Beatrice's apartment is in the best location: while not in the very center of Venice, the city is quite small so it takes about half an hour to walk to the opposite side. It's off the beaten track in the neighborhood Cannareggio, which quickly became our favourite because it's quiet and lovely and less cramped - I want to say "less touristy" but I don't know how crowded with tourists it will get once people go back to traveling. The house is close to the train station, to the lagoon and the Ca' Foscari University, which makes the area lively with students during the day. The apartment itself is really pretty and very clean, with two large balconies where we ate all the meals we had at home. As an added bonus, the apartment is full of great books about Venice, its art, its history. The check-in was extremely simple and Beatrice was flexible in letting us leave our luggage inside later than the check-out time to enjoy the city a bit more before catching our train. One note for people who are usually targets of mosquitos: try to keep the windows closed from the afternoon onward or equip yourselves with anti-mosquito devices, the city is on the water so obviously mosquitos abound, but we didn't think of it...!