Grand Canal
Party Cruise layout Solo Cruise layout
Appears in	Mario Party 7
Availability	Default
Description	"Collect coins to get more stars! This is a basic course."
Music sample

“Welcome to Grand Canal! The lovely town features balloons, waterways, and gondolas! If you reach the Star Space, you can buy a Star for 20 coins. The Star will move to another location when someone gets one. What a crafty bugger! And watch out for Bowser Time! That chap is naught but trouble! Sometimes he'll even appear and destroy the bridges! Madness! Madness!”

—Toadsworth,Mario Party 7

Grand Canal is a board that is based off of the real-world locationof the same name inVenice, Italy inMario Party 7. Here, singingShy Guys are everywhere and in charge of theOrb Shops and attractions. In Party Cruise, Grand Canal's star requirements are the traditional exchanging 20 coins for astar in a designated location on the board (10 coins in last four turns). In Solo Cruise, players have to beat their opponent by getting two Stars first by buying them for 20 coins each from aStar Space on the board.Bowser Spaces do not appear on the board by default but may appear whenBowser Time occurs.

Possible Star locations[edit]

• One space behind theBlue Space in front of the Start Space.
• On the boat three spaces after the first Orb store.
• Atop the double red house when going up on the first junction.
• In front of the second junction.
• Three spaces before the Blooper event.
• Three spaces after the Blooper event.
• Upwards after the third junction, before aDK Space.
• At the end of the stone drawbridge, before the fourth junction.
• Right after the second Orb store, when taking a left at the fourth junction.

Events[edit]

Mario collecting Coins during the Shy Guy ride

• Landing on theGreen Space near the start makes the player do acoin game, where the Shy Guys throw coins andSpiny eggs at them (similar toUkiki onCastaway Bay fromMario Party 6). If the player collects 20 coins, the Shy Guy offers to trade them for a Star.
• Landing on the Green Spaces near the gondola house makes a Singing Shy Guy come out asking if they want a ride. Accepting this takes the player to the gondola house on the other side of the board, collecting coins (and avoiding Spinies) on the way.
• The Green Space on what looks like theLeaning Tower of Pisa causes the tower to lean over, dropping players in the water, where fourCheep-Cheeps squirt them back out to the start.
• The Green Space in front of the jugglingBlooper activates a guessing game, where Blooper juggles four chests that have: aStar, five coins, aDark Star, and nothing (in Solo Cruise, there are always five coins, but three Dark Stars).
• If a player lands on either of the two Green Spaces on the stone drawbridge, the bridge opens and sends the player (and any other player on the bridge) to a different area on the board.

Bowser Time[edit]

WhenBowser Time occurs,Bowser does one of three things:

• Takes a souvenir photograph of all of the players, and makes them pay 10 or 20 coins each for it. Then, he leaves without giving anyone the photo. This occurs in all boards except forBowser's Enchanted Inferno!
• Flattens one of the Orb Shops, and replaces it with one of his own (called Bowser City).Koopa Kid stops anyone who passes it and throws them in the shop, where Bowser sells them a worthless item (or aKoopa Kid Orb) for twenty coins. This also occurs inPagoda Peak andPyramid Park.
• Uses hisKoopa Clown Car to throwBob-ombs at the bridges, destroying them. New, sturdy stone bridges are then made, which only haveBowser Spaces on them. These last for three turns before returning to normal. Additionally, allCharacter Spaces andKoopa Kid Spaces on the bridges are removed upon doing so.

Spaces (Party Cruise)[edit]

Type of Space	Number of Spaces
Blue Spaces	48 (39 if the bridges are destroyed due to Bowser Time)
Red Spaces	9
Green Spaces	7
Mic Spaces	2
Duel Spaces	2
DK Spaces	2
Bowser Spaces	0 (9 if the bridges are destroyed due to Bowser Time)
Total of Spaces	70

Spaces (Solo Cruise)[edit]

Type of Space	Number of Spaces
Blue Spaces	35
Red Spaces	8
Green Spaces	7
Mic Spaces	3
Duel Spaces	7
DK Spaces	3
Bowser Spaces	3
Total of Spaces	66

Orbs[edit]

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  Mushroom Orb

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  Sluggish 'Shroom Orb

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  Super 'Shroom Orb

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  Flutter Orb (board-exclusive)

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  Hammer Bro Orb

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  Piranha Plant Orb

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  Mr. Blizzard Orb

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  Pink Boo Orb

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  Spiny Orb

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  Tweester Orb

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Names in other languages[edit]

References[edit]

• Towns
• Aquatic areas
• Mario Party 7 boards