BTW I also probably wouldn’t base a retractable at LHBS but an occasional landing and departure wouldn’t bother me much. It has excellent drainage so frequent rain is not a problem, but it isn’t smooth. Still I haven’t heard of prop strikes there, although it’s possible they’ve happened.
Venice to charge an entry fee for tourists
Croatian coastal cities (Dubrovnik, Split and Zadar) should do the same, especially Dubrovnik which had to limit the number of daily visitors to its walls. Thousands of people coming out of big cruisers, basically spending nothing but leaving huge footprint on old city core.
Well what I heard from people selling souvenirs was that these people didn’t buy even cheap 5€ stuff. But you could be right; they might be interested in €€€€ stuff.
Agree!
Cruise ships are damaging Venice.
Emir wrote:
Well what I heard from people selling souvenirs was that these people didn’t buy even cheap 5€ stuff.
The rule of thumb in the old days: don’t buy anything or even exchange money at ports, you will be eaten alive !!
Still apply when you land to some coastal airports with your “head still in the air” after a 2h flight at 9000ft, you get some skillful sellers that are mixing prices, numbers and exchange rates, luckily my wife keeps tracks of the expenses, next time on my won I will bring the WhizWheel 
The fee won’t be implemented in May yet.
Venitians are not very welcoming (I speak from experience) and there are a few « tourists go home » graffitis in town 
Nonetheless, a unique destination, definitely worth the trip.
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If anyone travelling from UK (I’m near Denham or Booker) needs company I’m interested since my plane is grounded yet again.
I did both LKLT Letnany (in a C172) and LIPV (in a C210 with cantilever wings). Letnany’s website boasts about “laser flattened runway”, but I found it quite bumpy, and never dared bring the C210 there (which rules out Prague as a week-end destination since LKPR is expensive and LKVO closed on week-ends). OTOH, LIPV in summer 2018 was fine by me.
