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In March 2014 my wife and I made a trip to Venice, Italy to visit the Casino di Venezia, which advertises itself as the world's oldest casino, saying that it has been operating since 1638.

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My last visit to Venice was in the summer of 1970 when I had hitchhiked across Europe from London to Istanbul. I saw a lot of cities during that trip and Venice was one of my favorites so I waslooking forward to finally making a return trip.

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Piazza San Marco (St. Mark's Square) is the most popular tourist destination in Venice, Italy.

I used my frequent flyer miles on American Airlines to plan our trip, but they had no direct flights to Venice. We live in south Florida and American had recently introduced non-stop servicefrom Miami to Milan (a two-and-a-half-hour train ride from Venice), so that was our best option.
Unfortunately, the best arrangement I could find was an Air Berlin flight from Miami to Dusseldorf, Germany with a one-hour connecting flight to Milan. However, on the way back we were able toget seats on the non-stop flight from Milan to Miami.
We had never heard of Air Berlin before and we were a little apprehensive about what to expect, but we both enjoyed their flights and we would definitely recommend them as a good airline.

Since I wanted to write an article about the casino I started looking for a public relations (PR) contact for the casino about two months before our trip. Usually, the PR director can helpcoordinate the gathering of information, as well as photos, to help make the project go a little more smoothly. I have been dealing with PR directors at casinos for more than 20 years and Inever had a problem, until this trip, but more on that later.
Hotel rooms in Venice tend to be a little pricey, but after booking our flights and checking room rates they seemed to be especially high. After doing a little research I discovered that ourvisit to Venice was occurring at the end of Carnival which is one of the most popular events in the city and it lasts for about three weeks.

During Carnival, many people wear elaborate costumes, or just masks, and walk around the city to participate in different events and balls. You can read more about it here - http://www.carnevale.venezia.it/?slang=en

Carnival is an annual festival held in Venice, Italy when participants get dressed up in elaborate costumes and masks.

Since the room rates were so high I looked at other options and decided to stay at a hotel in Mestre, which is about five miles from Venice, and the room rates were more reasonable. SinceMestre was the last train stop before Venice it was only a 10-minute ride away and it turned out to be a good option.
I knew that I could charge most of our expenses to credit cards and that most of them would charge a foreign transaction fee of around three percent on each transaction. However, I had twocredit cards that didn't charge those fees and I called them in advance of our trip to let them know that I would be using those cards in Italy.

I brought some cash along to cover smaller expenses and once we arrived at the Milan airport the first thing I needed to do was exchange it for some euros. I really should have researched thisoption a little more thoroughly before I left home because it turns out that using a currency exchange is an expensive option.

It seems that using an ATM is the best option for getting money when abroad because the withdrawal is automatically converted into foreign cash at a much more favorable exchange rate. Theoverall fees are also much lower, but it's a good idea to check with your bank before leaving to see what options they offer you when abroad because some ATM's might be part of their networkand offer you lower fees, while other ATM's might be out of their network and charge heftier fees.

At the airport I exchanged $60 for 28.30 euros which turned out to be a terrible rate as my $60 only got me about $39 worth of euros. If the process were transacted at the true conversion rate($1.38 = 1 euro) I would have received about 43.50 euros, which means that I lost about 35% of my money as a processing fee. The currency exchanges will offer you a better rate if you changelarger amounts of money, but you are still paying an exorbitant fee and, as I found out, it's best to avoid them if you can.

After a 45-minute train ride from the airport to the Milan train station I was ready to buy our tickets to Venice, but there was a slight problem. There were plenty of electronic kiosks forbuying tickets and they accepted both cash and credit cards. Of course, I wanted to use my credit card because I didn't have much cash and as I approached the machine I noticed quite a fewsigns saying 'beware of pickpockets.'

As I was trying to figure out how to operate the machine a 'friendly passerby' came up and offered to help. He spoke some broken English and seemed to be pushing the right buttons to help usbuy our tickets to Mestre from the kiosk. I thought it was a little strange that he smelled a bit like a brewery at only one in the afternoon, but hey, it's Italy and they drink a lot of wine.When we finished the process and it was time to pay I found out that the machines required users to enter their pin number when paying with a credit card and I had no idea what my pin numberwas for my credit card.
After several more tries, using different credit cards I never did get it to work and I thanked the guy for his time. As we walked away, my wife reminded me about the 'beware of pickpockets'sign and we both wondered if he was a pickpocket. I wasn't sure if we had indeed encountered one, but he definitely wasn't a random passerby and I was sure he wasn't just being friendly.

Since we couldn't buy our tickets from a kiosk, we headed into the main ticketing area to buy our tickets from a clerk because they would accept a credit card without a pin number. There wereonly about five clerk windows open and I thought things wouldn't be too bad because you could grab a number from a machine and wait for it to be called rather than having to stand in line. Theonly problem was that our number was 648 and the number being called was 420. Holy crap! This was going to be a long day!

There was certainly no rush on the part of the clerks to lessen the wait and everything moved at a snail's pace. The only good thing was that many people didn't show up when their number wascalled and after about an hour-and-a-half wait, we finally got our tickets.

As we reached the platform to board our train we were, once again, approached by another 'friendly passerby' who seemed to sense that we looked a little lost. In his broken English he asked ifwe needed help and I showed him the tickets. We then followed him along the platform and as we passed the first-class section of cars I was thinking 'gee, this guy is awfully nice!' When wereached the second-cl