PERFECT LOCATION, HEAVENLY VIEWS. We have visited Venice every year for 38 years for weeks and months at a time. Campo Santo Stefano, near where this apartment is located is the very best, central, location for visitors to Venice.
Even on a quiet day many parts of Venice can be crowded and stressful (albeit wonderfully so). To be able to return each day to what is literally the top of Venice (the apartment is higher than any residential building you can see from any of the seven large windows with views in three directions) is a grand restorative.
All of the arrival, cleaning and communication was excellent.
It is a lovely apartment for a couple or perhaps a couple with one child, although there are indeed sleep sofas for more but then that would be a bit like 'camping out' and this is a lovely space with, as you can see in the very accurate pictures, antique furniture and lovely Venetian engravings.
There is one challenge, the stairs. This is a duplex penthouse and after four flights in an elevator you have 50 steps remaining and another 17 to the bedroom. We were here for almost a month and one gets used to it but it must be considered.....but, boy is it worth it when you arrive 'home'.
The garret bedroom is large and the bed is a real American king size bed and therefore can be divided into two twin beds.
The large bathroom has a large deep wonderful old tub only. The second bathroom on the main level is tucked in the back next to where a child might comfortably sleep. The bathroom itself seems very odd when explained but actually works. It is a tiny corner sink and toilet and then you close the door and the bathroom becomes a shower with a toilet and a sink in the shower with you. It is cramped but fully functional. The only challenge here is that you leave a bathroom which now has a wet floor and if you want to use it you need to dry it. But this is Venice and you are not looking to stay in the Hilton.
You want an extraordinarily memorable experience in the most beautiful city in the world and if you stay here I promise you, you will have exactly that. Please, just don't tell anyone else because we want to be able to book the apartment again ourselves each year from now on as our home in Venice.