Venice Mestre and Marghera Hotels

• Best Western Hotel Bologna
  This is an outstanding hotel, especially for the price. The hotel has been around for more than a century, but its interior is thoroughly up-to-date. Services include a book exchange, free Wi-Fi, and a number of free Internet terminals in the lobby. Parking is available at the hotel, and you can choose from two restaurants: the upscale Datura or the more affordable Datura Quick Lunch and a bar-bistro. (Gluten-free products are available in the breakfast room by special request.)

• Hotel Plaza
  The Plaza is modern, with 210 guest rooms. All rooms have free Wi-Fi, parking is available at the "Parking Stazione" next door, and there's a stylish bistro-café, the Soul Kitchen, at street level.

• Hotel Tritone
  The Tritone is a renovated 1960s hotel with free Wi-Fi, two PCs in the lobby, and parking next door. Like the Bologna and Plaza, it has high ratings from guests who have reserved through our booking partner, Venere.

Other hotels in Mestre

• If you're primarily interested in using Mestre as a base for travel to Venice, your best bet is a hotel directly across from the Mestre Railroad Station. See "our top recommendations" above or consider the three-star Cris, Piave, Regit, or Roberta, which are fairly close to the Stazione.

• Alternatively, a hotel near a city bus route to Venice's Piazzale Roma or the Mestre train station may be worth considering. Examples include the three-star Al Vivit (inset photo), Centrale, and Venezia in Mestre's historic center, or the tour- and business-oriented Ambasciatori and Delfino on the busy, modern Corso del Popolo.

• Staying at a hotel near the Autostrada, or on the outskirts of Mestre toward Marco Polo Airport, makes sense only if you're looking for a place to spend your last night before driving to the airport and dropping off your rental car. Examples of such hotels include the Titian Inn Hotel & Residence or the Hotel Antony near the airport and the Holiday Inn Venice Mestre-Marghera near the A4's Mestre/Villabona exit.

• For more mainland hotel possibilities, see Venere's Mestre hotel listings. (Tip: Some of the hotels are in Marghera, a suburb on the other side of the railroad tracks from Mestre. The residential areas of Marghera are pleasant and quiet, but downtown Mestre has more to offer visitors.)