Customer reviews for: Doge's Palace
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4.6 out of 5 stars from 570 customers. 382 of them wrote reviews:
Anonymous, USA
15th Jul 2014
Guide spoke clearly in English, open to questions and did not rush the group. Explained the significance of the different chambers, the prison cells and the "secret tour" access was quite interesting. Great to have time to ourselves at the end of the tour to walk around the rest of the Doge's Palace - one could spend at least half a day there! Recommended tour.
MD, United States
10th Jul 2014
Purchasing online saved us from waiting in long lines.
DD, Australia
27th May 2014
Lots to see interesting
MC, United States
8th Apr 2014
no issues with tickets, times or organization. Fascinating experience.
LC, Australia
10th Mar 2014
Secret tour interesting to see the other side of the palace with the history and this ticket lets you into the main palace as well.
RG, United States
27th Feb 2014
The tour guide was very informative but she was kind of mean and strict.
RC, France
27th Feb 2018
Had problems finding where I needed to present my voucher in order to get the 'I musei di Piazza San Marco' card. I joined 2 queues before I found the right place! Needs clearer signage at the Portat del Frumento.
TG, Canada
5th Jul 2017
The tour was and the tour guide were good but the attraction is over-rated as a feature in Venice.
VF, United States
15th May 2017
Unfortunately the radios/Walkie talkies did not work very well. A lot of the tour is in narrow places where we had to walk single file. My husband and I ended up toward the back of the line and ended up regularly losing the signal, so we only heard about 70% of our tour. It also happened to two other people who were at the end of the line with us, so it wasn't just our units. They should either get more powerful radios or limit the tour size so that all can hear. And no, we weren't lagging far behind the rest of the group, we were just at the end. When we could hear it, the guide seemed knowledgeable and had a lot of good stories. Plus the secret passageways were fun to see and explore!
JK, United States
22nd Apr 2016
Secret rooms was fun. The general walk was great.
SL, Hong Kong
9th Mar 2016
It's good to take change to visit Doge's Palace once you visit Venice!!!
WS, United States
2nd Feb 2016
Great tour, but we were not told the tour included several floors of steps. This was extremely difficult for several in our group. In fact, my wife could not continue to the attic of the Doge's Palace because there were too many steps.
SW, Canada
28th Aug 2015
The tour was good and interesting.
BG, United States
2nd Aug 2015
It is interesting, but I'm not sure we would in retrospect spend the morning learning about medieval torture. Guide was wonderful.
AT, Canada
1st Oct 2014
It's quite a maze inside, especially once you get to the prison area. My friend and I got separated at this point and we both took different routes. We ended up in a courtyard but we both had to back track from that point to make sure we hadn't missed anything. (Maybe clearer directional arrows would help?) Would have been nice to have more furniture in some of the rooms.
CS, United States
19th Jun 2015
We really enjoyed our secret itineraries tour. Loved seeing the attic and jail cells! Only disappointment was that, at the end of the tour,I thought we could just go into St Marks but we had to go to the end of the line. It was way too long to get in to see the illumination.
BB, United States
11th May 2014
I was super excited about this tour as I had read it was great in Rick Steve's book; however, it was a huge disappointment. We had an "English" speaking tour guide that barely knew English, and she was also very rude. The tour name "secret" is very misleading as well, as it refers only to the "secret" documents that the Doge's right hand man kept safe. As far as "dungeons" well it was a lot of stairs and small rooms. Nothing much dungeon about it. The tour needs to be renamed.
AB, United Kingdom (Great Britain)
18th Aug 2019
5. Alex was a Very knowledgeable guide and it was an extremely interesting tour to see bits behind the scenes of the normal Palace visit.
JG, United Kingdom (Great Britain)
30th Jul 2018
We thoroughly enjoyed the tour, it was very interesting. The tour guide was wonderful explained everything very and obviously passionate about the history of the Doges Palace.
Your emails were self explanatory regarding collection of tickets all went smoothly. We quickly found where we needed to be, the staff in side Doges Palace were very helpful.
GY, Australia
29th Aug 2017
Yes, I did enjoy my visit, my only regret was running out of time and not seeing everything I wanted to see.