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Venice Transportation: From Venezia Santa Lucia and To VCE airport

Hi all,

1) We will be arriving Venice at Venezia Santa Lucia train station. Do we need to take bus or another kind of transportation to get to the apartment we booked in the south part of the Venice (nearby Dorsoduro)? Is it walking distance that we will be able to get there by foot? How long will it take and how far is it from the train station? If not, what is the recommended transportation? and where can we catch them?

2) To get to the VCE airport from Venice, what is cheapest transportation? is it ATVO buses? do we need to buy the tickets in advance?

Thanks!

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Dosodura has water on two sides; we need a specific description in order to say which line serves it. Whoever let you the apartment should be able to answer exactly where it is and how to reach it.
In Venice postal addresses don't generally include a street name, very hard on visitors. They give the sestiere and a building number. With whese go to VeniceXplorer.com, enter them in the box on the map page and it produces a rather good street map with a nice fat dot at the location. Magic. However you may not be able to print it, so copy the dot to your own map and locate the nearest vaporetto (water bus) stop. With that go to the Actv page on the web and find which line to use from their map. Actv runs both land and water busses and has a website.

Getting around inexpensively (relatively) is possible by using advance purchase transport tickets from Hellovevezia or VeniceConnected before leaving the US. Go to both on the 'net and see what they offer and how they do it. These are most easily found by using Google. You don't have to type any more than the names, after that just point and click. You have to select the date of first use seven days or more in advance. They call it "withdrawal", not "pick-up". Better read the instructions carefully. I used VeniceConncted and picked up the ticket at Hellovenezia in the airport. She said keep the receipt in case you are ever challenged. The tickets are good on vaporettos (water busses) and the bus on land from the airport to Piazza Roma, where you can get the vaporetto to S. Marco. When you pick it up, ask if it has been validated (date and time stamped for the start of usage). You do it in the bus and on the dock before boarding a vaporetto. There are big fines for not doing it.

Getting to the airport can be done cheaply by Vaporetto to Piazza Roma,catch the #5 bus to the airport. Your transport ticket works on both land and water.

Been there, done it. ===gm===

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We will be arriving in Rome on Saturday, July 18 and boarding a train to Venice. On July 19th, we are heading to Port. Civit. for our cruise. Do the trains to Venice fill up quickly? Should we consider making reservations beforehand? The fee for reservations appear to be quite high. You feedback will be greatly appreciated. Thx

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Virginia, Wow! You are landing in Rome on the 18th and departing on a cruise from Civitavecchia the next afternoon but you'll squeeze in Venice in the 24 hours or so in between. That's a stunner. This physically can be done but you are looking at 10hrs of round trip train time on the fastest Italian trains and a fare cost of $185 each. I really hope that a quick peek at the Grand Canal is worth that.

As for reservation fee costs, there aren't any for P2P tickets. Seat reservations, where required, are included in the ticket price. You only pay extra when you have a Eurail pass. 15E-20E extra on the Eurostar-class trains. Don't worry about full trains. There about 30 trains a day going each way on the Rome-Venice-Rome run.

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Thanks for the info... yes, we are pushing it. But it has taken me 17 years of marriage to convince my husband to go to Europe - so I'm cramming all that I can get. :)