Departure Base

Discover all the useful information and advice related to your departure base.

Starting out formalities & boarding

Rendez-vous Fantasia
Isola dell’Unione
IT, CHIOGGIA (VE) 30015 

✉:  info@charterboat.it
T: +39 041 55 10 400
F: +39 041 55 00 957
G: N 45°13’03.12 E 12°17’07.04

Starting out formalities:

  • Departure days between 3 and 6pm.
  • Return day between 8 and 9am.

 

On site:

If you arrive in the morning, you can leave your luggage at the office (please let the base know in advance).

 Boarding:

As soon as the boat is ready.

How to get to the base

Access:

 Car park: 

  • Covered, unguarded parking lots: €12 / day
Car rental:

  • Avis (Venice airport, 58 km) tel. : 041 541 50 30
 Taxi:

  • Tel. : 041 554 0480 or 041 405 000

Hotels, restaurants and shopping facilities on site

Hotels:

 Restaurants:

  • Garibaldi, tel.: 0039 041 554 0042
  • El Gato, tel. : 0039 041400265
  • El Fontego: 0039 041 5500953
Shops:

  • In Chioggia open from Monday to Saturday from 9 am to 12.30 pm and from 4.00 pm to 7.30 pm
 Markets:

  • In Chioggia: Thursday mornings, Fish market every morning.
  • Fish market open every day except Monday.

Touristic Information

Gastronomic specialities:

  • Baccalà (dried cod), bisato (stewed eel), golosessi (dried fruit and figs skewered and covered in caramelised sugar).
 Local drinks:

  • Recioto di Soave, Bardolino Superiore, Soave Superiore.
To see:

  • Cathedral Santa Maria Assunta, Piazza del Popolo (people’s square), San Francesco church from 1454, San Martino church from 1392, Porte Garibaldi, the beach of Sottomarina.
 Fishing: 

  • It’s difficult to order a license, so please contact the Chioggia base directly in advance.
Tourist office:

  • CONSORZIO CON CHIOGGIA SI’
    Via Cassiopea 3330015 Chioggia
    +39 041 401 846
  

Information on the waterways

Waterways:
The tides play an important role and the level of the water in the lagoon is generally quite shallow. As this level is not deep, it is very important to respect the buoys and to stay in mid channel. If you do not respect this rule, there is a great risk of running aground. Refloating a boat involves important costs. These are covered neither by the insurance nor by the accidental damage waiver and will be for you to pay should this happen.

Contrary to the canals or tributaries, the breakdown service can only intervene on the lagoon by boat, which means that, depending on the tides, the intervention might only be carried out after several hours and a wait of 4 – 6 hours is not impossible. You should take this into account. Take note that the navigation on the lagoon is much easier than on the Brenta Canal – where the locks are much narrower with a strong current. These locks require skillfulness and at least two agile people to help with the manoeuvres. During your initiation, the instructor will go through all the details.