I cannot say enough about this apartment. From the beginning. Gianluigi was our guide to the apartment and our greeting host. He was extremely easy to communicate with, gracious, and friendly with INCREDIBLE restaurant recommendations. We have been to Venice many times and only have 2 favorite restaurants but Nevodi has now been added and risen to the top of the list. He also unprompted showed us the fantastic set-up that they have in place for baggage storage on the day of departure and gave us coupons for a local breakfast place and a nice bottle of Prosecco that we really enjoyed. I really felt like we were being cared for by an old friend. The other inhabitants of the building were incredibly friendly and welcoming when we met then in the stairways (not often, but still...how nice!!)
The apartment itself was truly beautiful with a very well equipped and functional kitchen, a great dining table and comfy couch and extremely comfortable bedrooms that looked out over a secret garden and the rooftops of Venice. Sunsets from the windows were unforgettable. The design style felt homelike but very elevated...neither cold and impersonal nor cluttered....just perfect!! I would also like to shout out to the neighborhood. While being incredibly convenient to the Arsenale and Giardini for the Bienalle and San Marco AND vaporetto stops for the islands on one side and San Marco and the Grand Canal on the other side...it is dead quiet and truly Venetian. You feel like you are in another world with little fruit stores and local grocers about 2 turns away and only the occasional fellow visitor at the nearby Scuola di San Giorgio. I HIGHLY recommend this apartment and will certainly try to stay there for our next visit to Venice.