An old apartment with its own charm! We really enjoy sitting at the balconies looking out to the Scala Contarini del Bovolo. The location was great. Tommaso was very good with communication and usually responded quickly.
Check in was a little confusing because we had to go get the key in one location and trying to find the apartment was not easy. After a hot and long walk through the crowd with our two little girls, we finally arrived at the apartment and the AC was broken!!! Tommaso sent a technician a couple of hours later but it conked out again at 3am. It was not fixed until our last day (we stayed there 3 nights) so it was pretty uncomfortable both during the day and at night. We opened the windows during the day to let in the breeze, not realizing that it also let in A TON of mosquitoes!!! I mean, a ton. The first night, my 8-year-old daughter got 27 mosquito bites! The poor girl couldn’t sleep the next day because it was itchy, and the room has no AC. I had to cover my whole body and face with a blanket, but still I could hear the wee-wee of the mosquitos all night. It was pretty horrible.
The second night when I looked up at the bathroom ceiling, I saw more than 10 mosquitos so my husband and I use a glass cup and a paper to relocate them one by one (we don’t kill) and that’s when I realized that the weird looking stains on the walls were from people squatting the bloody mosquitos!! Crazy!!
In sum, it gave us the idea of how people lived a couple hundred years back, but I’m not sure if I would recommend it to anyone. Tommaso was very responsive and even gave us some refund. But still it was not a very great experience.