Almost nobody buys these two separately. The Doge's Palace and St Mark's Basilica stand fifty metres apart on the same square, and sixteen of the products compared here bundle them, usually with a gondola ride attached. Priority entry on its own starts at €28; the combined guided visits sit around €99. The basilica is free to enter and the queue for it is the reason people pay. Everything below is ordered on traveller rating weighted by review volume, and the versions that add the lagoon islands run nine hours rather than three.
16 tickets and tours compared from €28 refreshed August 30, 2026
One score decides the order, the review-weighted rating, and no operator pays for a place. At most four products of one kind are seated, so the full-day island combinations cannot fill a list about two buildings on one square. Anything with fewer than 250 reviews waits until enough travellers have rated it.
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9 of 16 products naming the Doge's Palace make the list: anything fewer than 250 reviews is held back until enough travellers have rated it, and no kind of ticket takes more than 4 rows. For the rest of the city, see every tour and ticket in Venice.
1 compared from €109 typically 3h 4.72 average
From €109 for three hours, and the only ticket that goes behind the state rooms: the chancellery, the interrogation chambers under the lead roof, and the cell Casanova escaped from in 1756. It crosses the Bridge of Sighs from the inside rather than photographing it from the Ponte della Paglia with everyone else. Small groups, booked well ahead, and the highest-rated single-site product on this page.
6 compared from €33 typically 7h 4.73 average
From €33, median €131, and seven to nine hours. The palace and basilica in the morning, a boat to the glass and lace islands after lunch, a gondola somewhere in between. They rate well and they are a long day in a city where walking between two points takes longer than the map suggests. Read the timings before booking: the ones that give Burano an hour are the ones that rate.
6 compared from €59 typically 3h 4.65 average
The default Venice purchase, from €59 with a €99 median for three to four hours. A guided visit to both buildings, then thirty minutes on the water at a fare the city fixes rather than the operator. Ratings sit between 4.4 and 4.8 and the variable is the gondola departure point: the ranks at the Rialto and San Marco are a traffic jam, the ones off the smaller canals are what people imagined.
3 compared from €28 typically 1h 4.15 average
From €28, median €36, for an hour and a timed slot. Worth knowing what it does and does not do: it skips the palace queue, and St Mark's Basilica next door is free with its own separate line that only a guided booking crosses. The Campanile, the bell tower with the lift, is a third ticket again. Nothing here is expensive; the confusion is what the sixty-euro difference on this page is really for.
€99 median price, from €28
A €99 median, from €28 for palace entry alone to €131 for a full day that adds the lagoon islands. The gap is almost entirely the gondola and the boat, not the buildings: St Mark's Basilica is free, the palace's own ticket is close to the floor price here, and the Campanile is a few euros. A combined ticket at the door covers the palace and the Correr Museum, which most listings do not mention. Around seven products in ten offer free cancellation.
3h30 typical visit · 44% with priority entry
Three hours is the median across the catalogue, and the buildings themselves take less: ninety minutes for the palace, thirty for the basilica, another thirty if you go up the Campanile. Go at opening or in the last two hours; the square between eleven and four in summer is the busiest square metre in Italy. The basilica closes to visitors during services and requires covered shoulders and knees. Acqua alta floods the narthex several days a month between October and January, and duckboards are laid across the square.
Practical answers on prices, priority entry and booking windows, written against the same data the ranking uses.
From €28 for priority entry with a timed slot, with a €99 median across the sixteen products compared here. Guided visits that add St Mark's Basilica and a gondola ride start at €59, and the full days with Murano and Burano at €33. Figures come from the latest data refresh.
Entry to the basilica itself is free, and the queue on the square is what people pay to avoid. Guided tickets from €59 include scheduled access that crosses it. The Pala d'Oro behind the altar, the museum with the bronze horses and the loggia are ticketed separately at the door, and the loggia is the best view of the square there is.
It is the highest-rated single-site ticket on this page. From €109 for three hours through the chancellery, the interrogation rooms under the lead roof and Casanova's cell, ending in the state apartments the standard ticket starts with. Groups are small and it sells out well ahead, so book it before anything else in Venice.
A few days from May to September, and further ahead for the Secret Itineraries, which run a handful of times a day in small groups. Outside summer the palace usually takes walk-ups. The basilica cannot be pre-booked as a free entry; scheduled access comes bundled with a guided ticket.
Ninety minutes for the palace, thirty for the basilica next door, and the median product here runs three hours because it covers both with a guide. Add thirty minutes for the Campanile if the lift queue is short. The Bridge of Sighs is inside the palace route and takes about ninety seconds.
from €15 16 activities · 4.61 average
Canal cruises, river sightseeing and sunset boat trips, with duration and free-cancellation policies side by side.