This apartment is an example of quantity, not quality--and certainly not luxury. Our host was gracious--her representative Michela met our water taxi in a nearby Campo, guided us to the apartment, and helped us get our luggage up to the third floor location. She also gave us a good orientation to the nearby supermarket and provided a number of suggestions for galleries and restaurants.

However, once we explored our dwelling, we were disappointed that the condition of the apartment was no palace. Except for its size, the apartment did not live up to the expectation that "luxury palance" created. The apartment showed signs of poor maintenance, and certainly no modern upgrades in years.

Here is a list of various shortcomings we observed (not in order of importance):
No microwave oven; no coffee maker (only a beat-up two cup Bialetti espresso pot that cannot work for more than two people, and involves too much work); old worn out blankets, threadbare old towels (and not enough of them in light of the time it takes to dry them without a clothes dryer); a gas stove that needs lighting manually (I have not seen this since my childhood in the 1950s); master bath drain stopped up--it drained much too slowly, leaving one to stand in a pool of soap scum; dish rack above the kitchen sink was old, unappealing and off-putting; window screens did not lower all the way and were very difficult to raise (for example, when we need to hang laundry outside); missing light bulb above dining room table; very old couches with cushions in poor condition (and of five of these old couches, not one was long enough for a grown man to stretch out); shower in second bathroom floods the room because curtain doesn't cover adequately and "lip" of the shower basin is not tall enough to contain the water; the apartment walls are badly in need of cleaning and painting, electrical outlets are askew or detached

If the apartment had been listed as “Charming Vintage Apartment”(and at a lower price)-- instead of “Luxury Palace” we would have been more tolerant of all the annoyances.