Although we arrived in Venice rather late and had the wrong address, we managed to call AIRBNB who then contacted Maria. She came out looking for us and immediately led us to the right address. The room was in the building next to her home so it was very private. It was nice and spacious and clean and definitely better than any other hotel we have stayed at in Italy. Maria is so very wonderful. I had read that she did not speak English so well but we managed to communicate just fine. She asked us what time we wanted breakfast and brought it to us each morning we were there. She also let us leave our luggage in her house while we explored Venice before leaving late that afternoon. So even though we had a little mishap at first, this turned out to be a great experience for us being new to this mode of lodging.