Venice Railroad Station Hotels

ABOVE: The Hotel Ai Due Fanali (see our illustrated review) is about five minutes from Venice's Santa Lucia Railroad Station, on the only campo in Venice that faces the Grand Canal. In nice weather, you can have breakfast on a rooftop terrace.

In many cities, hotel districts near railroad stations can be depressing, and sometimes they're even dangerous. Not so in Venice: The streets near Santa Lucia Railway Station may be busy and geared to tourists, but the atmosphere is pleasant enough, and the convenience is hard to beat if you're spending only two or three days in Venice.

Most of the several dozen hotels in this article are on or near the Rio Terà Lista di Spagna (usually shortened to "Lista di Spagna"), the first segment of the main pedestrian thoroughfare between the station and the Piazza San Marco.

The Lista di Spagna is a lively place of hotels, restaurants, and souvenir shops, but you'll also find plenty of businesses that serve local residents. And when you get tired of looking at souvenir t-shirts or carnival masks, you can cross the Cannaregio Canal to explore the Venetian Ghetto and the many local shops, restaurants, and cafés along the connecting streets that feed into the Strada Nova.

Best of all, you can reach the hotels in this area without crossing bridges--a great convenience if you're using a rolling suitcase.

We've also included a page of hotels across the Grand Canal. These hotels require crossing a bridge (or, in some cases, several bridges). Choose them if you're looking for a less "touristy" neighborhood or if you want to be close to the Piazzale Roma for an early airport or cruise departure.

Please note:

• Links in this article will take you to our Venice Hotel Directions pages and two secure reservations networks, Venere and Booking.com. We recommend that you compare rates, reviews, and availability before booking.

• You can also book a room at the hotel counter in the railroad station, but you'll probably have to wait in a long line, and hotels with last-minute vacancies may be hard to find or difficult to reach with heavy luggage.

• The area near the railroad station is about a half-hour walk from the Piazza San Marco. To reach the piazza, head away from the station along the Lista di Spagna, cross the Cannaregio Canal, and follow the yellow "San Marco" signs or the daytrippers who'll be headed in the same direction. Or use the expensive vaporetto public water buses. (See our Transportation Index for more information.)

• Through express trains from other Italian cities typically use the Venezia Mestre railroad station in Mestre, a suburb on the Venetian mainland. Our Mestre Hotels page describes good, moderately-priced hotels that face the station or are within walking distance.

Next page: Hotels near the station (3- and 4-star)

The premier travel-planning site
for Venice, Italy since 1997

• About Venice for Visitors

Search our site by topic or keywords:

Custom Search

Advertisement:

Too many bridges, too little time?

Choose from handpicked Venice hotels (in all price ranges) within 0, 1, or 2 bridges of airport buses, taxis, trains, cruise piers, and airport-boat stops. We show maps, directions, booking links, and hotel Web sites.

• Click for easy-to-reach hotels

Venice for Cruisers:

• Roundtrip Cruises from Venice
• L'Austral Cruise Review
• MSC Poesia Cruise Review
• Costa Magica Cruise Review
• All Venice Cruising Articles

Our blogs:

• Venice Travel Blog
• Maggie in Venice dog blog

Need a car in Europe?

Auto Europe guarantees the lowest rental rates for standard cars, sports cars, SUVs, luxury cars, chauffered sedans, and RVs. Its Web site also has driving information for 38 countries.

If you live outside the EU, a tax-free Renault or Peugeot tourist lease can be cheaper than renting. Minimum driver age is 18, there' s no upper age limit, and rates include insurance. See: Short-term car leasing.

|  About Venice for Visitors  |

|  Europe for Visitors - Home  |  Site Information  |

Copyright © 1996-2013 Durant & Cheryl Imboden and their licensors.
All rights reserved.