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VENICE, ITALY
Pre-and-Post Cruise: Venice, Italy
Compliment your cruise journey with a Pre- or -Post Cruise Package to easily enhance your experience visiting the captivating and charming city of Venice. Enjoy private transfers, two-nights accommodation and a half-day tour.
Venice Canal, Italy
Bridge of Sighs, Venice, Italy
St. Mark's Square, Venice, Italy
VENICE, ITALY
Compliment your cruise journey with a Pre- or -Post Cruise Package to easily enhance your experience visiting the romantic, floating city of Venice, Italy.
Our most popular pre- or -post cruise packages include private transfers to and from the airport or pier with English-speaking driver, two nights accommodation at carefully selected hotels with breakfast daily, as well as a half-day tour.
Let Gateways International put it all together for you – have dinner in a fabulous European city and get a couple good night’s sleep before you embark on your journey, or choose to wind down with a special itinerary after your cruise has ended. Each package is fully customized to your specifications so you’ll be getting your tour, your way.
Highlights:
- Private transfers with English-speaking driver; Airport – Hotel – Pier (or visa versa)
- 2 nights accommodation at Palazzo Paruta Venezia, Superior Room ★★★★
- Continental breakfast daily at hotel
- Small group half-day walking tour of Venice including St. Mark’s Square & Doge’s Palace
- Hotel taxes and service charges**
Optional Add-on Tours:
- Private Gondola ride
*Small group tours consist of up to 25 passengers.
Itineraries are fully customizable. Pricing available upon request, based on two (2) passengers travelling together sharing one room.
Subject to availability at time of booking. Blackout periods apply. Not valid during trade shows, bank holidays and other special events.
International airfare not included. **European city/tourist taxes collected locally unless otherwise indicated.
For full terms and conditions, click here.
Pre-and-Post Cruise: Venice, Italy
Travel itinerary
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Day 1
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Arrive at the Venice Airport and transfer by water to Palazzo Paruta Venezia. Take some time to explore the small streets and admire the superb architecture of this incredible urban landscape of man-made islands connected by bridges.
Palazzo Paruta Venezia
★★★★Day 2
Breakfast
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Enjoy breakfast at the hotel. Make your way to the meeting point in St Mark’s Square for your small group* walking tour of Venice & Doge’s Palace. Your tour includes an introduction on St. Mark’s Square, the imposing Byzantine Basilica, the Bell Tower, the Clock Tower, and the the Library. You will then reach the Doge’s Palace, and the Prisons. Your guide will recount the history of the many palaces you will see and of those that lived there. This evening, choose an optional private ride through the canals of Venice beneath the stars in a gondola (not included).
Palazzo Paruta Venezia
★★★★Day 3
Breakfast
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After breakfast at the hotel, check-out of your hotel and take your private transfer to the pier.
Pre-and-Post Cruise: Venice, Italy
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Package Includes:
- Total of 2 nights accommodation; Palazzo Paruta Venezia, 4-Star hotel
- Private transfers; small group* tour as per itinerary
- Continental breakfast daily, other meals as indicated
- Hotel taxes and service charges**
Not included:
- International or domestic airfare; airport or departure taxes
- Gratuities to guides and drivers
- Items of a personal nature
- Travel insurance
- Reciprocity and/or local taxes if applicable
- Visas required for entry into the country as necessary. Please discuss this with your travel agent to determine your requirements prior to departure.
Itineraries are fully customizable. Pricing available upon request, based on two (2) passengers travelling together sharing one room.
Subject to availability at time of booking. Blackout periods apply. Not valid during trade shows, bank holidays and other special events.
International airfare not included. **European city/tourist taxes collected locally unless otherwise indicated.
For full terms and conditions, click here.
3 days
On Request
On their recent trip to Italy:
"We did a 28-day holiday in Italy from mid-September to mid-October with Gateways and I just want to let you know that it was a fabulous trip. We did provide input into what we wanted to do and where we wanted to go and then Gateways came up with an itinerary for us. We tweaked the schedule a couple of times, but were very happy with our plan before we left Canada. I wanted to thank you for organizing a trip that didn't have any glitches. Every hotel, transportation or tour that was booked occurred exactly as it should have. We were very happy with our guides, accommodations and train tickets/private rides. We had a great dinner/wine-tasting/creating your own wine outing at a vineyard in Tuscany on our 40th anniversary. We got to walk up the Leaning Tower of Pisa, take a gondola in Venice, float into the Blue Grotto and so much more. Really enjoyed the trip to the lemon farm/pizza-making excursion in the hills outside of Sorrento. And I'm very glad that we had someone picking us up at the train station in Venice and getting us on a private water taxi to get to our hotel and back to the train station because it eliminated the chance of wasting a couple of hours trying to get on the right ferry with all those people getting off the train at one time...this thank you would have come a couple of months ago, [our travel agent] just responded to my original email to give me your name and email."
Mr. & Mrs. C., Alberta
January 29, 2024