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If I hired a motor boat, is it possible to park in Venice?
Like all Englishmen, I think I would be pretty good at driving a motor boat, (how hard can it be?) though I have no independent evidence and little real experience to confirm this. I know you can hire cabin cruisers from at least one company based around the lagoon, can anyone tell me how easy it is to do this.
Details like - Is it possible to just drive into Venice and park, or go to the other islands, Burano, for example, would be really helpful.
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- zafirLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
It is possible to hire small motor boats in Venice, and these would be great for exploring some of the smaller canals and the little islands around the lagoons. But to drive a motorboat in Venice, with little or no experience, will be a very daunting task. The canals of Venice are the roads, and driving around the main canals will be like driving down a freeway - something that would not be attempted by someone who didn't know how to drive a car!
Everything in Venice travels by water so the canals can be quite congested with both commercial and private traffic, and the the vaporetti (water buses). Emergency services such as police, fire, and ambulance travel the canals in speedboats. There are road rules and speed limits, just as there are on roads, and there are designated 'roads' that have to be followed. Break the speed limit or commit a traffic offence and the police will pick you up, just as they do on mainland roads.
It would be much easier, and less stressful, to explore the little canals by foot, Venice is a very walkable place, or take the vaporetto to one point on the islands and walk through the backstreets wherever you feel like it, and take the vaporetto to the outer islands such as Burano and Murano.
