Air Canada Vacations

Before you leave Canada

Entry requirements

A valid Canadian passport is required for Canadians intending to visit Italy. The passport should be valid for at least the expected duration of stay in the country. For all other nationalities, consult your consulate or tourist board for details. You can also visit www.voyage.gc.ca for up-to-date information.

Baggage

Please refer to aircanada.com for baggage information.

Airport check-in

It is recommended that you present yourself at the airport counter of the airline indicated on your voucher 3 hours prior to departure. Air Canada or Air Canada Vacations representatives will be available starting at 5 a.m.

During your stay

City highlights 

Civilized three thousand years ago, Venice has the image and the spirit of the centuries of the Serenissima Republic of Venice, but enriched with a vibrant local identity, with original and unique cultural experiences. Tourists who are keen on culture will be satisfied with their exploration and discovery of the Veneto region. These tourists can see the works of certain artists, see World Heritage Sites or get to know places of particular value.

The Veneto region is also the privileged site of experimentation and performing exhibitions of various branches of contemporary arts that are often attentive to the dialogue with the host environment, and its tradition.

The tourist who visits Venice and the Veneto region look for culture, art and history.

Getting around

Transportation within Venice consists of a pair of walking shoes. Distances are short, although you're bound to get lost whenever you venture off the well-marked central pedestrian routes. Buses, waterbus, watertaxis and gondola rides are available to help you get a around.

Shopping

Venice is without doubt a shopper’s paradise. Whether you are looking for designer shoes, leather handbags, antiques or souvenirs you will be provided with a vast selection.

Dining

Venice is a renowned culinary destination. From time-tested Italian favorites to seafood dishes to calves’ liver with onions you won’t leave hungry!

Known as an important wine growing area features a vineyard of almost 80 thousand hectares, more than 8 ½ million hectolitres of wine, and more than 2 million of these are produced in the areas marked DOC (Registered Designation of Origin) and DOCG (Registered Designation of Origin): these are the numbers of the Veneto, a grape growing region ranked among the best in Europe for quality and quantity.

Entertainment & nightlife
 
Cafes, bars, dance clubs and casinos are popular nightlife shots for locals and tourists.

Sightseeing
 
Art 

In the region numerous and important Roman traces can be found: the best known example is the Arena of Verona. In the area around Venice, Byzantine influences are visible (St. Mark and the Cathedral of Torcello); in the hinterland, away from the sea there are many outstanding examples of Romanesque and Gothic art. The Renaissance palaces are numerous and of great value.

Museums 

In Venice: the Academy Galleries house the major collections of Venetian painting from 1300 to 1700; the G. Franchetti Gallery houses important paintings, while Guggenheim collection exhibits international works of contemporary art. In the Palazzo Grassi, exhibitions of international interest are organized every year. In this beautiful city there are also: the Museum of the eighteenth century life in Venice with tapestries, attire, furniture and paintings; the National Gallery of Modern Art, the Oriental Museum and the Correr Museum, which is reserved to Renaissance masterpieces. In Verona the Civic Museum of Art, which is devoted to the great Verona painting, the Archaeologic Museum and the Museum of Frescoes can be visited. Vicenza offers: the Civic Museum (ethnology and archaeology) and the Pinacoteca. In Padua the famous Scrovegni Chapel, with Giotto’s frescoes, can be admired; the Civic Museum and the botanic garden, the oldest in Europe, can be admired. In Treviso there is the Museum of the Casa Trevigiana with modern furniture and sculptures. Rovigo has the Gallery of the Concordi (Venetian school from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century) and the Civic Museum of the Polesine Civilization.

The Venetian islands of Murano, Burano and Torcello

Visitors can admire the enchanting and unique lagoon and the majestic reddish spires of the Dolomites.

Your departure from destination

Hotel checkout

Hotel checkout times may vary depending on the property but generally you must vacate the room by 12 p.m. (noon).

Duty-free shopping

After an absence of 7 days or more, Canadian residents are permitted to return with a maximum of 750 CAD of merchandise per trip without paying duty. Each time you leave Canada for at least 48 hours, you are eligible to declare up to 200 CAD of merchandise. A written declaration may be requested. Each adult is allowed 1.1 litres (40 oz.) of liquor, 200 cigarettes, 50 cigars or cigarillos, 200 tobacco sticks and 200grams (7 oz.) of manufactured tobacco. To calculate the number of days absent, do not count the day you left Canada but include the day you return. If you include cigarettes, tobacco sticks and loose tobacco in your personal exemption allowance, only a partial exemption will apply. You will have to pay a minimum duty on these products unless they are marked “Canada-Duty paid.” Canadian made products sold at duty-free shops will be marked this way.

Customer care

For inquiries relating to extension of stay or change or hotel changes, please e-mail us at: prevoyageclientele@vacv.com We are at your service seven days a week; from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. EST and from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. EST Saturday and Sunday.