I'm an old romantic at heart. I love my wife and I spend each year looking to romance her in new and interesting ways. One year I wrote her a novel which was published, another year I married her which seemed to be the icing on the cake until I took her to Venice.
The city is beautiful, it has to be noted that the experience is welcomed over and over. I have travelled to a few places over in the states and I have visited a few places in Canada (Lake Louise is definitely worth a look) but Venice is a place I can return to year after year.
We enjoy the simple relaxed pace of life and the city at night is just magical. We normally book a hotel in Venice so we dont have to travel far but last year we took a week's break in June when the weather can be idyllic, sometimes a little too hot or you can just expect rain. It's a tricky place to plan for but we went mid June and each day was just as nice as the last.
We had talked to some friends with have a larger family, 3 children (we have 1 and 1 is enough) and they recommended we stay at a holiday parc which would offer us both the time in Venice we enjoy and the amenities of a holiday parc with swimming pools, private beach and restaurants. They told us about Union Lido, one of a few holiday parcs on the Adriatic Peninsular so we checked on the website and the site looked wonderful, so clean and nestled in what looked like a nature reserve. We thought about it and decided ok.
Our friends told us to shop around for the best deals and to look at the holiday companies that operate on Union LIdo. As an avid Trip Advisor reader I naturally came here first looking to read up on company reviews and I found one for a company called Bolero Holidays. I was mesmerised with the article, so detailed and humourous I had to check them out.
They have a decent website, information is clear and concise, the photos match up with the Union Lido photos so I could trust what I was looking at was the site. They do 3 types of accommodation, a tent (Not for us), caravan, (Almost there) and a mobile home with inbuilt air-conditioning (A winner) so we called them up to discuss our requirements.
Easy! We decide on the flights we like and they will shift accommodation around to meet us! Perfect! and they even helped transfer us from the airport to the site. So we stayed with Bolero (www.boleroholidays.co.uk) and enjoyed a wonderful site (www.unionlido.com) and once again enjoyed the splendor of Venice.
We went Tuesday to Friday, flew with Ryanair from Stansted to Treviso Airport. Bolero arranged a taxi with a company they knew. The journey from the airport to the site was approx 1 hour.
We bought day trip tickets from Union Lido and used the bus down to Punta Sabbioni (water port) and then jumped straight on a ferry across to Venice! The total journey time was about 45 minutes but I got some shots of the crossing and I will upload a still from it.
A lovely holiday and we have booked to go again this year.
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