We -my husband, 8.5yr. old son and I just returned last Weds from 9 days in Venice, Verona and surrounding countryside, As I found so many helpful tips on this website, thought I'd share a few things we learned -in chronological order.
Luggage trolleys in the Venice airport are FREE, but you need a 1,2,or.50 E coin to secure them. The coin is returned to you upon relocking the trolley in the cart return area.
You can take those airport trolleys all the way to the Alilaguna water bus stops. It is NOT that long of a walk -shorter than walking between the international and domestic terminals at the Auckland airport if anyone can relate- and unlike the latter, it is covered all of the way.
You CAN buy Alilaguna tickets with a credit card, you CANNOT do so with Vaporetto tickets.
Even little breakfast delis in Venice don't open much before 8am!
Not all vaporetto stops sell tickets. There doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason as to which ones do and don't. For example, you can't buy tickets at the fairly big Pescaria (fish market) but you can buy them at the seemingly minor San Toma stop.
Although handy when they're running, don't count on the Traghettos. Every time we found one we wanted to take it would have a sign on it like "open only until 13:30" or "at lunch" etc.
No one was going up the Campanile near closing time even though the square and all sights were lit up and totally beautiful.
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Good tips. We also found that no one on the vaporetti ever checked for tickets and that the ticket scanners at a lot of the vaporetto stops either didn't exist or they were not working.