Getting from Marco Polo to Venice

JJwritergirl · April 2012

My travel books suggest several options for transportation from the airport to the city (train, fairy, etc). From your experiences, what should we do?

We will be arriving early afternoon next Saturday.

TravelingJen · April 2012

We took the Alilaguna water bus from Venice to the airport, which departed from St. Mark's Square. It was very easy. You can find their website here and you can actually purchase your tickets ahead of time on the website.

desmerelda317 · April 2012

TravelingJen:
We took the Alilaguna water bus from Venice to the airport, which departed from St. Mark's Square. It was very easy. You can find their website here and you can actually purchase your tickets ahead of time on the website.

This. The Alilaguna is really the easiest. Water Taxi is the fastest but it is ridiculously expensive. You can take the bus, but once you get to the city you have to take a boat anyway (unless your hotel is right by Piazzale Roma, in which case, take the bus) - might as well just save yourself having to transfer to various types of transportation and take the boat in the first place. When you leave the airport, follow the signs and the walkway to the water taxis. The Alilaguna leaves from the same dock. Make sure you get on the right bus (check the sign to see which color bus takes you to the stop you want to go to). Have a seat and enjoy the ride

BonsoirLune · April 2012

Going in, we took the shuttle bus from the airport to the train station. (We flew in and out of Venice, but were staying in Florence first). Going back we took the Alilaguna.

mouse10031978 · April 2012

We are going in July, and I had the same question, so this was very helpful. The Alilaguna seems to be the way to go!

sunshine_day_dreams · April 2012

We did Alilaguna as well. It's pretty cheap, but takes quite a while. We only went to San Zaccaria and it was over 50 min. Still worth it, IMO because the water taxis are expensive.