Hey there peeps

Anyone been to Venice lately? Trying to find out what the price is for a traghetto crossing. My hotel is at the San Silvestro vaporetto stop, and there's one traghetto crossing conveniently near that stop.

Correct me is i'm wrong: Any journey along the Grand Canal will cost me 5 EUR right? But if i only want to move down to the next stop along the Grand Canal, it'll be 1.80 EUR?

I was thinking of visiting Torcello. How much are the vaporetto prices for the trip to the island? And would the 24hrs pass cover it?

Thanks!

Check this site out.

http://europeforvisitors.com/venice/...sportation.htm

The 24-hour pass will cover the (return) trip to Torcello.

I think you're right about the 5 Euro and 1.80 Euro on the Grand Canal, but I find it so confusing that I generally try to avoid - except for one long ride from Ferrovia to San Marco or vice-versa - taking a Grand Canal vaporetto.

The traghetto price at San Toma in 2003 was 0.40 Euro per ride. To me, the traghetto is the way to go if you want to get from one side to the other of the Grand Canal. It saves you the horror of crossing at the Rialto and moving with the mobs in the direction of San Marco.

We found the tragettos as crowded as the bridges, but we took some just for the experience. I thought it was interesting that I could never find a sign showing what the fare was, and they were very clever to make one think it was higher than the true fare, to the point of not taking your money in their hand (they might then be obligated to give you change), but just having an open box where you dropped your money as you boarded, and I never saw anything less than a euro coin in that box. I've seen that gimmick used by street musicians, their donation spot always contains bills, never coins. Even if you put a coin in, it will disappear quickly, with only a few bills remaining so you don't think they are too prosperous, or that coins are enough.

We bought multi-day vaporetto passes and I think that was a good deal, as we were able to see all the islands, and to get to the far ends of Venice quicker than walking, and with less chance of getting lost.

Clevelandbrown:

I'm sorry that your traghetto experience was so different from mine. It's true the fare was not posted, but I gave one of the gondoliers whatever I had and at the end of the ride he always gave me - and a few others - the correct change.

And it's true that the traghetti were most often crowded, but good heavens, the ride only lasted around two minutes.

Yes, its a short ride, but a long wait to get on. I never had to wait in line to walk across a bridge, and if crowds bothered me, I wouldn't go to Venice.

The cost of a traghetto trip is now .50 Euro.

The traghetto at San Silvestro stops running pretty early though - in the early afternoon. Santa Sofia and San Toma run much later, and you can walk to San Silvestro pretty easily from either of those.

We were there in June and yes, a traghetto is 50c.

Much easier & better value to get a 24hr/72hr vaporetto pass rather than worrying about individial fares. I think the 24hr pass was €10.50 & the 72hr one was €21. The passes do cover all the islands like Torcello - just not the airport.

We just returned last month and found the following:

-Traghetto ride across Grand Canal is 50 cents. We never saw crowds on them, but we were also not there in high season.

-Cheapest vaporetto cost was 5.00 euro for 90 minutes. This price was good on all vaporetto routes, including the outer islands. However, the trips there would take more than 90 minutes.

-Next price was about 10.50 euro for 24-hours of use on all vaporetto routes, including outer islands.

-Next price was about 22.50 euro for 72-hour pass and definitely a bargain if you will be there for three days and plan to use the vaporetto often.

I don't recall any vaporetto pass being 1.80 euro, even for only one trip. We saw many people purchase the 5.00 euro / 90 minute pass for one quick trip since that was the cheapest option available. Could it be that the 1.80 pass is not available onboard, but is available at the ticket booths?

"The fare for a shuttle journey from one stop to the next one across the Grand Canal, or on the section between Lido and S. Elena, or S. Giorgio and S. Zaccaria, is € 1,80."

http://www.actv.it/english/navigazio...iffe_vaporetto

We were in Venice last week, and paid 22 EUR for the 72-hour vaporetto pass. We bought them at the airport.

Be sure to validate the pass with a date/time stamp the first time you use it. On a few occasions, inspectors asked riders to show valid tickets.

Woody

Sorry I'm being a bit dim about this but does a 24/72 hour vaporetto pass cover the traghetti as well?

Thanks

The vaporetto ticket does not cover traghetto rides.