We travelled in a group of 4 and took the Train to Venice from Rome. From the train station, we had to contact the host with a call yet it was impossible to find a public phone since we got the phone card for only data usage. We finally seek help from the Porter stand near the ticketing station of the water bus to lend us a phone to call.
It then happened that Desiree was the one who picked us up and she somehow found us near one of the stores there.
After finally meeting, we got ushered to our place which was pleasantly convenient and there's food and shopping just everywhere. If you have no understanding of how venice apartments look like, they are slim in space and usually flights of stairs up.
I will highly discourage you to pack into huge luggage like us. If you are young and on a backpack trip or cabin sized luggage it's totally fine. We were with 3 huge and heavy luggage as we are travelling on a leisure holiday with 5 states within Europe.
The staircase was not luggage friendly. 3 to 4 levels up and it was very cramp. I think it's really not suitable for senior citizens too. There is only one bedroom with a king size bed and 2 separate sofa beds in the living room, with the kitchen, that could accommodate 4. It was considerably value for money amongst the rest of the apartments across Venice.
We did think of cooking since most of the food in venice costs average 18 to 22 euro per dish in a decent restaurant. However, as 2 of us are sleeping in the living room's sofa bed, we rather not. There is a Market Coop which Desiree did share with us with a map and it was considerably decent as a small mart with ingredients you could cook with.
The best part about this apartment is truly the powerful airconditioner. It was to our liking as the weather was around 30 degree Celsius outside (and with the flights of stairs).
The bathroom was considerably fine for us who are considerably lean built but if you would prefer ample bathing space, I guess not.
Overall the furniture was quite decent and modern. I am not sure if it's the weather changing, because at night as we opened the window out of curiosity, there were quite a number of mosquitos that enters, I think it's overall like that over there so I encourage you to not do likewise.