Venice night walking tour: walks, cruises and music after dark

The night walk, $77, 90 minutes, 72 reviews at 4.9. The only Venice night walking tour on the site that is sold as a walk at night. The listing describes a guided evening through local spots, lit by the street and building lights, and pitches it at friends and couples. This is the evening walking tour Venice listings describe most plainly.

Legends and mysteries at sunset, $44, 90 minutes, 1,139 reviews at 4.8. A small-group guided walk through San Polo, its alleys and canals, built around the stories and mysteries of the district, timed for sunset. There is no Venice ghost walking tour among the listings; this is the nearest match, and the most reviewed Venice night walking tour on the page.

Both cards sit on the homepage with the daytime walks.

Sunset jazz cruise, $90, 90 minutes, 1,621 reviews at 4.8. A catamaran out for the sunset, with live jazz on board and a glass of spritz or Prosecco with cicchetti. It is the shorter and cheaper of the two boats, and costs $13 more than a Venice night walking tour of the same 90 minutes.

Galleon dinner, $134, three hours, 2,427 reviews at 4.8. A candlelit dinner cruise through the Venetian Lagoon on a galleon, with the chef’s specialities and St Mark’s Square seen from the water as night falls. Of the listings on this page, it is the closest thing to a Venice night boat tour, and the longest time on the water.

Other boats — motorboats, electric boats and kayaks — are on the boat tours page.

Opera in a palace, $106, two hours, 4,518 reviews at 4.7. The most reviewed listing on this page. The performance is set in Palazzo Barbarigo Minotto on the Grand Canal, each part of the show in a different hall.

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, $39, 75 minutes, 4,097 reviews at 4.7. A live performance of the four concertos for strings. It is the lowest price on the page. Neither music listing gives a start time, so check the calendar.

After hours at St Mark’s, $200, 3.5 hours, 482 reviews at 4.8. An evening guided visit to St Mark’s Basilica and the Doge’s Palace, including the prisons and the gilded decoration inside St Mark’s Basilica. Daytime tickets are on the Doge’s Palace page.

A Venice evening gondola ride is not sold as its own listing on this site. None of the gondola descriptions names an evening or night departure; they describe the route — the Grand Canal, quieter side canals, the Bridge of Sighs — and not the hour.

The evening gondola ride Venice cost on this site is simply the listing price, since prices are shown per listing rather than per time slot: $41 for the shared Grand Canal ride, our top pick, and $178 for the private ride through hidden canals. Evening gondola ride Venice tickets are the same listings: open one and check which start times its calendar shows for your date.

If you picture a romantic gondola ride Venice at night, the closest listing is the private champagne ride: $246 for an hour, 34 reviews at 4.6, though it too states a route and not a time. Getting a night gondola ride Venice listings can actually deliver depends on the start times each calendar shows for your date. This site shows no separate price for a nighttime gondola ride Venice visitors ask about; every gondola is compared on the gondola page.

On price, the two walks are the cheapest guided options here: $44 and $77 for 90 minutes, against $90 for the jazz cruise and $134 for the galleon. On ratings, the night walk has the highest score here, 4.9, but from 72 reviews; the sunset walk has 4.8 from 1,139.

A Venice night walking tour suits you if you want the streets themselves. If you want to sit, the opera and the concert have the most reviews on the page, 4,518 and 4,097. The after-hours visit at $200 is the one to choose if St Mark’s Basilica is the reason you came.