Originally Posted by
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There's a ticket office in the "Darsena", aka the pier where the boats depart from, i.e. here.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/DcWJALrsp7YbeCoP9
In all honesty, I think you're stressing about something that has a very low likelihood of happening. If your flight arrives at 10PM, it's going to be quite a stroke of bad luck to be missing the last boat! And, even if you're very late, you can still get a ticket at the desk there. I've tried to take the Alilaguna twice in my life and on occasion the lady at the desk told me that I'd just missed the boat and I'd be better off on the bus. So off to the bus stop I went.
the Ticket office at the pier consists of both a manned booth and a ticket machine, there's a photo of it on the Alilaguna website:
https://www.alilaguna.it/biglietti
So this is the ticket office at the “dockyard”? Doesn’t say on the website but I accept that it is.
Especially now that I’ll have a kid in tow (who I will make VERY upset/angry if I make them run around needlessly) I like to fully understand what I will do in a situation. Perhaps you are OK with making decisions on the fly and improvising. I really am not. Best way for me to cope when a situation forces me into making a snap decision is to have considered what I would do beforehand. That’s not stressing… that’s AVOIDING stress.
I really, really want to avoid the Piazzale Roma Bus area and the dash across the front of Sta Lucia Station at 1am or 2am scenario (I have grim memories of this area from years ago, before Wi-Fi and smart phones, when a flash rail strike complicated the trip back to Padua - not a great place to be young and female)
I haven’t been on a short haul flight that wasn’t late in years, I’ll be very surprised if this one isn’t. Fortune favours the prepared.