The best way to describe this apartment is: looks can be deceiving.
The good: the apartment is quite large, pretty well located, and clean. It’s near some good restaurants and within a 20 minute walk of the main square. There was a queen bed and 2 twin beds with AC and laundry (both questionable, see below).
The bad: My two friends and I rented this apartment for 1 night for $168.91, and this did not include a 12 euro tax (4 euros each) from the city of Venice which we were informed upon arrival (over the phone by Massimo) which needed to be paid in cash. This was a bit unsettling because we were not informed of this prior or in the payment we sent to confirm our reservation. After calling Airbnb and asking about this, the company stated that any such tax should be processed through the Airbnb resolution center. After telling this to Massimo, he stated this was “sad and offensive” of me; I didn’t realize that confirming a tax with Airbnb that was not stated in the original contract was sad or offensive. With regards to the AC unit, we had to turn it in manually because the remote for this was broken (had a broken screen). We could not adjust the temperature and it didn’t work very well and was quite hot inside. Windows could not be opened due to bugs outside. Furthermore, one of the twin beds did not have a pillow on it, so we went into the bedroom closet to get an extra and both pillows inside did not have pillow cases and had stains on them. Additionally, the WiFi was quite slow, and would never even reach 3 bars. Finally, after attempting to wash clothes, half of our clothes came out soaking wet with a strange and bad smell after a 50 minute cycle while half were completely dry.
Overall: I can understand that everything in an apartment will not be perfect, but for the $168.91 + $13.46 = $182.37 we paid for 1 night, this place was disappointing