Venice

Venice Evening Walking Tour: Food and Ghost Stories

Venice, Italy

From $79.07

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up to 24 hours before the experience starts (local time)

3 hours 30 minutes
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

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Overview

An excellent food tour of Venice around the wine bars and a ghost tour Venice of Venetian myths and legends.. let’s discover the hidden Venice! Combine a gastronomic journey and a walking tour. You will try fine wines and tasty finger food, followed by a fascinating ghost in Venice, Italy of the legends and mysteries of Venice. The Venice food walking tour begins with one of the best cocktails in Venice and continues with three typical Venetian wine bars where you can have the delicious Cicchetti - crostini, meatballs and other small typical Venetian cuisine - and take part in three different wine tasting in Venice.

3.5-hour combined traditional aperitivo tour and ghost tour in Venice
Visit three 'bacari' to eat like a Venetian local
Get a glass of wine and one appetizer at each wine bar
Learn about Venice's less touristy side
Be thrilled by tales of ghosts and mysteries in Venice

What's Included

Visit to three Venice bars with one glass of wine and 1 'cicchetto' per person for each bar
Guided tour

Food and beverage for children

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

Calle larga de l'Ascension, 30124 Venezia VE, Italy
TURIVE kiosk, located on Calle larga de l'Ascension, near the St. Mark's Post Office, behind Correr Museum

Start time

07:30 PM

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

What To Expect

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Not wheelchair accessible
Near public transportation
Most travelers can participate
Please arrive at the meeting point at least 10 minutes before the tour departure time.
At the tour departure point you will meet a representative who will check your vouchers and give you information to do the tour.

No credit or refunds will be given in the case of a no show (if you don't show up at the meeting point at the time indicated on your voucher)
This is a collective tour, which means there might be other participants going on the tour with you.
Please note that, due to the particular morphological structure of Venice and the logistic problems resulting from it, we cannot guarantee that the whole tour is accessible to people with limited mobility. This means that people with walking difficulties and wheelchair users could not be able to access some parts of the itinerary.
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
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 999 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.

Featured review

Kathy_o

Don't eat before going on the food tour, you will at the stops. Very interesting to try the local food and here how some of them are made. Accommodations can be made if you don't drink alcohol and if you are a vegetarian (it's hard for vegetarians in Venice) If you only do the food tour, you are left at the last restaurant. The ghost tour was great you learn the legend of the Rialto bridge, the church of miracles, various legends of Venice and how to get good luck from one of the site and it work for me.

Reviews

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Cancelled Tour Because Tour Guide Didn't Show Up; Refusal to Refund

Jennifer_C, Aug 2023

This was the worst experience I have ever had with a tour company. Our guide DID NOT SHOW UP for the ghost portion of the tour (which was 2/3 of the tour), then we only had approx. 45 minutes with our tour guide Graziella for the food and beverage portion of the tour before she had to go to another tour, and out of the 2 bars we visited with her – 1 refused to serve us anything (no wine or food), and the other only gave us wine (no food) that we had to drink in an alleyway because they were too busy for us. When I contacted Viator regarding a refund, this request was refused because they couldn't verify the tour guide didn't show up - what! After several emails back and forth, they offered a 22.79% for this booking (yes, you read that correctly), which is a total of $36.35. Imagine my surprise when I see a charge of $159.48 for this tour, as opposed to $123.13 on my credit card when I went to dispute the charges because the tour was cancelled. Another interesting fact – this discrepancy was the exact amount they indicated they would refund to me - $36.35, which means not only did they not really issue a refund in my opinion – they seemingly upcharged my credit card to compensate for my complaint. Worst...experience...ever...

GO, GO GO

Kathy_o, Sep 2022

Terrible time

Chris_K, Jun 2022

This was terrible. Tour guide didn’t explain anything about the food, wine, or establishments. We got only 2 of the 3 promised places. Additionally we got left in the alley as the guide carried 2 glasses of wine at a time out of the restaurant. The food/wine tour is separate from the ghost tour, which wasn’t explained. So we walked to the food/wine part, then went back to pick up tons of more people. At that point my group left, especially since it was the same guide that had no personality and didn’t explain anything. Steer away from this tour!!!

Great guide very knowledgable but...

Amy B, Oct 2017

Great guide very knowledgable but very poor value for money, tiny amount of food and you don't leave San Marco. You get one glass of wine and one very small snack per bar and you only go to three bars! Not worth the price. Try another instead.

We arrived at the meeting place as...

Robyn J, Sep 2017

We arrived at the meeting place as the tour had started but caught up with the help of another guide. We visited only 2 Bacari although we did have 2 glasses of wine and 2 appetisers at the first one. The group was very friendly and our older guide very knowledgable about Venice as we wandered through the streets. After settling in at the second Bacari the guide suddenly announced that this was a nice place for dinner if we wanted to stay and she left!! The other people we were with were a bit stunned at this as were we we thought we'd missed something at the beginning and so no Ghost stories. Still a fun couple of hours.

The description of this tour seemed...

Tina L, Jul 2017

The description of this tour seemed intriguing but in actuality it was quite a bore. Some attendees of the tour booked one or the other food or ghost stories but that wasn't presented as an option for us. The tour guide, Barbara, was very nice but the drinks and food were nothing to speak of. A white or red wine at each location- snooze. A tiny bite of one item in each of the 3 locations sometimes we could select ourselves and sometimes not. All in all I think this could have been done much better and I wouldn't recommend to others visiting the area.

Wine a food was amazing! We visited...

Vanessa N, Jun 2017

Wine a food was amazing! We visited small pubs we wouldn't have found otherwise. The food was great and the wine was divine! FYI - the ghost tour is separate and after the wine and food. Also, there was very little about ghosts. :/

Excellent tour. Guide was very...

Sharon M, Jun 2017

Excellent tour. Guide was very friendly, spoke english well and was a good story teller. Also went to 3 wine bars that were out of the way qnd had excellent glasses of wine and nibbies

My Husband and I knew it was going...

Tullo, Jun 2017

My Husband and I knew it was going to be in English and French. However,the guide spent much more time with the French clients. We became bored, as the clients and guide conversed and laughed while we just sat there. Since we were catching a very early flight to USA the next morning we decided after 2 hours to leave the tour early and just forfeit the cost of the tour. This tour is 3.5 hours, however if only in one language could be completed in 2 hours.

The food portion of the tour small...

Blair S, Oct 2016

The food portion of the tour small plates and wine was outstanding. The guide was knowledgeable and engaging. We did this the night we arrived in Venice and learned a lot about the area. The second portion ghost stories was weak. One couple in our group had booked only the food portion of the tour. I'd recommend skipping the ghosts.

A lot of fun. We actually met two...

Patricia F, Sep 2016

A lot of fun. We actually met two other couples from the USA who lived close to us. Highly recommend.

Really enjoyed this tour, Hazel our...

Nicola M, Aug 2016

Really enjoyed this tour, Hazel our guide was fantastic. Needed the ghost tour to walk off the wine from the cicchetti tour.

This is a great tour to get an...

Gina R, Apr 2016

This is a great tour to get an introduction to the city if Venice and the food of Italy. You go to three different locations and have a glass of wine and an appetizer. Fabulous food, great information and tips for the city and a great guide. We had quite a small group and it was wonderful because we could ask any questions. The ghost tour along with this wasn't as fulfilling because of being a busy night in the city and a lot of the locations were to busy for the ghosts to come out

Our guide Grace was very...

David I, Nov 2015

Our guide Grace was very approachable and knowledgeable. The tour was good but the description was misleading to me. I understood that we will have a ghost tour that included the food rather than two tours... one was really like a pub crawl with food offered and after that we had the ghost tour. I would not have booked this if I had realised when I looked at the description.

Excursion agréable ou nous avons...

Morgane_T, Jul 2016

Excursion agréable ou nous avons profiter de plusieurs apéritifs sympathique en compagnie d'une guide très gentille. De plus la première partie de l'excursion c'est faite en petit groupe puisque nous n'étions que 4 se qui permet de profiter un maximum. Pour la seconde partie nous étions beaucoup plus mais l'excursion reste malgré tout agréable.