Venice Gondola Serenade: 30-Minute Ride

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Experience the enchanting beauty of Venice on a shared gondola ride, accompanied by a serenade of traditional music. Glide through the city’s iconic sights and immerse yourself in the romantic atmosphere of the Grand Canal.

Duration: 30 minutes

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

Canal Grande - The Gondola Ride will take you along the Grand Canal, the most famous S shaped Canal of Venice.

What's Included

Shared gondola ride in a group of boats
Enjoy serenades from on-board singer

What's Not Included

Guide
Gratuities
Hotel pickup and drop-off

Additional Information

Delight in the captivating views of Venice with a 30-minute shared gondola ride, featuring a serenade. Opt for either an afternoon or evening journey, and be greeted by a gondolier dressed in traditional attire as you board your five-passenger gondola.
Embark with a group of around eight gondolas, with a singer on one of the boats. Marvel at famous…

Location

Gondola Station - Santa Maria del Giglio

Campiello Traghetto

Meeting point: S. Maria del Giglio Gondola Station

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings

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Faby_c

Aug 27, 2025

Romantic Gondola Ride - There is only one singer in a gondola and all the other gondolas follow, is very cute thought, you have the chance to take pictures of the gondolas love love the experience

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Kirsty_m

Sep 11, 2025

Not as advertised. - Great experience. However paid for a serenade that was shared with 6 gondolas not as advertised . On approaching the meeting point to collect our voucher as per the instructions on viador booking email we were directed to "the boss" who told us abruptly to come back 10 minutes before our time . Once aboard our gondola which was as we hoped , we expected to have a signing gondolier which was instead on a gondola four or five back in the fleet of gondolas that left at the same time while our gondolier spoke to someone in his phone for the first half of our 30 minute trip ! Overall a good experience but definetly not what we paid for.

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Shaun

Oct 5, 2025

We arrived at the start... - We arrived at the start point early for our 6pm confirmed ride. The manager organizing the gondoliers was very unhelpful and told us to go wait over there. By 6:15 we were wondering why we were still waiting. A nice young man came over and asked if we had been told the time was changed to 6:30. No. At 6:40 we loaded into the gondola for a barely 20 min ride. Would not recommend this tour.

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Ken_p

Sep 23, 2025

Save your money, go out to a romantic dinner! - 8 gondolas lined up single file going through ally way type canals. Our Gondoliar smoked a cigarette the entire time. Not to romantic.

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Silverton099

Oct 14, 2025

Very disappointed - It was my birthday i made it secial to have music on my boat but they did not they had someone on a different boat playing and follow us. Not happy at all very disappointed

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Marta_r

Sep 24, 2025

Worst Experience in Italy - I would give them a 0 if I could!! The worst experience we had on our dream vacation. My children are I arrived 30 minutes early and we ended up being seated in the last gondola., furthest from the serenade. The driver was completely unfriendly, when we asked a question he shook his head and implied he was on the phone. No descriptions of the sites were given. We were the first gondola to dock but were forced to climb over another gondola which arrived after us in order to get onto the pier. I am 75 years old with a bad knee and this was very scary & dangerous. It was windy & the gondolas were rocking in the water. As we exited, the lead or manager shoved us to the tip jar. Horrible customer service & I am completely disappointed by this experience from beginning to end.

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Sharon_b

Sep 13, 2025

Romantic Gondola ride hype - This was a joke. There was no serenade, I guess in there mind, as long as you are close to gondola with music you are being serenaded. Unfortunately we were only close enough to enjoy for 5 minutes out of 30.

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Beth_g

Sep 9, 2025

Don't spend the extra for singing! - We were a party of 2. About 10 gondola in our time with only 1 singer on another gondola. It is the luck of the decision by the people in charge as to whether you have the singer aboard your vessel. You can barely hear him sing, as all the gondola are spread out. Then our driver was on his phone or talking with a coworker the whole time! A waste of money!

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Maria_v

Aug 29, 2025

Not real as advertised - Arrived to the meeting spot and it was confirmed that it would be with music and 30 minutes as advertised… the ride lasted no more than 20 minutes and music lasted 5 minutes from another gondola… not worth it.. seemed like the gondola guys wanted to rush and on top of that asked for a tip… LOL

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Aurora_o

Aug 29, 2025

Much expectation poor reality - That they should go straight to the jetty, it would cost them a lot less and they would make sure that services are actually being offered. We paid 93 euros with my friend for half an hour and it was 20 minutes per serenade whose singer was in another remote gondola and in a super tight shared space where taking the photos was uncomfortable, it seemed that we had sneaked into the gondola, instead of getting the Service we paid in advance in order to enjoy a great experience, summary, take the Service directly on the jetty!

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From $64

up to 5 guests

1 - Adult