I am traveling via rental car to Venice, my end destination. I’d like to know the best return location. Train station or airport and from there the best way to get to our hotel on the grand canal.
Posted by
Beaverton, Oregon, USA
740 posts
I would avoid the Hertz location at St. Mark's Square. Nothing but bad reports.
Posted by
Bendigo, Australia
1297 posts
Eric, you are being naughty.
There is no road access to the railway station in Venice.
Piazle Roma is the clost you can get with wheeled transport.
Posted by
Bendigo, Australia
1297 posts
I would suggest de-hiring the car at Marco Polo airport, and taking a bus to Venice. Bus transit time is about 20 minutes.
The bus will drop you at P.Roma, from there take a vaporetto (water bus) down the Grand Canal.
Posted by
San Francisco Bay Area (USA)
16168 posts
No need to spend extra time and money to go to the faraway airport.
Return the car at Piazzale Roma. From there take the vaporetto to your hotel.
The rental car returns are at Piazzale Roma in the City Parking structure pictured below.
https://images.app.goo.gl/UYFUJCP5a267athN8
Save the address in your Google Maps navigator app
Garage Comunale AVM S.p.A.
+39 041 272 2394
https://goo.gl/maps/Cag2YH29vjVPqyyc9
To get there you will cross the Ponte della Libertà (Liberty Bridge) which connects the mainland to the old city in the middle of the lagoon.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_della_Libertà#/media/File%3AVenise_Aero_Pont_de_la_Liberté.jpg
As you can see in the image below, although the roadway is conducive to speed, don’t!
There are plenty of speed cameras on the bridge, and you will get fined if you exceed the speed limit by more than 5km/h (3mph) above the speed limit.
https://images.app.goo.gl/B5CMzEbbHA79tuze7
Posted by
Paris
7322 posts
I agree with Roberto: there is nothing particularly hard about driving over the bridge to the parking lots in Venice, and that's what I would do!
The warning re. speed cameras applies throughout Italy, by the way.