Can you please tell me what is the best to get to from the airport to the hotel at St Marks
thank you in advance Pat T

This question has been asked and answered here many times. "Best" is hard to answer. Do you mean cheapest? Fastest? Most convenient? Closest to your hotel?

If your hotel is near the Alilaguna stop at St Marks, that might be the best.

What does your hotel say?

http://www.eurocheapo.com/venice/fea...-around-venice

Cheapest best for me to take the bus to P Roma

Then buy a vaporetto pass like 30 euro for 3 days

ride all u want you break even after 6 rides usually

for me the first half of my first day...

Then I get to ride all the reast of the time all over FREE.

#1 will take u right to San Marco....

How much luggage do you have and how willing/able are you to haul it onto boats crowded with other people? Exactly were is your hotel located (near St Marks can mean right there or a walk of 6 or 7 blocks over a couple of bridges? How much do you value money versus convenience?

BEST way has to be the water taxi direct!

Cheapest! Certainly not!

Three choices.

Option 1 - Water taxi – will cost about 100 euro, but there’s a shared water taxi deal that costs about 27 euro per person. Shared water taxi web link is

http://www.venicelink.com/index.php?...1&lang=english

The water taxi is great fun, and the shared taxi is better than a private one, because is maybe takes you to parts of Venice that you would otherwise not see.

Option 2 - Bus to Piazzle Roma, and a then a vaporetto down the Grand Canal to San Marco.

Option 3 - Alilaguna ferry from the airport to San Marco. Costs about 15 euro. There is a five minute walk to the ferry dock at the airport (which is where the water taxi is as well). The Alilaguna stop at San Marco is 100 close to the Piazza, and right by the tourist info centre, which is handy.

It helps with this question if we know which hotel you are staying at.

Quoting from my trip report – click on my user name and you’ll find it:

“So we Emirated our way across the globe, fetching up at about 45deg 15m N, 12deg 19m E, in Venice, arriving in real style per taxi, threading our way through the Rio di Santa Giustina (sound horn at the intersection with the Rio di San Francesco), the Rio di San Lorenzo which gives a good view of crumbling foundations, and the Rio dei Greci. And then that complete knock out sight, as we entered the Grand Canal, Ducal Palace and the Campanile to starboard, and the Chiesa di Santa Maria della Salute to port. There’s a line in “Wind in the Willows” – “There’s nothing so worthwhile as simply messing about in boats”, and Venice has taken this to heart. The Grand Canal is full of people simply messing about in boats. Gondolas, police boats, workboats, ambulances, waterbuses, water taxis, the lot.

Upstream under the temporary bridge with traffic lights erected across the Grand Canal to the Salute for the 21st November festival, and disembark at the Ca’ Rezzonico. I can’t really claim to have returned like Marco Polo, if for no other reason that we lacked his cargo of silks and spices, but it did feel pretty special.”

Peter_S_Aus Thank you so much for that great link!

Keith

Loved arriving by private water taxi. It was just brilliant speeding across from the airport to the city standing up in the back of the boat with the wind blowing through our hair. It was worth every penny. We decided not to take a shared water taxi as we particularly wanted to be able to stand at the back.

I didn't like the Alilaguna back to the airport. The seats were a lot lower than the windows and the windows were covered with spray so you couldn't really see anything.

Will have to check out that shared taxi link.