Getting from Venice airport into Venice

Road or water: the two ways into Venice from Marco Polo

The buses are quick, about 20 minutes, but they stop at Piazzale Roma, the bus terminal on the edge of the old city, because no road goes further. From there you walk or take a vaporetto, the city’s water bus, so the bus is the one to take if you’re staying near Piazzale Roma or the station.

The boats leave from the airport’s own dock and take you into the city with no change. The Alilaguna runs fixed lines with fixed stops, so which one you take depends on where your hotel is. Near Rialto or the Grand Canal, the Arancio line gets to Rialto in 57 minutes; near St Mark’s or on the Lido, the Blu line reaches San Marco in 85 minutes and the Lido in 65.

With big suitcases, or to go straight to your hotel, the water taxi goes to a landing near your door in about 30 minutes, on a shared boat or a private one.

Alilaguna boat from Venice airport to Rialto and San Marco

Alilaguna is a separate company from ACTV, which runs the vaporetti and the city buses, so the vaporetto passes don’t cover its boats. To reach its dock, turn left out of the terminal and follow the covered walkway, about 10 minutes on foot. You can book the Alilaguna boat to or from Venice, €18 one way before you fly, and a return is sold too.

A single ticket covers one continuous trip, so you can’t get off halfway and board again later. Each passenger can bring one large suitcase and one piece of hand luggage, and Alilaguna charges €4 for each bag beyond that. Children under 6 travel free.

The red Rossa line runs only in summer and stopped for the winter on 28 October 2026, so two lines leave the airport now.

The Arancio suits hotels near its stops, from San Stae and Rialto down to Ca’ Rezzonico and Santa Maria del Giglio. The Blu goes the long way round, by Murano and the Lido, and is the only boat before 8:35. Its late boats, from 22:20, also stop at Madonna dell’Orto.

Flying home, the Arancio leaves Santa Maria del Giglio every half hour from 6:15 to 19:15, and from Rialto it takes 55 minutes to the airport. The first Blu leaves San Marco Giardinetti at 3:46 and reaches the airport 84 minutes later. From the railway station, Blu boats leave between 8:45 and 21:15.

Water taxi from Venice airport, shared or private

The water taxi crosses to the historic centre in about 30 minutes and drops you at your hotel’s own landing if it has one. Hotels on the smaller inner canals have no landing of their own, so you’re dropped at a meeting point nearby. There are two ways to book it, a seat on a shared boat or a boat of your own, and both include your luggage, with a charge for extra bags.

A seat on a shared water taxi into Venice costs €39 per person by day and more at night, children under 4 ride free, and you can cancel up to 24 hours before. The listing doesn’t say how many people share the boat. With a group, a private water taxi, from €180, gives you the boat to yourselves, and the booking asks you to be there 15 minutes early.

Both run the other way for your flight home:

Buses from Venice airport to Piazzale Roma

The buses leave from outside the terminal and reach Piazzale Roma in about 20 minutes. You can book the direct bus to Piazzale Roma or Mestre, €12, with Wi-Fi on board, one bag of up to 85 × 45 × 25 cm per person and free cancellation up to 24 hours before. For your flight out, it’s sold in the other direction too:

The public buses go from the same terminal. ATVO’s express, line 35, runs non-stop to Piazzale Roma in 20 minutes and takes any amount of luggage; its stop is C, out of exit 3 and to the right. On the October 2026 timetable it leaves at 6:00 and 6:50, then every half hour from 7:20 to 0:20, and once more at 1:10.

ACTV’s Aerobus 5 stops at the terminal entrance, on the ground floor, and takes about 23 minutes to Piazzale Roma. Its ticket is valid for 75 minutes on ACTV buses and trams, but not on the vaporetto, and bags can measure up to 150 cm each, adding length, width and height. For Mestre station, ATVO 35b or ACTV line 15 take about 20 minutes.

From Piazzale Roma into Venice by vaporetto

The ACTV airport ticket doesn’t cover the vaporetto, so from Piazzale Roma you need a vaporetto ticket: an ACTV vaporetto pass from €30 a day, which starts counting at your first ride. Line 1 leaves from here and runs down the whole Grand Canal to St Mark’s, and our page on the Venice vaporetto has the other lines and how to validate.

The vaporetto has a size limit for bags: each one can measure up to 150 cm, adding length, width and height, and a case of 75 × 50 × 30 cm already comes to 155. With a suitcase that size, the Alilaguna, with one large case per passenger, or the water taxi takes you into the city without the vaporetto.

The city passes don’t cover the airport transfer. The Venezia Unica City Pass includes no public transport, and the ACTV vaporetto pass we sell leaves out ACTV’s airport services.

Land taxis from Marco Polo

The taxi rank is at the terminal entrance, on the ground floor, served by the Cooperativa Artigiana Radiotaxi. Ask the driver for the fixed fare before you set off, as the city advises: it covers the supplements and is €40 to Piazzale Roma.

Arriving late at Venice airport

The Alilaguna boats stop before the buses do. The last Arancio leaves at 22:50 and the last Blu at 0:20, reaching San Marco by 1:45. After the last ATVO bus at 1:10, and with the Aerobus 5 paused from about 1:00 to 4:00, only the land taxi and the water taxi, at its night fare, run until the first buses.

Treviso airport to Venice

Treviso, Venice’s second airport, is where Ryanair, Wizz Air and Transavia fly, and the ATVO 351 bus is its one direct link to Venice. It stops at Mestre station after 30 minutes and reaches Piazzale Roma in 40, for €14 one way or €24 return, with as much luggage as you like (ATVO fares since 1 September 2026).

The timetable follows the flights: when a flight is early or late, the departure moves with it, and if the flight is cancelled, so is the bus. Tickets are sold at the machine in the baggage hall, at the desk in arrivals and by the staff at the bus lanes. To reach the stop, go straight out of arrivals and take the lift up to the raised walkway.

If you miss the ATVO, city bus 6 takes about 10 minutes to Treviso station, and regional trains run from there to Venezia Santa Lucia in about 30 minutes, two or three an hour.