Main info:
Silvia and her apartment are great!
In depth view:
Silvia is a very caring host. She is ready to help any time with advice, would it be question regarding the apartmet or Venice. Silvia's knowledge about the city is very large and she has lots of advices of interesting and curios ideas on how to spend time in Venice. In the apartment there is a huge guide book made by Silvia with the list of cafeterias, restaurants etc. The guide also includes valuable info regarding the apartment itself! We went to one of the places from the list and liked it very much. Really, Silvia is among the very best hosts ever. Her tenderness and generousity made the impressions of the beautiful Venice even way much better than it could've been. 🙂
Okay, now to the apartment itself:
It is located in a very good place, especially if you want to avoid the crowds straggling around you like on San Marco's square and still if you want to have most of the interesting things close to you, like Rialto bridge, f.e. which is like 2 minutes walk from the house. Also nearby there is a Vaporetto (water bus) station, just 1 minute away from the apartment, Rialto market, lots of cafeterias, pizzerias etc. all of these are very-very close. The square where the house is located is quite tranquil, yet there is a Church with the bell-tower, which rings from time to time (it woke me up just once, yet later on, it couldn't do it; my boyfriend even didn't hear it during the sleep, so in my opinion the bell is not a problem at all).
Inside the apartment is cute and very nice. Bedroom is spacious and you also have enough space there for items you bring with you. As for the kitchen there is nearly everything you would really need to cook or eat something (for the coffee-lovers there is a coffee-machine, for the toast-lovers there is a toaster, and so on), and there are also iron with the board in the sitting room. Silvia also left a lot of nice things in the apartment for us, like tea, coffee, cookies, cereals, milk and even pasta!
So, in a word, we HIGHLY recommend to stay at Silvia's place! :)