First the apartment. It is just as advertised. It’s about a 5-10 minute walk from the vaparetto stop where Sara will meet you when you arrive. It’s not overly large. My wife and I shared one bedroom and our 19 year old daughter had the other. In both rooms there is very little floor space. The kitchen was more than adequate for us. We have used VRBO or Air BnB many times and know what to expect. We don’t cook on vacation. All we needed was what we got...a small refrigerator and the ability to make coffee in the morning. Location. This was the determining factor in our choice. The apartment is located (as Sara describes) inn a quiet moral neighborhood. We enjoyed the fact that there are several local restaurants as well as grocery stores nearby. Venice is a small island folks and nowhere is that long of a walk. This apartment is about 10 minutes from the Rialto Bridge & maybe 15 from Saint Marks Square. Our family walks briskly and we visited when tourist season was low. That is important to note because there are few if any “streets” as people in the US would categorize it. I hope you know that there are no cars in Venice. Many of the streets are just wide enough for 3-4 people walking abreast...but be warned, don’t do that! There are always people coming the other way, people coming behind you workers with carts, tourists with luggage. Hey Venice is one of the most visited cities in the world and it doesn’t have that many square miles. Of all the VRBOs I have stayed in this is the 1st review I have posted and it is because you all should know just how excellent Sara’s organizational skills are. Her communications from the first email were spot on in answers, directions and timeliness. Things worked just as she said they would. Our very 1st night in the apartment we had “aqua alta” the high tide of the month. At check in Daniela told us about it but said it would not reach our front door. (When you get there you will see how often much of Venice is under water) Around 10.00PM we received a message from Sara saying that predictions had changed and that for the first time in 4 years her apartment was scheduled to flood. The first thing she did was offer to put us up in a hotel! We told her we would ride it out. We knew how to set the food gate on the front door (very common in Venice) took everything off the floors and went to bed. I received regular emails over the next 2 hours again offering advice and offers to move us. (High tide was scheduled for a little before midnight) I went to sleep around 11.30 with a little water coming in and woke the next morning to discover that one bedroom was under about 2 inches of water. Sara...