We had a wonderful time in Venice with our kids and staying in Little Gem was a great factor in that. Pietro was a wonderful host and met us at the main train station and even helped carry our luggage on the walk to the apartment. He then took time to explain all amenities and walk us through a map, with call outs to nice restaurants and pastry shops. He also helped us schedule our trip back to airport, since we had an early flight. The vaporetto station is just 1-2 minutes walk away from the apartment and the boat to airport can be taken from here.
We pretty much could walk to most of the key tourist spots from little gem and it felt very quite and safe at night. Our family of 4 had enough room and the beds / pullout was very comfortable. All in all we had a memorable trip.
Thank you Pietro for being a great host and all email communications before our visit.