How to reach Venice, by plane, by train

The closest airports to Venice are Marco Polo and Treviso..

Treviso airport is considered a more economical one. It is located farther from Venice, the aircrafts parking is cheaper here, that is why in Treviso land Ryanair’s and other discounters’ liners which are ready to bring you here from same type budget airports of Berlin, Paris or London for only a ˆ20 charge.

Marco Polo airport is situated at the very edge of the continent, only 8 km far from Venice. Here arrive aircrafts of Lufthansa, Finnair, Aeroflot, KLM and other airlines selling tickets at prices of ˆ250 ad infinitum.

By some unknown circumstances this respectable list is not complete without discount airline TuiFly.com. Its yellow planes arrive at Marco Polo every day from Cologne (Germany). And a ticket to these very ones will cost you some ˆ30.

From Treviso Airport

Ryanair bus leaving Treviso airport, Venice

Passengers arriving at Treviso Airport are met by Ryanair Airlines express buses, the schedule of which is linked up to Ryanair flights. The ˆ5 tickets are sold on the spot.

Buses from Treviso can only bring passengers to Piazzale Roma, no farther. It is a small square at the outskirt of Venice – the last place where automobile transport is allowed. Here you can take the last breath of exhaust gas for from this point on you will only have your feet and water transport at disposal.

At Piazzale Roma there is a station of vaporetto river trams and ticket offices.

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In the airport’s arrival hall you’ll find ticket offices offering routs for any purse and temperament

There are so many ways to reach Venice from Marco Polo Airport and they are so various that the choice itself turns to an adventure.

The most economical transport is ATVO express buses that go to Piazzale Roma. Their stops are located opposite the arrival hall exit. There are also ACTV coaches. They park in the same place, cost less but they can have stops on the way.

Average meter charge for a taxi from Marco Polo to Piazza le Roma is ˆ30. (The driver will enlarge this sum with ˆ1 for every luggage unit.) 20-minute way – and you are at Piazza le Roma. From there on – only on foot or by vaporetto.

A more exalted way to reach the city is by water through the lagoon.

AliLaguna company offers public ships from Marco Polo airport right to San Marco square. A direct-route ticket costs ˆ25 (35-minute way), a route with two stops (at Murano and Lido) – ˆ12 (1 hour 10 minutes of way).

Any fantasies are quite rapidly driven away. The ship is flat as a can, small windows are drabbled with water and the captain’s mate won’t let you go out onto the deck. The vessel drags along the lagoon at 10 km/h. And during the whole hour you are doomed to observing bored passengers’ faces and monotonic picture outside the window.

Sometimes this picture is enlivened by a frisky water taxi cutter bringing passengers directly to the hotel. This is the most expensive, most comfortable and along with that - the most extreme means of leaving Marco Polo airport. It costs ˆ100 and floats at a 45? angle to water exercising nimble flies over waves. Sensations never to forget! If you can afford it, choose a cutter.

All water-travelers, even private cutter passengers, have to go on foot about 200 metres from the airport’s exit to the quay. As you leave the arrival hall turn left and go straight, following the indicators. Rapid stride will take 10 minutes.

To Venice by Train

Venice is not the most popular direction with airlines. Tickets cost much and there are practically no direct flights, they all are with connections in Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna… It is sometimes easier and cheaper to fly to Milan and go by train to Venice. It is less than a 3-hour way, as for Venice’s central station – it stands right on Grand Canal, next to vaporetto stations.

So:
From Malpensa airport you go to Central Railway Station of Milan, Centrale in Italian, by taxi or express buses (they are parked right at the arrival hall exit). As you arrive at Centrale, buy a ticket to Venice. Get off the train at the last station Venezia Santa Lucia. It’ll be wise if you don’t attempt to get off before the train crosses the lagoon. Many tourists are led up the path by the last but one station Venezia Mestre. Don’t you mix it up – Mestre is still the mainland.