We had a wonderful stay at Anna's apartment in Venice. The location I thought was superb. It was in a more quiet and relaxing area of Venice, away from the tourist craziness at the Rialto Bridge and San Marco square, yet close enough by walk (about a 15min walk). It was literally less than a minute from the Academia vaporetto stop so it was extremely convenient to use that to get around Venice as well.

The apartment/town house was very nice. It's 3 levels with the ground floor entrance, main floor with kitchen/living area and 1 bedroom, and top floor with the second bedroom. It was very clean and elegantly decorated with some modern touches (renovated bathroom, modern furniture in the bedrooms). The rooftop terrace was quite small, just enough for a table and two chairs, and perhaps standing room for 1. But it's a nice touch of outdoors. Note that it faces the street so there isn't much of a view. Downstairs there are a few shops and a small café (which Anna told us was a tourist trap). It never got too noisy at night. And if it did, you could shut the windows and turn on the air conditioning in the bedrooms.

Anna provided us with detailed instructions of how to get to the location, and she personally met us at the Academia vaporetto stop to take us to the apartment. She was responsive to questions on her mobile throughout our stay, gave us instructions on how to depart via the airport and train station, and offered to help us call a taxi to take us back to the airport (but we ultimately didn't travel that way).

The only negative is the beds in both rooms are broken. When I lifted up the mattress I discovered the wooden ribs underneath the mattress are cracked, and that's why you literally sink into the bed when you are on it.