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ATVO "Venezia Express" to Venice's Piazzale Roma

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ATVO's "Venezia Express" coach offers the quickest and most comfortable bus transportation between Marco Polo Airport and Venice. You can buy tickets online, inside the arrivals terminal, or from a curbside vending machine.

ABOVE: The ATVO "Venezia Express" coach runs between Venice Marco Polo Airport and Piazzale Roma (shown above). From Piazzale Roma, you can walk or take public transportation to any point in the city center.

The ATVO "Venezia Express" coach from Marco Polo Airport to Venice's Piazzale Roma costs €12,00 one way, or €20,00 round trip. (Kids under 6 travelfree; children 6 or older pay the adult fare.) ATVO's bus is's by far the most convenient option if you're able to climb a few steps when boarding, since the coach has a luggage compartment underneath where you can stow your bags.

BELOW: The ATVO "Venezia Express" bus stop at Marco Polo Airport is on the curb outside of the terminal. The stop has a ticket vending machine, a ticket validator, a printed timetable, an electronic departures sign, and information on using "Scan & Go" to pay by cellular phone. Look for the "Fermata C" bus stop:

At Venice Marco Polo airport, you can buy tickets in several locations:

• At the ATVO's ticket counter in the baggage-claim area.

• At ATVO ticket counters in the arrivals area (one facing the exit from baggage claim, the other to the left of the exit).

• From the ticket machines (three in baggage claim, and another three outside the terminal at the ATVO bus stops).

• From the ATVO's staff at the bus stops, who will also provide information if you need it.

• ATVO also has a "Scan & Go" option that lets you pay by credit card with your smartphone.

Finally, you can order tickets online for specific dates from the ATVO's confusing Web site. On the order form, use the drop-down menus to select "AEROPORTO VENEZIA MARCO (VCE)" and "VENEZIA - PIAZZALE ROMA".

 When ordering online, you'll receive an e-mail with a PDF booking confirmation. Print out the PDF file or the e-mail and use it as your ticket when boarding.

Travel time to the Piazzale Roma is 20 minutes, and the bus has free Wi-Fi.

Important:

• To take the coach from Venice to the airport, buy a ticket at the ATVO storefront facing the Piazzale Roma and take the red-and-white crosswalk to the center of the square, where you'll see signs for ATVO coaches to the Venice and Treviso airports. (A ticket machine is outside the office, on the sidewalk.) Alternatively, you can buy tickets at the newsstand near the buses, which is open every day except Sunday.

• Board the coach for Marco Polo Airport unless you're flying on Ryanair or Wizz Air, which use Treviso's Canova Airport for some of their flights. (See our Treviso Airport buses article if you're using one of those budget airlines.)

• Be sure to validate your paper ticket before or immediately after boarding the ATVO coach. At the airport, you'll find a stamping machine on the ticket machine by the bus stop; at the Piazzale Roma, stamp your ticket in the machine behind the driver's seat unless the driver takes your ticket and punches it for you outside the bus. (You do not need to validate tickets that you purchased online or with 'Scan & Pay' on your smartphone.)

• ATVO coaches are generally reliable, but it pays to have a backup plan--and money for a taxi--if the bus doesn't show up. (Our daughter and grandson once had a 7 a.m. flight from Marco Polo Airport, and the 5 a.m. bus from the Piazzale Roma failed to arrive. Fortunately, there were a couple of  taxis waiting in the Piazzale Roma at that hour, so they managed to make their flight.)

• A warning about online ticket purchases: If you travel on a different date than the date on your ticket, the driver may complain. (When this happened to us after an overnight flight delay, the driver gumbled but ultimately accepted the ticket.)

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