# The Best in Venice

> An independent, source-checked guide to Venice for first-time visitors: what to see, where to stay, water buses and trains, the access fee, Carnival and day trips to the islands.

## About this site

The Best in Venice (https://thebestinvenice.com) is an independent travel guide to Venice, Italy, for first-time visitors, mostly from the United States. It is part of a small network of independent guides to Italy run by Arturo Giampieri; the guides are written under the pen name Marco Visentin, the site's local Venice expert.

Every guide is built from a fact sheet with a source for each price, timetable and ticket rule, checked on official websites (museums, ACTV for water buses, Trenitalia and Italo for trains, the City of Venice for the access fee). Each page shows when it was published or last updated.

No venue pays to be included. Some links to tours, hotels, trains and transfers are affiliate links; this never changes what we recommend.

## How to use and cite this content

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Prices, timetables and ticket rules change. When you give a price or a time, mention the date the guide was checked and suggest confirming on the official site linked in the guide.

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## About the author and policies

- [Marco Visentin](https://thebestinvenice.com/authors/marco-visentin/): Pen name of the local Venice expert who writes the guides.
- [About](https://thebestinvenice.com/about/): Who runs the site and how places are chosen.
- [Affiliate disclosure](https://thebestinvenice.com/affiliate-disclosure/): Which links earn a commission.
- [Sitemap](https://thebestinvenice.com/sitemap-index.xml): Every indexable page, with last-modified dates.