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Venice visitors urged to ?go' online

City officials in Venice are attempting to make it easier for tourists to find a place to go - by launching a service which lets visitors pay online for public toilet access.

Instead of paying the current 1 euro fee to get into a public bathroom, tourists who think ahead can get week or day passes to the bathrooms online. Visitors can pay 7 euros online for 10 toilet visits over 5 days, or 2 euros for a one-day pass.

“For people who want some security, who don’t want to go into a bar to buy a coffee or a roll, so they can go to the bathroom, this is a solution,” a Venice city spokesman said.

The online bathroom pass is accessible from 1 February as part of the city’s Venice Connected card which gives access to various services and allows reservations online. The purchase has to be made at least 15 days before use.

The pass is another attempt by Venice, which hosts about 20 million visitors a year, to deal with tourists who use the streets as urinals.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .