This was our first visit to Venice after a few years of trying, and we now appreciate how perfectly placed the apartment is to everything. Its a 15 second walk from the Rialto Bridge and the Hotel Rialto water taxi. The apartment is central to everything; shops, bars, restaurants, water taxis. We splashed out on a Consorzio Motoscafi water taxi from San Marco airport straight to Hotel Rialto so basically door-to-door service. Chiara's daughter met us and escorted us the 50 paces to the apartment and showed us around the very spacious apartment. The roof terrace overlooking the canal and the Rialto Bridge was a great place for that first morning coffee. We got used to the 92 steps up to the top floor after a day or so and for the apartment's proximity to EVERYTHING the extra Euros were absolutely worth it.