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Transportation from Marco Polo airport to Piazzale Roma

Posted by (sacramento, CA) on

We are arriving around 9am in the morning in a couple weeks, October. Right now I think the easiest thing would be to take the ACTV bus, as our hotel is easy walking distance from the Piazzale Roma. We have the rest of the day Thursday, all day Friday, and we get on our cruise boat Saturday around noon. We plan on walking and getting lost on the streets, and we were originally thinking of just paying 8 euros to take the bus one way. Right now I am looking at the 48 hours pass, and wondering if we should do this to have some options after walking to get back to our hotel.

2 questions:
1) If I purchase a combo ticket of the bus from the airport and the water taxi's on ACTV, when does the effective time start?
2) Would this pass be good for the people moving system to get to the cruise boat dock locations or is that free.

Any suggestions?

Posted by
1297 posts

There are two bus lines doing Marco Polo to P. Roma, ACTV and ATVO. Both cost 8 euro one way. ACTV is a regular commuter bus, makes a few stops along the way. ATVO is more like a tour coach, better seats and your luggage goes underneath. There have been reports of people being pick pocketed on the ACTV bus.

Both buses run on a twenty minute schedule, and depart from the same place outside the terminal. There are ticket machines for both near the stop. My suggestion would be to take the ATVO bus, and decide on a vaporetto pass once you are in Venice.

The clock on the ACTV pass starts when you first use it, not when you buy it. You must present the pass to the reader every time you get onto a vap landing stage, EVERY TIME. Just observe how others do it.

Posted by
581 posts

I was just in Venice last week. I used the ACTV #5 land bus and then a water bus to get to my hotel. If you buy a 48-hour pass for ACTV, you get a bit of a discount for the land portion. I found the pass very useful for sightseeing, sometimes using it to hop across the grand canal for only one stop. Be sure to validate EVERY time you get on. My pass was checked at least 4 or 5 times in 3 days. There are machines at the airport to buy tickets, but I went to a real person and bought mine.

When you go to the main cruise terminal, you use the People Mover. It costs 1.5 Euro and you use a machine. I think the machine gave change. It was easy.

Have fun!

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