Venice Airport Question

[Signet]

I remember reading a little while back about airport luggage storage. We are staying a night in Venice after the cruise. I was wondering if there is still a place we can store our large bags overnight at the airport, and just carry a small overnight bag to the hotel. Does anyone know if this storage room is still available, where it is and any idea of the cost to store bags overnight? Oh we are leaving on Delta (as long as they are still flying :)

Thanks

[wwinfl91]

We did something like this in 2003 after our Golden Princess cruise ended in Venice. We stayed for an addtional 3 days. We used a Princess ship to airport transfer to get our luggage and us to the airport. That way we could leave our luggage out the night before and pick up again at the airport. There is a "held Luggage" office that in July of 2003 was on the lower level of the airport in one of the corners of the building. At that time I think it was 2 or 2.5 euros per bag per night. An attendent was there to take the bags and x-ray them before they stored them. You could lock the bags either before or after the x-ray process but you had to remain there to be able to unlock them if the x-ray showed anything questionable. The held luggqage office was run by an independent for profit firm and unfortunately as far as I can tell only has an Italian language web site. Their web site is off the airport web site.

 

http://www.trasbagagli.it/

 

The airport web site

 

http://www.veniceairport.it/core/index.jsp;jsessionid=TFY5KWZTAIHANQFIAIBCFEY?_requestid=71751&language=en

 

Another really good web site for info on Venice

 

http://europeforvisitors.com/venice/

 

Anyway we then took our smaller bags we had packed for our stay in Venice and caught the special airport waterbus to Venice.

 

http://europeforvisitors.com/venice/articles/venice_airport_boat.htm

 

http://www.alilaguna.it/?lang=en

 

It cost 10 euros a person from the airport to a stop near San Marco square and they only take euros.

 

Then at the end of our stay we caught the waterbus back and picked up our luggage and caught our flight home.

 

The only negative for this method was it took most of one of our mornings in Venice to accomplish. But it was much much better than trying to haul big pieces of luggage around in Venice.

 

Have a great next cruise.

[Signet]

Thanks for the links I'll check them out...

Since we get off the ship so early in the morning, and I'm sure we would not be able to check into the hotel at 9 or 10 in the morning. We booked a tour (through the cruise line, RCCL).

After the 4 hour tour they will drop us off at the airport, so since we would be there, if we can drop off the big bags, it would make just make it easier to leave the bags at the airport.

Thanks again for the info you provided.

If any one has been there recently is the storage place still available. It was in 2003, is it still there in 2006?

[cusyl]

We did something like this in 2003 after our Golden Princess cruise ended in Venice. We stayed for an addtional 3 days. We used a Princess ship to airport transfer to get our luggage and us to the airport. .

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Can you tell me if you had to claim your luggage when you got off the ship to go through customs or did Princess transport it direct to the airport? I posted this before but did not get a response. Actually, our cruise ends in Barcelona but it would probably be the same instance.

[Andym]

You get off the ship, claim your luggage and transport it to the busses yourself

[cusyl]

You get off the ship, claim your luggage and transport it to the busses yourself

Thank you, I figured it would be the same, but living in Florida, we have never flown to or from a port.

[wwinfl91]

In Venice they transported the luggage to the airport by truck and then we picked it up from an area they had roped off in front of the airport. There was no custom check to just put the luggage in the held luggage office in the airport.

 

I have seen posts that the airport held luggage office still exists at least up until last year.

 

Have a great next cruise.

[Pecoraro]

Does anybody know if I can store bags like that at the rome airport or rome train station??

[Signet]

Good, hopefully it is still there (luggage storage) and safe. It will certainly make life a little easier, at hte end of what should be a great trip

Thanks