How to get to Venice traveling with children

Venice is a city that welcomes thousands and thousands of tourists every year. Therefore, despite its small size has exceptional infrastructure. The most convenient mode of transport to get to Venice with children is the plane, but we must not forget that the train is another practical and economica

As soon as we get to Venice, the vision of its channels will dazzle us. We can navigate them in vaporettos, gondola or water taxis, to enjoy this beautiful city in all its angles.

Travel to Venice with children

Plane

Despite its small size, Venice has one of the busiest international airports in Italy: Marco Polo Airport, named after the Venetian merchant and navigator.

Located 8 kilometers north of Venice, the airport is very well connected to the city center.

The blue bus of the company ATVO is one of the best options to get to the center (Piazzale Roma) since it does not make stops, it takes about 20 minutes, it has a frequency of half an hour and costs 6 euros.

Bus nº5 is also interesting, especially for those who do not want to reach the Piazzale de Roma, the final destination, since several stops are made during the journey. It takes between 30 and 45 minutes and its price is also about 6 euros.

Something more expensive - about 15 euros - is the Alliaguna, a water bus that goes to the Plaza de San Marcos itself.
Low-cost airlines do not land at Marco Polo but at the Treviso or Canova Airport, located 40 kilometers north of Venice.

To get from this airport to Venice there are several options. The Barzi buses cost 7 euros and take about 40 minutes, without stops.

The same price has the ATVO company bus, but instead of 40 minutes it takes more than an hour, since it makes several stops: two in Mestre, one of them in the train station, and another in Venice, in the Piazzale Roma.

Train

Another very frequent option to get to Venice is the train. Many travelers choose to fly to Milan and, from there, travel by train to Venice (about two hours), since this option is usually much cheaper than flying to Venice.

The route is longer, but it is also possible to get to Venice by train from cities such as Rome or Venice.

In any case, it is the Santa Lucia station that concentrates the arrival of tourists to Venice. One of the great advantages of this means of transport is that you get directly to the center of Venice.

Traveling in Venice with children

Venice is a very small island. You can walk from one end to the other in just half an hour, so if you are staying on the same island in Venice, you will not need transportation.

In any case, there are multiple options to visit the neighboring islands and even Venice itself.

Vaporetto

Venice is not a usual city. The channels inevitably mark the day to day of the city in many aspects. That is why ambulances, the police or the postal service, for example, move in small boats called vaporettos.

The public vaporettos are a kind of water buses that run fixed lines with fixed schedules.

The most important vaporetto lines for tourists are the 1 - which goes from the bus station in Piazzale Roma to the neighboring island of Lido and passes by places such as St. Mark's Square, Ca'Rezzonico or the Rialto Bridge- line 3 - which goes from Piazzale Roma to the island of Murano - line 7 - from San Marcos to Murano - line 10 - from San Marcos to Lido - and line 18 - from Lido to Murano -.

Vaporettos are expensive. The price of a ticket valid for 60 minutes is about 7 euros.

Taxis

Taxis and water taxis are not a good option in Venice because at their high price, they can not always reach the exact destination we want to go to.

Gondolas

Gondolas were the main means of transport in Venice centuries ago. Today they are an expensive tourist attraction, but many tourists do not want to leave the city without a romantic gondola ride through the canals of Venice.

A 40-minute gondola ride costs 80 euros, but it has extras such as after 7:00 pm or the gondolieri singing or playing an instrument.