Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE) Italy
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Address: Venice
Marco Polo Airport, Via. le G. Galilei 30/1 30030 Tessera, Venice,
Italy
Location: The airport is located 12km (7.5 miles) from Venice
by land, 10km (6 miles) by water
Website: www.veniceairport.it
E-mail: pubrel@veniceairport.il
Telephone: (0)4 1260 6111
Country Dialing Code: 39
Timezone: GMT + 1 (GMT + 2 between Apr-Oct)
Number of Terminals: 1
A tourist and airport information desk is located in the Arrivals area. Recorded information is also available for Arrivals (tel: (0)4 1260 9240) and Departures (tel: (0)4 1260 9250).
Money
and communications: Facilities include bureaux de change,
banks and a post office.
Eating and drinking: There are bars and restaurants at the
airport. Food outlets include a snack bar/pizzeria and a self-service café in
the Arrivals hall.
Shopping: Shops are located in the Extra Schengen Departures
Hall; these include duty-free as well as newsagents, a bookshop, a clothes
shop, a leather goods shop, a shoe shop, a sunglasses shop, a clothing accesssories
shop, food and wine shops, a jewellers, several gift shops and a tobacconists.
Luggage: Left luggage facilities are available
Other facilities: There is also a VIP lounge, a hotel reservation
service and a first aid service
Wheelchairs are available
for disabled travellers and the terminal is equipped with ramps
and lifts to provide access to all areas.
A meeting room in the VIP lounge can be hired (tel: (0)4 1260 6285); facilities include telephone, TV, video, slide projector, fax machine and a bar.
Avis , Hertz , Maggiore , Thrifty , Europcar and Sixt are all represented in the Arrivals area.
There is a multi-storey car park in front of the terminal (tel: (0)4 1541 5913) and an open-air car park at the back of the multi-storey; both are open 24 hours a day. There are also short-term car parks with parking meters, free unattended car parks and a parking lane for loading and unloading in front of the terminal.
The airport is 15 minutes from the Venice-Mestre motorway exit.
Water:
Boat: A regular waterboat service and water taxis (tel: (0)4 1541 5084) run from
the airport to Venice.
Road:
Taxi: Traditional taxis are also available at the airport (tel: (0)4 193 6222).
Bus: There are scheduled bus services every 20-30 minutes to Padua, Mestre and
Venice (tel: (0)4 1541 5180); Venice-Mestre railway station is connected to the
airport by a bus service that runs every 20 minutes and buses also connect the
airport with the Adriatic Coast
The Fly Hotel is located 300m (328 yards) from the airport, the Antony Hotel is located 1km (0.6 miles) from the airport and the Ramada is 4km (2.5 miles) from the airport.