Our host provided all the information needed for us to make it to our destination and have access to our room (5 min. walk from the main dock). Once there, the room was beautiful just like in the photos, antique furniture and all. The guest house is located right in front of a beautiful church and in dead center of a plaza with lots of restaurants and gift shops around. No worries regarding outside noise, the windows are great and do their job. If you want to eat closer to the doc, the walk is about 5 minutes. The following day, breakfast is ready in the foyer area provided by Valentina (extremely nice, limited in English). We had a few questions which she referred to the owner however she did take care of all of our needs regarding breakfast. Don't pay more than 80 Euro for gondola and make sure you ask how long the ride is... you want 20-30 minutes out of it. Also, make sure you ask/purchase outlet converters. We didn't remember to do this and searched around town quite a bit(not very many stores carry here). Shopping is located about a 10 minute walk away. Everyone doesn't get going very early, most stores don't open until sometime between 9-10am.