Venice Hotel &/or getting across to airport

Where are you storing your luggage?

Asking because your post confuses me.

Is your ship disembarking at THE Venice cruise terminal or San Basilio? Do you know which?

Hard to offer advice without knowing particulars.

You also say you are staying one night IN Venice but then say your are staying at the Venice Airport Hotel.

Need more clarification

What time is your flight?

I was curious about leaving luggage from reading your post and found this recommendation with good supporting information on how to find the location near the bus station (you would probably want to take the bus to the airport at the end of the day)
https://europeforvisitors.com/venice/articles/the-golden-luggage-baggage-storage.htm

I think your plan to store bags and go exploring is excellent. You should not have any difficulty getting back to the Piazzale Roma (Bus station area) from anywhere in Venice by either walking or taking a vaparetto.

I would take the time to really double check exactly where your ship will dock. New regulations have impacted where many cruise ships dock and only the smallest are still allowed to dock at the main port. It doesn't mean you can't still visit Venice, but you may need to add some travel time to your calculations.

Regardless of your flight time I'd suggest that you stay on the island. You will be able to enjoy your time so much more if you're able to stay out late. You can arrange for a water taxi to pick you up very close to whatever hotel you choose. We used motoscavi for our taxi a few times and it was around 100 euro per trip. That is always worth it for us to be able to spend an extra few hours exploring Venice.

In all probability your early morning Venice flight is a connecting flight to some hub in Europe for your direct flight home. Your early arrival at the Venice airport is treated like a domestic flight so hour to 90 minutes will be adequate. It is not an international departure. You could consider staying in Venice that night.

First of all, are you certain that the ship is actually docking at Venice? Only the smaller cruise ships can dock at Venice, and on April 14 the only arrivals are the Norwegian Star and the Oceana Marina. If you are on one of those then you are fprtunate!

https://cruisedig.com/ports/venice-italy

Second, what time does you flight depart Venice, and which airline?

The bus stop is right by the hotel. BTDT

@Claudia- I am not sure where I am storing my luggage. As stated, I have never been here before. However, I have been told they have lockers/storages to put your luggage in for the day. Yes the cruise ship is disembarking in Venice, as stated. And yes, I said in Venice (I'm sorry I wasn't more specific and did not say IN Venice, or AROUND Venice. We are opening to anything, we just wanted advice. As of now, we thought our best option would be to get out of the town later that night (11pm-12am ish) and get across to a hotel so we are not having to make this travel around 4:30-5am to catch our 7am flight. Thank you

@ChristineH- Our AA flight leaves at 7am!

@Carol- Thank you for this helpful tip! I was hoping it would be doable to walk back toward the lockers/bus area/etc from anywhere we are exploring! However, I was certainly unaware we may not port in actual Venice.. I really appreciate you all bringing this to my attention. My itinerary says Venice (Trieste), Italy.. So I am assuming this isn't straight in Venice is it?

@Frank- Thank you! We do have a 7am flight, and it flies to London first before heading toward the US. We planned to arrive around 5:30am. So we weren't sure with travel time to the airport and getting to the train or bus station etc that early if we would be able to do that or if it would be too stressful.

@Lola- I am on NCL Star. My disembarkation port says Venice (Trieste), Italy? And my flight is AA and leaves at 7am!

Trieste is NOT Venice (locate on Google maps so you have an idea of where you are and where you want to go)
It is a 2 hour train ride away.

Might be easier to drop your bags at your airport hotel, they will hold for you
Then visit Venice for the day

@Claudia- Okay thank you. I was just confused because when I look at https://cruisedig.com/ports/venice-italy my boat is on there for 3/13 at 6:00am..
So you think arrive in Trieste, take bags to our airport hotel, and then head to Venice for the day, and then get back to our hotel later that night? Does that sound most doable? Or is it better to just spend time in Trieste?

By the time you get off the ship in Trieste, find the train station, buy a ticket, ride the train...at least 4 hours will have gone by.
You will arrive in Venice by train at Santa Lucia train station.
I would suggest you find a hotel very near there, or just over the bridge outside the station toward Piazza le Roma.
It's not far to walk.
That way, check in, and sleep in Venice overnight.
If you are in a hotel in that area, you then walk over to P.le Roma early morning, and get either the bus to the airport...they start early...or a taxi that you have pre-ordered.
All bus and car traffic leaves from there.
Way less hassle than going out to the airport...then you at least get to see Venice.
Look at booking.com to start...then their map section...zoom in so you can see which hotels are very close to Piazza le Roma.
It is just below the station and slightly left as you look at the map.
I've just looked, and there are a few hotels there for your date.

Is it possible to change your flight to the next day?
Give yourself another night and enjoy Venice

I'd like to suggest using the Go-Opti Shuttle from Trieste to Venice . You can choose their services either to the airport to the central bus station in Venice. Choose the destination on the drop down menu.
https://www.goopti.com/en/transfers/italy-trieste/italy-venice-venice-marco-polo-airport-vce
You can choose to either stop at the airport and drop the bags at your hotel, or go straight to Venice and put your luggage in storage. The suggestion to spend another night is very good, but if you are limited in what you can do, try to make the best of it.

Have you checked to see if your cruise line offers any day of departure excursions to Venice? This would allow you to be first off the boat in the am, transport to Venice, storage of luggage in bus while touring, and then the final transfer to the airport. It would be worth checking on.

S.J and Carol, thank you both so incredibly much.
Unfortunately no transfer from Trieste to Venice.. It does say we arrive to port at 6am so I am hoping we can get off ASAP.
Clarifying from both of your posts.. Take the train from Trieste to Venice. I looked at GoOpti. I take it from Trieste Centrale railway station, Trieste, Italy to Piazzale Roma (city center, vaporetto), Venice, Italy (is this correct?). And find a hotel here, to then go across to the airport in the morning. Can I get a bus ticket before hand or do I get it in the am? Or do you think a taxi is better for us? If so, which website to pre order is best? Assuming we need to get to airport 1.5 hours before 7am departure. I will plan to get on a bus or taxi around 4:45am? To give myself 45ish minutes to get on something and head toward airport? Or what are your thoughts on this?
You all are great, thank you, thank you!

@S.J- I found Hotel Gardena Venice and Hotel Carlton on the Grand Canal, are either of these of more preference to you? Or would either of these be doable coming from Santa Lucia to get to Piazza le Roma the next morning?

The train from Trieste will take you to Venezia Santa Lucia, which is on the island we know as Venice. The station in on the other side of the Grand Canal from Piazzale Rome where the bus to the airport originate. They start running just before 5 am. I will try to find the exact schedule for you.

I suggest you book the Marriott AC Hotel with is an nice boutique hotel right at :Piazzale Roma. From the train station, you can either ride the vaporetto one stop to Piazzale Roma, or simply walk there using the new bridge—-which would be tricky with cruise luggage. So vaporetto is the better option. Buy your ticket before you approach the loading dock and make sure you read the signs to know which one to use for your direction of travel. You are looking for the boat TO (or “Per”) Piazzale Rome, which is to your right as you face theGrand Canal from the station. The other direction is to (per) San Marco or Rialto, which is toward the left. Most people will be going that way, so don’t follow them.

You MUST validate your ticket at the little machine by the dock (or by the ramp to the dock) before you enter the boarding area. You just tap it on the spot and wait for the “beep”. Watch what other people do if you are confused. The fine is steep if you haven’t validated your ticket and they check.

Here is a useful article on the airport buses. There are 2 kinds, the AVTO Express bus and the ACTV #5 Aerobus. The ATVO is faster.

https://europeforvisitors.com/venice/articles/venice_airport_buses.htm

Here is specific information on ticketing, etc. for the ATVO bus:

https://europeforvisitors.com/venice/articles/venice_airport_buses_atvo.htm

And here is the ATVO schedule:

https://www.atvo.it/allegati/aeroporti/linea_35_3.0_dal_12.06_al_2.04.2022.pdf

They start running at 4:20 am and the trip takes 20 minutes (except for the marked services that also stop in Mestre).

@Lola- Thank you SO much. And then we walk or take vaporetto to go sight see, correct?
And then since we are by Piazza le Roma then we take one of those buses to the airport in the am, right?

@Lola- To recap--- I found Rome2Rio to get transportation (more cost effective than GoOpti) from Trieste to Venice. It will drop us at Santa Lucia and from there we will walk or take the vaporetto to our hotel (which we should stay around Piazzale Roma). {{I think that Marriott was a little higher in price than we were wanting to spend since we won't be spending much time there}}. After dropping luggage at our hotel around Piazzale Roma, we will go explore Venice! Hoping we can walk everywhere? - we like walking! And then in the morning, we will walk back to Piazzale Roma-- bus station..? hop on the bus to the airport. I went on the ATVO website and I can pre-buy tickets for us to get back to Marco Polo. How is all of this sounding?

That all sounds fine but I am concerned about your flight. You say you have an American Airlines flight to London, where you connect to your US-bound flight. But American Airlines planes do not fly between Venice and London, only between London and the USA. If this is all on one ticket, for the Venice flight they put you on a partner airline, but the flight still has an AA number. The logical partner—-maybe the only partner—-to fly from VCE to London is British Airways. And British Airways does not have a 7:am flight on April 14; the first flight departs to London at 8:35 am.

You should check your flights carefully as the schedule might have changed. I believe there WAS an earlier flight on BA (I have been watching their schedule as we were planning to fly back from Venice with them later this month) but it is not on the schedule now. BA has been dropping a lot of short flights from their schedule and consolidating them into fewer flights per day from the same airport.

I am concerned that you may have been booked on a 7 am flight but it has been canceled, and you were not informed by American Airlines. You would be put on a different flight (and a later one than 7 am might be nice for you) but the whole schedule may have changed. So you need to check. Do you have the AA flight number for that first flight? (Not your booking code number—-keep that to yourself).

Yes ma’am, they did change the flight! My husband had the flight change, I was planning to not book anything time sensitive (like pick up times from buses taxis etc) till closer to time so we know if anything changes again!
We do now leave at 8:35am, and it’s an AA flight operated by British Airways to London!
With that being said, how does all of that sound? Haha. Thank you so much!

OK, good. A much more reasonable time to get to the airport!

Venice is great for walkers. We spent a month there a few years back, and walked all over the city—-literally. We only used the vaporetto to get to and from the train station with luggage, and for 2 trips to nearby islands. For everything else, we walked.

With a couple of hours to walk, you could make the Punta del Dogana, on a point across from San Marco, your destination. You can walk through Dorsoduro to get there, then walk back along the water on the San Marco side, making your way through small streets. The gondola workshop is not far off this path, with a good gelato place (Gelateria Nico). Then cross the Accademia Bridge and make your way to San Marco on your way back, as it is less crowded later in the day.

I checked out the two hotels you mentioned. Hotel Gardena gets better ratings on Google (4.4 vs 3.8 for the Carlton). and is quite a bit closer to Piazzale Roma—-pretty much a straight shot across two bridges. It also looks quite charming in the photos, with that little patio and the frontage on a side canal ( quieter than the Grand Canal, which has a lot of boat traffic).

Go opti can take you directly from the cruise port. Pick this on the drop down menu if you are interested as the departure point
Port (cruise ship), Trieste, Italy

@Lola- Yes! I thought so too! And of course, to my luck, the Hotel Gardena is sold out for that night... So I will keep searching for around that area!
& thank you so much for all those landmarks and places to see and stop at! You truly have been so helpful!

Check Hotel Abbazia
Looks like they have availability for your date ( just looked on booking.com)
Easy walk from train station and easy to get to airport bus

https://www.abbaziahotel.com/?stay_here=1

I will look ChristineH, thank you!!!

Abbazia is well-regarded, but in their circumstances I would want to be on the same side of the canal as Piazzale Roma, and closer to it. Even with the later departure (8:35 instead of 7 am) it is going to feel very rushed in the morning. From the train station side, they would have to take a vaporetto to get across the Grand Canal—-I cannot see them tackling the Ponte Della Costatuzione with cruise luggage, and the Scalzi Bridge is out of the way and presents its own issues.

They will want to be on the 6:40 ATVO bus (at the latest) for their 8:35 flight, and at that hour of the morning, the vaporetto schedules are very light. None of the 2, 2/, 3, or 4.1 boats runs between those two stops early enough. The 4.2 goes the wrong direction. The No. 1 and the 5.1 do start early, but they run only every 20 minutes. The only boats that work would be the 5.1 leaving Ferrovia at 6:04, or the No. 1 at 6:,11. But if that one is running late they miss the bus.

In other words, to take the vaporetto to cross the canal in the morning, they would have to add a good 30 -40 minutes or more to their morning trek to the bus. That sounds very stressful to me. I believe they are much better off with a hotel on the Piazzale Roma side, crossing the Grand Canal with their luggage by vaporetto the previous day.

Are you sure the AC is out of reach, price-wise? If only you had some Marriot points to use, or could earn them quickly enough. Or check out Hotel Santa Chiara—-very close and it has a rooftop terrace, which is always nice.

@Lola- Yes I completely agree, we were wanting to stay on the other side.. We stumbled across Hotel Olympia? It is a little cheaper than AC. (AC is not out of reach completely no, we were just trying to exercise a little cheaper options). Hotel Olympia's price with offers such as cancellation and such seemed to be a little more appealing?

We were posting at the same time. I will take a look at Olimpia. It is a Best Western!

Olimpia looks excellent. It gets a 9.1 on booking.com, which is very good. I personally am not crazy about padded headboards and gilt-edge furniture (we prefer modern/minimalist) but it isn’t at all ornate like some Venetian hotels—-no brocade or velvet draperies! And the bathrooms are nice and modern. I’d say if you like the price it’s a winner.

I think we will go with Olimpia :)
Lola, seriously thank you! I don't think you understand how helpful you've been!
If you, or anyone has a crash course or a small one day itinerary for Venice, please let me know!!

https://www.ricksteves.com/europe/italy/venice-itinerary

I love it when a plan comes together

It’s all about teamwork!

There is also the Hotel Arlecchino.
Friends stayed there a few years ago for all the same reasons you want to be in that area.
They liked it...I do see that it's price has gone up a bit now though.

It sounds as if your plans are coming together nicely!
And a slightly later start for your flight home is much better.

You just have less than one day in Venice, so perhaps buy a one day pass for the Vaporetto boats, ride down the Grand Canal, wander about (you can't get lost...it's an island)..and get the vaporetto back to near your hotel after dark to see all the buildings lit up.