Venice - Arrival to Dock. Enough Time?

[WKCNYC]

My friend and I will be arriving at Venice Marco Polo Airport on Saturday, May 19th at 12:50PM on a British Airways flight. We have a water taxi scheduled at 1:45PM. Is there enough time to clear immigration/customs and pick up our luggage then make it to the dock? I have been told there is a large festival in Venice that weekend and I am not sure how busy the airport will be on that day. If this is too tight, I will reschedule.

[Keith1010]

This might be tight and if your plane is delayed that will be an added problem.

 

Keith

[lisiamc]

If the water taxi firm know they are meeting a flight, and have been given your flight details, they can most likely advise a realistic time to meet you, and adjust if the flight is late.

[suekay]

If the water taxi firm know they are meeting a flight, and have been given your flight details, they can most likely advise a realistic time to meet you, and adjust if the flight is late.

I think that too. Everybody booking a water taxi in advance from the airport will have the same potential problems which the taxi companies will be familiar with

[mapleleaves]

What time do you need to be on board your ship?

When we landed at the airport they said our luggage was missing! :mad: But after 3 hours of waiting in the Lost Luggage line and completing the paperwork, they found our bags in a back room!! :mad:

If you have any delays, you can always take a land taxi from the airport to the pier in 20 minutes.

[Earl Rosebery]

My friend and I will be arriving at Venice Marco Polo Airport on Saturday, May 19th at 12:50PM on a British Airways flight. We have a water taxi scheduled at 1:45PM. Is there enough time to clear immigration/customs and pick up our luggage then make it to the dock? I have been told there is a large festival in Venice that weekend and I am not sure how busy the airport will be on that day. If this is too tight, I will reschedule.

 

A regular (land) taxi is faster and considerably less expensive.

[WKCNYC]

Thanks to everyone who responded. My apologies for leaving out a few details. We are arriving a day early and the taxi is taking us to our hotel. It's on the Giudecca so a land taxi is not possible.

 

The water taxi company does have our flight details. We were given a worse case scenario of waiting over an hour for the next shuttle if we missed our scheduled one. The agent that is handling the booking received a response from the company that the time we have booked is very doable.

[lisiamc]

That sounds like everything should work fine. As my neighbour often says to me, tranquillo!