Getting around VCE
Venice Marco Polo is built on a lagoon, and it shows: alongside the usual buses, taxis and trains, the airport runs its own “Water Terminal”, a covered dock linked to the main building by a moving walkway, where the Alilaguna boat lines and private water taxis leave straight for St. Mark’s Square, Murano, the Lido and the historic centre — no other airport in this guide reaches its city by water. Everything else sits inside a single terminal building, closed to the public from midnight to 4:00 AM under an ENAC ordinance, and run without a single public-address announcement — the airport chose to stop making them for a quieter terminal. Taxis and buses wait right outside the terminal doors on the ground floor, with fixed-rate taxi fares posted to Venice, Mestre and the cruise terminal. In 2025 it carried 11.8 million passengers, and a development plan running to 2037 aims for more than 20 million passengers a year, with a new terminal wing already adding gates.
