Venice Marco Polo Airport

✅ Trip Verified | I read so many horror stories about chaos at departures here that I fixed to arrive two and a half hours early. In reality I found everything working well and efficiently. Check-in took five minutes simply because a family in front of us were crazy people. Security took less than five minutes with many channels very well staffed to choose from. Passport control was automatic and took thirty seconds. The entire airport has been rebuilt over the last three or four years and that probably caused problems but, today at least, it was a dream. My only criticism is a serious lack of seating in the main waiting area before going through passport control - too many shops and not enough thought given to passengers.

Not Verified | Extremely slow check-in with Lufthansa which took almost one hour and then another 40 mins to clear security. Had I not arrived more than two hours early I may have missed the flight. The check-in gate counter was not advertised until exactly 2 hours prior to flight. Lufthansa was not available for self-check-in. The wifi did not work. There is inadequate seating, signage is difficult (check-in is split over two levels ) and the boarding time and gate information are not displayed until the last minute either. You need to walk to a bus to get to the plane which was overcrowded and we needed to wait longer still. There is nowhere to refill water bottles after clearing security. Overall the plane departed an hour late.

✅ Trip Verified | Chaotic airport on Check- In and on attempting to get through Passport Control. Queuing everywhere and no apparent order of getting people through Passport Control in good time for their flights. Had to queue for 40 minutes being funnelled through narrow passage between shops, and very nearly missed our flight, though in queue in very good time. Very poor advert for Venice and left bad taste in mouth after very good weekend break.

Not Verified | The worst. Airline staff ok, but the signs aren’t great and the service staff in the upstairs food area were terrible. The pasta was mediocre and overpriced (expected), but I couldn’t believe that the service lady skipped right over me even though I gave her my order, to serve the next lady in line. When I asked her why she served the other lady behind me first she shrugged and offered no apology or explanation. Disgustingly rude in an international airport. Lounge and seating crowded and small. Leaving today (aug 24, lunch approx 13h). Never coming back here again.

✅ Trip Verified | When arriving at the airport, heading through to Passport Control was easy, but the Passport Control experience itself was terrible. Those who tried to use the e-Gates and could not get through pushed into the 'Other Passports' queue and the airport staff did not care. Also, even though nearly the whole room for Passport Control was full, they only had three desks open and there were more than three members of staff that were capable of checking passports, meaning they could have opened more desks. After Passport Control, though, the process was more or less seamless. When departing from the airport, the self check-in machines didn't even let me print off a luggage tag for the Bag Drop and I had to wait for a member of staff to man the desk. Going through security was swift but after going through, there was not that many things that you could do but wait. There also weren't many places that served breakfast food, which was not very good. Overall experience at this airport was not great.

NotVerified | Venice to Shanghai via Dubai. Bathroom not very clean. Very wet. In security, there was only 1 working. It took a very long time to go through it. Didn't like the airport.

Not Verified | As many have said before me, absolute chaos, no co ordination. 100s of passengers crammed into a small space, having to push and climb over each other to get their departure gates. This lead to hot, stressed passengers, the airport staff seemed unable to deal with upset customers, and as such the staff responded with anger, Not kindness and understanding as would be expected. Reading the previous reviews, it appears to me the owners of the airport don’t care or they would have done something about this by now. Such a shame, Venice is a lovey city.

✅ Trip Verified | This is one of the ùtmost chaotic airports in Europe and the counters where to check-in are announced rather late. Also difficult to obtain decent information, not enough chairs at all so even a lot of elderly people had to stand and wait. Check-in procedures are in general extremely slow. Must be said cleaning was done continuously. Shopping is not bad and comparing to other Italian airports not that expensive.

Not Verified | Horrible, horrible, horrible. 2 people working passport control on a Saturday afternoon. Led to our flight being delayed and a missed connection. Firstly I’m leaving and on a Canadian passport. Why am I waiting in a line to leave the country? Secondly we had to line up for a bus which drove us out to the plane which results in no one loading by zones so instead of taking 1/2 hour it takes over an hour to load an Airbus 330. I travel all over the world and this is the worst experience I have ever had.

Not Verified | As some others have noted, Venice Marco Polo is not a good airport. In July 2019 we had the same experience as some others, with no gate assignment until merely 75 minutes before, at which point it was too late to be processed through the very long and extremely slow customs control line. Individual adults from certain countries could go through a sort of fast-track camera system, but children were not allowed. This left my family in an unmoving line until our flight's "last call" was announced, at which point we battled our way to the front of the line. This budding means that no one gets through customs until it is their flight's last call. The last bus to the airplane was filled with crying children and stressed parents who had followed the airport's rules to the letter of the law. What an awful end to a vacation. Bizarre that security clearance takes 2 minutes while customs takes 40 times longer, that they needlessly conceal your gate number until it is too late, that they insist on inflicting particular psychological distress on every child that flies out of the airport, and most of all that they don't implement any easy fixes year after year. Won't be back.