I read that this card offers fast-lane access to museums and reduced rates for vaporetti. Has anyone had an experience with buying and using the card?
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Seattle, WA
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The current version of the Venice card is a museum pass only. It does not offer discounts on the vaporetto. For that you need a separate Travelcard, which comes in increments of 12 hours, 24 hours, 3 days, and 7 days. The 7-day pass costs €50. Considering that individual vaporetto tickets cost €7, that is a bargain if you plan to ride the boats a lot. However, we spent a whole month in Venice and just bought one 24-hour pass, consolidating our trips to the outer islands into that time frame. Otherwise we enjoyed walking everywhere.
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Rick Steves' Europe
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Rick's guidebook coverage of Venice suggests that it's hard to make the Venice Card pay for itself (40 euros to cover 11 city-run museums and 16 churches). Smaller options include a Doge's Palace & Correr Museum Combo ticket for 12 euros (buy at Correr to skip the line at Doge's Palace) or a Museum Pass for 24 euros (doesn't cover the churches, which cost about 3 euros each).