Nice place, nice host, take plenty of money and know how to work your google maps on your phone.
Self catering when possible at the well laid out apartment will allow you to spread your budget, and the supermarket 5 mins from San Stin is very well stocked and priced, unlike the surrounding bars and cafe's which are in my opinion a tourist trap and rip off. We have travelled all over Europe and Venice is the most expensive place we have come across. Apart from the cost the place is very nice and we felt comfortable security wise at all times. Make sure you have the right tickets for the all transport systems because even though we had prepaid on the internet for airport bus transfers, between the language problems and the volume of people, we were given bad directions which cost us 136 Euros in penalties from a over officious bus inspector. Not much sympathy for tourists in the wrong place from anyone there. Apart from that Andrea was easy to talk to and Venice is a nice place.
Derek Moore