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Category: Train
Getting TO/AROUND: Train is a very convenient way to get to Venice, especially if you land in another big city like Milan and Rome. The best train to take is the so-called "Eurostar". These train have mandatory reservations, i.e., each time you buy a ticket for a Eurostar you have necessarily to choose the train you want to take (and, accordingly, you will be assigned a seat on it, just like on airplanes). In case you have trouble, you can change the reservation, but, of course, before the departure of the train (better at least the day before).
Reservations are of the form wagon ("carrozza") number, seat ("posto") number; so for example, carrozza 2 posto 14 means you should enter wagon n.2 (look at the number outside each wagon, usually placed close to the doors), and once inside, look for seat no.14 (like in an airplane).
For more generic infos on trains in Italy, see also my
Italian transportation page.
There is no train from Venice airport to Venice island: if you land in Venice, you'll have to get a bus/boat/taxi instead.
Eurostars can be also conveniently booked online (see enclosed link, and also my
Italian transportation page), with a nice bilingual (Italian/English) website that allows you to look at the schedules, and to buy the ticket using your credit card.
Note for smokers and non-sm okers: from 2005, you can't smoke on *any* train in Italy. No smoke compartments at all, like on airplanes. Sorry!
Finally, when getting to Venice, all the tourists I have met are always baffled by the fact there is a station called "Venezia-Mestre", as they don't know whether to go out or not: this is *not* Venice island (the one you, in all likelihood, want to go), but it is the ground part of Venice (Mestre). Venice (island) is the next stop, so sit on that train, and relax, you can't miss it (it's after Venice-Mestre, it's the last stop, and you have to pass a very long bridge before getting into it!).
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