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== Where to Stay ==
 
== Where to Stay ==
Venice offers a wide range of accommodations. A cheap and still confortable possibility is the Bed and Breakfast solution.
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Venice offers a wide range of accommodations. Most of it is highly overprized.
  
 
=== Bed and Breakfast ===
 
=== Bed and Breakfast ===
  
 
*[http://www.cadelpozzo.it Bed and Breakfast Ca' del Pozzo], S.Marco 2612, tél. ''+39'' 041 2413875. Double rooms from 69 EUR.
 
*[http://www.cadelpozzo.it Bed and Breakfast Ca' del Pozzo], S.Marco 2612, tél. ''+39'' 041 2413875. Double rooms from 69 EUR.
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=== Camping ===
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Camping Jolly. I wouldn't go as far as to recommend it, but you can rent beds in lockable tents there for less than 15 euros a night. Everything else there is highly overprized but there's a supermarket nearby and maybe you can ask to use the kitchen in one of the bungalows. Takes you 10-15 minutes to walk to the bus which brings you to the Piazzale Roma in 15 minutes.
  
 
== Public Transport ==
 
== Public Transport ==

Revision as of 09:23, 5 August 2009

Venice
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Country:
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Italy
Population: 269,000
Licence plate: VE
Major roads: A4
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Venice is a city in Italy. The city itself is a collection of islands. You will probably arrive and leave through Mestre.

Hitching Out

Hitching out of Mestre is really hard.

West towards Verona, Bologna

Take bus 6 to the Via Petro Paleocapa in Marghera, walk to the roundabout, through the Via Cesare Begharia and through the Via de la Ponte on the right. At the very end, there's a path on the right to the AGIP petrol station. It's far from perfect but at its exit you can hitch both people from the petrol station or try to get someone over from the roundabout. Also possible to go east here if you are already in the eastern part (e.g. stayed at Camping Jolly, 500m from there).

East towards Trieste, Udine

If you are already in Marghera, see above.

Otherwise from Venice, take bus 2 to the last stop, Viale don Sturzo, go to Via Vallon and go to the end of the street where you will find a small path leading to the AGIP fuel station on the highway.

Warning: "We tried to get to the Agip petrol station, walked for 20 minutes and didn't found anything (the village was looong). Eventually slept in field. Are you sure you can get there easily?"

(You might want to try taking bus #14 towards the highway.)

Where to Stay

Venice offers a wide range of accommodations. Most of it is highly overprized.

Bed and Breakfast

Camping

Camping Jolly. I wouldn't go as far as to recommend it, but you can rent beds in lockable tents there for less than 15 euros a night. Everything else there is highly overprized but there's a supermarket nearby and maybe you can ask to use the kitchen in one of the bungalows. Takes you 10-15 minutes to walk to the bus which brings you to the Piazzale Roma in 15 minutes.

Public Transport

You can get bus tickets for local buses for 1,10 euro (in the bus they cost 1,80 euro). The boats to get to other islands are ridiculously expensive (6,50 euro for 1 hour). You could risk going without a ticket on one stop, the fines are at 44 euros (July 20th 09). Little ticket controlling.

A train ticket from VE Mestre to Venice Santa Lucia costs 1 euro. There at the Venice S. L. railway station you can leave your bags (left-luggage) for 4 euro per bag for 5 hours (prices checked: july 15th 2009).