Baggage Storage in Venice

Left luggage or Deposito Bagagli

We often get e-mails from readers who want to know where they can store luggage after leaving their hotels, during day trips to Venice, or when passing through Venice Marco Polo Airport, the Venice Cruise Terminal, or the Venice Railway Station. Here are our suggestions:

1. When possible, use your hotel.

The simplest way to store luggage is to leave it with your hotel's front desk. Nearly all hotels will hold bags for a few hours before you check in or after you check out.

At smaller hotels, you can simply leave bags with the receptionist; at larger or more expensive hotels, you'll need to store bags with the concierge or luggage porter (who should be tipped for the service).

• Suggestion: If you have an early departure, have mobility problems, or are just spending a night or two in Venice at the beginning or end of a cruise, we strongly urge you to consider staying at a hotel near your point of arrival or departure. This is far easier than hauling luggage through the streets, on crowded water buses, or in horrendously expensive water taxis. For hotel suggestions, see our Venice Airport Hotels, Venice Railway Station Hotels, and Venice Cruise Terminal Hotels articles.

2. Otherwise, use a deposito bagagli office.

Left-luggage offices are located at:

• The arrivals hall of Venice Marco Polo Airport, near the post office. Click here for hours and rates. (The airport also has free luggage carts.)

• The Venice Santa Lucia Railway Station, near track 1. Click here for hours and rates in Italian.

• The Piazzale Roma (where buses and taxis enter and leave Venice). See Cooperativa Trasbaglia Venezia's English-language Where We Are page, which lists current hours, and click here for a Google satellite map with a pushpin icon that shows the location of the deposito bagagli office. (Note: The office is separate from the Cooperativa's waterside headquarters building.)

• The Venice Cruise Terminal's Marittima and San Basilio buildings, where left-luggage offices are normally open on days when cruise ships are arriving and departing.