Andrea was a great host, very helpful without being intrusive. He met us off the vaporetto and the apartment was five minutes walk away. Andrea has an apartment in the same building and said to ring his bell if we had any problems.
The kitchen is well equipped and there are plenty of books with information about Venice in the apartment, he also provided us with city maps, marking on useful things like supermarkets and sites we were particularly interested in visiting. We would definitely stay again, the area is quiet and resident rather than tourist based and St Marks square and rialto bridge are only 15 minutes away.
We would recommend getting a vaporetto pass, you can use it to go along the grand canal and it's nice at the end of a busy walking and exploring day to get taken home.