Venice Marco Polo Airport to Treviso
About 30 km north; the ATVO coach runs from VCE to Treviso for around €12, and a taxi is €60–80.
A walled town north of the lagoon with canals of its own, frescoed houses and the fish market on its island in the Sile — the place Venetians go when they want a quiet lunch.
Every way to get there
Our verdict: for Treviso, a private transfer is the easiest door-to-door option (from €65). Travelling light on a budget? The bus is cheapest (from €10) but slower, with a change in the city.
What it costs for your group
The bus is charged per person, while a taxi or private transfer is one price for the whole car — so the more of you there are, the better door-to-door value looks.
| Group | Bus (per person) | Private transfer | Best value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solo · 1 traveller | €10 | €65 | Bus |
| Couple · 2 travellers | €20 | €65 | Bus |
| Family of 4 · 4 travellers | €40 | €65 | Bus |
Which option should you choose?
| If your priority is… | Our pick | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest price | Bus | From €10, though slower with a change in the city. |
| Speed & comfort | Private transfer | Door-to-door, fixed price, a driver waiting for you. |
| A group of 3–4 | Transfer or taxi | One flat fare splits cheaper than several bus tickets. |
| A late-night arrival | Transfer or taxi | Both run 24/7 when buses and the tram have stopped. |
By transport mode
Bus / shuttle
Around €12 and forty-five minutes. Note that Treviso has its own airport (TSF) served by low-cost carriers — make sure you are reading the right timetable, since ATVO runs services from both.
Where to catch it: Direct coach from the airport bus area to Treviso's bus station beside the railway station.
Best for solo & budget travellersTaxi
Reasonable for a group. Treviso is compact enough that being dropped anywhere inside the walls puts you within ten minutes of everything.
Where to catch it: Forty minutes north on ordinary roads; Treviso's historic centre is a restricted zone but taxis may enter.
Best for small groups in a hurryCar rental
The natural base for a car in the Veneto: parking outside the walls, town on foot, hills within half an hour. Watch the ZTL cameras at the gates.
Where to catch it: Treviso is the gateway to the Prosecco hills at Valdobbiadene and Conegliano, which have no useful public transport.
Best for travellers who want to explorePrivate transfer
If your destination is an agriturismo rather than the town, send the coordinates rather than the address — rural Veneto street numbering defeats satnavs regularly.
Where to catch it: Commonly booked by people heading to the Prosecco estates, several of which are down unmarked farm tracks.
Best for families, groups & late arrivalsTreviso & Venice in photos
Buying tickets in Venice
Venice is the one airport here where you choose between road and water, and the two have entirely separate ticketing. By road, ATVO's express and ACTV's line 5 both run to Piazzale Roma in 20–25 minutes for about €12 single, €20 return — buy the return on arrival if you are flying home from the same airport. Piazzale Roma is where all wheeled transport in Venice stops for good; a vaporetto ticket beyond it is bought separately and is not cheap. By water, Alilaguna waterbuses leave from a dock about seven minutes' walk from arrivals at roughly €18, serving San Marco, Rialto, Fondamente Nove, Murano and the Lido — approximately hourly per line, between about 08:00 and 20:00, so check the last departure before counting on it. Large luggage can attract a small extra charge. For Mestre on the mainland, a separate bus runs for around €8, and trains from there into the island take ten minutes for about €1.50.
Taxi scams & safety in Venice
The real trap in Venice is not a dishonest fare, it is the bridges. There are around four hundred of them, most stepped, with no lifts or escalators anywhere in the historic centre — so a hotel three hundred metres from a vaporetto stop can mean two bridges with heavy cases. Ask your hotel which stop it uses and how many bridges lie between before you book any transport. Private water taxis are the only vehicles that can reach a hotel's own water entrance, at €190–280 and up; agree the price and the exact drop-off point before boarding, since night and luggage supplements are normal and the fare is not metered. Shared water taxis at around €39 a head are the sensible middle. Two specific things to decline: the "free transfer" offered near vaporetto stops for Murano, which is a glass-showroom sales trip rather than transport, and any suggestion that a hire car will be useful — it cannot pass Piazzale Roma, and garage parking there is charged by the day.
Getting from VCE to Treviso
Treviso has canals, a walled centre, frescoed house fronts and a fish market on its own island in the river — and roughly none of Venice's crowds. It is thirty kilometres north of Marco Polo, reachable on a direct ATVO coach for around €12, and it is where Venetians go when they want to eat lunch without queueing.
The airport confusion, first
Treviso has its own airport, Sant'Angelo (TSF), used by low-cost carriers and marketed as Venice. ATVO runs coaches from both TSF and Marco Polo, and the timetables sit side by side on the same website. Make sure you are reading the Marco Polo one. This trips people up regularly and the two airports are forty minutes apart.
Getting there
The direct coach from the airport bus area takes about forty-five minutes and sets down at Treviso's bus station beside the railway station. Around €10 to €14. A taxi runs €60 to €85 and takes forty minutes; reasonable split between four, and taxis may enter the restricted centre where private cars cannot.
The city inside its walls
Treviso kept its sixteenth-century Venetian ramparts and the moat that runs outside them, and the historic centre is compact enough to cross on foot in fifteen minutes. Water runs through it — the Sile and the Botteniga and a network of small canals — with mill wheels still in place in a couple of spots. The arcaded streets around Piazza dei Signori are the middle of everything.
The fish market on its island
The Pescheria sits on a small island in the Cagnan, deliberately, so that the water carried the waste away. It still operates in the mornings, and it is the most photographed thing in the city for reasons that become obvious when you see it. Around it are the older streets, several with the exterior frescoes that gave Treviso the nickname urbs picta.
What the region grows
Radicchio di Treviso, the long red bitter chicory with a protected designation, appears on every winter menu here. Tiramisu was invented in the city — the claim is contested but Treviso's is the strongest — and there is a shop-cum-restaurant that makes rather a lot of that. Prosecco comes from the hills to the north.
The Prosecco hills
Conegliano and Valdobbiadene are half an hour north and the road between them runs along a ridge of steep vineyard terraces that has UNESCO status. There is essentially no public transport up there. This is the reason to hire a car at the airport rather than take the coach — the estates are down farm lanes and the whole area assumes you have driven.
Driving, and the gates
Treviso's historic centre is a restricted traffic zone with cameras at the gates. Park outside the walls — there are car parks at several points around the ring — and walk in. The fines arrive months later through the rental company and are not worth the five minutes saved.
Where the rural addresses defeat satnavs
If you are staying at an agriturismo in the hills rather than in the town, send coordinates rather than a street address when booking a transfer. Rural Veneto numbering runs in ways that mapping software does not follow, and drivers regularly end up at the wrong farm gate on the right road.
Using Treviso as a base
Trains to Venezia Santa Lucia take about thirty-five minutes and run frequently, so it is entirely practical to stay here and visit Venice for the day. Rooms cost a fraction of the island rate. Padua is an hour, Verona ninety minutes, and the Dolomites start about the same distance north.
The quiet argument for coming at all
Treviso receives a small fraction of the visitors that Venice does and is forty minutes away from it. That gap is the whole appeal — a working provincial city with good food, real canals and a walled centre, where the restaurants are full of people who live there. It is not a substitute for Venice and it is a considerably easier place to spend an evening.
