Venice California Tour: Explore Beach, Canals, Culture

Explore Venice Beach’s canals, culture, and history on a 4.5-hour open-air van tour. Feel like a local with Surf City Tours.

Duration: 4 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Poseidon Paddle & Surf - Start your tour at our surf shop location in Santa Monica, about a block away from the famous pier. As our guest you get 10% off any of the merchandise.
  • Dogtown - Learn all about the historic neighborhood of Dogtown, birthplace of modern skateboarding, on the border of Santa Monica and Venice.
  • **Abbot Kinney…
What's Included
  • Discount on bike rentals
What's Not Included
  • Lunch
Additional Information

Join us for the perfect in-depth tour of world famous Venice, California. Discover the beach, the canals, the culture and history on our guided 4.5 hour tour. Your live guide will show you the sights on our customized open air van, and make sure you end your day feeling like a local. Venice is one of the most unique locations on the planet, we allow you…

Location
1654 Ocean Ave
Ocean Avenue
Please arrive 15 minutes early for check in. Meet us at Poseidon Surf Shop, just a block south of the Santa Monica Pier on Ocean Ave.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Ray2407
Mar 13, 2025
A more relaxing tour of LA Sights - If you want ease and a stress free experience coupled with seeing some wonderful sites around the Venice area of LA, then this is for you. The Ease was being picked up and dropped off at the hotel we were staying at to explore the 4 main areas of the tour itinerary. With this tour there was plenty of 'own' time walking so its not all sat in a tour vehicle which by the way was a open topped minibus. Our tour driver was Adam who happened also to be the owner. Adam was a very nice person explaining and sharing information throughout and open to questions at any time. At the 4 mentioned locations, we were then able to see around the area on foot having been briefed by Adam of what to look for and expect. We particuarly loved the walk along the tow paths and crossing the many bridges of the Venice Canals. Seeing the adjoining dwellings to the tow paths showing there charming make up of the open looked gardens. We are very pleased we booked this tour and would recommend this to anyone. It's a different experience to the previous day tour with the same company but that too which I will feedback on was also excellent.
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Helen_m
Oct 11, 2024
We wouldn't book with anyone else in the future - Adam was great. He was knowledgeable, friendly, helpful and accommodating, a really nice person and we were more than happy with the sights he showed us and the facts that he shared about them all. He even arranged a pick up from our hotel for a tour we had booked the following day. We were lucky as nobody else had booked that day so it was a truly personal tour. We would highly recommend this tour, and any others by Surf City Tours, they are a great bunch of people. Thanks again Adam, you are a gentleman!
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Stuartlorraine55
Oct 24, 2024
river - got to see a lot a nice place relax tour. river walk was lovely. beaches was beautiful and not to busy in October.
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From $65
up to 9 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).