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Hotels in Central Venice
The city name „Venezia“ (Venice) encompasses all three areas that make up greater Venice: Venice proper, the Lido, and Mestre. Therefore, when choosing your accommodation, please select where and how you’d like to stay.
Staying directly in Venice naturally offers you certain advantages. You’re right in the thick of things and can always pop back to your hotel room. This is handy for resting, cooling down in summer, eating and drinking, using the restroom, charging batteries and phones, etc.
Venice is a comparatively small city.
You won’t need more than about 30 minutes to walk across Venice entirely. For example, it’s only about 9 minutes from St. Mark’s Square (on the southern edge of the city) to the Rialto Bridge (in the middle of the old town). This means you don’t necessarily have to stay in the expensive center near St. Mark’s Square. A more affordable accommodation a bit further away from St. Mark’s will also work, unless you have difficulty walking.
As you’ve read elsewhere here: everything of value in Venice comes with a price tag. Hotels on the Grand Canal, those with a view, or rooms with balconies will charge more than hotels nestled in the narrow alleys of the old town. The decision is yours.
Hotels on the Lido
For all visitors who prefer a bit of greenery, seek a certain evening tranquility, or find the bustling heart of the old town too confined, the Lido offers all of this. Since the Lido is perfectly connected to Venice by public transport boats, we can wholeheartedly recommend accommodation there. Visitors arriving by car can easily reach the Lido from the mainland via the car ferry and park for free directly in front of their hotel.
Hotels in Mestre.
Mestre itself is a „completely normal Italian city.“ The advantages of staying here are: modern, large buildings and rooms, parking directly at the hotel, and its proximity to the old town of Venice. You can reach the city center easily, quickly, and affordably by public transport. You only need to change once, as buses from the mainland only go as far as Piazzale Roma on the northern edge of Venice. From there, you can continue on foot or by water bus to the center (St. Mark’s Square).