Marco Polo Airport to Venice- least expensive

Alilaguna boat is 15 EUR per person.

Bus (ATVO or ACTV) then walk

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Posted by Aussie
Bendigo, Australia
11/29/23 01:06 AM
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Getting to Venice from Marco Polo Airport.
1. Water taxi will get you close, maybe to, the door of your hotel. Can carry about ten people, will cost about €140 for the boat. No need to book, taxis are waiting at the Marco Polo dock.
2. Shared water taxi. Minimum of two people. Book in advance, wait at the desk in the terminal for the others sharing the taxi. Costs about €30 per person. Google “shared water taxi Venice”, use the venicelink dot com web site. Will get you to a vaporetto stop near your hotel.
3. Alilaguna ferry, as per below.
4. Bus to Piazale Roma, then walk to your hotel, or take vaporetto to the nearest stop. Buses leave from the outside the terminal, tickets at the machine.
Water transport in Venice.
1. Gondolas. Only for pleasure, not for transport. 80 euro for half an hour for the boat, more for evenings.
2. Traghetto – big gondolas, two oarsmen, about ten passengers, for crossing the Grand Canal. Found at Rialto, San Toma and a couple of other places. Cost 2 euro per trip, can save a heap of walking.
3. Water taxis, which are like a floating limo, costs to match.
4. Vaporettos - ACTV. Are waterbuses, operate on a bunch of routes. Get the app Chebateo for routes and schedules. Vaps do not service the airport. Vaps are not water taxis.
5. Alilaguna ferries, service the airport, run from Marco Polo via a bunch of stops to the main part of Venice, Murano and Lido. They stop at some, but by no means all, vaporetto stops.

ATVO has an express bus from the Airport that is about €10 for a return ticket.

11:30 AM or PM?

The bus would be the least expensive, but it will only get you to the bus station. If you are are staying a long distance from there you will either have to walk a long way with your luggage, or you will have to purchase a vaporetto ticket to get to the area of your hotel. A single vaporetto ticket is now 9.50 euros. So the price of the bus ticket, plus the vaporetto ticket is pretty much the same as a ticket for the alilaguna, which will get you to the the area of your hotel without having to switch modes of transport, and fight the regular crowds on the vaporetto with your luggage.

Assuming a location not walking distance of Piazzale Roma (bus station), the bus+vaporetto ticket is 18 EUR. Thus the Alilaguna boat at 15 EUR is the cheapest method, as the OP asked.

• as long as the arrival is AM

Would also help to know location of your hotel

Folks staying multiple days in Venice are likely to benefit from a vaporetto pass, which for heavy users brings the price per vaporetto ride down well below €9.50 euros. For them, bus + vaporetto wouldn't necessarily be costlier than Alilaguna. I think there may be a discounted rate on the ACTV bus for folks with a vaporetto pass, but I'm not certain about that. Vaporeto,pass prices are as follows:

24 hours: €25
48 hours: €35
72 hours: €45
168 hours (one week): €65