Entrance fees to Venice

As the pandemic restrictions are lifted, there’s a great backlog of folks who want to visit Venice: 400,000 showed up during Easter weekend 2022, prompting the city to talk about activating the long ruminated plan to make day-trippers pay to enter the city and to cut off numbers at a certain point.

Residents, students, commuters and visitors booked into a Venetian hotel will be exempt (although visitors will still have to pay a tourist tax for each night they stay).

The fee, they say, will depend on when you go, payable via this website which will give you a QR code to use. It was used for the first time during peak periods in 2024; the website has the latest information and a calendar.