I spent just over 5 weeks at Ca'Melusina, including Christmas, New Year's, and the month of January, 2015. It's hard to express what a wonderful trip this has been--Venice in January is exactly what I'd hoped. Beautiful, peaceful, empty, spectacular. Ca'Melusina is large, masculine, rustic, roomy, warm, comfortable, and quiet! It's the third stop on the Alilaguna from the airport, on the Ospedale--this stop will get you everywhere, the cemetery at San Michele, Murano, the outer islands, the train station, or transfer at San Zaccaro to catch a boat to Isola di San Lazaro to see the Armenian monks, where Lord Byron lived for a time. Ca'Melusina is also a very short walk from the local coop grocery, 2 caffés downstairs, a bakery, 2 pizzerias, 2 fantastic restaurants (Alla Strega and 6342 a le Tole--the best pasta on the island!), a chocolate shop, a gelateria and 2 more caffés/restaurant/bars in campo San Giovanni e Paolo. Walk everywhere, and everywhere is close. My favorite walks were through Campo Santa Maria Formosa, into Campo San Zaccaro and out to see San Giorgio over a row of bobbling gondolas across the bay. It's a wonderful walk into Campo San Stefano for a coffee at Caffé Molinare, and on to Punte della Academia, or into the Dorsoduro to visit Peggy Guggenheim's collection. I loved pushing on to Chiesa di San Sebastiano, and cutting over to walk the long way back, staring across to the Giudecca where you'll find a plaque for the poet Josef Brodsky, before stopping at Punto della Dogana and the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute. You should plan walking most of your day, and you should look forward to finding yourself lost, and this is part of the great joy that is Venice. If you give yourself to it, you're sure to find a caffé, a church, a museum gallery, or a small restaurant that surprises you and that will live in your memory. This is a city of spectacular reflections, magnificent vistas, centuries crumbling around you, and the bells--the bells! Even the gray days are gorgeous cold, the water green and bronze. The locals are friendly, hard-working, and love to have a conversation--nearly everyone is multi-lingual and will switch languages mid-sentence to accommodate a stranger. They love to stand outside a caffé and talk over a glass of wine and some cicchetti in the evening, and on Sundays it's worth it to sit outside and just watch the promenade of the quietly stylish. It seems that everyone here has a sense of beauty. In Ca'Melusina the Wifi is strong. The heat is wonderful making the flat is cozy in winter. The large table and kitchen make for fantastic meals at home, and a peaceful place to relax and read. The bed is fantastic, and after a day of walking it is a great relief to be so comfortable. Stay here. You will not be disappointed. I could not have been more happy and cannot wait to stay with Andrea...