Trip to Venice - wwyd?

[Spacecadet43]

So my eldest dd is in her first year at uni and due to go to Venice for 4 days on Thursday. Obviously in light of the flood situation her dad and I are very concerned and as of yet they seem to be still pressing ahead.

We’ve received no information from uni etc so I will ring/email on Monday but am still very concerned and think she should pull out. I’m thinking it unlike she will get her money back though at this late stage as there are no current formal travel warnings in place. Just lots of stories about awful sanitation, difficult access, raw sewage and people getting sick. So I wondered dear mumsnetters what you would advise in similar situation?

I've been during the floods and it was an adventure. Pack wellies, money for waders. We didn't see raw sewage or anything like that. It smelled sometimes but no more than Venice does in summer. Stagnant water rather than sewage smell.

If there was a concern for sanitation the govt would likely stop travel.

The other thing is to remember the floods can go from thigh high to nothing in 12 hours. It's difficult to predict.

I would still go. Friends who work in old Venice yesterday said they were back in normal shoes.

The flooding was bad and obviously the worst ever but do remember that st marks square floods to about ankle deep every single spring tide so it’s not something that’s a completely unknown situation or anything like the situation when we have floods here.

Thank you both for that - really reassuring to hear and much appreciated.

I'm there now. Was a 160cm high tide to day but highest water is anywhere I've been is only knee high. St Mark's Square is closed again. Hotel days tide forecast for next week is normal high tides, so no reason not to come. People are still sitting outside bars even though they are almost knee deep in water!