What can I say - this place is even better than the pictures suggest, located steps away from Piazza San Marco but also wonderfully quiet.
Accessed from a small lane just behind the Hard Rock Cafe and Zara you're right in the heart of Venice with the cities attractions and restaurants a quick walk away. There is also a gondola station at the end of a canal right out side the window meaning that there was always something for our three-year-old to see out the window.
The apartment was spotlessly clean when we arrived and Sebastiano’s brother was wonderfully welcoming in spite of the Alilaguna from Marco Polo Airport not getting us there until almost 1am. He was highly communicative, making sure that we knew the best way to get into the city and the correct stops to get off at.
The apartment is equipped with two double beds, one of which is made up of two single mattresses. We didn't have any way to split the mattresses or extra bedding to make up a nest for our wee one, which we'd kind of been expecting, but otherwise the master with en-suite had a very comfortable bed and the three of us in it were absolutely fine.
The kitchen is well kitted out with everything that you'd need to cook and serve a meal, the only one that we ate in the apartment was breakfast and the croissants delivered each morning were a very welcome touch which we added to with a small trip to the Spar or Coop.
San Marco gets a bad rep as being touristy, particularly for food options, but everything in Venice is so close to each other that if you do a bit of research and aren't afraid to walk off the main tourist drags you can quickly find yourself sitting amongst locals (as we did whilst the Inter Milan football was on one night, still a 10 minute walk from the apartment.)
I would love to get back to Venice and would more than happily stay in Sebastiano’s lovely apartment again. We had a wonderful trip and the central location was a huge part of that.