Rental car at Marco Polo Venice Airport

Always use Autoeurope.com to compare rates. Never had a problem with them. The Venice airport car rental lot is easy to manage- an easy walk to the airport. Also, the highway near the airport is not too congested. Where are you headed with the rental?

Padua, Vicenza, Verona, Lake Garda and back to the airport

Renting a car at the Venice airport is very easy. We rented from Budget (reserved through Costco - it was the best price of all the companies they listed) and had no problems at all! All the agencies are in one big garage attached to one end of the airport.
The road outside the airport is very straightforward. On your way back to the airport there is a gas station just off the last traffic circle before you enter the airport.

Vicenza, Padova (Padua), and Verona are difficult to park in, especially Padova and Verona. If you want to rent a car, go for it, but since this is your first post here - welcome - you may not know that trains are so easy and cheap in Italy and take you right from city centre to city centre.

You might consider renting a car in Verona for the short journey to Lake Garda, but the train has a stop there too.

If you'd like help with any of this just ask - plenty of folks here who know the area pretty well.

If you decide to rent any way, please learn about your legal requirements for IDP, learn about TUTOR and ZTL, learn the Italian rules of the road and particularly national speed limits, and do you know about the wall of trucks on the A4 and A57 between Trieste and Verona?

Thanks to all of you for your posts. They are extremely helpful in making our plans for our 9th trip to Italy. We have done trains and rental cars. Both are excellent modes of travel with their own unique advantages. We just worry about training from Verona to Marco Polo in time for our morning flight home. I am familiar with all of your caveats except the wall of trucks on the A4 and A57. Could you please elaborate? Thanks again.

I drive often in Europe; in fact I'll be driving to Italy again soon.

I've consistently been surprised and disappointed by what I call the wall. The A4 and its Venice spur A57 gets absolutely huge amounts of slow heavy trucks, and this particularly concentrates between Vicenza, Padova and the east. It means that the trucks drive in the slow lane nose to tail and unless you know exactly where you are you can miss your exit. The signs aren't duplicated in the centre divider and the wall of trucks makes it very hard to see the ones in the usual position.

I've also found that it is important to get over into that slow lane before you need to because it can be stressful trying to get over at the last minute, but not much fun having the truck behind, right behind.

Maybe in the nearly a year since I last drove that road, last June, things have changed. I hope so - it will make your journey much more pleasant.

A good sat-nav (GPS) helps.

The A57 isn't quite as bad as the A4, but I have been misplaced on the A57 due to some imaginative signage. I don't go to the airport, I go to Quarto d'Altino where one of my favourite hotels is, by the way, so I can't help you with the last mile.

What time is your morning flight home from VCE? You can always just get an airport hotel for the evening before the flight, if that's all you're going to use the car for. Plus, if it's a really early flight, you may not want to be as far away as Verona in any case.

Our flight is at 1110 so that's probably plenty of time to drive from Verona to Marco Polo. My relatives in Verona tell me it is an hour and a half drive.