ACCESSIBLE VENICE BY TRAIN

Venice has two railway stations: Santa Lucia and Mestre. Both stations have ramps and toilets accessible to handicapped people as well as a service center called CAD ( Assistance Center for Disabled Travellers).
CAD can provide you with ticket information as well as the reservation of handicap seats in the train. Moreover you can request for personal assitance to help you get in/out of a train and/or the station, take you to a connecting train and take you up or down the stairs in wheelchair lifters or elevators. (in stations with facilities).

For more information go to www.trenitalia.com/en/servizi_per/disabili/index.html

ACCESSIBLE VENICE BY AIR

From Marco Polo Airport yon can take bus 15. This bus is designed to accomodate handicap people and within a few minutes you will arrive to the center of the city.
If you want to go to Mestre, you will have to take bus 15 which also provides you with these accomodations.

At the airport, there are service centers for disabled travellers.
Disabled travellers can ask for assistance free of charge to help you with check–in formalities and the boarding of the plane.
The airport has wheelchairs and staff specially dedicated to these services.
See more at: www.veniceairport.it

VENICE ACCESSIBLE BY CAR

If you want to travel to Venice by car, you can park in the Municipal Car Park at Piazzale Roma or in the Sant'Andrea Car Park where there are 10 and 2 spaces respectively available for cars displaying an orange disabled sticker.

ACCESSIBLE VENICE BY SEA

Venice has three different ports:
– The Cruise Port
– The Ferry Port
– The Hydrofoil Port

Getting around Venice for disabled people is not an easy task. Venice is known as the channel city which means that it has lots of bridges (over 400). This can be challenging for disabled people. In this site you can find a list of "facilitations" to overcome these obstacles and make your visit to Venice more pleasant.

GETTING AROUND VENICE

• Public Transport Services
  Boat transport is free for the wheelchair–bound

• Boat services

Venice is without doubt more accessible than you might think. All ports have facilities to disabled people. Problems may occur however, during high tides as the access ramps may slope excessively.
Lines 1 and 82 will cover the majority of the channels in the city, and can carry up to two wheelchairs at a time, always with personal assistance.

• Bus Services "Bus Facile"(Easy Bus)

service which guarantees that all urban bus routes operated by lines 2, 4, 4/, 5, 6/ and 15 (covering a large part of the mainland and guaranteeing a connection with Venice) operates with buses with low floorand pull-out platform.

Venice City Council has created a transportation service reserved for the disabled to help them get around the city and its surroundings. Depending on your request, minibuses, cars and boats with facilities for the disabled are available. The types of transportation may be scholastic (for students no longer attending obligatory school), for work or for leisure. To get to the city of Venice, you can also request personal assistance to accompany the disabled person from his or her home to the place where the means of transportion is located.


Renting cars and motorboats
In Mestre and in Venice, you can rent a vehicle (a driver is available at request) equipped to transport disabled people (car, minibuses or motorboats), but it must be reserved several days in advance.