Sightseeing Cruises in Venice

Fabulous collection, we'll laid out. I highly recommend buying the short guide, sit in the café and have an Aperol Spritz while you read it. Going to the gallery with your head full of information makes it a great experience.

The Headout gondola cruise starts first with a Virtual Reality presentation covering background history to Venice and gondolas - very good. And caters for those who wear hearing devices! Note you need to turn up at the Headout office. Then it's a short walk to the gondola, seating five. Two of them get the heart-shaped seat - the others have flat seats. Can't change positions once you're onboard (as one tried during our 25-minute trip causing a panicky shout from the gondolier as the boat swayed threateningly!) All in all it was a fabulous experience. (As at our springtime break, getting a gondola ride for two people without booking was typically 90€)

The location is spectacular, the gondolas are beautiful, and the atmosphere is amazing—but the gondolier was pretty rude. The service from the travel agency was excellent.

Yes, it was cheesy, but my parents were living for it. As first timers in Italy and Venice, they enjoyed every minute of it. Thank you for helping my parents cross off a bucket list item - what a wonderful way to spend the morning in beautiful Venice.

I was very pleased with the trip—it wasn't long, but it was impressive. Both the guitarist and singer were excellent, featuring the most famous and beautiful Italian songs and arias. The only thing that bothered me was that the musicians and gondolier were in casual clothes, which was a bit lacking in local color. And the trip was essentially 25 minutes long. At 350 euros, they could have done a better job.