The apartment was overall nice for the price, and Vanessa was very welcoming during check-in and would answer any questions we had during our stay. Would however stay another place if we were to visit Venice again, mostly because of the following issues:
- The toilet was a pain in the ass: it would be gushing water or making a loud noise like some kind of cross between an angry seagull and a whale almost every time we used it, so we'd have to open the tank lid and fix the mechanism multiple times a day. This was a mild annoyance at first, but when we were nearing the end of our weeklong stay and still had to spend 5 extra minutes in the middle of the night to fix the damn thing, it started becoming a not-so-little annoyance.
- The floors were very dirty (might have been because the apartment was newly renovated)
- The humidity was worse than anything I've ever experienced before; staying in Bali during the Moonsoon season didn't come near this. The bathroom vent fan didn't seem to do anything at all, and we ended up with choosing between opening our windows and be left with a hot apartment, or suffer from our towels forever staying soaking wet after showering and all our clothes and things always being damp. At first we assumed this was maybe a Venetian thing - however it was early June and our friends that stayed at a nearby airbnb didn't have this issue.
- there were a few other small issues with communication etc, but I believe we still would have had an excellent experience with only those issues present.
On the bright side, I'm sure the issues mentioned above can be fixed, so the airbnb might improve over time. I certainly hope so, because the location is nice, and the kitchen is spatious and brand new (which is a dream for me since I really love cooking!) - so I think that the apartment has good potential!