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Buying Your Vaporetto Tickets On-line With Venice Connected You can now buy your transport ticket on-line through the Venice Connected website. Venice Connected vaporetto travel ticket prices used to be based on your planned date of travel and vary depending on whether it’s Low/Medium season, Medium/High season or Peak period and it was possible to make savings of up to 33% for Low season travel. However, as of June 2012, the Venice ACTV transit authority no longer … [Read more...]
A Joy Ride to Find Out How to Use the Venice People Mover: On a recent trip to Venice, we took a ride on the People Mover to see how this transport system works. The Venice People Mover is a monorail system that links three of Venice's transport hubs: Piazzale Roma - the main Venice public bus terminal from where you can catch the public buses, the airport buses to Marco Polo Airport and Treviso Airport and taxis. There is also a car-park here. Venice Marittima Cruise Terminal - … [Read more...]
People Mover Linking Piazzale Roma, Marittima Cruise Terminal and Tronchetto: For the many visitors and Venetian commuters who need to get from Venice to the Venice cruise terminal or the Tronchetto car park, the Venice People Mover has made transport a lot more convenient and comfortable. Launched in April 2010, the People Mover offers cheap, easy and quick connection between Piazzale Roma, the Marittima Cruise Terminal and the Tronchetto carpark station. Venice People Mover The Venice … [Read more...]
A Venice insider's view on the best hotels, restaurants, shopping and places to see We're off to Italy in August, with a couple of stops in Venice, so I was especially interested in reviewing Bianca Reyes' "Venice for rookies" eBook. Let's hope you think my words are worth your time reading them! A Ten Year Love Affair Bianca Reyes finally moved to Venice from the USA in 2008, after a ten year long love affair with Italy. She learnt Venetian and Italian, and how to live like a local. Now … [Read more...]
Motoscafi (water taxis) are Venice's limousines The fastest, and most glamorous, way to get around Venice is by motoscafo (water taxi), especially the retro mahoghany-hulled ones. These boats are especially convenient when it rains, because you can sit inside their enclosed cabin. Venice Water Taxi Rates But they are expensive: there is a minimum set charge of around €15, and the trip will only be a maximum of seven minutes; after that meter charges go up in 15 second … [Read more...]
How to buy a ticket, how to use it and how much it costs! You need to buy a ticket before getting on board, and you buy tickets from the ticket seller or new multilingual ticket-vending machines at the boat stop. The machines take credit cards, euro banknotes or euro coins. They do give change, but the maximum you can get back is €9.95. For stops (fermate) that only serve one line, there will be just one landing stage, so you only need to make sure the boat you board is heading … [Read more...]
Vaporetti: Where they go in Venice and route numbers You can split the various routes or Linee (lines) into three main categories: Venice City Centre Lines Circular Lines Lagoon Lines Venice City Centre Lines No mystery here. These routes are the ones you'll use most. They criss-cross the Grand Canal and the Giudecca Canal, with fermata (stops) giving easy access to most of the famous sights and monuments you'll want to … [Read more...]
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We're Helen and Tony Page, and we love travelling - lucky as we've been doing it for the last few decades!
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