Friday, November 10, 2006
10/2006: Venice: 'tips for St. Mark's Square...'
If you have a bird phobia, give it a miss as it is swarming with flocks of greedy, flapping, disease-ridden pigeons. You can buy bird seed to feed them, if you must.
There are always queues for the Basilica and Palazzo Ducale; they are longer in the mornings when the day trippers arrive, so visit in the afternoon if you can. The queues will still be there, but shorter.
Avoid the well-dressed touts who offer you a free trip to Murano as you will be strong-armed into an expensive glass factory; pay the few euros, use a vaporetto (water bus) and choose your own glass factory to visit. It will still be expensive but at least you will pay through the nose under your own steam.
You can’t buy a ticket for entrance into just one museum in St Mark’s Square, but have to pay €12.00 for a ticket that will give you entrance into all of the museums in the square; Palazzo Ducale, Museo Correr, the Museo Archeologica Nazionale and Sale Monumental della Biblioteca Nasionale Marciana. Reduced price tickets are available for a family of 2 adults and two children.
The fee for entrance to the Basilica is €3.00.
If you have a bird phobia, give it a miss as it is swarming with flocks of greedy, flapping, disease-ridden pigeons. You can buy bird seed to feed them, if you must.There are always queues for the Basilica and Palazzo Ducale; they are longer in the mornings when the day trippers arrive, so visit in the afternoon if you can. The queues will still be there, but shorter.
Avoid the well-dressed touts who offer you a free trip to Murano as you will be strong-armed into an expensive glass factory; pay the few euros, use a vaporetto (water bus) and choose your own glass factory to visit. It will still be expensive but at least you will pay through the nose under your own steam.
You can’t buy a ticket for entrance into just one museum in St Mark’s Square, but have to pay €12.00 for a ticket that will give you entrance into all of the museums in the square; Palazzo Ducale, Museo Correr, the Museo Archeologica Nazionale and Sale Monumental della Biblioteca Nasionale Marciana. Reduced price tickets are available for a family of 2 adults and two children.
The fee for entrance to the Basilica is €3.00.
# posted by hotelreviewer @ 12:45 pm 
