My beautiful Vegas date was stoked on the gondola rides since before we even arrived in town. So naturally on our last day, we went down to the Venetian in the burning heat and reserved a gondola ride for 9pm. The couple in front of us paid $64 for a private ride, luckily we paid half that and got our own gondola regardless. Good timing I guess.
The gondolier was a nice kid, exchanged some funny words here and there. Unfortunately I was obviously uncomfortable with the chit-chat and small-talking about our Vegas time/where we're from/etc. I felt really bad for my date, she had put her hard-earned money down for the ride to see the lights at night and peacefully float with me, but we had our ear talked off for the very short ride. Maybe some people eat this up but next time I'll be tipping them at the start and ask for a quiet ride. It was so short and with the forced conversation, I was done. Touristy and not for me.