PeggyE

I didn't even know there was one but it is included in our hotel package. Does anyone know if it is worth carrying a jacket & tie for my husband just to go there? I think I read somewhere that is required. Is it just high rollers or geared to us regular folks?Thanks!

missypie

casino?

PeggyE

I just saw the threads from July 26th so there is info already posted on this. sorry....but jacket & tie?! Maybe we can rent them!

Statia

I haven't gone in myself, but most people I saw going in were dressed well and the men had jackets and ties.

PeggyE

Thanks Statia, I think we will skip it, not really important enough when there is so much else to see!

Tries2PakLite

Oh, casino! I couldn't imagine what a casion was. I had no idea there was a casino in Venice. Where is it?

Eloise

October to March at the Ca Vendramin Calergi in Venice; April to September on the Lido. It has a Web site.

Girlspytravel

That is incorrect. The Venice Casino- Ca Vendramin Calergi-is open all year round, with the exclusion of Dec. 24-25th. I was there last August, and asked them, and they were open, and they told that it was open all year round, and was I coming back to play?

I also note that on the updated website they state that dress style is "casual"-which is what I observed when I saw dudes go in-they were dressed in khakis and gold shirts.

Girlspytravel

This posted before I was finished..there are two Venice Casinos-the more beautiful and prestigious-Ca Vendramin Calergi, in Venice's Cannaregio district, is open all year round, (for the exception of Dec. 24, 25) the other one, with the same opening hours is located in Tessera, on the mainland-Ca Noghera.

Here are two websites that give information: Venice Card

www.casinovenezia.it/contatti.htm
www.venicecard.it/casino_eng.jsp

and the Casino website,
www.casinovenezia.it/ing/cavendra.htm

with updated information regarding admission fees here:

www.casinovenezia.it/venicecasino/default.html

merckxxx

They are all wrong, wrong wrong. Go to the Chruch of St Casion and view his bones - well, and some carteligdr too - and worship at his tobm. There is a great feast of St Casion during which the masses adore pig knuckles - for lunch that is. Natcherly, everybody dresses for the occasion too.