Great gondola ride experience! Booking this way makes the process much less stressful because there’s no worry that you’ll have to wait or haggle for pricing. The ride was perfect, a 30-minute loop through some of the smaller canals beginning in the Grand Canal (and it did last the full 30 minutes). We passed by some other gondolas with musicians so that was a nice treat! The meeting point was a little confusing, you have to go to the Alilaguna ticket office, even though that’s not the name of the gondola company—they took our reservation information and created a hand-written voucher and directed us to the correct gondolier. Once we had that we were basically able to hop right onboard, there was no wait. :)

We hired a private Gondola for two, the Gondolier was friendly and welcoming, asking us where we were from and guided us through the canals safely and smoothly. Only negative would be that we paid nearly 90 euros for 30 minutes and we were back to where we started in 20 minutes.

It was a bit complicated to find the gondola, you have to go through the terminal near Piazza S.Marco then with the receipt go to the correct "station", in my case the lily. 20/25 min. Tour, I expected something more, in the smaller canals up to the grand canal, a nice and talkative gondolier. Expensive, but it was worth it, seen from the gondola Venice is even more beautiful.