Warning!  Don't go on this ride if you just got back from Disneyland (Pirates of the Caribbean is much better) or have ridden in a real gondola before.  (Okay, so I rode on an authentic Venetian gondola on Lake Merritt in Oakland http://www.gondolaservizio.com/ and not in Venice).  No matter, this gondola ride was cheesy and a waste of money.  $16 PER PERSON for 15 minutes of sitting on a motorized boat shaped like a gondola going up and down a canal inside a mall is a rip off.  I know I know, no one forced me on this ride.  But I had to check it off my \""to-do\"" list and I was finally able to get two people to go on with me.