Hello Fodorites

We are flying into Paris and landing in De Gaulle. We are looking for flights to Venice and I have found flights out of Orly landing in Venice Marco Polo on myair and out of Paris Beauvais landing in Venice Treviso on ryanair.

The ryanair flights are about 20 Euro cheaper total for the two tickets.

I was wondering if anyone knew the locations of these airports and which are the better/easier ones to get to for each city.

THANKS

Marco Polo is much more convenient in Venice, just across the lagoon from the city. You can take a water taxi from the airport to your hotel.

I am not sure about the Paris choices.

Orly is so convenient in Paris -- far more than De Gaulle, actually. But do you have to go directly from DeGaulle to your departure or are you spending time in Paris.

Marco Polo is the main Venice airport. Treviso is considerably further away.

I'd suspect you'd easily spend 20 euro more getting to and from Beauvais and Treviso. I'd stick with Orly and Marco Polo!

beph, Treviso is a bit aways from Venice (although there are is a Treviso bus, the Eurobus, which coincides with Ryanair flights, and costs around 4.50Euros that will take you to the Piazzale Roma bus terminal in Venice. From there you must take a vaporetto (water bus) to the stop nearest your hotel.

Venice Marco Polo Airport is preferable, I think-from the airport, you can walk down to the dock, and come into Venice by Alilaguna Gold shuttle direct to Piazza San Marco for 25Epp, or take the regular Alilaguna line that makes stops, and takes 70 minutes, costs 11E.

Marco Polo Airport, then by boat into Venice is the much more scenic route into the city, and is to be recommended, particularly for a first-time visitor.

However you can take a look at this website, which will explain your options getting into Venice from both Marco Polo and Treviso airports:

europeforvisitors.com/venice/articles/venice_airport_boat.htm

thanks so much everyone. I should have specified we are spending 5 nights in Paris - I was just indicating that we were flying into one of the airports that we could not fly out of so I did not know about the other two. ;-)

thanks girlspy i will check out the website

Neopolitan - I figured there was a loophole to the cheaper flights

thanks for the input everyone

Yea, saving 10 euro each is NOT worth the more distant airports. Now if the tickets were 100 euro less, you might rethink that.

ok - we booked our tickets on myair from Paris Orly to Venice Marco Polo - thats everyone for the info