Venice with Hossein was great! - Hossein took us on a wonderful journey of Venice. His knowledge was great and he was very gracious with our questions. Hossein was fantastic with amazing time management.

great tour - great service, a lot of knowledge, great tour, great person. I would recomend him to anyone. We walked and talked a lot. He is very orepared for the history tour part.

Super tour with super guide - Our guide was Hossein Abdolmaleki & he did a terrific job. My sister & I are older & go at a slow pace so Hossein really conducted the tour to meet our needs. We particularly wanted historical & background info about Venice that he provided. He even had a notebook with pictures that helped you visualize what he was telling us. Great tour

Great way to understand... - Great way to understand some important parts of the city! Our guide was very informative. I highly suggest this tour

An Engaging and Well-Paced Venice Tour with a Perfect Ending. Thank you Hossien! - Hossien was an excellent guide—friendly, knowledgeable, and engaging. He brought the history of Venice to life, made the tour interactive, and even took photos for us. He also shared great recommendations for shopping and dining. The tour was well-paced, providing ample time to see key sights without excessive walking. To top it off, he arranged a gondola ride for us, making for a perfect ending. The walking tour lasted about 1.5 hours, followed by a 20-30 minute gondola ride. I highly recommend this experience—10/10!

Super informative and fun... - Super informative and fun tour of Venice! Highly recommend this tour if you’re wanting a bit of everything in Venice in one day! Tour was amazing and so was the private gondola ride!

Super - Guide was great. Very detailed. Knew well about the history! English was very good also. loved it very much.

Highly recommend - Majid was so knowledgeable and nice-really enjoyed our tour! I would HIGHLY recommend him!! I would not recommend the gondolier we had-I believe his name was Andreas and he was not friendly at all and barely spoke to us. He would answer questions very curtly and softly so you could hardly tell if he was answering the questions. He offered no further info.In fact, if we would have not asked any questions, I don't think he would have spoken to us at all. He seemed more interested in talking to his gondolier friends passing by and he just didn't seem like he wanted to be there. Really spoiled our gondolier ride experience!

Great tour and the right length. - The history and background of Venice from its beginning. The part about the water collection and filtering was very interesting

Private walking tour and gondola ride - We are very disappointed in this tour. This tour was not what was expected and was by far the worst tour we have been on. The tour lasted 2 hours and not the stated time of 2 hours 30 minutes. We started at the Campo San Luca but thereafter, we did not get to do the following which were listed on the itinerary: admire the Rialto bridge, see the Scala Contarini del Bovolo, we did not go to the Campo Saint’ Angelo or Teatro La Fenice. We asked the tour guide Hossein, when we would see the Teatro La Fenice and he replied that there was nothing to see and that we could go and see it after our tour. He then took us to a shop near St Marks Square selling Venetian masks and regalia and told us to go in to have a look around and told us it was his friend’s shop. We were not particularly interested but we went in. Then when we came out of the shop the gondolas were outside the shop and Hossein then showed us to our gondola. He took out his phone and started recording his own comments and he then turned the phone to us and asked us if we would give a review. This was an extremely inappropriate action as we were put on the spot to say something to the camera which was already recording us. Finally, the gondola ride was supposed to be on the grand canal but we did not go anywhere near this. It lasted 30 minutes instead of the 45 minutes stated in your itinerary. The tour guide may have been knowledgeable about Venice and its history but he did not follow the published itinerary which was extremely disappointing. This was our most expensive tour and it was not value for money.