This space could not be closer to the Venice Biennale. It's steps away from the Arsenale and only slightly farther to the Giardini. For us, that was a huge bonus. We also found Francesca and her onsite manager Silvia to be very responsive--we had wifi trouble while we were there and Silvia responded to our concerns within an hour.

The apartments are really beautiful (we were in 2 and 5) and some of the furnishings are lovely.

The wifi was patchy--about 50/50--but as I said, the problem was solved quickly. We didn't get it resolved the second time it went down because we weren't in the space very much after that.

The other issue, and Francesca has assured us that they are working to resolve this, is that there is a bad smell in the stairwells. She explained that this is the result of an issue with the restaurant next door. Bad smells abound in Venice, though, so maybe it just adds to the authenticity of the experience.