We had a fair time at Mario's place: The place was clean and traditionally designed, with all the amenities in good order. However, we would suggest putting some more photos up, because we were pretty disappointed about the general cosiness of the place. The bathroom has no windows, the shower curtain is broken and doesn't cover the entire shower, and it's also a little moldy (all of which can, however, be remedied pretty fast). Also the entire apartment has next to no windows, only small ones in bottom half of the room. It seems that two floors were built where once there was only one high one, which means the long windows only reach about 50 cm over the floor of the new, upper floor. We found this made the place pretty cave-like, which is not bad in itself – most guests will probably be enjoying the city all day anyway – but we felt it should at least be clearly indicated. Also, in summer, the upper floor will probably get intensely stuffy – it was already really warm in late October. Putting the AC on is somewhat precarious, though, we found, because lots of mosquitoes get in then.
All in all, though, it is a really good price for Venice and the bar downstairs was easily drowned with windows shut.