Solo Female Travel in Venice

Venice is lovely, but you can see the highlights and Burano and Murano in two days. It's a beautiful city but very crowded and touristic.

Solo travel experience

Venice is Disneyland. Less than 10000 actual venetians live there. The entire city is an airbandb. Add in the thousands of cruise ship day trippers, the hordes of tour groups pushing and shoving, bad overpriced food and it doesn't even have the Disney charm. I would avoid Venice like the plague.

Solo travel experience

I personally do not like Venice. I mean it’s beautiful and unique so it’s definitely hands down a must see. BUT, having travelled all over Italy multiple times, it is my least favorite city. It’s very small and there are SO MANY TOURISTS that it reminded me of Times Square in NYC. I love big cities and Rome is one of my favorites, but just felt that Venice is too small for the amount of tourists there. And it just wasn’t for me. It’s a bit harder to find good restaurants as there’s a lot of tourist traps as well.

Things to do: * Took a day trip to Burano * Visited Acqua Alta bookstore * Visited St. Mark's Square * Took a ride on the gondola * Visited Rialto Bridge and watched the sunset there Safety: I felt very safe. Budget: * Breakfast: 9 € * Gondola ride: 80 € for 30 minutes * Venetian mask: 20 € * Lunch: 20 € * Accommodation: 100 €/night * Venetian Spritz: 3 € Accommodation: I've stayed at the Generator. It was nice and clean place. Recommendations: Don’t take expensive private water taxis. The Vaporetto (Venetian public waterbus) is cheap and reliable.

Things to do: 1. San Marco Basillica 2. Bridge of Sighs 3. Banksy’s Migrant Child 4. Campanile di San Marco 5. Gondola ride 6. Acqua Alta bookstore 7. Rialto Bridge 8. Boat ride on Grand Canal Food: If you visiting Vencie you must give a try to Aperitivo Spritz and cicchetti. Safety: Venice is a very safe city, just pay attention to your wallet when you're in the touristic areas. Accommodation: I stayed at a hostel on the mainland in Mestre. Recommendations: The island of Venice is very small and the streets are narrow, so be prepared for big crowds.

Things to do: 1. Took a ride on the Gondolas 2. Visited Burano and Murano 3. Explored the canals and narrow streets 4. Visited Rialto Bridge Food: The food was mostly very average and overpriced. Safety: I felt very safe throughout my stay in Venice Recommendations: Venice is full bridges and stairs so be prepared for it.

Things to do: Places that I have visited and recommend seeing: 1, Ponte del Rialto 2. Campaile di S. Marco 3. Terraza F. Tedeschi 4. Ponte dei Sospiri 5. Libreria Acqua Alta 6. Piazza S. Marco 7. Scala del Bovolo 8. Gondola ride Safety: I always felt super safe. Recommendations: Took a day trip to Murano and Burano. Murano is known for glass making. Burano is the island of lace makers and of brightly colored houses.

Things to do: I recommend seeing these places: * Saint Mark's Basilica and Square * Rialto Bridge * Bridge of Sighs * Doge's Palace * Grand Canal * Librairie Acqua Alta Safety: I felt really safe, didn't worry and enjoyed this beautiful city. Recommendations: Venice is a small city made for wandering, one of the best things to do is just wander down all of the narrow streets and see where it takes you.

Solo travel experience

Venice, IMHO, is lovely but, it is ruined by the cruise industry. It is small and the cruise ships dump many thousands of people onto its narrow myriad of streets. Those tourists are on a tight schedule. They have 4 to 6 hours to scurry through and make life miserable for locals and for tourists who didn't arrive by cruise ship. I recommend staying on Murano, Lido or another Venetian island and use the vaporetto to visit Venice late in the day.

I did my first solo trip, to Venice, last week! I was there for 3 days and I loved every second of it. 100% recommend doing a shared gondola ride, I booked mine on airbnb. There’s was about 25 of us with 5 in each gondola which seems like a lot but honestly was so lovely to meet other people. Would defo recommend getting the 3-day water bus tickets, you can get them from any of the terminal machines and it’s easy to press a button so it’s all in English. If you’re flying to Marco polo you can get the bus from there to Venice and it’s €8. 100% recommend using apple maps to get around in terms of transport; very accurate with timing and which stops you need to go too but it’s very easy to get around. Venice is one of the safest cities in the world, I’m usually a right scared cat but I didn’t have any problems while I was there.