Who gets Venice?

Question

When I visited Venice, it was pouring with rain, water was up to your tush from flooding, the St. Mark's campanola had fallen down and had been rebuilt in 1911 or something, the place smelled like a drain

and still you couldn't move for people, the gondola ride costs a week's wages, singing is extra, Harry's bar I missed. Why should I reprise this experience?

Answer 1

i afraid rain and venice dont go when the sun shines it fab place.

Answer 2

you went in the tourist period obviously. yuck. Thousand of ignorant tourists fed on McDonald trodding through Venice, smelling, littering...

Forget tourists and tourists traps. for that, go to Las Vegas at the Venician.

Go to Venice in October. It may rain, but it doesn't smell, venecians are back to be friendly, you'll have the place to yourself... skip Harry's bar, go to local little restaurants for a quartino of wine (not a quart.. .a quart of a liter, hence about a 2 glasses) and some seafood... take a book, and go around by vaporetto (NOT on the gondolas those are for ... yeah... tourists)

Answer 3

You have to plan ahead and visit a place when it's a good time to visit.  You don't visit Florida during a hurricane.  I personally don't like snow, so I wouldn't visit Denver or Chicago during winter.  Likewise, you don't visit Venice during the high season (summer) because it's choked with tourists.  Try visiting in spring or fall.  The weather is mild, and it's much easier to get around because it isn't as crowded.  Also, try getting off the beaten path.  I enjoyed wandering away from the major sights and looking at the areas where regular people live.  I found a local restaurant and had a great meal for much less money than I would have spent in a touristy area.  The point is:  you have to do your homework!

Answer 4

On our first visit to Venice, it rained the whole three days we were there. San Marcos Square and lots of other places were flooded and so they brought out the raised platforms but still some areas were unreachable. The traghettos (gondolas across the canals) didn't operate so we had to take a vaparetton up the canal and then down the canal just to get across.  And we still fell in love with Venice.

One day we visited the Guggeheim museum in the morning, visited a second museum in the afternoon with Modigliani sketches and attended a Vivaldi concert in a small, community church which was as large as any church in San Diego. We visited Murano and Burano to view delightful villages and some of the most magnificent glass-blowing in the world. We visited the market with fresh vegetables, fruits, fish, and meats that went on and on.  

We visited artisan shops including some that featured Carnavale masks and bought a copper one that is magnificent.

If you do not love Venice, you have no soul.

Answer 5

Never been to Venice... I prefer going to places that aren't really aimed at tourists. For example I'm going to hike to the summit of Mount Etna at the beginning of 2008. Hope it doesn't erupt again when I'm climbing it!

Answer 6

Do something you like better next time. Venice is a place I want to visit for all the things that have happened there, for the beauty that has been created there... but if you didn't find that interesting... that's OK, people are different.

Also, when I go somewhere, I prefer knowing _why_, not trusting that I will find why the place is important when I get there. It's not easy to _get_ a place that you don't know about, just on its appearance - unless the charms of the place charm you on their own, and that's not often.

I also heard that there are cheaper ways to travel than by the gondolas...