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Venice: Transport and other passes

Visiting Venice can be expensive. Fortunately, there arediscount passes for transport in Venice (and for a fewother things as well) that can help ease the strain onthe budget.

Please note: The blue coloured words below areclickable links. Click on them to be taken to theappropriate page in the official websites.

Transport PassesA single, one hour vaporetto trip in one direction costs €7.00 for any visitor aged 6years and over. There are no discounts for seniors. A person in a wheelchair and theircarer/caretaker can travel for €1.30 per trip. Apart from these exceptions, everyonepays full fare unless a transport pass is used. The transport passes listed below are goodfor all for most all normal ACTV vaporetto (water bus) services around the Venetianlagoon, including out to Murano, Burano, Torcello, Guidecca and the Lido, and ACTVurban bus services in Mestre, such as to Marco Polo airport, and on the Lido. They donot cover the more expensive water taxi service or gondolas, and do not cover

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the Alilaguna ferry service to the airport.

Tourist Travel Cards: Tourist travel cards are time based passes usable from the timethey are first validated (usually when they are purchased or picked up at an ACTV orHelloVenezia ticket window) for the period chosen, and included in the price is thetransport of one luggage item of up to 150 cm as the sum of its three dimensions. Theymust be passed by one of the iMob validating machines located at the entrance to theACTV vaporetto loading docks and aboard the urban buses at the beginning of each andevery journey and change of vehicles.

Base prices (NOT including extra cost for travel with origin or destination at Marco poloAirport):

18,00 € - 12-hour travelcard

20,00 € - 24-hour travelcard

25,00 € - 36-hour travelcard

30,00 € - 48-hour travelcard

35,00 € - 72-hour travelcard

50,00 € - 7 days travelcard

You must validate your ticket after purchase and before you get on the vaporetto. If youdo not validate the ticket you can be fined in the case your ticket is spot-checked, ashappens at random intervals. To validate the ticket you just have to pass the card infront of the sensor fitted in the centre of the validation machine, located beforeentering all of the boarding areas; a green light and a beep will confirm that thevalidation has been successful. A red light and buzz indicates that there is a problem,and the ticket has not been correctly validated or has expired. You must do thiseverytime before you board a vaporetto. If you board a vaporetto without a valid ticket,make sure you contact the ACTV staff to purchase a ticket immediately, in order tosafely avoid the fine.

Attention: currently, travel on any ACTV bus line with origin or destination atVenice Marco Airport (the n°5 Aerobus line, or the n°4, n°15 or n°45 lines) isexcluded from the Tourist Travel Cards, and requires an additional special fareticket. The cost of the single ticket is €6.00 one way, and €11.00 round trip/return. Ifpurchased together with the Tourist Travel Card, it costs slightly less, at an additional€4.00 one way and €8.00 round trip/return compared to the above listed base prices.There is also a special "Aerobus + Water" fare which for €12.00 includes one vaporettoride and the n°5 Aerobus to Marco Polo Airport in a 90 minute period.

Venice Connected Public Transport Ticket. Venice Connected Public Transport Ticket- Purchased online at the VeniceConnected.com website, using a credit card, at least 4days in advance, you can purchase the above ACTV Tourist Travel Card at the exactsame price (at the same time as purchasing other services such as museum passes,parking, toilet passes, WiFi, if desired). This is currently the same price available for thepasses, and no better deal for visitors than purchasing the same passes in Venice.Passes become activated when collected at one of the several VeniceConnected Pointslocated at the main entrance points to Venice or from the automatic machines listedbelow. You must specify the day of pickup when booking the pass that cannot bechanged. There is a full list of VeniceConnected Points on the website. Some Internetwebsites still indicate that purchasing ACTV tickets and travel passes through the VeniceConnected site will give a discount, though this is no longer true.

Using the unique PNR provided upon confirmation of the original order, it is also possibleto collect your pre-booked transport passes from one of the many 24 hour automatedACTV ticket machines at one of the following locations, rather than from one of thestaffed Venice Connected Points, located throughout the city, on Lido and the mainland,and Chioggia, all listed on the ACTV website.

This video tutorial (available on YouTube) shows how to use the machines to receive thePublic Transport Tickets. Like much of Venice Connected, it is not necessarily an intuitivething.

Rolling Venice Card RollingVenice card Only for tourists aged between 14 and 29(inclusive), the Rolling Venice card can be purchased in Venice at HelloVenezia ticketoffices and Tourist Information Offices for €4. The young person may then purchase adiscounted 3 day ACTV Tourist Travel Card at €18. The Rolling VeniceCard allowsconsiderably reduced admission charges to most museums, plus occasional otherdiscounts. You need proof of age and identity to purchase this. The Tourist Travel Cardavailable with this discount is considerably cheaper than any other solution available tothe occasional tourist. As of 23 June 2011, the reduced price Tourist Travel Cardpurchased in conjunction with the Rolling Venice card DOES NOT INCLUDE any travel

having as its origin or its destination Venice Marco Polo Airport, for which a separateticket need be purchased.VeneziaUnica Card (ex-CartaVenezia or Imob.venezia card) CartaVenezia -Purchased in Venice at the HelloVenezia desks, renewable on-line. For those who mayvisit Venice frequently there is the CartaVenezia which is a personal document entitlingyou to travel on ACTV buses and boats at discounted prices. The CartaVenezia can beacquired for €40 if you live outside the Veneto and then carnets (books) of tickets forthe boat or the bus at substantially reduced prices (about €1.30 each) for both boattravel and bus travel around Venice and the Lido. The CartaVenezia is renewable when itexpires after 5 years. For longer stays, there are also monthly passes which havevalidity from the 1st to the end of the given month, for €30 (vaporetti + Lido buses) or€35 (vaporetti + Lido buses + Mestre urban bus lines). Holders of CartaVenezia orImob.venezia cards can also purchase reduced fare Alilaguna tickets (at roughly half thefull price - see Alilaguna for details). The Imob.venezia annual and monthly passes withthe Mestre land network included also include travel with origin or destination at VeniceMarco Polo Airport at no extra charge. The cost for a one way ticket on any bus ride withorigin or destination at Venice Marco Polo Airport for those with CartaVenezia orImob.venezia cards is now €6.00.

Alilaguna Time tickets Alilaguna Time tickets - these are available as 24-hour(€30.00) and 72-hour (€65.00) passes and allow use of the Alilaguna lines, including toand from the airport. The 72-hour also includes use of the Green Line which is "acollective excursion to the venetian isalnds Murano, Burano e Torcello [sic]" which runs2-4 times a day. Since the schedules of all the lines are less frequent (once every halfhour or hour) than the ACTV service (generally every 10-20 minutes), and schedulesand stops more limited than the ACTV network of waterbus services (there is no night-time service), these time-tickets are probably best suited for people with specific travelneeds between stops served by the Alilaguna services who can adapt travel plans to theAlilaguna schedules. It is not what would be generally considered a "city pass" for publictransportation.

Other Passes VeniceCard VeniceCard Purchased in Venice at any HelloVenezia ticket office, it offersaccess to the Doge's Palace, the Querini Stampalia Foundation, the Jewish Museum andthe ten Civic Museums and sixteen Chorus churches (see below), as well as to the publictoilets (two times) and also offers some "other reductions", such as reduced price entryto the Biennale and temporary exhibitions at the Fortuny Museum, the PeggyGuggenheim museum, and other venues. There are also discounts at some stores,shops and restaurants. This is different than the VeniceCard previously available (whichin some versions overlapped other transport and culture passes), and is now available inonly two versions: Junior (6-29y.o.) at €29.90, and Senior (30y.o. or over) at €39.90,both valid for 7 days.

Chorus Church Pass The Chorus Church pass can be purchased online or in Venice.This is a good idea if you plan to visit many of the churches in Venice. Most charge anentry fee, such as the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari (a.k.a. the "Frari"). Somechurches, including the Basilica di San Marco and Santa Maria della Salute, do notcharge an entry fee. For cheaper entry to the churches that do, the "Chorus Churches"pass can be purchased for €10.00 either online (10% discount) or at the first of thechurches you visit. The pass allows free entry to all of the others on the card during thenext twelve months. Children under 10 are free, and discounts are available for visitorsunder 29. There are also family discounts available. Details and access to onlinepurchase are at the Chorus Organization site.

Venice Connected Culture Passes Venice Connected Culture Passes - Purchasedonline at the VeniceConnected.com website, using a credit card, at least 7 days inadvance. The Museum passes allow for entry to multiple Civic Museums of Venice forone fee, at a reduced price compared to the sum of the single entrance fees. The exactofferings vary according to the season. Details of the specific cumulative tickets andindividual museums are found at the Civic Musems website.

Other Venice Connected Services Venice Connected - Purchased online at theVeniceConnected.com website, using a credit card, at least 7 days in advance withdiscounts, 4 days in advance without discounts. A number of services, such as publicrestroom access, car parking services at the Venice Municipal Garage in Piazzale Roma,and WiFi Access through the Venice Municipal WiFi network can be purchased in advancethrough the VeniceConnected site, and paid for at the same time as the purchase ofother services such as Public Transport Tickets and Museum Passes.

Redeeming other services purchased through the Venice Connected site

Museum passes are provided within your purchase voucher, with your PNR, andcan be printed to be shown at the entrance to any participating museums (a linkto the printable voucher is provided in your confirmation email);

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For parking show your PNR on entry;

For WiFi, you will be sent a separate email with ID and Password;

Toilet passes must still be collected at a manned Venice Connected Point. Thesecan be picked up the next day should you arrive too late into Venice to reach anopen Venice Connected Point;

Redeeming Alilaguna Passes purchased through the Venice Connected websitePassengers must redeem the PNR at an Alilaguna desk not a Venice ConnectedPoint. If tickets are not redeemed before boarding there is no guaranteepassengers will be admitted on board even if they have a valid voucher

Tickets are valid to be used for your journey within thirty days after redemption atthe following sites:

Marco Polo Airport Alilaguna docks: Everyday, 08.00–24.00 (8am-midnight)

San Marco Giardinetti Alilaguna dock: Everyday, 08.30–17.00 (8am-5pm)

Venice Port, Isola Nuova Tronchetto 24/a: Mon–Fri, 08.30–13.00 and 14.00–17.30(8:30am-1pm and 2pm-5:30pm); Saturday, 0.830–13.00 (8:30am - 1pm);Sunday closed.

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