Viajero2

Effective MAY 2015 NOBODY will be allowed to wheeled-rolled their suitcases on the streets of Venice. The fines are up to 500 euros (approx $620) for anyone caught wheeling their suitcase (s).

In a car-free streets city, this will be headache-- air-filled wheels: where to get them?

colduphere

Hoping Fra Diavolo doesn't see this.

janisj

Enough already -- this is the 3rd thread started about this in 2 days . . .

vincenzo32951

>> air-filled wheels: where to get them?<<

The gas stations in Piazza San Marco have announced they're going to let tourists use the air pumps for free.

Christina

First of all, the reports were not that wheeled suitcases would be banned/fined, it was noisy wheels.

Besides, this isn't true, you can't belive everything you read on the internet, actually. The city has responded and said there was no truth to those media reports:

http://www.comune.venezia.it/flex/cm...IDPagina/78727

note <<Ogni altra interpretazione sull'argomento risulta fantasiosa e non vera. Se poi, dalla bagarre mediatica che è seguita a questo falso scoop....>>

kybourbon

>>>Besides, this isn't true, you can't belive everything you read on the internet, actually<<<

Tell that to all the morning news shows as they are spouting it too.

suec1

Yes I read it on CNN website - it does make you wonder about other, more important "facts" that you read / hear, doesn't it.

IMDonehere

Rome is banning all luggage with handles.

PalenQ

Enough already -- this is the 3rd thread started about this in 2 days . .>

there is new news here that was not in the others TMK - May 2015 effective date - so what if it is the third thread and folks want to respons to it - why don't you just skip over it - why bother to chastise folks who post often without seeing the other threads. Most helpful of course would be if you gave a link to those other two threads then folks could go there - but not everyone sees old threads so much ado about nothing.

PalenQ

http://www.fodors.com/community/euro...tcases-ban.cfm

Here's one other thread that has been up for a few days - the other one I have not seen.

PalenQ

I actually heard that due to overcrowding on the narrow tourist-filled gauntlet between the car parks/train station area and San Marcos on that street all luggage will be banned and confiscated and the miscreants tarred and feathered!

Nikki

This reminds me of the warnings I read here a few years ago that rollaboard suitcases would not be allowed at CDG airport in Paris. People here were saying that was a great idea, they hated those things taking up room on the planes, just carry on a bag you can manage. Turned out the story was just that luggage trolleys weren't being allowed past security.

dfourh

Cinque Terre is banning all tourists.

330east

Actually, the very truth is that in order to take your luggage from the carousel in the luggage retrieval area the traveler must pay 5 euros per piece to be shared by the local gov't and the airline.

janisj

>>there is new news here that was not in the others TMK - May 2015 effective date - so what if it is the third thread and folks want to respons to it - why don't you just skip over it -<<

The point is -- better to add this new info to THAT thread instead of starting three identical ones.