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Travelling with Children Most sights throughout a Carta d’Argento. This card
Italians love children, and while the Veneto offer discounted entitles people over 60 to
hotels and restaurants may not admission for families. discounts of 15 per cent on
always be equipped for young first- and second-class train
visitors, they will be happy to tickets. Yearly membership to
accommodate them. Most Student Travellers the Carta d’Argento costs €30
restaurants have highchairs Full-time students who are for those over 60 years of age
and will serve children simple in possession of a valid and is free to seniors who are
meals such as pasta with olive International Student Identity over 75 years old. This can be
oil or tomato sauce. It is best to Card (ISIC) will usually get applied for at the main train
request a cot at your hotel in reductions on museum entry stations and travel agencies.
advance of your visit. A holiday- fees and other charges across
let apartment (see pp230–31) is the Veneto. However,
an excellent solution if you occasionally this is restricted to
need kitchen access and play students residing in the EU. The
space. A useful website, Rolling Venice card, available to
Italy Family Hotels allows 14- to 29-year-olds for a small
you to search and book fee, provides a package of useful
accommodation for information on the city. This
specifically child-friendly includes alternative itineraries,
hotels throughout the Veneto fashionable haunts and lists of
and the country. shops, hotels, theatres and
Venice is a wonderland for restaurants offering card-holder
children, but it can also be very discounts. The pass also offers
tiring for both kids and parents. a reduced-price travelcard for
It is best to invest in family the vaporetti. The Rolling The clock of San Giacomo di Rialto in
passes or boat travel, so you can Venice card is available online San Polo, Venice
hop on and off at will. Limit the at Venezia Unica (see p269), Time
number of art galleries and or at any vaporetto boarding
museums you visit, and opt point in Venice. Italy is 1 hour ahead of
instead for more hands-on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
activities, such as glass-blowing Senior Travellers Daylight saving time is between
demonstrations. Seek out the April and October. For all official
city’s parks and play grounds – Travellers over 65 years of age purposes, the Italians use the
such as Sant’Elena and are entitled to free entry to 24-hour clock.
Cannaregio, near the Ponte State-run museums and
delle Guglie. In the summer, archaeological sites. In addition,
your kids can play with the local discounted entry fees are Electricity
children on the Lido beaches; available at many locally Electrical current in Italy is 220V
at other times of year, they can managed museums and AC, with two-pin, round-
run around and let off steam historical sites throughout pronged plugs. Most hotels
in the neighbourhood squares. the Veneto. Photographic graded above three stars have
identi fication, such as electrical points for shavers
a passport or driver’s (check the voltage first) and
licence, needs to be hairdryers in all bedrooms.
shown upon entry as
proof of age.
Like its younger “Rolling” Conversion Chart
version, the Venezia Unica Imperial to Metric
city pass is a good pass to 1 inch = 2.54 centimetres
purchase, as it offers 1 foot = 30 centimetres
information on Venice’s 1 mile = 1.6 kilometres
sights and transport 1 ounce = 28 grams
savings as well as free 1 pound = 454 grams
entry to the Casino di 1 pint = 0.6 litres
Venezia (see p260). 1 gallon = 4.6 litres
It is available from Hello
Venezia, and the main Metric to Imperial
vaporetto stops. 1 centimetre = 0.4 inches
If you are planning to 1 metre = 3 feet, 3 inches
do a fair amount of train 1 kilometre = 0.6 miles
travel while in the 1 gram = 0.04 ounces
Veneto, you might want 1 kilogram = 2.2 pounds
Students relaxing in the sun in Verona to consider purchasing 1 litre = 1.8 pints

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