Venice Advice?

Question

I'm stopping in the Accedamia district of Venice at the end of the month & wondered the best way to get there from Treviso airport..

Also, any good tips on eating out, sightseeing etc - Love to get off the beaten track a little & not get too caught up in the tourist traps per se!!

Somewhere High End & romantic for one meal would be good..

Also, vegetarian food - guessing easy enough in italy???

Thanks

Answer 1

Take a bus from Treviso, or bus + train to Venezia Santa Lucia railway station, then the vaporetto (public boat): there are discount cards for vaporettos which include entrance to museums (Venice cards). Some places are a must (e.g. St.Mark's square), but you'll enjoy wandering around. Vegetarian restaurants are not so common in Venice (fish is favourite dish), but you can choose between a variety of pasta and salads. Check http://www.veniceword.com/restaurants.ht... for restaurants. On the same site you can also check about Venice cards

Answer 2

Get the bus from the airport, then a water bus.  DO NOT get a water taxi it will cost about £50.  The bus/Taxi will cost less thana tenner.

Answer 3

There is a bus from the Treviso Airport to Venice.  It costs 9 Euro, round trip.  Once off the bus, you have a choice, you can walk to the right side of the canal to your hotel, or you can purchase a ticket for the large ferry-type boat to take you to your island.  I know the 72 hr ticket is 25 Euro.  Now, if you need lodging, the best way to do this is to go to the tourist stand inside the train station and get the clerk to find you the best deal.  No need to take a boat here.  Just walk to the left of the canal when you get off the bus, and cross the first bridge you come to that takes you to the right side of the canal.  The train station will be in front of you to your left.  As you enter the building, turn immediately left and you will see a small office for last minute hotel reservations.  This is not a rip-off.  It is operated by the city of Venice.  You can tell the person just what you want and don't want in a hotel.  Then you can walk out and back across the bridge to Academia or catch the boat to the island.  You can purchase the ticket right outside the train station.  But ask the hotel person for a map and get specific directions how to get there.  

Everything in Venice is expensive, especially near St. Marks or Rialto.  And the food near the canal or any of those places is terrible.

I travel there often.  I have Italian friends who took me to a small and darling restaurant in a restaurant you would walk past if you didn't know it was there.  I don't recall the name, but here are the directions.  I promise you the food is wonderful and the place is romantic.  Directions:  Find the street vendor row at the bottom of the Rialto Bridge area.  You'll know when you get there.  Outside market.  Okay, if you are walking down the street through the market shops, and the tall steps are in front of you, look to your far left, there will be a coffee/pastry shop situated on the canal.  The restaurant is actually above the coffee shop.  You have to enter from the inside.  Its small and romantic...delicious and affordable.  

Forget about Harry's Bar.  The place is a tourist trap!  The Bellini are 16 Euro for about 4 ounces sloshed in front of you in a juice glass by RUDE waiters wearing white jackets.  You will be treated like c**p!  The hotels in the site areas are loud!  Beware of any rooms near an alley or other walkway.   There are charges per person for seating...sometimes very high!  Read the small print of the menus at all restaurants.  

The most romantic place for a drink is the Hotel Principe (just out of the train station to the left and about 8-10 doors down.  walk inside the hotel, and all the way to the back.  There is a bar on the left.  You can have the best Prosecco at a white linen-covered table outside (or inside).  But outside, you can watch the canal traffic while sipping the best wine ever...not expensive. And they don't push you to buy food.  Its my "must do" each time I'm there.  But ignore the pigeons, or you'll be sorry.  Also, its illegal to feed the pigeons in San Marco's Square anything other than the food sold there.  It contains some sort of birth control...much needed!

For really High End, go to Lido, that's where the celebs go/stay.

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