Accessible Venice Tour With Wheelchair Including Doge Palace & St Mark Basilica
Description
It is easy to imagine that Venice, due to its multitude of bridges and very small streets ( calli), is inaccessible with a wheelchair. Instead, this city does not constitute an architectural barrier for the disabled people because with the help of local steamboats you can turn it wherever you want. This 4 hour tour is an excellent opportunity to get to know the most important and famous places of the city with an expert guide that will show you the easier way to ride with a wheelchair. Whether is or not your first time in the floating city enjoy this trip that will lead you from the marvel of Piazza San Marco with its majestic Doge’s Palace to Rialto district with its wonderful bridge.
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Meet you guide in Calle Vallaresso and reach San Marco Square with your guide. Amazing Square, symbol of the city, in which you will be sorrounded by impressive architectures, built in differents times but that seem to be one. A long series of ancient arcades ,that enclose a lot of bars and restaurants, flank the square, on one side you will enjoy the wonderful view of the Correr Museum and right in front of it the sumptuous Basilic with its 4 bronze horses facing the center of the square.
Enter the Doge's Palace, The first and second floors are accessible by lift. Let yourself be enthralled by the works of Tintoretto and the elegant halls that you will cross.
Born as a ducal chapel, it symbolizes all the grandeur of Venice, also known as the Gold Basilic for the golden mosaics that fill it almost entirely
Leaving the Doge’s palace you will be able to admire from the outside the famous Bridge of Sights that internally connects the palace with the new prisons, not accessible by wheelchair because of a tight passage and not equipped for the wheelchair.
Catch again the steamboat n 1 and reach Rialto district, one of the most famous district in which Venice is divided. Rialto is famous all around the world for the romantic Rialto Bridge, the white stone bridge anciently the only one bridge which joined the two side of the Gran canal and built to faciltate the commercial trade. In fact, not everyone knows that Rialto is very famous for its markets that fill the lives of the Venetians almost every day of the week in the morning. Famous is the fresh fish market but you can find every type of food even the stands of typical Venetian desserts
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Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- On certain dates, most travelers staying outside of Venice who are planning to visit for the day will be required to pay a €5 access fee. For further details (including exemptions) and to learn what days this fee is applicable, please visit: https://cda.ve.it
- BASILICA ENTRY TICKETS 12 EURO EACH INCLUDED IN THE PRICE DOGE'S PALACE ENTRY TICKETS 35 EURO EACH INCLUDED IN THE PRICE Please provide the full names of all travelers when booking. Failure to present a voucher with all travelers’ full names at the ticket office prior to entry may result in denied entry to the attraction. Each traveler must present a valid passport or ID document that matches the name provided at the time of booking for successful entry to St.Mark’s Basilica
Reviews(9)
Our guide did an excellent job helping us get around with a wheelchair. Since everything takes much longer with a wheelchair, we did not get to do the Doge Palace with our guide, which was a disappointment, but we did not blame the guide for this. We would recommend this tour to others, and it would be helpful for people to be aware of time limitations with a wheelchair and discuss plans with the guy ahead of time so you don’t get short changed on any location. Saint Mark’s Basilica was amazing! We would suggest the Doge Palace with a guide.. it was beautiful, but we really needed some information instead of just doing it on our own.
Great private tour with extra stop to the top of the campanile. Guide very knowledgeable and excellent descriptions of what we saw. Very personable.
Denice our tour guide was wonderful and sooo knowledgable. She gave us so much history of how Venice was built, lots of explanations of the meanings of the paintings in the Doge, and St Marks, it was great. She really made an effort to include my mom, getting down by her wheelchair to explain things, I would highly recommend!
Very attentive knowledgeable guide. Great tour of st marks and the palace info the Dige. Beautiful sites. So fascinating. Very helpful guide very careful ifcmycphysicalvlikitatiobs. Exactly what we had hoped for. Highly reccommend
We traveled with 3 power wheelchairs and had an excellent time. Denise, our tour guide, picked us up at our hotel and then traveled with us by water bus to the square. She was a wonderful guide and even provided us with accessible suggestions to do later in the day. Highly recommend!
Our guide Michela was simply amazing. Knowing the city is not easily accessible using a wheelchair, we were hopeful of seeing as much as we could and getting our money's worth. Michela definitely delivered. She met us at the hotel and helped navigate the water bus network, providing insight about the city of Venice along the way. Her knowledge of the city and especially the major landmarks were impressive. She constantly looked for ways to allow my wife easier viewing, always thinking two-steps ahead for where we would need to go next. Can't imagine visiting St. Mark's and the Doge's Palace without context as you walk thru each of the areas/rooms. I'm sure the audio, self-guided are fine but even those with a guide were bigger groups and tough to hear many times. Michela seemed to know more and tailored everything to what we wanted to see and experience. As a nice bonus, Michela also pointed out good places to eat and shop, avoiding the higher priced "tourist" areas. Thrilled we booked this tour.
We had a wheelchair accessible tour and out guide Michela was amazing. She was attentive and interesting. She was so helpful and even offered to come get us at our airbnb so we would not get lost.
Enjoyed hearing the history, the guide Michaela made it so enjoyable. She went out of her way to accommodate us and her knowledge was interesting and educational. Thank you
My wife and I signed up to take this tour on the first day we arrived in Venice. We had never been to Italy before and thought the tour would give us a little local knowledge that would help us get acclimated to the city. It turned out to be a great decision. Our tour guide, Denise, brought us to many different sites and had interesting stories and anecdotes that made the tour the highlight of our trip. I highly recommend this tour to anyone who is visiting Venice.
Dear Brian, Thanks for leaving this fantastic review! I shall pass on your compliments to Denise, she is a very good guide and person and she will be very happy to know that you enjoyed your time with her! Thanks for having preferred us and We are pleased to have met your expectations! We hope you will come back soon in out Country Best Regards All our Staff
