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boat from Marco Polo to St Marks's square

I am checking out how to get to either St Mark's or San Zaccaria stop by airport Alilaguna boat. I have one reference that states there is a seasonal boat directly from the airport to St Mark's. The RS guides that I have read (not the 2014 ed) do not mention this option. Will be in Venice Sept 4. Does anyone know if the" express" boat runs in Sept and the cost?

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The orange line may be a bit quicker and goes on the hour and half hour. Still takes 72 minutes and stops just outside San Marco.

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Sounds like you got some great advice. To this I have added an excerpt from the Venice 2014 guidebook regarding the Alilaguna boat:

These boats make the scenic (if slooooow) journey across the lagoon, shuttling passengers between the airport and a number of different stops on the island of Venice (€15, €27 round-trip, €1 surcharge if bought on boat, €1-2 less if bought online, includes 1 suitcase and 1 piece of hand luggage, additional bags-€3 each, roughly 2/hour, 1-1.5-hour trip depending on destination). Alilaguna boats are not part of the ACTV vaporetto system, so they aren’t covered by city transit passes. But they do use the same docks and ticket windows as the regular vaporetti.

The orange line (linea arancio) runs down the Grand Canal, reaching Guglie (handy for Cannaregio hotels, 45 minutes), Rialto (1 hour), and San Marco (1.25 hours). For a full schedule, visit the TI, see the website (www.alilaguna.it), call 041-240-1701, ask your hotelier, or scan the schedules posted at the docks.

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thanks for the info. The big question is whether I will be so jet-lagged that I fall asleep on the boat! I guess a double or triple expresso is called for at the airport!