Location, location, location! This is a great apartment, smack up next to the Accademia and steps away from the vaporetto stop - no bridges to negotiate with your luggage. It's got a kitchen with enough gear to cook properly, decent wifi, and shockingly powerful air conditioning in the event of a summer heat wave. There's a little glorified convenience store a couple doors down that can provide the basics, and you're also a very short walk to some excellent wine shops and cicchetterias. (If you run for exercise, you're also right on one of Venice's few good running routes, around the Punta della Dogana and down along the Zattere.) The host was super-responsive, and check-in and check-out were easy.