Republic resulted in the beautiful city we love

Becky_F, Mar 2024

My guide knew her Venetian Republic history. I was the only in the tour and she brought the Doge’s Palace to life. She explained the Counsel of Ten. The second museum , Correr,I was on my own and I enjoyed it but did not learn as much.

Great experience

Edwin_M, Feb 2024

Great and memorable experience, the guide was really good!!! The weather was ok, a little rainy but overall great experience with rich history.

The communication for the...

Julie_R, Jan 2024

The communication for the meeting point was very bad but as soon as we had found the guide, Carolina was the perfect person full of passion and energy to make the visit with. She even made de tour longer than expected.

Really great tour!

DeAnna_K, Dec 2023

Pleasant tour w knowledgeable tour guide. Monica was down to earth, Adjusted her style to us and our needs and took the time to make the tour special. Because it was Christmas Day, could not book to see cathedral but this was still really worth it!

Doge's Palace

Ross_W, Dec 2023

We had a wonderful time viewing the palace with Claire. Our trip was informative, fun, and filled with pictures.

A real Venetian treasure!

Linda_S, Nov 2023

Our tour guide Marita was wonderful! She was so informative and we learned so much! The time just flew by!

Fantastic art.

THOMAS_L, Nov 2023

All of it was memorable but especially the ceilings such as the golden staircase. The main audience chamber was the most remarkable.

Fantastic tour and guide.

Daniel_C, Oct 2023

Our guide Katerina was wonderful. Very friendly and most importantly knowledgeable about the Doge Palace. Worth every penny. Would've loved to take another tour with her but we had to leave Venice. Highly recommend visiting the palace. Gorgeous interiors.