The best ideas, from hitching a cheap ride on a gondola to chilling at the Lido Venice can work for families, but my advice is take plenty of money, and spend it all with love and foresight. Two life-enhancing hours in a gondola or speedboat may be expensive, but when you're shelling out €80 for a 40-minute ride, remember it's only the price of a game console or a lacklustre family trip to a pizza joint in suburbia back home. But you'll be even better off remembering that children love public transport almost as much. The vaporetto (water bus) is cheap and the gondola experience costs €0.50 when you take the traghetto , the gondola ferry from a choice of points across the Grand Canal. There are seven crossings, all marked on maps, such as Sofia (near Ca'D'Oro) to Pescaria (the Rialto fish market) or Campo Del Traghetto to Calle Lanza (near the Salute church). All gondoliers take a turn working on the lowly traghetto once a year. You will inevitably want to tick...
Venice Accommodation, is a blog where you can find some information about this beautiful city, from a citizen who lives and work in Venice. About tourism, nightlife and, of course, accommodation possibilities in Venice