Holidays in Venice (Italy): tours from Almaty

went to Venice, hotel right by the canal, came out in the morning – water glistening, gondolas parked. food was okay, pasta every day, but the air conditioner in the room hummed like a tractor, had to sleep with the window open, at least the mosquitoes didn't eat me alive, got lucky probably, the guide told us everything about the square, wasn't boring, came home and these streets and bridges are still before my eyes

took a tour to Venice for four days, the hotel was right by the canal. checked in fine, but the AC hummed like a tractor and I tossed and turned all night. the guide we got was decent, told us everything about these bridges and where to get a gondola cheaper — wrote it down on a napkin, then lost it, oh well. they fed us at a cafe nearby, the pasta with seafood there — finger-licking good, but the local wine was sour (well I just don't like that kind, try as you might). on the last day I went to San Marco in the morning while there were few tourists, the square was empty, some bold pigeons, kept getting into my bag. came back tanned, but with one thought — these gondolas are crazy expensive, unlikely I'll ride one a second time...

Венецияны көргенде бірден ұнады. Гондоламен сырғанап жүріп, судың иісі мұрнымды жаулап алды. Алайда көшелер тым тар, адам көп, әбден шаршадым. Кафеде отырып, бір кесе кофе іштім, бағасы қымбат болды. Сан-Марко алаңындағы көгершіндер қолымнан нанды жey салды. Кешке қайтып келе жатып, көпірлерден өттім, аяғым ауырды. Жалпы алғанда, сапар жақсы өтті, бірақ қайта бармас едім. Төрт жұлдыз қоямын, себебі әсер қалдырды.

Сұраныс бойынша құжаттарды рәсімдеу үшін агенттікке бардым, себебі Венецияға бару керек еді. Қараша айындағы сапар жақсы өтті, бірақ қонақүйдегі бөлме өте кішкентай болды, бұл көңіл күйді біршама бұзды. Дегенмен, қаланың өзі таңғажайып, әсіресе су арқылы жүретін көліктер мен көпірлер ерекше әсер қалдырды.

went to clear my head after the divorce, and then this Italy with Venice even though i just wanted the sea. The manager at the agency got everything sorted fast, didn't have to ask twice a hundred times, the hotel turned out to be not in Venice itself but in Mestre, but i got vaporetto tickets to the islands on the spot and saved a decent bit.. liked that you don't have to rush anywhere, you get on a boat and go wherever you want, only in december it's damp and windy there, never took my jacket off at all, but San Marco without the crowds – that's something, drank coffee standing at the bar like a local, but those narrow streets where i got lost like five times in one evening, once almost fell into a canal after slipping, would still come back there again

srochno nuzhen byl tur v italiyu, po delam, ne otdyhat ehal. rodstvennik ostavil mne bumagi po kvartire i nado bylo vse reshat na meste, a ne udalenno. blushiy tur menedzher poppedalsya, sam ne znayu pochemu soglasilsya. desyat dney v venetsii. priletel, srazu pochuvstvoval etot zapah syrosti i kamnya chto li... v hotel nomer malenkiy, no chistyy, poloten tseplyali za dver — neponyatno zachem. po delam hodil v senatoria, tam takoy starinnyy dvor cherez mostik, yeshe zapomnil kak v kafe rano utrom rabotnik protiral stoliki i mychal chto to sebe pod nos. gulyal po uzkim ulochkam, odnazhdy zaputalsya i vyshel k kanalu gde nichego net krome somnitelnyh turistov s telefonami, smeshnaya situtsiya. dumayu sezdil by yeshe no tolko bez etoy begotni po bumagam konechno

We went with my wife to celebrate her anniversary — and I went to the agency for a tour to italy, even though before that I'd only seen Europe in pictures. Venice, the canals, those gandolas, the hotel right by the water — the manager picked everything so well that even I, a person who's always unhappy with everything, came back happy as can be.

flew to Venice because I needed a reset after the quarterly report, and the manager picked a hotel right by the canal... didn't expect honestly that it would all work out like that. Those gondolas, pizza on the go, the Rialto bridge full of tourists — but I'd come back.

I arrived in Venice and immediately realized — all that packing up was not for nothing, because the city really looks like a postcard, though the first thing that caught my eye was the smell of the water and the crowds of tourists near San Marco, and while I was looking for my vaporetto I almost went the wrong way, but then when I was riding along the canal, holding on to the handrail and looking at those houses right out of the water, I realized it was all worth it. Five out of five, because even the rain that started after lunch and made me buy an umbrella from the first salller I came across for some ridiculous money didn't ruin the impression, and the gondolier who took us through the narrow alleys sang so-so, but that's already trifles.

booked a tour to Venice through an agency at the end of March, when we still had snow lying around – I arrived and went straight onto a vaporetto, the water in the canals smells of silt and diesel, gondoliers are yelling at each other across the canal, and I'm standing with a suitcase on a bridge and don't understand where to go, because the navigator in the alleys goes crazy from these walls.. later I realized that getting lost there is normal and even a thrill, at the hotel they gave a key with a huge keychain that doesn't fit in a pocket and bangs against your leg when you walk up the stairs with no elevator, but the view from the window of the roof tiles and pipes was worth dragging this suitcase around, though the breakfasts were so-so, but the coffee was decent.

Went to Venice through an agency, and you know — four stars, no more. Gondolas, bridges, all that is of course beautiful, but there are so many people that on St. Mark's Square I squeezed through sideways, but the coffee in a little hole-in-the-wall place in an alley — a cup of espresso, three sips, and I stood at the counter like a local. The hotel they gave us was decent, though the breakfast was meager — a croissant and that's it, for that kind of money. Came back with a magnet, with tired legs and with the thought that next time I'll go without a tour group. The weather in February was a pleasant surprise — sunny.

We went to this agency purely because of the visa, since we had zero desire to deal with the paperwork for Italy ourselves. Well, we booked a tour to Venice, though I was doubting until the last moment — the August heat scared me, and besides, how much of that Venice is there really. We arrived, checked into a little hotel on the mainland, and got to the city by vaporetto, and honestly those rides on the water turned out to be almost better than Venice itself. The gondola is of course expensive and touristy, but we still went for a ride, though the seats were damp and it smelled a bit of silt. I also remember a small pastry shop near the Rialto bridge, where I got a cannoli with ricotta, and my husband refused and then regretted it all day. We drank coffee at a bar on the square standing up, like the locals, at the counter, and it came out twice as cheap as sitting at a table — a small thing, but nice. We wandered through the narrow streets without a map, a couple of times we hit a canal, walked back, but never once regretted the wasted time.

Venice is really something else, when I saw these canals in real life I almost dropped my phone in the water, good thing I managed to catch it... gondola is expensive of course but it's worth it, though someone almost hit me in the forehead with an oar while I was taking photos) overall I'm thrilled and recommend it to everyone, only these endless bridges - my knees were falling off afterwards, but that's minor stuff

I booked a trip to Italy through an Almaty agency, because I was too lazy to deal with the visa and transfers myself. I did have to get nervous when the documents were delayed, but in the end it all worked out. It was my first time in Venice and the first thing that struck me was water instead of roads, well and the crowds of course. The gondolas stood along the canals, I rode one, expensive, but for the checkmark it's a must. One detail stuck with me... the air conditioning didn't work in the hotel, and it was hot outside, so I had to sleep with the window open. The breakfasts were so-so — croissants and coffee, I mostly ate the local pastries in the alleys. I walked through the narrow streets without a map and got lost a couple of times, but I found a great pizzeria where only locals were sitting. I came back tired but was happy, such a trip is worth repeating at least once. Overall the organization of the trip was at a good level despite the small flaws.

I spent a long time choosing where to dash off for the holidays, I wanted warmth and something easy on the eye, so I came to a Kazakh agency almost at random. The manager did everything quickly, without a pile of extra paperwork and a week later I was already stomping along the pavements of Venicce, eating pasta and not counting my steps. Emotions were overflowing me to the brim: canals, gondolas, wine from plastic cups on the embankment.

Priexala v Veneciyu i srazu ponyala - eto lyubov. Xodila po uzkim ulochkam, potrogala steny rukami, oni teplye i shershavye, voobshe ne takie kak na fotkax. Menedzher vse uspela rasskazat eshe do poezdki, poetomu ya bila spokoyna. Zhalko tolko bazilikata bila chastichno v lesax, no eto melochi, vpechatlenie ne isportilo. Vermulas i uzhe xochu obratno!

Bought a tour at the agency, and never once regretted it. In Venice it was just awesome walking these narrow streets, drinking coffee on the square, and then zoning out on the canals with boats, but these brdiges every meter — my legs by the end of the day just fell off from so many steps and constantly weaving between crowds of tourists. All in all, got way more impressions than I could handle, money well spent.

took it because a friend talked me into it — she herself had no time for vacation but i wanted to break out of this summer at least somewhere, and she found a tour to Venice through a local agency where she herself had booked a trip to Turkey before so i didn't really choose just went and booked it. It came out expensive if you compare with going on your own but at least transfers hotels and guide all included you don't think about anything just go and that's it... and in Venice itself the first hours i was totally lost from the crowds on San Marco, though the gondola did its thing despite the heat and the smell from the water in some places not the most pleasant, yeah, the impression was spoiled by the coffee prices near the square and by the fact that one museum turned out to be closed for no clear reason.. i came back tired but with a slight feelling that it wasn't a waste of money, a solid four

Bought a tour to Venice — a city that smells of the sea and old stones, and was happy with it. Plus the manager arranged everything without fuss and unnecessary questions.

we went mainly because of my sister, she got it into her head to celebrate her anniversary in Italy, and I was supposedly the one who had to organize everything, I looked for a tour through agencies for a long time, at one in Almaty they offered me a route with Venice and I agreed without really thinking.. those gondolas, narrow streets, bridges — beautiful of course, but I remember more how we dragged a bag of souvenirs in the rain and drank coffee standing at some bar, because there was nowhere to sit. I bought local cheese to take home, it smelled in the suitcase for another week after we got back. I came back angry, tired and absolutely happy