Car Rental at Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE): No Deposit With a Debit Card and Full Insurance

Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE) is the main airport of Venice, on the mainland about 13 km by road from Piazzale Roma, where cars stop at the edge of the historic city. For one week in November we found 912 rental offers from 28 companies here. Nine of the 13 companies we recommend have their desk at the airport, on level 3 of the P1 car park, 11 of the 13 accept a debit card, and the lowest deposit, at Dolomiti Rent a Car, is 0 EUR. This guide to car rental at Venice Marco Polo Airport covers each of the 13 companies we recommend, debit and Revolut cards, deposits, prices by month, Marco Polo against Treviso Airport, and what to know before you drive to Venice, Verona or the Dolomites.

Data last verified: October 2026. Written by Simas Krasaitis, founder of Autorentwiz and former head of car rental at ADCRent.

Short on time? The key facts:

• Marco Polo is not Treviso: Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE) and Treviso Airport (TSF) are two different airports, about 24 minutes apart by car. Check the airport code on your ticket before you book the car
• Desks: the rental desks are on level 3 of the P1 car park, a covered walk from arrivals, and 9 of our 13 companies are there. Target Rent, GaldieriRent and Record go pick you up by shuttle, and Dolomiti Rent a Car sends you a meeting point on WhatsApp
• Debit cards: 11 of the 13 companies accept them. Only Target Rent and GaldieriRent want a credit card
• No deposit: Dolomiti Rent a Car, 0 EUR, and Locauto (only a symbolic 0,01 EUR card authorisation), both with a debit or a credit card
• Revolut: none of the 13 companies accepts cards from online-only banks, and we found no deals without a card at pick-up
• Opening hours: none of our companies opens before 08:00. Hertz, Dollar, Thrifty, SIXT and Flizzr work until 23:59, and Alamo, Enterprise, National and Locauto until 23:00
• Prices: November is the cheapest month (about 15 EUR a day on average), July the most expensive (about 43 EUR)
• Free consultation: message us on Messenger and our car rental experts will compare all 13 companies for your dates, card and landing time. You get the same discount as when you book through our search

Marco Polo has many companies, and a brand can score very differently here than at other airports. To make our list, a company needs a rating of 8.0 or higher from verified renters at this airport and a score of 8.0 or higher for its staff here. Of the 35 companies rated at Marco Polo, 14 passed, and 13 of them had offers in our search. Europcar, Avis, Budget, Maggiore, Sicily By Car and Noleggiare did not pass. Flizzr and National passed with very few ratings, 1 and 3, so their scores say less than the others. Most travellers who ask us about Marco Polo have a debit card, and 11 of our 13 companies accept one. Our car rental in Italy page compares Marco Polo with the other Italian airports.

Company	Rating	Hours	Card	Deposit	Travel abroad
Alamo	8.8	08:00-23:00	Debit or credit (not Maestro)	500 EUR	29 countries, free
Enterprise	8.6	08:00-23:00	Debit or credit	500 EUR	29 countries, free
Locauto	8.6	08:00-23:00	Debit or credit (not Maestro)	No deposit (0,01 EUR card authorisation)	29 countries, free
Flizzr	8.3 (1 rating)	08:00-23:59	Debit or credit (not Maestro)	about 454-463 EUR on small cars, about 870 EUR on the Peugeot 5008	26 countries, 50 EUR
National	8.2 (3 ratings)	08:00-23:00	Debit or credit	500 EUR	33 countries, free
Dollar	8.1	08:00-23:59	Debit or credit (not Maestro or Visa Electron)	700 EUR, plus a separate fuel deposit	13 countries, 30 EUR, not Slovenia or Croatia
Thrifty	8.1	08:00-23:59	Debit or credit	700 EUR	13 countries, 30 EUR, not Slovenia or Croatia
SIXT	8.0	08:00-23:59	Debit or credit on the Peugeot 5008 offer; check your offer for small cars	from 300 EUR, about 870 EUR on the Peugeot 5008	17 countries, 50 EUR, not Slovenia or Croatia
Hertz	8.0	08:00-23:59	Debit or credit (not Maestro)	700 EUR	15 countries, 30 EUR, incl. Slovenia and Croatia

Company	Rating	Hours	Card	Deposit	Travel abroad
Dolomiti Rent a Car	9.4	Mon-Fri 08:00-18:30, Sat-Sun 08:00-11:59	Debit or credit, Visa or Mastercard only	0 EUR	24 countries with written permission, free to Slovenia, Croatia and Austria, up to 56 EUR to others
Target Rent	8.7	08:00-19:00	Credit only	850 EUR, 1,450 EUR on the 9-seat Fiat Ducato	6 countries, 70 EUR
GaldieriRent	8.7	08:00-20:00	Credit only	600 EUR, 100 EUR with its own cover	7 countries, 48.80 EUR
Record go	8.3	08:00-22:00	Debit or credit	900-1,200 EUR, 0 EUR with its own full cover	Not allowed

The lowest deposit at Marco Polo is at Dolomiti Rent a Car: 0 EUR on every offer in our search, with a debit or a credit card. Locauto also asks for no deposit, only a symbolic 0,01 EUR authorisation on a debit or a credit card at pick-up, at its desk in the P1 car park. Two companies cut the deposit with their own cover, which costs more per day. Record go drops from 900-1,200 EUR to 0 EUR, and GaldieriRent from 600 EUR to 100 EUR, with a credit card only. SIXT showed a deposit from 300 EUR on its small cars, and Alamo, Enterprise and National block 500 EUR. The highest deposits are at Target Rent (850-1,450 EUR) and at Record go without its cover (900-1,200 EUR). Dollar blocks 700 EUR and adds a separate fuel deposit at pick-up.

Marco Polo has one terminal, and the rental desks are not in it. According to Venice Airport’s car rental page, they are on the third level, called the Terrace, of the P1 multi-storey car park. Leave the arrivals area on the ground floor, take the covered shelter on your left and follow the P1 signs. Locauto describes the walk as about 300 m along a covered walkway, then one of two lifts to the third floor. You need to go to the desk even if you booked online. Alamo, Enterprise and National give the same directions, and Hertz, Dollar, Thrifty, SIXT and Flizzr list the same car rental centre address on Viale Galileo Galilei. The other four companies work like this:

• Target Rent is on Via Orlanda. Leave arrivals by door 3, cross the road and turn right to the shuttle area in car park P5, about 300 m away. The PARK GOLD shuttle waits inside P5
• GaldieriRent is on Via Triestina. Leave arrivals by door 4 on the right, follow the P5 signs through the white tunnel to the meeting point, about 50 m, and call the number in your voucher for the FLY PARK/GALDIERI shuttle
• Record go works from the ParkinGO car park on Via Orlanda. Leave by Gate 1, walk past the taxis and the bus station to the short-term car park and look for the ParkinGO sign. The ParkinGO/Rentsmart24 shuttle runs every 10 minutes
• Dolomiti Rent a Car has no desk at the airport. Send your flight number and arrival time on WhatsApp to the number in your voucher, and a representative gives you the meeting point. Its base is at a petrol station on Via Martiri della Libertà, about 6-7 km away

Autorentwiz tip: many customers who ask us about “Venice” actually land at Treviso, so check the airport code on your ticket. VCE is Venice Marco Polo, and TSF is Treviso, often written as “Venice Treviso”. The two airports are about 24 minutes apart by car, so a car booked at the wrong one is not where you land. If your ticket says TSF, our Treviso Airport guide covers the companies there.

At Marco Polo most desks keep the same hours every day, but none of our companies opens before 08:00, so an early morning flight means waiting. Hertz, Dollar, Thrifty, SIXT and Flizzr work until 23:59, and Alamo, Enterprise, National and Locauto until 23:00. Record go closes at 22:00, GaldieriRent at 20:00 and Target Rent at 19:00. Dolomiti Rent a Car works 08:00-18:30 on weekdays and only until 11:59 at weekends. Record go holds your car for 6 hours after the booked time, Dollar for only 29 minutes, and most others for about an hour. Add your flight number to the booking. If you fly home early in the morning, check in your offer how the return works before you book.

The Tamoil station on Viale Galileo Galilei, the airport road, is about 900 m west of the terminal, and Google Maps listed it as open 24 hours when we checked in October 2026. The IP station on Via Orlanda, about 4 km south-west towards Mestre, was also listed there as open 24 hours, and the Esso on Via Orlanda in Tessera as temporarily closed. Fill up before you return, because most rental conditions ask for the same fuel level you started with, and the refuelling charge at the desk is much higher than the pump price.

Yes. 11 of the 13 companies we recommend accept a debit card: Dolomiti Rent a Car (0 EUR deposit), Locauto (no deposit, only a 0,01 EUR card authorisation), Flizzr (about 454-463 EUR on small cars), Alamo, Enterprise and National (500 EUR), Hertz, Thrifty and Dollar (700 EUR), Record go (900-1,200 EUR) and SIXT. SIXT accepted debit cards on the Peugeot 5008 offer we could check, but its small-car offers did not show the card rules, so check them in your offer. Target Rent and GaldieriRent take credit cards only.

Even with a debit card, some big cars need a credit card: the Audi A5 at Alamo and the Audi A8 at Hertz. At the desk you need a physical Visa or Mastercard in the main driver’s name, with the card number printed on the front. Alamo, Locauto, Flizzr, Dollar and Hertz do not take Maestro, and Dolomiti Rent a Car takes Visa and Mastercard only. Our guide to renting a car in Italy with a debit card explains what the desk checks.

None of the 13 companies we recommend at Marco Polo accepts cards from online-only banks such as Revolut: all of them, Dolomiti Rent a Car included, list these cards as not accepted in the offers we checked. Our search also found no deals at Marco Polo where no card is needed at pick-up. If Revolut is the only card you have, you need a card from a traditional bank in the main driver’s name to rent here.

Dolomiti Rent a Car blocks no deposit at all: every one of its 10 offers in our search had a 0 EUR deposit, with a debit or a credit card. It has no desk at the airport and works 08:00-18:30 on weekdays and 08:00-11:59 at weekends, so it suits daytime arrivals. Locauto also asks for no deposit, only a symbolic 0,01 EUR authorisation on a debit or a credit card at pick-up, at its desk in the P1 car park, open until 23:00. In our search, the cheapest car with no deposit was a Toyota Aygo at Locauto, about 102 EUR for the week. Record go also blocks 0 EUR when you take its own full cover, but the price rises: its Hyundai i10 cost about 193 EUR a week with that cover, against about 57 EUR without it. Our guide to saving money on car rental shows how to weigh the deposit against the price.

At Marco Polo the excess, the part of any damage you pay yourself, was about 1,200-2,400 EUR on most cars in our search, and up to 4,000 EUR on the Audi A8 at Hertz. Locauto and Dolomiti Rent a Car had the lowest, from 1,200 EUR, and SIXT one of the highest, 2,000-2,400 EUR. You can cover it in two ways. Full coverage added online when you book costs less per day, but the desk still blocks the normal deposit, and if something happens you pay the company and claim the money back from the insurer.

The company’s own cover costs more but removes the excess on the spot and can cut the deposit: in our search, Record go offers with its full cover had a 0 EUR deposit, and GaldieriRent offers with its cover 100 EUR. If you already bought full coverage, you do not need the desk cover as well. Our pick-up tips show how to film the car and what to check at pick-up.

These rules come from the rental conditions of the offers we checked at Marco Polo in October 2026, for the 13 companies we recommend. The minimum age often goes up with the car class, so check the conditions of your own offer before you book. Send us the driver’s age on Messenger, and we check which offers allow it.

• Minimum age: 18 at Flizzr, and 18 in SIXT‘s conditions, on small cars. 19 at Dolomiti Rent a Car, GaldieriRent, Target Rent and Record go, and at Alamo, Enterprise, Locauto and National on the Toyota Aygo only. 21 at Hertz, Dollar and Thrifty
• Bigger cars need an older driver: at Alamo, Enterprise, Locauto and National the minimum is 21 from the Volkswagen Polo or Opel Corsa up, 25 for larger SUVs such as the Volkswagen Tiguan, and 27 for the Audi A5. Hertz asks for 25 on the Audi Q3 and A5, Target Rent 21 from the Volkswagen Golf up and 25 for the Fiat Ducato, Flizzr 21 for the Cupra Formentor, Peugeot 3008 and 5008 and Volkswagen Caravelle, and SIXT‘s conditions 21 for most BMW models and the Peugeot 5008 and 25 for the BMW i7. Dolomiti Rent a Car, GaldieriRent, Dollar and Thrifty keep the same minimum on every class we checked
• Young and senior driver fees: the conditions we checked for all 13 companies say a young driver fee applies under 25. Only Record go showed an amount: its “Younger driver fee” was 76.65 EUR for our 7-day rental, payable at pick-up. The other conditions do not state the amount, and our search was for a driver aged 30-65, so the prices in this guide do not include it. Dolomiti Rent a Car and Target Rent charge a senior fee over 75 and GaldieriRent over 76, and Dolomiti Rent a Car rents only up to 82
• Licence held: at least 1 year for small cars at most companies. Alamo, Enterprise and National ask for 3 years on every car, and Locauto 3 years from the Opel Corsa up. Some bigger cars need longer: 3 years at Target Rent, 2 years at Flizzr, 2-3 years in SIXT‘s conditions, and 4 years for the Skoda Kodiaq and Ford Tourneo Custom at GaldieriRent
• EU or UK licence: Your Europe says a licence issued in an EU country can be used anywhere in the EU, so you need no International Driving Permit (IDP) in Italy. With a UK photocard licence, gov.uk says you need no IDP in Italy, but Target Rent and Record go still ask for one with a UK licence, and Locauto and SIXT‘s conditions from drivers who live in the UK. Dollar also asks for a DVLA check code with a UK licence
• Licence from outside the EU and the UK: Italian law (Codice della Strada, Art. 135) asks visitors with a licence from outside the EU and EEA for an IDP or an official Italian translation, so bring an IDP. Hertz and Thrifty also accept licences from the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and some other countries without one, but we still advise an IDP because of the law. Alamo and SIXT‘s conditions ask for an IDP with any licence not printed in the Roman alphabet. The IDP counts only together with your licence and as a physical document, not a digital one

Across all offers, car rental at Venice Marco Polo Airport costs about 30 EUR a day on average over the year. November is the cheapest month at about 15 EUR a day, about half the yearly average, and July the most expensive at about 43 EUR. March is the second cheapest month, at about 19 EUR. June, August and September all cost about 36-39 EUR a day. Rentals here last about 6 days on average.

Daily average across all offers at Venice Marco Polo Airport for each pick-up month, data from October 2026. Prices move every day.

Season	Months	Average per day	What to expect
Low	November, March	about 15-19 EUR	The lowest prices of the year
Shoulder	February, October, January, May, April, December	about 24-27 EUR	Good value outside the holiday weeks
High	August, September	about 36-37 EUR	Close to summer prices
Peak	June, July	about 39-43 EUR	The most expensive weeks of the year

Our November search found these starting prices per day by car class. The cheapest small car, a Volkswagen Up at Target Rent, cost about 32 EUR for the week, or about 5 EUR a day. An SUV started at the same price as a medium car, about 7 EUR a day. The cheapest 7-seater was a Dacia Jogger at Dolomiti Rent a Car, about 198 EUR a week.

Autorentwiz tip: most of our Marco Polo customers ask for an automatic. Choice is good here: in our November search, more than half of the offers from our 13 companies were automatic. The cheapest were at Target Rent (Ford Fiesta, about 41 EUR a week) and GaldieriRent (Peugeot 208, about 57 EUR), both credit card only. With a debit card, the cheapest were at Record go (Fiat Tipo, about 105 EUR) and Alamo (Volkswagen Polo, about 119 EUR). Send us your dates and card on Messenger, and we will compare the automatics for you.

Venice has two airports that travellers book as “Venice”: Marco Polo (VCE) and Treviso (TSF). They are about 26-30 km and 24-27 minutes apart by road. For Venice itself, Marco Polo is closer: Piazzale Roma, where cars stop, is 13 km and about 19 minutes away, against about 37-40 minutes from Treviso. For the city of Treviso, Treviso Airport is closer. For Cortina d’Ampezzo in the Dolomites, both airports are about 2 hours away.

What we compared	Venice Marco Polo (VCE)	Treviso (TSF)
Companies we recommend	13	10
Where the desks are	Level 3 of the P1 car park, 9 of our 13. 3 by shuttle, 1 with a meeting point	Arrivals hall, 7 of our 10
Debit cards, of the companies we recommend	11 of 13	6 of 10
No deposit with a debit card	Dolomiti Rent a Car (0 EUR) and Locauto (0,01 EUR card authorisation)	Locauto (0,01 EUR card authorisation)
Revolut and online-only bank cards	Not accepted	Not accepted
Average price per day, November and July	about 15 and 43 EUR	about 18 and 45 EUR
Drive to Piazzale Roma, Venice	about 19 minutes	about 37-40 minutes
Same brand, rating at each airport	Locauto 8.6, SIXT 8.0, Sicily By Car 7.9, Noleggiare 7.1	Locauto 9.1, SIXT 9.0, Sicily By Car 8.8, Noleggiare 8.7

If you only have a debit card or want no deposit, Marco Polo gives you more choice, and its prices were a little lower in November and July. Several brands, such as Locauto, SIXT, Sicily By Car and Noleggiare, were rated higher by verified renters at Treviso, so compare the rating at the airport you fly into, not the brand. Our Treviso Airport guide covers the companies there.

From the airport, the SS14 (Via Triestina) runs to Mestre and the SR11 continues to Piazzale Roma, and neither road has tolls. The A4 motorway to Padua, Verona, Lake Garda and Trieste and the A27 to Treviso and Cortina d’Ampezzo have tolls.

Cars cannot enter the historic centre of Venice. The road ends at Piazzale Roma, 13 km and about 19 minutes from the airport, and at Tronchetto nearby. The city garage at Piazzale Roma, the Autorimessa Comunale, costs 35 EUR for 24 hours when you book online on the official Venezia Unica site, and it takes cars up to 2.20 m high. Tronchetto costs about 25-28 EUR a day. The cheapest plan is to park in Mestre, for example at the SABA car park by Mestre station for about 15-18 EUR a day, and take the train, about 10 minutes to Venice.

If you plan to pick up a car in “Venice”, the nearest pick-up points are on the mainland, such as Mestre station, or at the airport. In 2026, day visitors paid an access fee of 5 EUR, or 10 EUR if paid late, on set days, and it no longer applies from 27 July 2026. The official site has no 2027 dates yet, so check the official Venice Access Fee site before your trip.

The centre of Mestre is a restricted traffic zone, or ZTL, active every day, 24 hours a day. Gates mark the zone, and only cars with an authorisation from the Venice ZTL office may enter. Park outside the zone and walk in.

Padua is 46 km and about 45 minutes from the airport on the A4. Verona is 126 km and about 1 hour 25 minutes away on the same motorway. If Verona or Lake Garda is the main part of your trip, our Verona Airport guide compares Verona Airport with Marco Polo.

Sirmione on Lake Garda is 155 km and about 1 hour 35 minutes away on the A4.

Cortina d’Ampezzo in the Dolomites is 147 km and about 2 hours away by the A27 and the SS51. On Veneto state roads at risk of snow, cars had to have winter tyres or carry snow chains from 15 November to 15 April in winter 2025-26, so ask for winter tyres when you book a winter rental. Lake Bled in Slovenia is 282 km and about 2 hours 55 minutes away. Check the Slovenian motorway vignette rules before you cross the border, and check that your company allows Slovenia. Locauto, Alamo, Enterprise and National allow it for free, Dolomiti Rent a Car for free with written permission, and Hertz, GaldieriRent, Flizzr and Target Rent for a fee of 30-70 EUR. SIXT, Dollar, Thrifty and Record go do not allow it. For Trieste, Slovenia or Istria, Trieste Airport is closer, and our Trieste Airport guide compares it with Marco Polo.

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