Ditto to someone else who said the pictures show it much more bright and uncluttered than we experienced. I wouldn't have liked to have to 'hang out' there. We truly just used it for sleeping and showering - and it served the purpose. We loved the location and that we were not right next to San Marco. Having said that, two things to note: 1) Mosquitos got us the second night - they warned us but we didn't see any but bit us during night (we had closed windows around 4). When you check in, make sure you understand the thing that she has for combatting mosquitos - they are ferocious. NOTE: of course if you're using airco and windows are shut - you have no prob. We left windows open during day and didn't need airco. 2) quite noisy on the second night, which was a sat night.