TorontoOntario · 36 tours
Niagara FallsOntario · 25 tours
New York CityNew York · 30 tours
Las VegasNevada · 8 tours
San FranciscoCalifornia · 16 tours
VancouverBritish Columbia · 17 tours
DubaiUAE · 54 tours
Abu DhabiUAE · 5 tours
Buenos AiresArgentina · 23 tours
AthensGreece · 31 tours
AucklandNew Zealand · 38 tours
CancunMexico · 54 tours
No destinations match “”. Try searching all tours instead — that search understands full questions, not just place names.
A private gondola through Venice's quieter, less-traveled canals.
Relax aboard a traditional Venetian gondola reserved just for your group as your gondolier navigates past historic palaces and churches away from the main tourist routes.
A private gondola ride through Venice's less-traveled canals, with your gondolier navigating past historic palaces and churches most visitors on shared gondolas never see. Booking in advance guarantees your seats.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meet your gondolier at a pre-arranged canal-side meeting point in Venice.
Glide past palaces and churches away from the busiest routes.
Reserved just for your party — no strangers sharing the gondola.
Your guide walks you back to a convenient point near your hotel.
Relax aboard a traditional Venetian gondola reserved just for your group as your gondolier navigates past historic palaces and churches away from the main tourist routes. A private gondola ride through Venice's less-traveled canals, with your gondolier navigating past historic palaces and churches most visitors on shared gondolas never see. Booking in advance guarantees your seats.
A gondola isn't actually symmetrical — look closely and the left side of the hull is noticeably wider than the right, by roughly 23 centimeters. That asymmetry is deliberate: since a gondolier rows with a single oar from a fixed position on the right side, the boat would naturally pull left with every stroke. Building the hull wider and slightly curved on that side creates just enough resistance to cancel the pull out, letting one person steer and propel an 11-meter boat with a single long oar and no rudder at all.
The gondolier's guild itself dates back to 1094, and for most of that history it was an entirely male profession. That changed in August 2010, when Giorgia Boscolo — a 24-year-old who'd been rowing since she was seven — became the first woman to pass the guild's full licensing exam, after roughly 400 hours of training in rowing technique, canal routes, and the trade's finer points, tested by a panel from the centuries-old Gondoliers' Guild itself.
This private ride is reserved for your group alone, with your gondolier choosing a route through the city's quieter back canals rather than the busiest tourist stretches — past palace facades and small parish churches that most shared gondola trips, run on a fixed schedule and route, never get the time to detour toward. Booking ahead locks in your seats, so there's no haggling over price at the dock once you arrive.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.
