The apartment is very clean and located on a quiet side street near a canal - no canal view from the balcony though. Andrea's sister Lara met with us to let us into the apartment and she was very nice. We were able to buy water taxi 48 hr pass tickets off of her which was very convenient. She recommended restaurants, things to do and gave us a map to help us out. Our stay was great! There is only one air conditioner which isn't very powerful (but that's how it seems to be everywhere in Italy). It is located in the living room, so we had to keep our bedroom doors open to keep the rooms cool. The back bedroom did not get very cool, and it felt a bit warm at night. It's about three flights of stairs to the apartment so it was exhausting carrying all of the luggage up. Overall though we had a great stay at this apartment.