The owner: Ann is the best! Not only does she provide a wonderful place to stay, but she is easy to communicate with. I’m sorry I woke her up a few times, not realizing she was 9 hours later. But when I did, she gave recommendations and directions the only someone who lived here would know.
The location is great! If you take the bus from Marco Polo, it’s the last stop, i’m big parking lot or all the buses and go next to the ground canal. Then you are maybe a quarter mile or less down the sidewalk to Ann’s place. On her stretch you will find gift shops, several restaurants, many street vendors, an ATM, a gondola stand, and that big church in the listing. For all that, it’s pretty quiet.
The apartment itself features a fenced, secure, private courtyard, and a complete one bedroom home. Full kitchen, washer and dryer, comfortable king bed, and nice, big couch for lounging.
Walk over the bridge and you will find a grocery within blocks, many more restaurants, gelato shops, patisseries, and directly across the canal is the train station. We paid someone €15 to load up our luggage and schlep it up and down the stairs across the canal and into the train station. It was worth every bit of that.
Friends who are planning a trip next year are excited to book here… me, too!