Alessandro's apartment is very easy to get to by Alilaguna from Marco Polo Airport. The Fondamenta Nove disembarcation stop is only a 7 or 8 minutes walk from the apartment (only 2 bridges to haul your bags over). The apartment is in a very quiet area, but minutes from the Strada Nova where everything is available (pharmacy, supermarket, etc.), and minutes also from the Ca d'Oro stop on the Grand Canal, where you can hop on the vaporetto and get everywhere. Alessandro is a super host. One of our bags didn't arrive. It got rerouted in Madrid when we made a change of planes. I don't know when we would have gotten it without Alessandro's help. Thanks to him we had it the next day after our arrival. My wife and I are making plans to reserve his apartment again as soon as possible.