Hotel Touts and other Venice, Italy Tourist Trap Tips

When/If you arrive by train you will be approached by employees enticing you to come to their hotel. Don't use them...go to the tourist info spot and book a hotel. Hopefully you will have booked before coming.

These employees are harmless, but you probably won't be satisfied with your hotel.

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Venice is one big tourist trap! Has been since the 18th century. Food is expensive. Hotels are expensive or shoddy unless you choose very wisely.

But once again. It's all worth it and it just depends on how you do it!

In Venice, even the ads are artistic mosaics!

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At Least Do This: Here is the golden advice. Listen carefully.

1) Avoid Venice in Summer. It's crowded, hot, and sometimes smelly. My favorite trip was during a christmas cold spell!

2)Get a decent hotel tip and don't just wing it if possible.

3)Stay off the beaten path. Preferably not in the cheap hotels near the train station.

4)Relax, wander and don't be over ambitious.
Alternative: Go to Venice in the fall, or spring. Winter is cold, but is my favorite time. Avoid the crowds as much as possible by staying in off the beaten path connection Piazzale Roma (Train Station too) with San Marco.

In my opinion, Alitalia is a tourist trap and I'm not changing my view until they change their service.

This is one of the many fanciful mosaic ads that you'll see on the far end of the Piazza San Marco. I thought it was kinda neat.

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