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Rockstar
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"Entertaining and Informative!"
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World Surfing Champion
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The next available date for this tour is 30/04/2012 (this tour requires 3 days advance booking). Please click on your desired date from the calendar. For last minute enquiries please call our office (Mon-Sat 8.00-6.00) direct +39 0552645033
Luxurious motor launch, heart-stopping views, film locations Grand Palaces, intrigue, scandal, life styles of the rich and famous.
Don’t just see the Grand Canal, experience for your self the life styles of the rich and famous with a spicy sprinkling of gossip from those in the know.
Our charming bronzed water taxi skippers have ferried some of the world’s most famous celebrities as well as being the stunt drivers for blockbuster films such as the 007 epic ‘Casino Royale’.
We will pass famous palaces and sights used in films as our skippers have their fingers on the pulse of Venice, knowing every mossy, misty canal, crumbling palace and skeleton in the cupboard!
Whilst gliding along the Grand Canal, an extraordinarily beautiful and unique high way, we will marvel at the stately procession of sumptuous water palaces gazing proudly upon centuries of comings and goings. Our entertaining companions will bear us along this splendid processional route while we see the palaces of the rich and famous. Hear about celebrities’ favorite local places to hang out as well as discovering just why Venice is the sublime capital of masked carnivals, reveries, intrigue, and romance!
Included in Tour Price: Quality Venice tour guide, small group guarantee, deluxe motor launch (Taxi Motoscafo), head phone audio systems when required
Excluded From Tour Price: Optional gratuities
Tour Meeting Time & Dates: 6.30 pm Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays from April 16-July 28 and September 3-October 27.
The Grand Canal Tour Meeting Point: Opposite the entrance to the Royal Gardens, near St. Marks Square
Tour Ends: At St Mark's Square/Royal Gardens
Tour Length: Fifty minutes to one hour
Minimum Participants: 4 persons
Maximum Participants: 11
Weather: This tour runs rain or shine
Notes: This tour is not available in the month of August, but private tours are available all year round exclusively for you. Please see our Private Venice Tours for more information. After the second week of October, the tour may be run in partial or complete darkness due to the end of Daylight Savings.
On rare occasions, our tours do not meet their minimums, however we have an alternate option and would be happy to run the tour just for you at our cost price to ensure that you do not miss it. Please click here for more details.