venice...HELP please!!!!

davidlizard

Use the local buses - these are geared up for moving people+luggage.

http://www.atvo.it/index.php?lang=en&area=23&menuid=36

€5 each one way or €9 return.

If necessary, get a taxi from Mestre railway station where the bus drops you off to the hotel.

Mardrew

We used the bus from Treviso to Venice but it stops at Mestre. The buses are timed with the Ryanair flights. I think you can get the tickets from a machine in the luggage collection area but, as there was a long queue for the machine, we picked up our tickets at a manned desk in the arrivals hall. The bus is then just outside the doors.

mum2olly

I am trying to find how late the local vaporettos and buses run

we r staying i mestre and would like to stay late in venice at least 1 night.

we would need to get a waterbus back to port then a bus from port to hotel

does anyone know what time they run until please? ie what the latest they run until is?

thanks again guys

sunshinetours

mum2olly wrote: »

I am trying to find how late the local vaporettos and buses run

we r staying i mestre and would like to stay late in venice at least 1 night.

we would need to get a waterbus back to port then a bus from port to hotel

does anyone know what time they run until please? ie what the latest they run until is?

thanks again guys

http://www.actv.it/en has all the info you will need to plan your routes. Some of the waterbuses run very very late if not all night from memory

Someone else above has posted the bus timetable I believe

poet123

Certain lines run all night, you will need to check, they do not make all stops though, so check that too or you could find yourself stranded!

Ballymackeonan

For cheap eats, I found Brek - near the train station - very reasonable. It's a cafeteria, with a choice of mains, salads, desserts - I got a great seafood risotto, a salad and a quarter litre of wine for about 10.50 euro. The coffee was good value here, 2 euro against 3.20 near the Rialto - and 15 upwards for a cappucino in St Mark's square!

I found it was great just to wander around, calling into the occasional old church for yet more Old Masters...

The most useful tips I had were to bring or buy a good map, and to bring a torch - the little alleyways are sometimes not lit at night!