Venice: Morning Doge's Palace Priority Ticket

Rated 4 stars instead of 5 not because of the Palace (that was stunning!) but because I bought priority tickets hoping to avoid waiting outside during a 40 degree heatwave, but we still had to queue to get in. I even asked someone on the door if this was the que for priority ticket holders as the line was quite long (because I thought I was in the wrong line) and to my surprise she said yes! We eventually got in and the palace was incredible! Well worth a visit. Also another reason for knocking off a star was because the cafe was a bit chaotic, as in, it wasn’t clear that you couldn’t buy food unless you were sat at a table, we were hoping to grab a snack and be on our way but we had to buy our drinks and then wait for a table to be served just to be able to have a quick snack.

We bought Skip the Line tickets and it was well worth it because of how busy it is right now. Doge’s Palace was an amazing site witty visiting. We did a self tour which was sufficient as we moved at our own pace and could easily read the descriptions of all the sites. The ticket shop was easy to find and they even had a nice gift shop with souvenirs of the city. The only recommendation would be to allow us to use the tickets on the app vs picking up paper tickets at the tour office. We went at 9am and it was the beginning of the busyness so get there early.

Geweldig, kon gelijk doorlopen via een ingang aan de zijkant van het paleis. Ik heb geen geduld voor een tour, dus ik koos het toegangsticket gecombineerd met audiotour - alleen de audiotour is gratis wat wordt verstrekt door de overheid, er staat een bord in het paleis met de informatie dat je de MuVe app kan downloaden en ter plekke moet je de QR-code scannen om toegang te krijgen tot de audioguide. Het paleis is werkelijk prachtig, en met zo'n skip the line ticket is het gewoon geweldig om zulke attracties te bezoeken. De tickets ophalen was vlak achter het paleis, bij een lokale ticketoffice waar ze tours verkochten voor de regio (ook bijv. boottochten of andere tickets voor de attracties in de regio). Persoonlijk vind ik het online kopen van deze tickets echt geweldig en ik hoop dat het in andere steden ook zo soepel verloopt.