The Rough Guide to Venice and the Veneto

per night on average. They take bookings
one week ahead only, and only by phone;
it’s essential to book in summer.
Ostello Venezia Fondamenta delle Zitelle,
Giudecca 86 t041.523.8211; evehostel@tin.
it. The city’s HI hostel occupies a superb
location looking over to San Marco, but it’s
run with a certain briskness. Registration
opens at 1.30pm in summer and 4pm in
winter. Curfew at 11.30pm, chucking-out
time 9.30am. Gets so busy in July and
August that written reservations must
be made by April; written reservations are
required all year. Breakfast and sheets
included in the price – but remember to add
the expense of the boat over to Giudecca
(the nearest stop is Zitelle). No kitchen, but
full (and good) meals for around e10. From
e18.50 per dorm bed, breakfast included; HI
card necessary, but you can join on the spot.
accommodation
| Camping
Camping
If you’re coming from the airport and want to pitch your tent promptly, you
could settle for the four-star Alba d’Oro, Via Triestina 214/b (open all year;
t041.541.5102, wwww.ecvacanze.it; e14 per tent plus e8 per person per night,
or e60 per night for a chalet) just beyond the airport (take bus #15 to Cánoghera,
the fourth stop after the airport). Plenty of sites are to be found on the outer edge
of the lagoon on the Litorale del Cavallino, which stretches from the Punta
Sabbioni to Jésolo and has a total of around 60,000 pitches, many of them quite
luxuriously appointed. Vaporetto #LN, from Fondamente Nove or San Zaccaria
to the Punta, stops close to the two-star Miramare, Lungomare Dante Alighieri 29
(April–Oct; t041.966.150, wwww.camping-miramare.it; e4–25 per tent plus
e3.50–10.50 per person per night); a bit further away there’s the more luxurious
four-star Marina di Venezia, Via Montello 6 (May–Sept; t041.966.146, wwww.
marinadivenezia.it; e9.20–24.20 per tent plus e3–9 per person per night). Bear in
mind, though, that it’s a forty-minute boat trip into the city from here.
Alternatively, back on the mainland there’s a two-star site at Fusina, Via Moranzani
93 (open all year; t041.547.0064); it has almost 1000 places, and charges
e9–12 per tent plus e8–9 per person. A Linea Fusina waterbus links Fusina to
the Záttere in central Venice (ACTV tickets not valid), taking 25 minutes, with an
hourly service from 8am until around 10pm from late May to the end of September,
and till around 8pm for the rest of the year. Alternatively, you can get a bus
to Mestre and change there for the #1 bus or a train.
There are also several sites at Sottomarina, the resort attached to Chioggia, at
the southern end of the lagoon (see p.229), but getting between there and the centre
of Venice involves, at best, a fifty-minute bus journey each way.
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