I was looking to buy tickets for St Mark's Basilica on June 1st or 2nd, but it seems that all of the allotted times are sold out. I check the Walks of Italy website and they have a tour of the Basilica with Doge's Palace for $135 which seems like a lot. my friends and I were planning on using RS audio guide for the Basilica, so is there anywhere else that I could buy just the ticket for admission?
Posted by
Seattle, WA
16321 posts
Are you on this website? This is the official one.
https://basilicasanmarco.skiperformance.com/en/store#/en/buy?skugroup_id=2524
Tickets are available for the 15:30 and 16:00 time slots on June 1. Not on June 2 (Sunday).
Follow the instructions here to get to them:
https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/italy/tickets-for-st-mark-basilica
Or you can go to this third party site and pay more for the skip the line plus audio guide; They say they have 2:00 pm on Sunday June 2 available. I used this site in desperation last September for tickets when the official site was sold out. No problem with the tickets.
Posted by
15 posts
Based on your post- thank you for the reminder!- I just booked tickets for the Basilica on May 4 on the site "Get your guide" for 31.00 per person including a guide. Good refund policy too, if needed.
Posted by
31 posts
I learned from another poster to put in the basilica plus museum and more tickets were available. In the end it did not help me because I waited too long so I ended up buying an after hours tour of it at night. You can always stand in line the day of. I had no idea skip the line tickets would be so popular or I would have booked them much sooner.
Posted by
Washington DC
27142 posts
The line looked really long the day I went to St. Mark's in September 2022 (but I'm sure more people will be traveling in June 2024). I showed up between 10 and 10:30 AM, I believe, and I got through the line in just about exactly 30 minutes. Not ideal for someone on a quick visit to Venice, but it wouldn't be awful, and I'm sure there are some times of the day when the line is shorter than at mid-morning. Based on the reasonable speed with which the line moved, I had a feeling they just don't sell all that many online tickets for each time period.