These do not go to the same place, so price is not the comparison. The Water taxi reaches the historic city — San Marco and the islands within it; the ATVO coach to Piazzale Roma does not. Piazzale Roma is the edge of Venice — no wheeled vehicle reaches the islands. St Mark's is a further 39 minutes and EUR 9.50 by vaporetto.
The ATVO coach to Piazzale Roma is quicker: 20 min against 30 min.
ATVO coach to Piazzale Roma: 06:00–01:10. Water taxi: Runs all night.
Priced against each other
Whole-party totals · adult fares
What each costs for the whole party, in EUR. The cheaper of the two is marked on every row.
Travelers
ATVO coach to Piazzale Roma
Water taxi
Difference
1
€12
€110
€98
2
€24
€110
€86
3
€36
€110
€74
4
€48
€110
€62
5
€60
€120
€60
6
€72
€130
€58
7
€84
€140
€56
8
€96
€150
€54
Side by side
Where each one leaves you
ATVO · ATVOATVO coach to Piazzale Roma
From
Stop C outside the terminal — exit 3, second lane, on the left (stop D, alongside, is for the Mestre coach)
To
Venezia Piazzale Roma, at the head of the Grand Canal
Luggage
One bag included in the fare, per ATVO's price list.
Runs
06:00–01:10
Journey
20 min
This is a separate timetabled run from ATVO's Mestre coach, not the same bus continuing on — check you are at the right stop for Venezia.
ACTV's Aerobus reaches the same Piazzale Roma terminus for EUR 10.00, two euros less than this coach.
taxi · Consorzio Motoscafi Venezia, on the Comune's tariffWater taxi
From
The waterfront dock
To
Anywhere in the historic city, to the door where a canal allows
Luggage
One bag per person included.
Runs
All night
Journey
30 min
It may legally carry up to twenty people — the municipal regulation caps a licence at twenty, and operators run boats seating about ten. That is far more than the four almost every other airport taxi allows.
It still does not beat the boat service for a group, because the fare stops being flat above four people: eight travelers pay EUR 150.00 against EUR 144.00 on Alilaguna. It only pulls ahead at nine.
Between 00:00 and 07:00, check you are buying a boat. The operators' own consortium warns that at those hours an airport booking may mean a car to Piazzale Roma and a boat onward.
A flat EUR 10.00 is added to the whole fare between 22:00 and 06:00.
This is the only option that can reach a hotel door, where a canal allows it — which for some addresses with luggage is the whole argument.
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