Venice: Secret Itinerary Tour - still need guided tour of Doge’s Palace & St Mark’s?

After the Secret Itinerary tour you can stay in Doges Palace and tour on your own

You will still need St Marks, the tour does not include the basilica ( also easily done on your own or use RS audio guide)
Time it so you are there when it is illuminated, those hours are listed somewhere on the website

We did the Secret Itineraries tour of Doge's Palace in late April - great tour! After it ends, you are free to stay and wander around for as long as you want. St Mark's is totally separate. We just bought our tickets for the Basilica on site which was super easy and didn't do a tour.

Did you think a guided tour was desirable after the Secret Itinerary tour? Can we get a good understanding of the Palace and the Basilica without a guide?

You don’t need a guide for the Doges Palace after finishing the Secret Itin tour. The rooms are well marked and described.

A decent guidebook would suffice for the Basilica, methinks.

Thank you!!

We did Secret Itinerary Tour last summer and would have liked a guide for the rest of Doge's Palace. I did not find it that easy to understand what we were looking at. You get let into the rest of the palace after the Secret Itinerary tour and are basically on your own.

That said, it did not seem that easy to figure out how to do that. There seemed to be possibility of a tour where we bought our tickets but not sure how to do that with Secret Itinerary Tour. If you go through Get your Guide, you will pay for admission twice. So no easy solution.

St. Mark's Basilica does not need a tour. There is a very thorough audio guide you can access as pod cast on Rick Steve's site. Make sure you go to museum upstairs as well.