We only saw Alessandra briefly during our check-in, but we loved staying in her place. Everything was clean, attractive, and comfortable. The place is an easy ten minute bus ride from Venice. There is not a ton to eat around here, but if you are mainly here to see Venice then that is not really an issue--at least it wasn't for us. Alessandra also let us drop our stuff off early in the morning before check-in so we didn't have to carry it around Venice all day. Honestly, we did a lot of researching and felt like this was the best value to stay around Venice. We were thrilled when it turned out to be even better than advertised.