This is a big apartment next to a canal in a quiet area of the city and is relatively a good value. However, the apartment is hard to find due in large part to not having a complete address with street number and street name in the listing. They are listing in 2 separate areas, but never put together. Venice can be a very confusing city, Google maps did not work as it has for us all over other cities, and no clear directions were given to lead us to the front door.
The apartment was being used to store furnishings from another apartment, piled in the entryway and the bottom of the stairs to the second level. Even without those specific pieces, there is 50% too much furniture in the apartment. In the living room alone there we 2 small dining tables, 2 coffee tables, 2 couches, probably 8 straight back chairs, 2 comfortable chairs and 3 large buffet type tables, plus assorted lamps, half of which were not plugged in and had their cords wrapped around them. In the hallway, there were 3 large pieces of furniture to walk around. In the master bedroom there was a large bureau shoved in front of a floor to ceiling "bookcase" that was stuffed full of term papers, and other personal paperwork. The upstairs bathroom has one 6 drawer cabinet FULL of personal cosmetics. All the under-sink areas were stuffed haphazardly with bags and cleaning supplies. I had to search for the hairdryer which was upstairs and not in the main bath. We ran out of toilet paper downstairs and were told there was more in a certain cabinet upstairs. We eventually found more, but not where we were told. There was no coffee to make us feel at home in the morning, and no dish towels in the kitchen. The spice drawer was chock full of spices, some empty, and most of the bottles looked like they could have been 20 years old. The kitchen utensil drawers looked like someone had lived there for 30 years.
This is Not a place that made me feel welcome, more a place that made me feel like an afterthought, like they'd rent it to me as long as they weren't inconvenienced in any way.