I see two tour companies offer full day tours (Padua to Venice or Venice to Padua) but we don't have a full day to spend hopping on and off at that Palazzo's along the Brenta Canal. I was wondering if instead of train we could book a private tour company / boat or a water taxi type boat to take us through the canal from Padua to the Venice area.
Seems like a good scenic alternative to the train, although I know it would take longer. I find nothing in a search.
I hope they permit you to do what we did! We only wanted to see the mansions and not go to Padua which we’d visited earlier.. They charged less for that. We got off at the restaurant where the group was having lunch, ate a great lunch by ourselves, and took a bus back to Venice.
We enjoyed seeing the Palladian villas so another year we we returned and toured the Veneto w/o Venice and saw lots more of his villas as well as his bridge in beautiful Alpine Bassano de Grappa.
