Entrance fees to Venice

As the pandemic restrictions are lifted, there’s a great backlog of folks who want to visit Venice: 400,000 showed up during Easter weekend 2022, prompting the city to talk about activating the long ruminated plan to make day-trippers pay to enter the city and to cut off numbers at a certain point.

Residents, students, commuters and visitors booked into a Venetian hotel will be exempt (although visitors will still have to pay a tourist tax for each night they stay).

The fee, they say, will depend on when you go, with payable via an app starting at €3 if you go during a ‘green’ low visitor day, say in November up to €10 or more if you go in a very busy ‘red’ day in the summer or school holiday.

CCTV cameras and other technology will be used to keep track of the flow of people; if it’s too crowded, you simply won’t be allowed in, although it’s uncertain exactly how that might work. There have been experiments with turnstiles. See Entrance Fee Venice for the latest information.