Venice bans suitcases with wheels

[johnhh]

At last ! No not that Venice, the one in Italy.

[telegraph.co.uk...]

My wife went with a wheelie, it was terrible, the noise that is. I don't blame them at all, even the wife said it was noisy and rather embarrassing.

Now when they ban those cruse ships from coming in ....

Cue embarrassing travel story...

[lucy24]

I'm inclined to think that using a wheeled suitcase on cobblestones is pretty much a self-punishing endeavor. (Or is it bricks and flagstones now? Not a whole lot better.)

[engine]

I was once put up overnight in a town hotel which had a cobbled street outside. There was a constant clatter at all times as people walked in and out dragging their noise behind them. It was a sleep-disturbed night.

I didn't choose the hotel otherwise I wouldn't have ended there.

Good idea in Venice, imho.

Surely, there's an opportunity for enterprising Venetians to provide a quiet-wheeled bag carrier.

[LifeinAsia]

Talk about making people go back to the dark ages by banning modern "technology." Do they even make suitcases without wheels any more? (I mean, something too big to put on your back or over your shoulder.)

[Leosghost]

Collapsible aluminium ( note to speel chucker, that is how it is spelled ) frames to put your suitcases on, with silent rubber wheels..solved..:)
Venetian artisans are very talented..won't take them long to make these and be selling them at all entrances to Venice..

To those who think late night noise in tourist spots isn't a problem..

When we lived in Cannes, about 50 metres from the Hermes main boutique ( corner of Rue Cdt André ) near the Palais des Festivals..Huge appartment,top floor sea views, 60 seconds slow walk from the beach..in summer we never got an uninterrupted nights sleep..after all the street noise from the tourists ( and the "adult" night life )had died down, usually around 03.oo am..the quiet would last no more than another hour, before the restaurant and bar owners in the surrounding little back streets would fire up their Harleys to ride home..and the rolling thunder would echo around the streets and wake us..Then at 6.oo am the market stall owners would arrive noisily to set up at place Gambetta..and the "moto crots" would begin revving and cleaning, followed by the garbage trucks and the street cleaning machines..and yes the occasional wheeled suitcase could be heard at around 03.00 to 03.30 as late tourists arrived..sound really echos around old tall buildings in mediteranean streets..

Must be even worse around Venice sound bouncing off the water..When we later lived at Port Grimaud we experienced how even small sound carries at night around waterways..

The Venetians are 100% right with this, just because you live in a tourist town doesn't mean that you should not be able to sleep at night for the noise of the tourists..not all of the residents ( think doctors, nurses, firemen etc etc ) work in tourism..But to do their jobs, they need sleep..

[thecoalman]

Surely, there's an opportunity for enterprising Venetians to provide a quiet-wheeled bag carrier.

They call it rubber. :P