This apartment is true Venice! Everything is completely crooked and creaky... in the best of ways. It feels like staying in a very old apartment in authentic Venice. Which it is!
Pros:
VERY close to Venezia Santa Lucia train station... which makes it easy to get there and stow your bags then go explore and wander through Venice bag-free ;) Highly recommend doing Venice this way!
Very charming old authentic Venetian apartment
Good, strong, fast Internet - enough for video calls/Zoom and doing work without issue!
Good AC
Charming to look out over the Venetian rooftops
Plenty of room for our group of 6. We were family traveling together with 1 young married couple, 1 family of 3 (parents with 20-year-old daughter), and 1 single woman. Everyone was comfortable! It was so nice to all be here together.
Loved having a nice little terrace area even though there is no view from it
LOVED having a washer AND dryer to do laundry!
Grocery store and pharmacy 1 step outside the front door (very convenient)
Cons:
The climb up the stairs is intense! Even for young fit people. We were always out of breath by the top.
Disposing of the trash is a whole complicated thing (but this is everywhere in Venice).
Not enough supplies such as hand soap, trash bags, etc.
The street below can be kind of noisy at night, but this would mostly only bother the 1 bedroom (with 1 queen bed) that has a window onto this street. The others are further away from the street and didn't hear it as much.
One shower (the one with the bathtub) is not mounted so you have to hold the handle during your shower which is kind of annoying... the other shower is VERY TINY and hard not to flood because the shower curtain doesn't fit right, hard to close off the open space, and is way too long so it's just soaking in the puddle of shower water with you. So the shower experiences weren't the greatest, but oh well.
Couldn't find cleaning supplies to sweep the floor, wipe the countertops, etc just to keep things tidy during our stay
Microwave did not work