Italy|Venice|Detailed guide to authentic gondola rides
There are many malls and hotels around the world that are styled after Venice, where you can see gondola rides, such as the Venetian Hotel in Macau, and even similar scenes in a mall in Shanghai. Since we're in Venice this time, we must take a ride to see what the original is like.
📌【Attraction Name】Gondola Ride Experience
💰【Ticket Price】80 euros/boat/half hour, 100 euros/boat/half hour at night, up to 6 people can ride. Usually, tour groups or individual tourists gather six people at the dock. The scenery is good, but the photo effect is not. If you want to sit comfortably and take good photos, it's best to charter a boat for two people.
📍【Attraction Location】There are many docks on the main island of Venice, Italy. The most common ones are here at St. Mark's Square, or near the Rialto Bridge. If you board a boat nearby, you can visit many core attractions and go into the alleys.
🚇【Transportation】
●You can take a train to Venice: Take a train from all over Italy to Santa Lucia train station. This is the main island train station in Venice. You can buy a water bus ticket or walk to the main attractions on the island. It is recommended to book a hotel nearby.
🌈【Attraction Introduction】
👉Venice's waterways crisscross, and the streets on land are narrow and complex. First-time visitors can easily get lost. The core attractions are mainly accessible on foot. If you live on the outer islands, you can take a water bus. The wealthy can even call a water taxi. Follow the navigation to reach many places, and there are no cars here.
👉The sexy "gondola" is just a tourist project, not a means of transportation to various places. This black boat, because of its unique shape, exquisite hull, luxurious interior, comfortable ride, and the feeling of sitting in a luxury car, is still very popular despite its high price. (There are many rowing boats in the water towns of Jiangnan, China. The disadvantage is that the interior is not luxurious, otherwise it can be a bit more expensive). The boatmen here all wear tight-fitting knitted tops with horizontal stripes and a straw hat, standing at the stern of the boat, elegantly rowing a long single oar. These people are professionals and their income is said to be very high. Some can even sing.
👉Depending on the boarding location, each tour boat will have a different route. You can talk to the boatman yourself. Important attractions can be reached on foot, but it is very interesting for the boat to be in the wide Grand Canal or to go to some narrow alleys. This experience is much stronger than the gondolas in the artificially made malls. When the wide Grand Canal suddenly appears in front of you, and there is the evening sunset, the scenery is extremely beautiful.
💡【Precautions】
●Pay attention to the passenger limit of the gondola, do not walk around on the boat, it is best to ask the boatman. Keep balance.
●You can bargain when it's not busy, you'll know when you go
🎨【Personal Feelings】
As a symbol of Venice, since we're here, let's not worry about the budget and enjoy the best experience.
Before the epidemic, I came to Tokyo Shini Ocean Park many times, but I didn't come to take the gondola cruise. At that time, I was younger and could play other projects. After the epidemic, I came again and arranged a gondola cruise. [View] Imitate Venice Water City, [Interest] A different trip. [Cost-effective] High!
Awesome even in winter. Never forget to take a Gondole ride.
Venice Gondola Cruise Venice is a city built in water, the river is the road, so the so-called Venice tourism is to take the gondola cruise through the city river. Take a gondola cruise, listen to the songs of the ubiquitous Italian boatmen, put on masks, shuttle under the sigh bridge, watch the bustling crowds on the roadside, and the church of the Virgin Mary in the sunset, and feel romantic and prosperous.
Generally, I will not consider it next time.
A trip to Venice by gondola is also an inevitable choice. The boat is smooth, flexible and brisk under the control of the boatman. The streets (riverways) are winding, boats come and go, many intersections and exquisite bridges, on both sides are ancient beautiful buildings, houses, shops, government agencies... There was no roar of the machine motor, no noise of other cities, only the sound of the boatman's plucking water, and the city was running silently. The boat reached a wide open water, and the boatman pointed to the bridge behind him and suddenly said in blunt Chinese "Beautiful Bridge!", meaning let us take a picture of the beautiful bridge. We all gave him a thumbs up, and the boatman was very happy, as if he was still a little excited. Actually let go of the singing voice and sang, "sister, you are sitting on the bow, brother I walk on the shore, Enn love love ropes hanging around..." The sound is the standard Italian tenor, singing the Chinese popular song "Love of the Skinner", ushered in a round of applause. Unexpected surprise, everyone is very happy.
The gondola boatman now wears only a tight knit top with a crossbar or a coat and a straw hat. The uniforms of the boatmen used to be strange and elegant. When rowing, the boatman stands on the stern and rows with long single paddles resting on a curved paddle. Rowing gondola is a physical activity, strong body responsive is the basic condition, to control the small gondola in the narrow river to have years of practical experience. On weekdays, gondola is mainly used as a tourist boat, these boats traversing the canal waterway, Take tourists to enjoy the beauty of Venice. It is more expensive to take the gondola, and the entire cruise route takes about 45 minutes to be about €80-120, and can carry up to 6 tourists.
I have experienced the gondola cruise ship at the Venetian Hotel in Macau, but after all, it is in the hotel's building. Although there are artificial sky and its realistic imitation buildings, I have not been immersed in the gondola cruise ship in Venice. And the Italian boatman's occasional song, as it should be.