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The 15 Best Skip-the-Line Tickets in Venice

18 tours  ·  from $17 a head

On the square a queue costs an hour and a booked slot costs a few euros. These 15 cover the palace, the basilica and the bell tower, with prices and how far ahead each one really needs booking.

Skip the Line: St. Mark's Basilica Guided Tour - Entering through St. Peter’s Door
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Skip the Line: St. Mark’s Basilica Guided Tour

1.Skip the Line: St. Mark’s Basilica Guided Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 2,380 reviews · from $33Our pick

Enter St. Mark’s Basilica through a separate entrance, see its gold mosaics and terrace, and learn Venice’s story from a live guide.

“Our tour guide was really good, great English and knew her stuff Would have liked the tour to be a tad longer So thankful we skipped the very long queue”

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Venice: St. Mark's Basilica Skip-the-Line Entry & Audioguide - Meeting beside the Clock Tower
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Venice: St. Mark’s Basilica Skip-the-Line Entry & Audioguide

Skip-the-Line: Doge's Palace & St. Mark's Basilica Fully Guided Tour - Doge’s Palace: Venice’s government in stone
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Skip-the-Line: Doge’s Palace & St. Mark’s Basilica Fully Guided Tour

3.Skip-the-Line: Doge’s Palace & St. Mark’s Basilica Fully Guided Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 1,892 reviews · 2 hours (approx.) · from $83

Tour Venice’s Doge’s Palace and St. Mark’s Basilica with skip-the-line entry, an English guide, headsets, and two hours of focused history.

“Excellent tour, Michaela are tour guide was very informative, and brought the tour to life. The Doge Palace & St Marks Basilica are a must see when visiting Venice”

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Venice: Doge's Palace Skip-the-Line Tour with Prisons - The government rooms and Venetian ceremony
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Venice: Doge’s Palace Skip-the-Line Tour with Prisons

Venice: Doge's Palace Skip-the-Line Ticket with Guidebook - Collecting the ticket before you enter
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Venice: Doge’s Palace Skip-the-Line Ticket with Guidebook

Venice: Skip-the-line St. Mark's Basilica Entry & Audioguide - Finding Crown Tours in St. Mark’s Square
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Venice: Skip-the-line St. Mark’s Basilica Entry & Audioguide

Doge's Palace Skip-the-Line Guided Tour - Through the Courtyard and Giants’ Staircase
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Doge’s Palace Skip-the-Line Guided Tour

Skip-the-Line Guided Tour of Doge's Palace - Entering With Skip-the-Line Access
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Skip-the-Line Guided Tour of Doge’s Palace

8.Skip-the-Line Guided Tour of Doge’s Palace

★★★★★★★★★★4.2 · 472 reviews · 1 hour - 75 minutes · from $66

Tour Doge’s Palace in Venice with skip-the-line entry, a live guide, grand halls, Tintoretto, the Bridge of Sighs, and historic prisons.

“I did enjoy the tour. I did feel like the guide focused so much on the art and less on the history of the palace and the jail.”

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Venice Skip the line St Mark's Basilica Guided Tour - Piazza San Marco, Venice’s grandest stage
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Venice Skip the line St Mark’s Basilica Guided Tour

9.Venice Skip the line St Mark’s Basilica Guided Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 324 reviews · 1 hour (approx.) · from $54

Review of Venice’s one-hour St. Mark’s Basilica tour, with skip-the-line entry, English guide, mosaics, museum access, and terrace views.

“I only paid the exorbitant price for the opportunity to visit the terraces on the st Mark’s basilica tour. The guide said this wasn’t an option but admitted it should not have been included in the advert. It ruined my holiday as to see the horses on the terrace was a lifelong dream. There were 3 of us on the tour. My friend’s ticket was cancelled just before the tour and she was devastated. I would like a refund of at least half the ticket price. Your company is dishonest.”

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Skip the Line Venice Doge's Palace and St. Mark's Basilica Tour - Finding the Campo San Zaccaria meeting point
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Skip the Line Venice Doge’s Palace and St. Mark’s Basilica Tour

Doge's Palace, Bridge of Sighs & Prison Skip-the-Line Tour - Fast-track entry into Doge’s Palace
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Doge’s Palace, Bridge of Sighs & Prison Skip-the-Line Tour

11.Doge’s Palace, Bridge of Sighs & Prison Skip-the-Line Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 236 reviews · from $78

Tour Doge’s Palace, cross the Bridge of Sighs, and explore Venice’s former prisons with fast-track entry and a live guide.

“Our guide (Katrina?) was very informative- and even made the effort to make sure a preteen could relate to the history and art of the tour. Crossing with other tours and individuals in smaller areas can make keeping up a bit daunting at times- but our guide worked hard to mitigate those issues. She kept it informative and light hearted. The bridge of sighs portion of the tour was quite the counterpoint to the beauty and grandiosity of the Palace”

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Skip the Line: Doge's Palace Guided Tour in Venice - Meeting at Campo S. Zaccaria
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Skip the Line: Doge’s Palace Guided Tour in Venice

Venice: Doge's Palace Skip-the-Line Guided Tour - Meeting near St. Mark’s Square
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Venice: Doge’s Palace Skip-the-Line Guided Tour

14.Doge’s Palace Skip-the-Line Guided Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.2 · 133 reviews · 75 - 135 minutes · from $79

Skip Venice’s long Doge’s Palace line, see the Bridge of Sighs, and follow a multilingual guide through grand rooms and prison cells.

“Es la tercera visita guiada que hago con vosotros al palacio y la verdad es que esta guía no nos ha gustado nada… no cuenta nada del palacio… hemos visto mucho menos que otras veces, porque se ha parado muchísimo en la plaza de afuera y en la primera sala, hablando de la política de Venecia… nada que ver con los otros guías… una pena, porque es una visita con gente de trabajo que organizamos nosotros y esta vez la experiencia no y sido la misma.”

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Venice: Doge's Palace Skip-the-Line Entry + Audioguide App - The painted halls and Golden Staircase
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Venice: Doge’s Palace Skip-the-Line Entry + Audioguide App

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