Posted on 07/03/2022 11:01:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Tourists who do not stay overnight in hotels or seek other accommodation, will have to sign up online for the day of their visit and pay a fee that ranges from between $3 and $10.50 per day, city officials said. Those who ignore the new rules will risk fines of more than $300.
More than 80 percent of visitors to Venice arrive just for the day — more than 30,000 to 40,000 people per day, Bloomberg reported. In 2019, there were more than 19 million “day-trippers” to the city.
Last year, Italy’s government approved measures last year to ban large cruise ships in the Venetian lagoon.
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Well, there is sewage to think about.
Pay the government...they're nuts and I'm sure it's illegal.
Wife and I went there a few years ago, it’s highly overrated, crowded, etc. I wouldn’t go back.
I’m sure the visitors are spending money on the merchants. Food, clothing, Venetian blinds.
I know there is food. I saw an episode of Sylvester and Tweety Bird in Venice and he had a bowl of spaghetti when he couldn’t catch Tweety. Remember on the boat rides, “Watcha you head. Lowla bridgeda.”
Venice police won’t give me no peace.
“Well, there is sewage to think about.”
They already charge for that.
“I’m sure it’s illegal.”
How sure?
Did you stay overnight on your visit? To go to sleep and wake up early in Venice, without the hordes, was magical for me.
Locals want to ban tourists. Which is the only reason the locals can exist.
Same as it ever is
Yes,
people spend a lot of money there on tickets, food etc. Why charge more?
I love Venice and visited many times, but never slept there!
It is actually complicated. Hotels there are expensive and you need to haul yourself and luggage on boats. Parking is expensive too. Hotels around Venice are a lot cheaper!
The further you go the cheaper.
We actually once slept on Lido di Venezia.
That the island next to Venice.
You need to pay for ferry to get there and back, but you get free parking with a hotel which is a lot cheaper than in Venice. You can see Venice from the hotel and there are regular, cheap boats back and forth.
I am wondering if Lido hotel qualify or not???
Probably not.
as a 3rd gen Sicilian, I’ve been to Venice a “few” times. I don’t get the appeal for the city because the water is as murky as the Jersey river. Seriously. The blue and green river that you see in pictures is rare LOL
I agree. The evenings and mornings were fabulous. Midday with the hordes was madness.
I was just there and had an early morning boat ride to the airport - very enjoyable to see all the buildings in the morning light.
Now there’s a city that’s ahead of its time in city planning. It combined it sewage system with its transportation system. Genuis! Just Genuis!
“Now there’s a city that’s ahead of its time in city planning. It combined it sewage system with its transportation system. Genuis! Just Genuis!”
San Freako did it too. People crap all over their streets.
But Venice has been doing it since 810 AD!
San Freako’s just a pale copycat!
Especially in a place like Venice (physically small location where virtually all travel is by foot), the experience of the tourists who are paying to stay there is diminished by the chaos of the cruisers. By definition they've come for a broader experience and resent the disruption by people who only came so they could brag that they'd once been there. Then they post their dissatisfaction on Trip Advisor and hotel bookings drop 10%.
Not everybody benefits from the cruisers. Business in low-end restaurants and shops selling tourist kitsch booms but it negatively impacts the people who have made the biggest investments: hoteliers and owners of upscale businesses. It limits the job opportunities for young people, so they move elsewhere. Which over time materially changes the culture and the place looses what it was that once attracted people to come there.
Islands are by nature expensive places to live in and with dwindling good-paying jobs, Venice is hemorrhaging residents. Demographers predict that by 2030 there will be ZERO full-time residents remaining. The only inhabitants will be like migrant field hands, coming in to work during the cruise ship season, warehoused 20 to an apartment, then moving to some other location when the season ends.
"Wife and I went there a few years ago, it’s highly overrated, crowded, etc. I wouldn’t go back."
You were unprepared. Venice is like Place du Tertre in Paris or the Roman Colosseum or Tombstone, Arizona. Tourists don't flock there because of what it is, they go there because of what it once was. A trip to Tombstone likely will be meaningless to you if you don't know who Doc Holliday was or what the Gunfight at the OK Corral was about. Similarly, if you look around Venice and don't see the grandeur, the history, the colossus of art that the place once was, you didn't do your homework.
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