Venice in march - any tips please???

markandkate

Went at the end of March you will need a coat it is cold. There is a wide range of foods an prices there is even a Macdonalds so I don't think you will find it hard to get a pizza. The Rialto food market is fantastic and you can get great picnic food. The olive rolls are fantastic. Often you can get a good value menu of the day and we sat in a restaurant by the Rialto bridge and spent not too much.

There are many priceless works of art on the walls of the many churches around the city that you can go and see for a couple of euros like Da Vinci's Last Supper in I think Salute. Get a good guide book from the library ( free) and get a season ticket for the vaporettos

breadlinebetty

sunshinetours wrote: »

Burano is the island with the coloured houses. Take a camera its very pretty. take a warm coat for boat trip as cold that time of year outside potentially on lagoon

Contrary to what people are saying here - do sit and have a drink in the outside of one the main cafe's (Quaddri or instance) in the evening and ask for wine list if you like wine. A bottle of wine offers best value for a drink IMO at one of these places and if you order a bottle you have a seat for a few hours and can listen to the mini orchestras playing for your enjoyment whilst soaking up the atmosphere. We still talk about one such evening a number of years on as its was just lovely. I would do that rather than an expensive average meal personally. venice to my mind does not live up to much of the rest of italy for food.

As for wines well you have to have a bottle of Prosecco in my mind but any more local wine would be probably best choice. Italy has a lot of soft easy drinking reds so just ask for some local recommendations from treviso region for instance.
There are lots of little taverna type wine bars all around the city in the back streets etc so be brave and go in a try what the locals drink and eat - its so much cheaper and so much fun!

Other MSE tips - well walking is definitely one and in my mind best way to see the main part of Venice. Fill up on breakfast at your hotel so you don't need expensive snacks everywhere.
Keep your valuable close especially round Rialto and don't fall for any of the scams of street tricks, people with large newspapers bumping into you (to pinch your wallet), and north African bag/jewellery sellers on the Lagoon front bridges.
Avoid the touts selling "opera" tickets as its will be a "cheap" and nasty concert.
Do have an ice cream whilst walking round instead of a dessert (try meringue ice cream - wow!).
Have your main meal at lunchtime for better value.

Most of all enjoy - its a unique place

Thank you for your EXCELLENT and such helpful tips! Truly appreciated, and I will make sure to take your good advice!:)

welshlady62

We loved Venice. Travelled everywhere via Vaporetto. We booked advance tickets which were cheaper. We did the usual gondola ride, St Marks, rialto etc.

We did a free trip to Murano and look at all the lovely galleries.

Spent a day over on the Lido.

We did find eating out a problem though, unless you like seafood or fish there isn't a huge amount, in our opinion of course.

Have a lovely time :j

Janeyjaz

It's a brilliant book - followed recommendations for eating out and we had some brilliant meals and not that expensive, can't recommend it enough. Had the most brilliant pizza as well, not too far from the train station, will have a look for the book and come back to you.
Definately get the prepaid tickets for the waterbuses, excellent value - can also recommend the secret tour of the doges palace -brilliant and you can pre book those tickets and also the clock tower in St Marks Square

Janeyjaz

Fab restaurant - pizza fabulous and not expensive at all, neither was the house wine, which was lovely.
Osteria La Zucca - brilliant restaurant, but a bit more pricey, and you have to book - but brilliant, you can sit in and the window overlooks a little canal. great atmosphere
You'll have a fab time

Janeyjaz

also ate a few times - here - lovely food and cheap, and had 2 course specials which were great as well, you can eat inside or in the lovely garden, yet again well priced house wine

s_b

we ate alfresco and people watched near the fish market
you must look at the fish whilst there
im not into paying tourist rates in overpriced emporiums
one other thing as mentioned its very easy to lose your way and even me with a very good sense of direction got lost at one stage,there are signs up if you look for them guiding you back to the famous bits but i would say get a decent map
watch for thieves too theres lots of dodgies about and not just the ones selling tat bags
we saw the river police arrest some thieves whilst we were waiting for the river boat

Catherine_Johnson_2

Try Algiubagio on the Fondamenta Nuove for somewhere to eat while watching the vaporetti leaving for San Michele and Murano. Sit outside if you can, if it's warm enough. There's a couple more restaurants further along the fondamenta which are good as well.

Take a warm coat in March.

Don't worry about getting lost. It's part of the fun and you'll always end up somewhere interesting.

Most maps wont relate exactly to the street names you see. The signs are in Venetian dialect whereas most maps are in Italian.

If there's long queues for the campanile in San Marco, head across to the campanile at San Giogio. Equally good views and not so crowded.

Unless you're going there for any length of time, personally I wouldn't bother going across to the Lido. It's a completely different feel to Venice. They have cars there!

Walk off the main streets, down the small streets. It's very safe there. Try some of the small trattoria that you may find down the side streets.

There is actually a very good chinese restaurant on Fondamenta Cannaregio. Very cheap - local students eat there. Again, perhaps only worthwhile if you're staying any length of time in Venice, just for a change.

Certainly eat pizza. Some of my best pizzas have been eaten in Venice! You can buy by the slice for when you're walking around.

You may need wellies if it's aqua alta, or your hotel/apartment may supply them.

Have fun!

DollyDabbler

Have a lovely time in Venice, it is beautiful. We went summer last year. Our best buy was the vaporetta ticket, we were out on the lagoons and up and down the canals, plus we either visited or went round a lot of the islands, we thought it was really good value. Even the island that is the cemetery was worth a look from the boat.
Personally, I liked Burano, rather than Murano. We had a really good map and navigated by churches etc, and didn't find it too difficult. I agree with the buy ice cream, rather than dessert as that way you get to taste lots of the different flavours on offer.

Rhitylr

Hi, just got back from Venice yesterday. The weather was warm compared to the last couple of weeks. We were there for five days and it didn't flood at all. Would highly recommend visiting Burano and Lido. On lido, we hired bikes and would recommend cycling round the island as its very pretty and flat. There area couple of really good pizzerias, one behind San Marcos and the other in San toma area.