Venice - how to get from airport to hotel

[10suzy]

What is the best way for 6 of us travelling together to get from the airport to our hotel on Calle Vallareso (San Marco stop)? With all the luggage, is it reasonable to take the Alilaguna water bus? Or Will 6 plus luggage fit in one private water taxi? What is the cost?

[wwinfl91]

Here's a good site with lots of information on transportation in and around Venice.

 

http://europeforvisitors.com/venice/articles/vi-transport.htm

 

There are larger water taxis that would probably handle 6 people and their luggage. You will probably also need to one to get from the hotel to the ship later unless the hotel can provide you that service.

 

Here is a site where you can actually reserve one to meet you at the airport.

 

http://www.venicewelcome.com/servizi/taxi/watertaxi.htm

 

and another

 

http://www.venice-rentals.com/venice/index-services.html

 

To get from the airport to San Marco you could take the special airport waterbus service which handles luggage a lot better than the regular city waterbuses do. But depending on how far your hotel is from where they would leave you off you might still have a hard time getting there. The bridges in Venice and there are a lot of them don't have ramps but rather have steps so even wheeled luggage has to be lifted up and carried to the top level and then back down the other side.

 

I tried checking a couple of sites for your hotels actual location and unfortunately didn't have much luck in locating a map. After looking closer at your post you are saying your hotel is on the Calle Vallareso and didn't give a hotel name.

 

Hope this helps some. Have a great next cruise.

[juliejoe]

Our plan is to take the blue bus (space under the bus for luggage) from the airport to Piazzale Roma. There we will store our large pieces of luggage for 3 EU/day each piece. We will take the vaporetto along the Grand Canal to our hotel near Rialto Bridge - but you can go on to San Marco. We will return by vaporetto to Piazzale Roma the next day, pick up our luggage and take a taxi from there to the port (a very short distance). This is the least expensive way to transfer and for us the best. We will not have to try to navigate Venice with any more than our carry-on luggage.

[wwinfl91]

That is a very similar plan to what we did when we were in Venice in 2003 except we were leaving from Venice after our hotel stay so we went to the airport on the cruise line transport, a bus, and stored our bigger luggage at the held luggage office at the airport. Then we took the airport water bus back to a stop near our hotel and checked in with our carryon luggage. We stayed 3 days and then took the airport waterbus back to the airport the morning of our flight and picked up our other pieces of luggage from the held luggage office and made our flight.

 

You definitely don't want to try to drag many pieces of heavy luggage even if they have wheels around Venice.

 

Have a great next cruise.

[10suzy]

thank you for all the great info! Our hotel is Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal.

[Christine Cruisin]

Have you found it safe to leave/store your luggage? I'm real concerned about that with previous experiences I've had with theft in Italy.

[Aussie Gal]

10Suzy,

 

You are staying at a beautiful hotel. We stayed there a few years ago and when in Venice last year went back and had a look at it again. They have renovated it and it is even nicer than when we stayed there in 1997.

 

The other option of course is to all share a water taxi. That will take you directly to the hotel as the hotel is right on the Grand Canal. The cost from the airport to the Hotel Monaco is around 80Euros, so divided by 6 it is not such a huge cost and very convenient. I know that the water taxi will definitely take 5 people with luggage as we shared one last year from the ship to our hotel which was just the other side of San Marco Square from where you are staying.

 

Jennie