Who knew that the biggest saga to board the Azamara Pursuit would be getting to the ship from Venice.. We needed to get to Chioggia to board the ship, a distance of around 45kms by road.
The original plan was for us to take a water taxi, would have cost us Eur350 if the taxi boat skipper had said yes, and taken about 1 hour. Unfortunately our taxi boat skipper did not accept the fare to Chioggia, as he would have lost an hour of fares due to the time it would take to get back to Venice. We think he was a bit shocked when we agreed to his Eur350 price tag. The reason we wanted to do the by water as it would have been a great way to start the cruise. Thankfully we didn’t as the walk from the taxi drop off point to the cruise terminal was probably around 1 to 1.5kms and it was HOT!
Venetian Porters – Glad that they are there!
A lesson for new players is to make sure that you get dropped off at the correct side of the canal. On one side of the canal is the train station and the land taxis are on the other side. To get to the land based taxis from the train station you need to cross this bridge which has 284 steps.
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