Venice Travel Guide (Venice, Italy)

There is no getting round the fact that Venice is the most expensive city in Italy. If you're on the least luxurious of expeditions - camping, walking wherever possible, cooking your own food - it would just about be possible to get by on £30/$45 a day. Assuming, though, that you share a double room in a one-star hotel, eat out in the evenings, and go to a museum each day, your minimum will be nearly twice that amount. Even in the dead of winter there are few double rooms in Venice costing less than L120,000/€62 - that's £20/$35 per person, even when the exchange rate is at its most favourable, and a strict diet of coffee and croissant ( cornetto ) in the mornings, a picnic at lunchtime and pizza in the evening will account for another £15/$23 at least. Add onto this the cost of the odd entrance fee and boat ticket, and you've passed the £45/$65 mark before you know it. Allowing for the occasional excursion onto the mainland and other contingencies, it's reasonable to budget for a basic outlay of £50/$75 per person per day for a summer trip to Venice. However, if you want to enjoy the occasional special meal or do a bit of shopping without worrying that your money will run out before the end of your holiday, you should set aside about £40/$60 per day as your spending money, not counting accommodation costs . And don't forget that, as ever, costs are higher for the person travelling alone: for single rooms, you'd be doing well to find anything for less than 75 percent of the cost of a double room.