Ah, Venice…what a gorgeous place, expensive, but still gorgeous. Once we arrived at the train station in Venice, we needed to take a water taxi or a vaporetto to the Piazza San Marco, which is on the opposite end of the Grand Canal. The water taxis were 80€ (ouch), however the vaporetto was only 56€ for a 48 hour ticket. Although, there was a line for those tickets that was a mile long and in direct sunlight. After waiting in the line for about 10 minutes, I started noticing some of the locals purchasing tickets at these automated ticket boxes. So, off I go to the automated box and within a few minutes we were on the vaporetto to San Marco.
The Piazza was packed with people and navigating to our hotel was quite interesting because of the small streets and bridges. Thank goodness we had small bags. We saw some people with these huge suitcases trying to get around. When we arrived at our hotel, the Albergo San Zulian, near Piazza San Marco, we were eagerly awaiting some air conditioning. However, our air conditioning unit seemed to be on the fritz. Our room was very warm and the air conditioner said it was on full. Once the repairman couldn’t figure it out, he was very kind and moved us to a new room.
Our new room is smaller than the other one and Rex says the room is too cold. I gave him a blanket and said that “too cold” isn’t something to complain about in this heat. Believe me, it is a relief after walking around Venice all day.
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