Vaporetto FAQ: tickets, lines and rules in Venice

A single ride costs €9.50 for 75 minutes. Passes cost €25 for 24 hours, €35 for 48 hours, €45 for 72 hours and €65 for seven days. All fares side by side are on vaporetto prices.

Count days and rides. One day with three rides or more: the 24-hour ticket. Two days: 48 hours. Three days: 72 hours. From four days the seven-day ticket undercuts every combination. The comparison is on vaporetto tickets and passes.

From the third ride of the day. Three single rides cost €28.50, the day ticket €25, and every further ride is free. For two rides two 75-minute tickets are cheaper. Details on 24-hour ticket.

For three days, yes. At €45 it costs less than three 24-hour tickets at €75 and less than five single rides. Travellers between 6 and 29 pay €27 with a €6 card. More on 72-hour ticket.

Yes. A ticket booked online arrives as a voucher with a PNR code. In Venice you type the PNR into any Venezia Unica or ACTV machine, which prints the ticket; the QR code is not scanned. The steps are on buying online.

Yes. Tap at the reader at every boarding: the first ride costs €9.50, and charges stop at €25 in 24 hours, €35 in 48, €45 in 72 and €65 in seven days. Up to five people can travel on one card; PagoBancomat does not work. More on buying online.

Yes, from the crew, by card only since 1 July 2024. The ticket is handed over already validated. The tram and the People Mover have no sale on board. All the ways to buy are on buying online.

No. Vaporetto tickets booked online are nonrefundable and cannot be rescheduled. The day stays open: the validity only starts when you first validate the ticket in Venice. More on buying online.

€64.50 if paid within five days, €124.50 from the sixth to the sixtieth day and up to €324.50 after that. A ticket that was never validated counts as no ticket. The rules are on vaporetto tickets and passes.

At the first validation, not at purchase and not at midnight. A 24-hour ticket validated at 14:00 runs until 14:00 the next day. See 24-hour ticket.

Yes. Hold the ticket against the reader before every boarding and at every change of boat or bus. A check treats an unvalidated ticket as no ticket. The pontoons and readers are explained on vaporetto stops.

Yes. Within the 75 minutes you may change as often as you like and even break the journey and board again; there is no direction rule. The single ride is on vaporetto prices.

All ACTV water bus lines, with the Grand Canal, Murano, Burano, Torcello and the Lido, plus the Lido and Mestre buses, the tram and the People Mover. Not covered: the airport, Alilaguna, lines 16 and 19 and the Casinò line. See tickets and passes.

Only the 24-hour ticket, sold as the Venezia Daily Pass, includes the regional trains inside the municipality, between Santa Lucia and Mestre. No other duration does. Details on 24-hour ticket.

Line 1 stops at every landing on the Grand Canal. Line 2 covers the same canal with fewer stops. The stops of line 1 are on ACTV line 1, line 2 on line 2 express.

By day line 1 runs every 12 minutes, lines 5.1, 5.2 and 6 every 20 minutes and line 14 every 30. First and last boats are on the vaporetto timetable.

Yes. The night line N leaves San Zaccaria from 23:30 and runs via Giudecca, Piazzale Roma and the Grand Canal to the Lido, through the night. Times are on the vaporetto timetable.

The busy stops have several pontoons, each with a letter for particular lines and directions. Check the letter, then the destination on the boat. The letters of the six hubs are on vaporetto stops.

From Fondamente Nove: line 12 from pontoon A to Murano, Torcello and Burano, from 04:20 with the last boat out at 22:25; lines 4.1 and 4.2 from B to Murano. See Venice to Murano and Venice to Burano.

Fastest is line 14 from San Zaccaria, pontoon A, in 14 minutes. From Piazzale Roma lines 5.1 and 6 take just over half an hour. Line 2 no longer runs to the Lido. See Venice to Lido.

Children travel free until their sixth birthday. From the sixth birthday the adult fare applies; travellers between 6 and 29 can use Rolling Venice. See vaporetto tickets and passes.

A card for travellers aged 6 to 29. It costs €6 and brings the 72-hour ticket down to €27, together €33 against €45, a saving of €12. More on Rolling Venice.

No. Reduced fares for older travellers are tied to residence in Venice, so visitors pay the standard fare. The only reduction for visitors by age is Rolling Venice for 6 to 29.

Wheelchair users and holders of the EU Disability Card pay €1.50 per 75 minutes, and the companion of a wheelchair user travels free. See vaporetto tickets and passes.

Three pieces per person travel free, each up to 150 cm as the sum of its three sides. Extra pieces need a ticket at the passenger fare; pieces over 150 cm are not carried. See vaporetto tickets and passes.

Yes. One dog per passenger travels free, on a lead and muzzled or carried. Small animals in a carrier also travel free. See vaporetto tickets and passes.

A folding bike in its bag travels as luggage. A bike that is not folded needs its own €1.50 ticket and only travels on the lines that carry bikes, while there is room. See Venice to Lido.

No. Journeys to or from Marco Polo Airport are excluded. The Aerobus supplement, €7 one way or €13 return, bought together with the ticket, adds the bus to Piazzale Roma. See Marco Polo Airport to Venice.

On the Alilaguna boats, a separate company with its own ticket, or by water taxi. Lines, fares and the fixed taxi fares are on Alilaguna and water taxi.