Never saw bus stops on Google maps in Venice. I guess no. If no taxi also, does everyone carry their luggage from train station to hotel?
This article says by boat or foot.
But how could you take boat to hotel if the hotel is not located on Grand canal? For boat, you can easily drop something into the water. The it will ruin your trip. That is not a good idea.
Cars and buses cannot go beyond the Piazzale Roma. Boats and walking are the only options. It’s particularly important to pack light.
But how could you take boat to hotel if the hotel is not located on Grand canal? For boat, you can easily drop something into the water. The it will ruin your trip. That is not a good idea.
Never known it to happen. Vaporettos have spacious interiors with lots of seats.
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-interior-of-waterbus-or-vaporetto-on-grand-canal-venice-italy-89213380.html
Vaporettos have specific stops where you get on and off, then walk to your hotel. Do you have the name of your hotel? How are you arriving, by train or plane? We can help.
The vaporettos are a unique Venetian transportation system. Not to be missed.
Also, when the vaporetto docks, the deck is level with the dock and a crew member uses ropes to pull it up tight alongside, so you can get your luggage off without worrying about dropping it (or yourself) in the water.
It seems to me that each ride is 9.5 euros.
https://www.visit-venice-italy.com/water-bus-price-tickets-pass-venice-italy.htm
What happen if I want to use the boat from salute to S.Maria del Giglio (see map below)? just one stop. Still 9.5 euros?
https://www.visit-venice-italy.com/water-bus-venice-line-1.html
Yep, 9.50 EUR to get on a vaporetto. Your best plan is to buy an unlimited ride pass for however many days you are in Venice.
Here is a better map showing all the vaporettos and stops.
https://avm.avmspa.it/sites/default/files/mappa_linee_di_navigazione%20_13_09_2021web.pdf
BTW, rather than ride a vaporetto from Salute to Giglio, why not just walk over the Academia Bridge? A little more walking, but its free.
You could also take the traghetto across the canal. The traghetto is like a gondola with 2 rowers and costs only a couple of EUR.
You should get a vaporetto pass for 1, 2, 3, or 7 days, depending on how long you’ll be there. It will cover all the rides you take during that time period. To use it, each time you get on the vaporetto dock (recognizable as white cubes with a yellow stripe), you hold your vaporetto pass up to a sensor until it beeps and the gate opens.
I would not use the vaporetto from Salute to Santa Maria del Giglio, unless I had a 24-hour pass. Rather than pay the individual ticket price of €9,50: I would walk over the Accademia Bridge.
Where is your hotel? Are you arriving in Venice by train? For a short stay, 1-2 nights, we prefer to stay close to Piazzale Roma or the train station, so we do not have to use the vaporetto with luggage. The Ferrovia stop is especially crowded and I have never enjoyed the experience of boarding there. But then we have not been to Venice in December, so it may be better.
I am still planning hotel reservation. But first I need know how to go to there and come back from there. I will arrive at train station from Florence at night.
So pick a hotel near the Santa Lucia train station that is an easy walk with luggage, or at least one close to a vaporetto stop.
That's right.
“I will arrive at train station from Florence at night.”
I know on another thread you mentioned you plan to arrive places at night. I’d recommend for Venice you arrive when you still have some daylight. Not because it’s dangerous but because Venice can be a bit more difficult to navigate in the falling light. It’s hard to see the names of the streets anyway at times and you’ll want good light for this.
Forum members may be able to give you lodging options nearer the train station too.
Citymapper, which you were asking about, will be helpful for Venice.
Most hotels will have a "how to get here" info tab on their website, so you should be able to see how hard/easy it is to get to.
I think this 9 minute video from about a year ago provides a good introduction to using the vaporettos in Venice. They're showing €7,50 for a single ticket which apparently is now €9,50 -- see next post (corrected based on it).
Last time I was there I was in an apartment for 5 nights. I got a 3 day (72 hour) pass from the ticket booth to the right outside the train station. I still needed to get a single ticket for the day I went back to the train station. I bought that the day I left at the vaporetto stop closest to my apartment.
Like others have mentioned, you need to ask someone where you're staying what stop is closest. They can also help with more guidance on using the vaporetto.
It is 9.50 EUR these days.
There are no roads or streets in Venice at all.
None.
The last road from the mainland stops at Piazzale Roma, not far from the train station.
After that, you are on foot.
There are smaller canals running off the Grand Canal.
Have you looked at a very detailed map of Venice?
Have a look at a satellite image too.
The video I linked above shows the basics. A detailed map would be a great help for you. It sounds like you did use Google Maps for Venice Italy, so you probably know how to click on the satellite view and zoom in. That gives a better idea of the area.
As you consider places to stay, you could Google them to find out where they are and get walking directions from the closest vaporetto stop. You can also use Google Maps to get walking directions to places that don't involve a vaporetto, although just following your nose may be more fun.
Note that those beautiful curved bridges actually have steps. They're usually shallow, i.e. wide tread and short rise, so rolling any kind of bag over them isn't too much of an issue -- unless you have big and heavy luggage.
As a solo traveler, I travel light with a 2-wheeled roller bag that weighs 20 pounds maximum fully packed. I was 71 years old the last time I was in Venice and I did just fine. If you follow the frequent guidance to pack light, it will help with your whole trip to Italy using public transportation (especially trains), not just the Venice part.
Lo, that's a great U- tube video. I'll save it as it can be very helpful to other travelers. Thanks so much!
Check out https://europeforvisitors.com/venice/. Especially "Where to stay" and "Transportation". Good luck. Venezia is one of my sbsolute favourite cities.
We have found the app, CheBateo?, is very helpful for planning vaporetto trips within the Venice area and surrounding islands. You will need to know the names of the vaporetto stops/docks, then you can enter your origin and your destination and it will show current and future timetables. Very user friendly.
Once you book your hotel, let us know. As many of us have been there many times, surely we can give you some detailed directions from the train station to where you will be staying.
Travel light. Although you can take a vaporetto, however in almost all circumstances you will need to walk somewhat to reach the hotel, and virtually all of the 436 bridges on the canals (even the smallest canals), have steps up and down.
Although the last high speed train departing from Florence SMN arrives at Venezia SL at 11:34pm, however I wouldn't want to arrive in Venice very late, unless I have a hotel that is easy to find. Venice is not a city, is a labyrinth designed by some devilish psycopath, where street (called "calle" or "fondamenta") names are hard to read on the plaques and where the numbers in street addresses make no sense except to Venetians. Street names and numeration did not exist in Venice until the Napoleonic era (people oriented themselves from the name of the family living in the various buildings), and numbers are not based on streets, like in the rest of the world, but on the sestiere (neighborhood). Basically numbers progress in value from one side of the sestiere to its end, and then back to the starting point through the various calli. So within one sestiere the numbers start with 1 and end maybe at 5200, which is often near the number one. Numbers are relative not to the street but to the entire sestiere and don't start again with a new street. I know it's maddening, but that is why it is best to find your hotel on Google maps, then mark it on a paper map (your phone doesn't always work in the smallest calli, so forget using Google Maps while walking there) and then ask some local person (like a shop worker, not another tourist).
Sorry. Just saw your message about Google maps in Venice above.
If wheeling your luggage is a concern to you from the train station, book a hotel near the train station.
We have stayed at the Hotel Olimpia, two doors down is the Hotel Arlecchino and right near the Pizzale Roma vaporetto station is the Hotel Santa Chiara. All a short walk from the train station.
Buy a multi- day pass for the Vaporetto.
Here's a picture of the vaporetto (link) You won't drop your luggage in the water especially if you are sitting inside. I think you are confusing the vaporetto with a gondola.
