Tours/Venice/Venice Private Departure Transfer by Water Taxi: Central Venice to Cruise Port
Viator · Private tour

Venice Private Departure Transfer by Water Taxi: Central Venice to Cruise Port

4.2(117)Venice1 hour
VIATOR4.3(111)TRIPADVISOR2.3(6)

Description

Travel from your Venice City Hotel to Venice cruise port (Venezia Marittima or San Basilio) in style onboard a by private motorboat! Book this transfer for a fast, fun and hassle free journey to Venice cruise terminal. Board your motor boat, sit back and take in the sights as you glide along the Venetian lagoon. Traveling by private motorboat is the only way to depart Venice in style!

Tour Options

Meet & Greet (AM)
  • Meet & Greet service: Cruise departing between 9:30am & 9:30pm. Your hostess will meet you at your hotel & take you to the pier embarkation point for your private motorboat departure transfer. Pickup included
Full ( AM)
  • Full Service: Cruise departing between 9:30am & 9:30pm. Your hostess will meet you at your hotel and stay with you until you arrive at the departure point at Venice cruise port. Pickup included
M&G ( PM)
  • Meet & Greet service: Cruise departing after 9:31pm. Your hostess will meet you at your hotel & take you to the pier embarkation point for your private motorboat departure transfer. Pickup included
Full ( PM)
  • Full Service: Cruise departing after 9:31pm. Your hostess will meet you at your hotel and stay with you until you arrive at the departure point at Venice cruise port. Pickup included

Highlights

One-way private transfer
1 to 6 people transferred in a private vehicle
Meet and assist at your hotel

What's included

Included
One-way private transfer
1 to 6 people transferred in a private vehicle
Meet and assist at your hotel
Not included
Gratuities
Excess luggage charges (where applicable)

Pickup Locations & Times

Your driver will collect you from your selected departure point in Venice. Time to be advised by you and reconfirmed directly with supplier prior to travel.

Traveller Ratings

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Important Information

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Specialized infant seats are available
  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • The duration of transfers are approximate, the exact duration will depend on the time of day and traffic conditions
  • Brand of vehicle used may vary depending on your specific travel date.
  • Each traveler is allowed a maximum of 1 suitcase and 1 carry-on bag. Oversized or excessive luggage (e.g. surfboards, golf clubs or bikes) will have certain restrictions. The vehicles CANNOT accommodate excess luggage. Please send an inquiry prior to travel to ask if excess luggage is acceptable. Additional fees will be charged on the day of travel for excess luggage. Baby seats are not available.
  • Transfer is wheelchair accessible but if assistance is required, passenger must provide their own carer and wheel chair assistant MUST be requested at time of booking
  • Price is per person, based on 6 adults per car/vehicle
  • Due to the Hotel Marriot location (Isola delle Rose), transfer to/from this Hotel are subjected to a surcharge of €20, payable on spot
  • If you're planning a day trip to Venice and staying outside the city, please note that an access fee will be required on certain dates. For more information, including details about exemptions and the specific dates when the fee applies, please visit (https://cda.ve.it).

Reviews(117)

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JeovaneBuenos
April 14, 2026
Lost time

Lost time. Lost money. We paid €25 to stay walking from top to bottom in a ferry, getting very little embarring that is the best place. Because in Murano it's just trade, they just want us to buy expensive goods for them to probably earn commission. The trade is much cheaper to sell strawberry. And the other town that was horrible the island. The only one who saved was excellent brunno

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Operator response

Thank you for taking time out of your day to write this review. We are sorry for the inconvenience. We noted these complaints, and we are going to refer them to who is in charge of the tours. We are improving our trip experiences as we go, better suited to the feedback left by you. Thank you for the input and if you have any further doubts, don’t hesitate to contact us. Regards, Bucintoro Viaggi

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Michael_B
July 18, 2025
Water Taxi Ride From Hell

You should refund the cost of the excursion. Although my ticket clearly indicated where I wanted to go, the launch driver left us at an abandoned pier. Lucky for us a security guard arranged a taxi for us to take us the rest of the way to the cruise ship. If you weren’t going to fulfill the contract you should have never charged my credit card nor picked us up. You hear about incidents like this but you never think it could happen to you!

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Paul_S
June 23, 2024
Great Experience.

On time to pick us up. Captain's courtesy and support greatly appreciated. He assured we were arriving at the correct location.

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David_B
May 23, 2024
Verify your pickup time

The tour operator came to our hotel 2 hours before the time we scheduled to take us to our cruise ship. When they came at the right time, we had to walk a bit to the water taxi station where the boat could not get close to the dock, so I had to to be lifted into the boat.

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Mark_K
May 23, 2024
Timing is everthing.

The boat driver was fine but the local company completely screwed up the pickup time despite 3 emails.

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Judith_M
October 7, 2023
Good service

Pick up 10 minutes early Helped with luggage Right outside hotel to dock of cruise port Viking terminal not near dock but that was Viking deficiency not our water taxi Pleased with transport

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Alisa_V
June 11, 2023
Terrible

There was no communication for the people that came to get muse & family. We had know idea where they were picking us up at. Then we were dropped off at the buses for cruise & they did not have us on the list. We had to go through hoops to get to our cruise ship. They wanted to charge us. I said that what I purchased was to take us to the cruise port. This was very stressful & I can’t say I would do this again. I did not see in the transportation where it even said that we were taking a bus to the port after the boat taxi. Not an experience I want to remember. Really put a damper on our family time together.

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Dave_R
June 5, 2023
Bad trip

We booked a Viator boat trip from our hotel in Venice to our Royal Caribbean cruise ship. The Viator boat picked us up on time and left us at a Royal Caribbean pier where we were told to board a bus for a 2.5 hour ride to the ship. Viator didn't know that the cruise ship docks 2.5 hours away? Had they said something when we booked, we would have left the hotel much earlier to allow for the long bus trip and not arrive minutes before departure.

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Barbara_D
July 25, 2022
Transportation to Ravenna

Since my travel agent did not make transportation arrangements from the hotel in Venice to the Royal Caribbean ship, I had to make them myself. She did, however, recommend that I use Viator. My only question was, why did you only get me the transportation from the hotel to the Venice Port when it was required that I spend another $50+ per person to get a 2 hour + bus from there to the port in Ravenna? Royal Caribbean uses that port which is most inconvenient.... not your fault. Fortunately there was a bus at the Venice port which went to Ravenna. Had that not been there, what would I have done?

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Patrice_B
June 12, 2022
Venice transfer

Picked us up in front hotel. Loaded and unloaded all bags. Professional and friendly. Great communication between myself and tour operator

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